Better Strangers

By Matt Hershberger

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Facing a bleak world with hope, imagination, and curiosity.

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Episode Date
Integrity and "the last inch of us" in the fight against fascism
Apr 17, 2024
Strange Magic: How art, language, and the imagination conspire to make magic
Apr 03, 2024
On the sanity of worshipping sock puppets
Mar 27, 2024
How to build a community fridge
Feb 21, 2024
Did COVID really prove that humans are terrible?
Feb 07, 2024
Is mutual aid inherently revolutionary?
Jan 24, 2024
Why mutual aid is one of the most important concepts to understand in the 21st century
Jan 10, 2024
Santa Claus, Godkiller and Mushroom Shaman
Dec 25, 2023
Best Books of 2023 (for people who had a rough year)
Dec 20, 2023
Britt Hartley on helping people step back from the void
Dec 13, 2023
A user's guide to overcoming nihilism
Dec 06, 2023
How do you survive the death of a dream?
Nov 29, 2023
How to fight political despair
Nov 15, 2023
Round-up: The Peace-to-War Pipeline in Two Poems
Nov 10, 2023
Meet an Activist: Revolution from within the system
Nov 08, 2023
What would an anarchist revolution look like?
Nov 06, 2023
Revolutionary Round-Up
Nov 03, 2023
Can the earth be saved with nonviolence?
Nov 01, 2023
Revolutionary Horror: John Carpenter's "They Live"
Oct 30, 2023
Welcome to Better Strangers!
Oct 27, 2023
Book Rex: On psychedelics and depression
Oct 17, 2023
Why the Spanish Civil War matters
Oct 12, 2023
Book Rex: The Queen of Horror
Oct 10, 2023
Music Rex: Bruce Springsteen on those who never made it big
Oct 03, 2023
Tattoos as a form of self-love
Sep 28, 2023
TV Rex: Into the Cartooniverse
Sep 26, 2023
Book Rex: Contact
Sep 19, 2023
You are what you hate
Sep 07, 2023
Book Rex: How to Be a Stoic
Sep 05, 2023
Book Rex: Helgoland
Sep 05, 2023
Your body in the fight against Fascism
Aug 29, 2023
Book Rex: The KLF by John Higgs
Aug 29, 2023
Seize the memes of production!
Aug 24, 2023
Have you considered going on a internet cleanse?
Aug 23, 2023
Book Rex: Traffic
Aug 22, 2023
Using curiosity to combat fear
Aug 17, 2023
Book Rex: An Immense World
Aug 15, 2023
Book Rex: Philosophies for Chaotic Times
Aug 14, 2023
Book Rex: The Body Keeps the Score
Jun 26, 2023
Hey, it's okay to feel angry and sad about the state of things
Jun 14, 2023
Book Rex: How to start taking action
Jun 12, 2023
The Jimble-Jamble: Different Perspectives on Time
Jun 09, 2023
In defense of moral relativism
May 31, 2023
Book Rex: Small is Beautiful
May 29, 2023
Jimble-Jamble: Oil ain't gonna save the whales
May 26, 2023
How a different understanding of time can help you cope
May 24, 2023
Hope vs. Optimism
May 15, 2023
On thriving in chaos
May 12, 2023
Why it's a good time to visit your local library
May 03, 2023
Book Rex: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
May 01, 2023
"The Revolution of Everyday Life"
Apr 28, 2023
A world of conspiracies
Apr 26, 2023
Explaining bad climate politics with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Apr 19, 2023
What's it like to live through collapse?
Apr 14, 2023
Misanthropy is a choice
Apr 12, 2023
Book Rex: A Paradise Built in Hell
Apr 10, 2023
PSA: If you engage with something you hate online, you are promoting it
Apr 05, 2023
Book Rex: Our Share of Night
Apr 03, 2023
On trying to be a straight, cis dude that doesn't suck
Mar 31, 2023
Death vs. Sex in America
Mar 29, 2023
Is there such thing as anti-capitalist travel?
Mar 27, 2023
Against dystopias
Mar 22, 2023
Book Rex: Say Nothing
Mar 20, 2023
Your dog knows when you masturbate (and other inspiring facts)
Mar 17, 2023
Why you'll get more informed from books than the news
Mar 15, 2023
Notes from the front lines of the mental health crisis
Mar 10, 2023
Happy Russian Revolution Day!
Mar 08, 2023
On the 23 Enigma (and how human belief works)
Mar 01, 2023
Book Rex: Short Story collections (for the distracted reader)
Feb 27, 2023
Against Forgiveness
Feb 24, 2023
On the morality of having kids in bleak times
Feb 22, 2023
Book Rex: 5 books that will kill your inner patriot
Feb 21, 2023
Reading hard books as an extreme winter sport
Feb 17, 2023
Where to start with Vonnegut
Feb 15, 2023
Book Rex: Transcendent Comics
Feb 13, 2023
The internet is the reason you're depressed
Feb 10, 2023
On my sudden mid-30s obsession with birds
Feb 08, 2023
Book Rex: Nature books that aren't stone-cold bummers
Feb 06, 2023
Should parents post pictures of their kids online?
Feb 03, 2023
Your helplessness is a delusion
Feb 01, 2023
Book Rex: Everything's a cult!
Jan 30, 2023
Bad political habits to stop in 2023
Jan 25, 2023
Book Rex: How to defeat the Internet
Jan 23, 2023
A non-believer's guide to loving cryptids and ghosts
Jan 18, 2023
I love libraries
Jan 16, 2023
An atheist argument for the existence of gods
Jan 09, 2023
Better Strangers #1: Be More Biased!
Jan 02, 2023