The Funky Academic

By Irami Osei-Frimpong

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Tackling the world's problems to a dope beat.


Episode Date
Civil Sovereignty in Trump's America: AI to Tariffs
Apr 22, 2025
Quality of Life Increase in US Towns
Apr 21, 2025
Cheap Feminism Dooms Democratic Politics
Apr 18, 2025
It's Not a Communication Problem; You Are a Jerk
Apr 17, 2025
Rousseau's Emile and Trump's America
Apr 15, 2025
Undemocratic Dems Fight For and Against Democracy, Creating Republicans
Apr 14, 2025
Duty to Produce (What the Fem Left Gets Wrong)
Apr 13, 2025
Obama Taught Helplessness
Apr 12, 2025
VP Vance Wants More US Babies. Let's Work This Out!
Jan 28, 2025
Tech MAGA vs. Ethno-Nationalist MAGA and Euthyphro
Jan 02, 2025
Brian Thompson is the American Eichmann
Jan 01, 2025
AOC Played Herself; Dems are the 1840 Whigs
Dec 31, 2024
Luigi Mangione Is Standing on Business
Dec 30, 2024
How Family Politics Explains US Politics
Dec 07, 2024
Libertarianism: Its Appeals, Problems, and Antidotes
Dec 06, 2024
The Case for a Strategic Job Demotion
Dec 05, 2024
Democratic Death Spiral; Room for a Third Party
Dec 03, 2024
Tract House vs. Trap House Democrats
Dec 02, 2024
The Case for Firing Democrats/Why Pragmatic Politics Can't Lead a Movement
Dec 01, 2024
Tlaib/Shapiro 2028. Hear me out!
Nov 26, 2024
Why Safety Net Politics Repels Working Class Voters
Nov 25, 2024
Gaming the Gender Flip in Family and Civil Society
Nov 24, 2024
Tyson Fight and Gatekeeping Parents Responsible for the Rightward Slide of Young Men
Nov 23, 2024
Dems Chased Away BernieBros, and the Remainder Wasn't Enough
Nov 15, 2024
Amy Chua's Tiger Mother, The Good and Bad (Review)
Nov 13, 2024
White Women Delivered Us Trump
Nov 12, 2024
Harris lost, but Progressives Didn't_The Upside
Nov 12, 2024
Regressive Progress: ACA, Union Elections, and Parent Volunteers
Sep 26, 2024
Black Swimming
Sep 25, 2024
Black Swimming
Sep 24, 2024
Black Jobs, CNA, and Sanitation. Talk about It!
Sep 23, 2024
Black Jobs and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
Sep 22, 2024
Black Jobs, Pres. Debate, and Boules Faking Ignorance
Sep 21, 2024
Racial Justice in Local Politics (Part 1: Contracts)
Aug 26, 2024
Single Mothers by Choice: Eboni Williams and Naomi Campbell
Aug 25, 2024
Real Pre-Marital/Pregnancy Questionnaire
Aug 23, 2024
Family Philosophy / Philosophy of the Family
Aug 22, 2024
Daughter's Pregnant. What do you do?
Aug 21, 2024
Baby Scoop Era
Aug 20, 2024
Christian Zionists (New Face of an Old Problem)
Aug 19, 2024
IVF, Caitlin Clark/WNBA, and Tom Cotton
Aug 18, 2024
American Society of Magical Negroes
Aug 17, 2024
Dawn Staley, A Tribute
Aug 16, 2024
Kids Need Fathers, Not Father-Figures
Aug 08, 2024
Children Are Not Parents
Aug 07, 2024
Walz as Harris's (Pelosi's) VP Pick
Aug 06, 2024
Freedom, Faith, and FOMO
Aug 06, 2024
Trailsblazers vs. Explorers
Aug 03, 2024
Yes. Stay Together for the Kids
Aug 02, 2024
Subject, Subjective Freedom, and Modernity Explained
Aug 01, 2024
Irreconciliabe Differences: Divorce Hoax
Jul 31, 2024
Athlete Podcasts Pushing Gambling (Brand Deals in General)
Jul 30, 2024
Kid's Literacy w/ Book Recommendations
Jul 29, 2024
Spelman's 100 Million Dollar Bribe
Jul 28, 2024
No Screens for Children (Please)
Jul 28, 2024
Freedom is in Reflection, not Choice
Jul 27, 2024
What's a Plant? Kevin Hart + Katt Williams
Jul 26, 2024
Black/White Relationships; Katt Williams
Jul 25, 2024
Against Immediacy
Jul 24, 2024
Biles, White Divorces, and Joyful Kids
Jul 23, 2024
Society of Magical Negroes (Trailer Review)
Jul 22, 2024
Biden Pushed Out by Elites (It Should Have Been Us)
Jul 21, 2024
Kids' Literacy w/ Book Recommendations
Jul 20, 2024
Children and Particularity
Jul 20, 2024
Chris Rufo Stays Winning
Jul 20, 2024
Right to Hate
Jun 27, 2024
Butler and Hegel against Natural Law
Jun 27, 2024
Educated Lame: A Defense
Jun 25, 2024
Reproductive Lineage
Jun 24, 2024
Cultural Misogyny: A Defense
Jun 23, 2024
Poor Will Smith
Jun 22, 2024
Polite Zionism: Pro-Israel/Anti-Bibi
Jun 21, 2024
AI, Gender, and Relationships
Jun 20, 2024
My Antisemitism
Jun 19, 2024
Palestine and Reparations
Jun 18, 2024
Lasch and Mercenary Families
Jun 17, 2024
Contradictions, Reality, and Political Relationships
Jun 16, 2024
Don't Condemn Hamas
Jun 15, 2024
The (Failed) Israel Experiment
Jun 14, 2024
Life Has a PG Rating
Jun 13, 2024
Gaetz and Civil Disobedience
Dec 26, 2023
Persons, not Animals
Dec 23, 2023
Played for Suckers (Black folks)
Dec 22, 2023
Family Rabble (Hegel and Divorce)
Dec 21, 2023
Cornel West, Sure
Dec 21, 2023
Families after Feminism
Dec 20, 2023
Individuals vs. Individuals
Dec 19, 2023
Coco Gauff: Flawless
Dec 17, 2023
The Hope Police
Dec 16, 2023
The Blended Family Debacle
Dec 15, 2023
Police Hold Killer Manifestos
Dec 13, 2023
Chia-Parents
Dec 12, 2023
Family Values: Dem, GOP, and the Debate
Dec 11, 2023
Oher, Tuohy, and Family (Good Sound)
Aug 22, 2023
My Apparent Conservatism
Aug 17, 2023
Gender and Genre
Aug 17, 2023
Articles of Confederation
Aug 17, 2023
LeBron, Zuck, Back to School
Aug 17, 2023
Life or Lifestyle?
Aug 17, 2023
Jaylen Brown's Foolishness and the Federal Problem
Aug 17, 2023
Daughters
Aug 17, 2023
Ball Watching vs. Playing (Soccer)
Aug 17, 2023
AI, Empiricism, Writer's Strike, New N-Word
Aug 17, 2023
The Mary Problem
Aug 17, 2023
Why Liberals Hate Families (and Other Institutions)
Aug 17, 2023
Thoughtless Marriages
Aug 17, 2023
Jay-Z in Prison
Aug 17, 2023
Forward Facing Jim Crow
Aug 17, 2023
Affirmative Action and College Admissions
Aug 17, 2023
Youth Activities (Free Game)
Aug 13, 2023
Liberal Degeneracy Explained
Aug 13, 2023
BNC, Ozy, Grio: Black Media Failures
Aug 13, 2023
Divorce Redefines Game
Aug 13, 2023
Ike, Tina, and Jim Crow
Jun 09, 2023
The bell hooks Problem
Jun 06, 2023
"The Black Voice" Who Controls It?
Jun 02, 2023
Single Black Senators: Scott, Booker, and Warnock (Free Game)
May 29, 2023
Politics Is NOT a Business
May 26, 2023
Date Talk: Save Yourself a Divorce (Free Game)
May 23, 2023
Marriage Is Not a Business (It's a Unity)
May 18, 2023
Black Male Vulnerability to Violence
May 15, 2023
The H1B-igotry of Ramaswamy
May 11, 2023
The Eboni Williams Problem (Free Game)
May 08, 2023
Black Haggadah and Why We Need One
May 04, 2023
The Crowder Divorce (Free Game)
May 01, 2023
Freedom and Indispensability
Apr 27, 2023
Romance as By-Product (Free Game)
Apr 24, 2023
"If We All Just" is not Politics
Apr 20, 2023
Gold Diggers by Culture (Free Game)
Apr 17, 2023
Freud and Hegel, Unconsciousness and Contradiction, and US Politics
Apr 13, 2023
Your Partner's Friends (Free Game)
Apr 10, 2023
Reproductive Freedom is Institutional, not Biological
Apr 06, 2023
Self Work vs. Self Pleasure (Free Game)
Apr 03, 2023
Why Religion Matters for Your Life
Mar 30, 2023
"Provider" or John (Free Game)
Mar 27, 2023
Tucker Carlson and The Pleasures of Non-Political Freedoms
Mar 23, 2023
Red Pill: Vices and Virtues
Mar 22, 2023
Against Liberalism
Mar 22, 2023
The New Transphobia
Mar 22, 2023
About Ain't S**t Men (And Their Mothers)
Mar 22, 2023
Why Study Jim Crow
Mar 22, 2023
Row The Same Way (Free Game)
Mar 20, 2023
Market Makers and Market Takers
Mar 16, 2023
Marriage in the Era of Casual Divorce
Mar 13, 2023
Family Is a Form of Freedom
Mar 09, 2023
2023 Spouse Draft !!!!!
Mar 06, 2023
Nick Fuentes (Right Hegelian)
Mar 02, 2023
Women on Drugs (A Warning)
Feb 27, 2023
Against Submission AND Single-Parent Families
Feb 23, 2023
Why Liberals Fail at Parenting
Feb 17, 2023
Porter vs. Lee for Feinstein's Senate Seat
Feb 17, 2023
The Market as a Second Family
Feb 17, 2023
What is Peonage and Why It Matters
Feb 17, 2023
How Boomer Parents Failed
Feb 16, 2023
Litwack and Jim Crow Politics
Jan 04, 2023
Santos Exposes the Con of Personal Narrative Politics.
Jan 04, 2023
Family, Culture, and Youth Development
Jan 04, 2023
Everyone EATS off the Black Struggle: Women, PoCs, and LGBTQs
Dec 22, 2022
SC Primary, Iowa Caucus, and the Secret Ballot
Dec 22, 2022
Jackson: What Ye and Deion Have in Common
Dec 05, 2022
Let's Talk Money (Family and Assets)
Dec 03, 2022
Misogyny, Misandry, Race, and Civil Rights
Dec 03, 2022
Affirmative Action: Race and Legacy are all about Lineage
Dec 03, 2022
Kanye: Rundown and Analysis
Dec 03, 2022
The Huxtables Were Awful Parents
Oct 20, 2022
Tuberville, Kanye, and Martinez
Oct 13, 2022
The Feminization of School and Labor
Oct 06, 2022
Farve and Southern Governance
Sep 29, 2022
Dubious Satisfactions and Helpful Anxieties
Sep 23, 2022
Being Whole
Sep 16, 2022
Physical and Political Infrastructure Are Inseparable
Sep 08, 2022
Jackson, MS. Doesn't Have Water
Sep 01, 2022
Selling Aspiration: The Student Loan Edition
Sep 01, 2022
What Heather McGhee Gets Wrong
Sep 01, 2022
Student Debt for the Humanities
Aug 25, 2022
Ryan Cohen's BBBY Pump 'N Dump
Aug 19, 2022
Why Change NEEDS Ruling Class Division
Aug 18, 2022
The Problem w/ White Schools
Aug 11, 2022
The Cost of an Abortion Politics Win
Aug 05, 2022
How to Move a Center-Right Nation
Jul 28, 2022
Emmett Till Movie (The Problem)
Jul 27, 2022
Reparations Break Down
Jul 22, 2022
The Curse on Progressive Politics
Jul 16, 2022
Why Social and Political Coherence Matters
Jul 15, 2022
Why Organized Money Isn't Black
Jul 07, 2022
Important Lessons Dr. Strange Teaches about CRT (Review + SPOILERS )
Jul 03, 2022
Why Abortion Should Be in the Constitution
Jun 30, 2022
The Abortion Debate Trap
Jun 27, 2022
Blind Patriotism NEEDS Black Degradation
Jun 23, 2022
The Game Is Generational and Institutional, not Abstractly Individual (Explained)
Jun 22, 2022
How to Talk to Women about Womanhood
Jun 10, 2022
Assault Weapons and Assault Allegations Are the Same Problem
Jun 03, 2022
Warnock, Walker, and Black People in Ga.
