Conversation #34: A Wrinkle in Daylight Saving Time (March 11, 2018)

Welcome back to Daylight Saving Time! This weekend at the Potts House we lost three hours! One of them we’ll get back in the fall, but the two hours Paul and the kids spent watching A Wrinkle in Time are gone forever!

In this week’s conversation, we talk about many things. Paul attended the Socialism 101 program organized by the Huron Valley Democratic Socialists of America. Paul’s got a rant about how DTE Energy tried to issue us a payday loan because of our participation in the energy bill “budget plan,” and a brief review of a classic Doctor Who serial from 1968, The Web of Fear. Then Grace takes on a big topic: how social media enabled a vast left-wing awakening, and how the centrist establishment is spreading panic and will try to shut this down, even by embracing the new McCarthyism. And lastly, Paul takes apart A Wrinkle in Time, and talks about what makes this movie an interesting failure, why it seems so disrespectful of the source material, and what the filmmakers’ choices say about neoliberal ideology today.

How to Listen

You can find the MP3 file here.

The Podcast feed is here.

The Podcast channel on YouTube is here.

More Information

Paul wrote a long review of The Web of Fear in his weekly blog post here.

Grace and Paul discussed two articles, “Social Media and the Rise of the ‘Consistent Liberal’” by Jim Naureckis, from FAIR, found here, and “Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood,” by Jo Freeman, writing as Noreen, from Ms. Magazine in 1976, here.

The official web site for A Wrinkle in Time, the 2018 movie, can be found here.

This Week’s Music

This week’s music is one of the short improvisations on electric guitar that Paul recorded in 2013, for his friend Sean Hurley. If memory serves, Sean used this bit, or a similar one, on his short-lived live streaming show “Sitting in the Woods with Sean.”