Anna Nicolaou’s Weekend Essay “‘Into the ‘manosphere’” (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, January 25) was actually a well-researched and informative dive into the influence of right-leaning “bro” podcasters.
Nonetheless her focus ignored the opposite side of the coin — namely the leftist “bro” podcasters (colloquially known on the “Dirtbag Left”) versus the “establishment”. Whereas right-leaning podcasts are backed by a network of corporate money, Chapo Trap House, TrueAnon, and the Adam Friedland Show (formerly Cum Town) subsist largely on listener subscriptions while providing similarly coarse yet thought-provoking discussions which might be truly unshackled from “establishment” influence.
Perhaps it might be value exploring why these leftist thinkers languish without the identical political caché as their conservative rivals.
Jake Gray
East Boston, MA, US