Jun 02, 2022
Interview w/ The Banks Sisters
Jun 01, 2022
Invasive Politics: A Defense
May 26, 2022
The Social Conditions of Political Self-Government
May 23, 2022
How and Why to Invade the Whites
May 20, 2022
Liberal A La Carte Politics is NOT Freedom
May 19, 2022
Buffalo, Tucker, Right and Wong
May 19, 2022
Creating John Brown Whites
May 12, 2022
Abortion Repeal: Who Gets to Have Sex?
May 10, 2022
Roe, Election Fraud Has Consequences, and Amazon Contract Negotiations
May 05, 2022
Student Loan, Housing, and Reparations: The Same Argument. Get It Right
May 02, 2022
Moral Panic as Political Strategy (How to Defuse It)
Apr 29, 2022
Interview w/Pamela Denise Long
Apr 27, 2022
Emotions, and the Biological Origin of Risk and Progress.
Apr 21, 2022
Against Popularism (It's different from populism)
Apr 14, 2022
Risk, Justice, and Amazon Labor Union
Apr 12, 2022
BLM Grifters and the Dangers of Non-Working Class Activism
Apr 07, 2022
Chris Smalls is REDEFINING Freedom, not just at Amazon
Apr 06, 2022
Interview W/ Gregg Marcel Dixon
Apr 05, 2022
Interview w/ Egor Kotkin
Apr 05, 2022
New Covid Study: Whites Retract Support When Racial Disparities are Reported.
Mar 31, 2022
Chis Rock, Black Male Vulnerability, and Klan State Legislatures.
Mar 31, 2022
Interview w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon
Mar 29, 2022
Will's Slap, Gender, and Structural Violence (Oscars)
Mar 28, 2022
Black News Channel (BNC) Goes Bust.
Mar 26, 2022
US Politics is Internal to White Womanhood
Mar 24, 2022
Gender, Sports and Politics
Mar 24, 2022
Meaning and the Internal Point of View
Mar 18, 2022
Ukraine and The American Negro
Mar 11, 2022
Interview w/Morgan Harper, Candidate for US Senate from Ohio
Mar 10, 2022
Interview w/ Junaid Ahmed
Mar 09, 2022
Interview w/ Paul Prescod
Mar 08, 2022
Interview w/ Yvette Carnell
Mar 03, 2022
Interview w/ Derek Marshall
Mar 01, 2022
Interview w/Daniel Lee (Congressional Candidate)
Feb 24, 2022
Interview w/Shahid Buttar
Feb 22, 2022
Force Congressional Debates: An Introduction and Defense
Feb 18, 2022
Interview w/Krystal Ball
Feb 14, 2022
Legitimate Vs. Illegitimate Racial Resentment
Feb 10, 2022
Survivorship Bias
Feb 03, 2022
Whoopi Iced from the View (Exclusive Footage)
Feb 02, 2022
Structural Racism: It's Not about Intent OR Outcomes
Jan 27, 2022
Congressional Stock Betting, NFL Betting, and Pelosi
Jan 26, 2022
COVID and the Meaning of Life
Jan 20, 2022
White Supremacy: A Living System
Jan 13, 2022
Inflation: The Correct Take
Jan 06, 2022
Cultural Roundup (Hustlers, Don't Look Up, Succession, Brian Simpson)
Jan 06, 2022
Raising Kids among Sharks
Dec 30, 2021
Omicron and Healthism
Dec 22, 2021
Why Rhythm Is Necessary
Dec 17, 2021
Why Unconditional Love is Trash
Dec 14, 2021
Guns and Time
Dec 09, 2021
