Episode #15: Behind the Silicon Curtain (teaser)

We’re back! And we have a new episode from San Francisco, where it looks like we’ll be living for a while. Evgenia and I talk about the enduring power of The Californian Ideology, despite the obvious cracks in it. And I talk about about how it feels to back in here — the place where I spent my formative immigrant years — after moving away for twenty years. We’ll be back on a regular schedule from now on. —Yasha LevinePS: This is a preview. Subscribe to listen to the whole episode.Check out our previous episodes: * Episode #14: The Soviet Jew & good riddance Los Feliz* Episode #13: Immigrant Deprogramming with Anna/Аня* Episode #12: “I didn’t want to live in a simulacrum of American life in the ruins of the Soviet Union”* Episode #11: Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine* Episode #10: Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR* Episode #9: The End* Episode #8: Breeders* Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my head* Episode #6: Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism* Episode #5: The Serf aka Холоп* Episode #4: Palestine and Soviet Jews* Episode #3: Eduard Limonov and Natalia Medvedeva w/Thierry Marignac* Episode #2: All the Sad Soviet Immigrant Lit* Episode #1: Russians Against Politics* Episode #0: The Ukrainian-Canadian left & Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandpa This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe