218: Meet the Sexvangelicals (w/Julia Postema & Jeremiah Gibson)
You’re an eight year-old girl. The purity culture of your evangelical church, ruled by men but policed by women, has you worried that the spaghetti straps on your summer top might be sinful. You learn...
8 Aug 20241h 15min
Bonus Sample: The "Crisis" of Meaning
Scroll through masculinity influencer social media feeds and you're constantly told there's a "crisis of meaning." But is that really true? Has a shared meaning ever reflected the totality of any popu...
5 Aug 20245min
Brief: JD Vance Taps into Parental Rage
The “childless cat lady” thing is as ridiculous as JD Vance is. But it’s not stupid. It’s tapping into something powerful, because it’s shameful. Vance’s fantasy that childless cat ladies are miserabl...
3 Aug 202432min
Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children: “God’s Word on Spanking”
This is the second episode in “Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children,” an occasional series on how children, as symbols (but not persons with their own internal lives) are at the center of conspi...
29 Jul 20244min
Brief: Bret Weinstein: “The Biden Psy-Op”
A tale of two tweets: Dark Horse podcast cohost and “conspiracy hypothesizer” Bret Weinstein took to Twitter twice this month, first dropping a video claiming that RFK Jr becoming Donald Trump’s runni...
27 Jul 202427min
216: J.D. Vance, Conspiracy Hobbit
Just two days after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump announced JD Vance as his VP pick. Vance has made a dramatic U-turn from calling Trump a "reprehensible idiot" and "America's Hitle...
25 Jul 20241h 10min
Bonus Sample: Project 2025 on Worker's "Rights"
Project 2025's plan for workers is clear: crush unions, eliminate minority protections, curtail reproductive health care benefits, and make the workplace biblical again. Derek and Julian unpack the de...
22 Jul 20246min
