Michael Hobbes

journalist, co-host of Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes is a journalist and podcaster. He co-hosts Maintenance Phase with the writer Aubrey Gordon, a podcast that examines wellness trends and diet culture, and If Books Could Kill with the lawyer Peter Shamshiri, which critiques popular nonfiction books. He previously co-hosted You're Wrong About with Sarah Marshall and wrote for HuffPost.

Michael Hobbes’s social media accounts

Social

X (Twitter): @RottenInDenmark
Bluesky: @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
YouTube: Michael Hobbes

Web

Website: rottenindenmark.org

Online

In November 2021 he set up a Substack newsletter on politics and moral panics. On X, under the handle RottenInDenmark, he had about 204,000 followers in March 2023, and his YouTube channel had about 23,100 subscribers in April 2025.

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