Prosecuting Parents for Kid's Crimes
Dec 06, 2021
Addicted to Racism (Dopesick)
Dec 03, 2021
Class Coalitions Are Inadequate
Nov 29, 2021
My Right to Your Education
Nov 24, 2021
King Richard Review
Nov 23, 2021
History or Mimesis
Nov 18, 2021
Occupy 10 Years Later
Nov 11, 2021
Howard U. Is Black America
Nov 07, 2021
Dune (The Best Hot Take)
Nov 06, 2021
How to Be Somebody
Nov 04, 2021
Different from vs. Other Than (This distinction is important in politics and philosophy)
Nov 04, 2021
Politics Isn't Pain Management
Nov 04, 2021
Racism Isn't about Hair or Bathrooms, It's This...
Nov 01, 2021
When History Disappears
Oct 28, 2021
Marriage: Submission vs. Cooperation vs. Control
Oct 25, 2021
When Hypergamy Goes Wrong
Oct 23, 2021
Why I Talk about Relationships
Oct 23, 2021
Valuation (Kevin Samuels Pt 2.)
Oct 23, 2021
Kevin Samuels: Right and Wrong
Oct 22, 2021
Work Requirements: Virtues and Vices
Oct 20, 2021
F*** Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Oct 14, 2021
Dave Chappelle and Black Castration: A History
Oct 12, 2021
Meaningful Is not Fun
Oct 08, 2021
Don't Kick Your Kids Out
Oct 05, 2021
Family is not a Business Relationship
Sep 30, 2021
R Kelly, Will Smith, and Black Masculinity
Sep 28, 2021
Trauma as Oppression
Sep 24, 2021
The Job-ette Economy
Sep 16, 2021
Structuring Arguments
Sep 16, 2021
Artificial Intelligence: Uses and Limits
Sep 14, 2021
Purity and Politics
Sep 10, 2021
Abortion Politics is Smaller than Gender Politics and Family Politics
Sep 03, 2021
Bureaucracy, cliches, and freedom
Aug 26, 2021
A Problem with Healthcare Politics
Aug 23, 2021
Comfortable Unfreedom
Aug 19, 2021
Afghanistan and US South (Comparative Failures in Nation Building)
Aug 16, 2021
Olympic Rundown (Tokyo 2020)
Aug 13, 2021
Justice and the White Methodist Church
Aug 13, 2021
The Problem with Vaccine Talk
Aug 13, 2021
Clyburn: Driving Miss Nancy
Aug 06, 2021
Does Philosophy Matter?
Aug 03, 2021
How to go after the Whites: A Cultural Offensive against an Offensive Culture
Jul 30, 2021
Simone Biles is not your Negro
Jul 29, 2021
Van Jones and Sugardaddy Culture
Jul 24, 2021
Child Tax Credit is a Big Win for Family Freedom
Jul 22, 2021
Right to Repair: A Civil Right, not a Property Right
Jul 22, 2021
Craft Is Long; Life is Short
Jul 17, 2021
The White Family: The Case for National Action
Jul 16, 2021
Rules Aren't Rules
Jul 09, 2021
The Black Double Day
Jul 02, 2021
Essential Workers
Jun 29, 2021
Freedom isn't Free
Jun 25, 2021
Gender and Work
Jun 11, 2021
The CRT Backlash is a GIFT. Here is how to use it.
Jun 11, 2021
Critical Race Theory in Minutes.
Jun 10, 2021
Chess and Philosophy in General
Jun 04, 2021
Chess and Critical Race Theory
Jun 02, 2021
Critical Race Theory, in plain English
May 28, 2021
Banning the SAT is Anti-Asian. It's not about Us.
