Everyday Anarchism
Finding anarchism in everyday life
Graham Culbertson
Show overview
Everyday Anarchism has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 206 episodes, alongside 12 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 180 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 45 min and 1h — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 23 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 55 episodes published. Published by Graham Culbertson.
From the publisher
The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. I hope to illuminate how our communities already depend on Mutual Aid, in big and small ways. I'll do that by excavating the historical events and cultural trends you already know about, but have never thought about in terms of anarchism. Find me at https://www.everydayanarchism.com
Latest Episodes
View all 206 episodes198. The Age of Revolutions in the Americas -- Arturo Chang
197. Seeing Paris Behind the Postcard -- Amit Chaudhuri
196. Shay's Rebellion as Honorable Anarchy -- Daniel Bullen
195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson
194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp
193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann
192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow
191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson
190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman
189. What's East of "the West" ? -- Anthony Kaldellis
188. Rewilding Crossover with Peter Michael Bauer
187. Imperial Delusions -- Luke Kemp
186. Thomas Jefferson: Radical, Revolutionary, Enslaver -- Annette Gordon-Reed
185. Radicalism in the American Revolution
184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle
Ep 183183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa
EEric Blair, known as George Orwell, had all of his successes after he met and married Eileen O'Shaughnessy. The graphic novel Mrs. Orwell, written by Andrea Chalupa, is the story of how George Orwell became a couple, and helps re-introduce Eileen to history as the dynamic, radical activist and editor who has been left out of the Orwell story.You can get a copy of the book here: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9781250877857
Ep 182182. A Door Into Ocean -- Joan Slonczewski
EJoan Slonczewski joins me to discuss their novel A Door Into Ocean, a science fiction novel about an all-female society of "sharers" on an ocean planet, Shora. Joan's sharers are one of the best speculative depictions of what an anarchist society would look like, so Joan and I discuss the inspirations for the world, including Gene Sharp, Ursula Le Guin, and Gandhi, and what we can draw on from those figures in our current struggles.You can find Joan at https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htmBuy the book: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780312876524
Ep 181181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri
EAmit Chaudhuri joins me to discuss his new collection of essays, Incompleteness. In these essays and his novels, Amit is constantly searching for new language that will acknowledge the instability and flux of the world around us. It is intellectual anarchy of the highest order, as well as artistically breathtaking.You can find all of Amit's books published by NYRB here: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/amit-chaudhuri
Ep 180180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson
EKim Stanley Robinson comes back to discuss Aurora, his novel of a generational starship, in which generations of humans are born, live, and die onboard without ever seeing a planet. We discuss the generational starship as a science fiction genre, whether humans will ever be able to travel to the stars, and what it would mean for science fiction if we can't. We also take a detour into the question of "hard," scientific science fiction vs. "soft," humanist science fiction.Here's a link to Stan's article for Boing Boing, arguing that we won't ever reach the stars:https://boingboing.net/2015/11/16/our-generation-ships-will-sink.htmlThanks to Nick Gaskill for suggesting an episode on Aurora!
Ep 179179. Socialism from Bernie to Mamdani -- Dan Chiasson
EDan Chiasson joins me to discuss his combined Bernie and Burlington biography, Bernie for Burlington, and the connections between Bernie's socialism and Mamdani's socialism.You can purchase Dan's book here: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780593317495Here's Dan's article about Mamdani: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/06/have-you-met-z-zohran-mamdani/And we discuss Corey Robin's piece on socialist excellence: https://coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/excellence-over-mediocrity-from-mamdani-to-marx-to-food/