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The Hello and welcome to a special year-end edition of Behind the News.

My name is Doug Henwood, convention thrown to the wolves today. A year-end edition of Behind the News. My name is Doug Hinwood,

convention thrown to the wolves today. A year-end best-of, consisting of excerpts from seven

interviews from throughout 2025 that feature some of the show's finest guests and recurring themes.

The seven, Emil Torres on the post-humanists, Quinn Slobodian on eugenics and neoliberalism, Femi

Taewo and DEI in the war on it, Kristen Dumay on white Christian nationalism, Anatoleven on the

Trumpian worldview, Lala Khalili on the relationship between the Pentagon and U.S. capitalism,

and Susanna Glickman on similar. First, Emil Torres, with one of the more disturbing interviews I've ever conducted first broadcast in September.

You may have watched our tech moguls and wondered if they really cared about human lives.

They don't.

As my next guest, Emil Torres argues, they look to a transhumanist future,

where we pathetic sacks of flesh will be replaced by digital beings, endowed

with a superintelligence far greater than our wetware can support. This helps explain their

obsession with AI is at the core of their human extinctionist preferences. Their program represents

a revival of eugenics, a program with origins in the late 19th century designed to improve the human population

by limiting the reproduction of those deemed inferior and promoting reproduction among those deemed superior.

The Nazis gave it a bad name, but this tech crew and thinkers on the new right generally

are bringing it back.

Emil Taurus is a moral philosopher, intellectual historian, and journalist.

Tascriol, it's a mouthful.

What are the components of the acronym?

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