May 21, 2021
White American Cliches that Kill
May 15, 2021
"Gifted and Talented Education"
May 07, 2021
Police Shooting Rundown
May 01, 2021
Being Basic Won't Save You
Apr 23, 2021
Foucault, Family Law, and the Dangerous Individual
Apr 16, 2021
Racism: Making an American Problem a Black Problem
Apr 09, 2021
Emergency Politics (Against the Politics of Immediacy)
Apr 02, 2021
Sham Elections and Philosophy (Redux)
Mar 26, 2021
Atlanta, White Purity politics, and Terrorism
Mar 20, 2021
Amazon Election in Bessemer, AL.
Mar 11, 2021
Wandavision and Settler Colonialism
Mar 11, 2021
Obama on Reparations and White Feelings
Feb 26, 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah (Review and Theory)
Feb 19, 2021
Selling Aspiration (The Racial Token Wars)
Feb 12, 2021
Black History Month Show
Feb 06, 2021
Poor People's Campaign-Barber (Part 2)
Jan 30, 2021
Poor People's Campaign Problems + Solutions
Jan 23, 2021
Prodigal Whiteness
Jan 16, 2021
Politicians, Stop Lying about Who We Are
Jan 08, 2021
Warnock, Abrams, and US (Election Reaction)
Jan 06, 2021
Why I'm not a Feminist
Jan 01, 2021
Maslow and Other Anti-Justice Social Science Propaganda
Dec 18, 2020
Jill Biden, Joseph Epstein, and Titles
Dec 13, 2020
Fred Hampton Tribute Show
Dec 12, 2020
Skinfolk and Kinfolk
Dec 05, 2020
Nate Robinson KO'D by Modernity
Nov 29, 2020
Thanksgiving Special
Nov 27, 2020
Political Machinery: Running for Office
Nov 20, 2020
Political Machinery: Debates, not Term Limits
Nov 13, 2020
Divisive Politics? Yes! Please!
Nov 10, 2020
Abrams, Georgia, Freedom and Napoleon (It's all related)
Nov 06, 2020
Politics and Patriarchy
Oct 30, 2020
The Courts or The Culture
Oct 24, 2020
The Content of Party Politics
Oct 17, 2020
Liberal Anti-Politics
Oct 14, 2020
Politics and Infinity
Oct 10, 2020
Trump, COVID, and Human Rights
Oct 02, 2020
Beware of "First Black" Power Holders
Sep 25, 2020
Plato, Trump, and the Long Culture War
Sep 18, 2020
Freedom's Ecology
Sep 11, 2020
Bloomberg's Charity Slaves
Sep 04, 2020
Fear of Rittenhouse and Poking the Bear
Aug 28, 2020
Beware of Private Populism
Aug 21, 2020
Rights and Housing Ft. Shahid Buttar
Aug 20, 2020
Irami Interprets the Dem Convention (immediately)
Aug 20, 2020
Moon & Davis (COVID Class)
Aug 15, 2020
Obama, Harris, and the Williams Sisters
Aug 14, 2020
Beware of Voteps!
Aug 07, 2020
Clinton: Lewis Was a Useful Negro
Jul 31, 2020
Biden, Cotton, and 1619
Jul 24, 2020
Against Online K-12 Education
Jul 18, 2020
Homeschooling in the Funky House
Jul 17, 2020
Re-Opening Public Schools
Jul 10, 2020
Real Estate Agents and Structural Racism
Jul 03, 2020
Monuments: Their Use and Abuse for Justice
Jun 26, 2020
Cultural Interventions for Democracy
Jun 19, 2020
Defund Police and Sexual Assault
Jun 18, 2020
History is NOT Over
Jun 12, 2020
Police Brutality is a FORM of Black Vulnerability.
Jun 12, 2020
It's Defund Police, Not Defund Public Safety
Jun 08, 2020
Protest, Curfews, and Control
Jun 05, 2020
Quarantining with Racists
Jun 04, 2020