54: Māori MAGA (w/Joe Trinder and Anke Richter)
Matthew sits down, across 9,000 miles of mostly ocean, with journalist Anke Richter and reporter and Māori rights activist Joe Trinder to discuss the mind-bending rise of Māori MAGA in the COVID-free ...
3 Kesä 20211h 59min
Bonus Sample: How Many Monuments Must Fall?
Derek looks back at three important historical figures with unsavory pasts to ask the question: who gets to decide who gets canceled, and why?Show NotesGreat Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with...
31 Touko 20219min
53: Learning Cultish (w/Amanda Montell)
We’re extremely pleased that someone who isn’t a Boomer — and is younger than us — is making a serious but accessible contribution to this golden age of cult literature. Linguist Amanda Montell joins...
27 Touko 20211h 49min
Bonus Sample: Loaded Language & Productive Discussion
Julian and Matthew discuss words, world views, and how productive disagreement can lead to mutual understanding. In today’s overheated discourse, social media posturing can make the culture wars feel ...
24 Touko 20219min
52: The Clerical Class of the Right (w/Alex Ebert)
This week we learned that Melinda Gates was disturbed by Bill’s men’s-club relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way back in 2011. And for fuck sake: when Bill visited Epstein’s Manhattan lair, re...
20 Touko 20211h 35min
Bonus Sample: No Moral Outrage Porn, No Punching Down
Matthew had a plan for this week — a 4K word essay on what could be learned from studying the content of an outrageously offensive conspiritualist… but then he shelved it. Why?A last-minute, off-the-c...
17 Touko 20219min
51: You Can’t Force It (w/Devendra Banhart)
As our access to vaccines eases the pandemic in the Global North, U.S.-based conspiritualists keep riding the wave of covid-denial influence—all the way to the bank. This week, Julian reports that Gen...
13 Touko 20212h 19min
Bonus Sample: On the Anxiety of Death
Derek discusses a forthcoming interview with Alex Ebert, which will be featured on Conspirituality 52. They discuss the dearth of death rituals in America. In this bonus episode, Derek meditates and, ...
10 Touko 20215min
