The forty-second episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our Februrary 2026 podcast features features Ifeatures award-winning Canadian documentarian Kevin McMahon, the director of approximately 30 films, including McLuhan’s Wake (2002). In conversation with Lance Strate, he discusses his career as a journalist and filmmaker, the practice of making documentaries, the idea of nonfiction film, and media scholars Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. 

You can access Episode 421 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: