Revolutionary Violence and One Battle After Another.
Revolutionary Violence and “One Battle After Another”
On this episode of The Time of Monsters: David Klion on the historical resonance of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie.
The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The Time of Monsters podcast features Nation national-affairs correspondent Jeet Heer’s signature blend of political culture and cultural politics. Each week, he’ll host in-depth conversations with urgent voices on the most pressing issues of our time.
Revolutionary Violence and One Battle After Another w/ David Klion
Few movies have ever been as timely as Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle After
Another, which traces the battle between revolutionary resistance groups trying to protect
immigrants and an authoritarian government run by racists. There are scenes from the movie
that feel like they are being played out right now on the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles and
Portland. Although it presents a stylized version of reality, the film raises important questions
about different strategies of resistance. David Klion, a frequent guest, wrote about the movie
for The New Republic. David and I talked about the film, its roots in actual history but also
variance with that history as well as its relationship with the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland.
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Fans cheer at an event for the movie One Battle After Another on September 18, 2025, in Naucalpan de Juarez, Mexico.
Few movies have ever been as timely as Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, One Battle After Another, which traces the battle between revolutionary resistance groups trying to protect immigrants and an authoritarian government run by racists. There are scenes from the movie that feel like they are being played out right now on the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland. Although it presents a stylized version of reality, the film raises important questions about different strategies of resistance. David Klion, a frequent guest, wrote about the movie for The New Republic. David and I talked about the film, its roots in actual history but also variance with that history, as well as its relationship with the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland.
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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The Time of Monsters podcast features Nation national-affairs correspondent Jeet Heer’s signature blend of political culture and cultural politics. Each week, he’ll host in-depth conversations with urgent voices on the most pressing issues of our time.
Jeffrey Epstein and the American Empire w/ Van Jackson
The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cell
in 2019, has never gone away. It continues to explode now that House Democrats have
released thousands of emails from Epstein and his cronies. But while the political class and
mainstream media are understandably focused on the sex scandal, another dimension of the
scandal goes uncovered except by independent media outlets such as Drop Site: Epstein’s deep
ties to the national security state. I talked to international relations scholar Van Jackson about
this crucial part of the story.
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