Bonus Sample: Hasan, Contrapoints, Ezra Klein, & The Dem Civil War
Listen to the full episode The Democratic Party is in free fall. Still suffering the aftershocks of the 2024 election, a civil war is brewing internally between those who want to build coalitions tha...
4 Mai 6min
Brief: Women 3, Manosphere 0
On the Whatever Podcast livestreams, alpha debate bros browbeat insecure betas and deride token guest female sex workers while possibly ignorant they're helping promote their OnlyFans accounts. But re...
2 Mai 27min
306: Antifascist Wellness
Two-thirds of the Conspirituality staff have new books out: Matthew's AntiFascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Well...
30 Apr 1h 10min
Bonus Sample: Leo and Restless Hearts in Algeria
In April 2026, Pope Leo XIV, deep in a public feud with President Trump over the Iran war, made his first trip to Africa. He chose Algeria: the birthplace of Augustine, the spiritual founder of his or...
27 Apr 5min
Brief: Well Enough (Book Excerpt)
Derek reads two chapters from his recently published memoir, Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry. In Chapters 3 & 4, he discusses his work as a patient monitor looking after suic...
25 Apr 22min
305: AI’s Cultish Leader
Ronan Farrow is at it again. The reporter has a new feature in The New Yorker, written alongside staff writer Andrew Marantz, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In many ways, the 16,000-word investigation i...
23 Apr 1h 21min
Bonus Sample: How the Self is Made...and Unmade
Derek looks into behavioral economics to better understand the fluidity of the "self," finding that recent research aligns with a very old Buddhist concept. Show Notes What Does Extreme Wealth Do To...
20 Apr 5min
Brief: Pope Leo vs AI Slop Jesus Trump
Donald Trump's shitpost attack on Pope Leo XIV, followed within the hour by an AI slop icon of himself as Jesus, has cracked open the evangelical-Catholic coalition that has anchored American conserva...
18 Apr 28min
