Andrew Marantz, staff writer at the New Yorker and expert in online extremism, joins Offline to talk about the radicalization of the artist formerly known as Kanye. Marantz's recent article, "Kanye West's Parler Games" follows the mogul's indignant attempt to buy a lawless corner of the internet, and he joins Jon to discuss West's runaway journey to the alt-right, the truth about free speech absolutism, and the darkest corners of the internet.

Dr. Lynn Vavreck, professor of political scientist at UCLA and contributing columnist to The Upshot at The New York Times, sits down with Jon to talk about 2022 midterms. After 2020, Lynn and her colleagues interviewed over 500,000 voters, leading them to conclude that our politics aren't just polarized, but calcified. She argues that calcification has placed our politics on a knife's edge, raising the stakes of every election and that 2022 was the biggest case of calcification we've seen yet.