Bonus Sample: JD Vance’s Dictator Fetish
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel claims “freedom and democracy are incompatible.” Mentor and $15M donor behind JD Vance’s political career, Peter Thiel also has an influence: Mencius Moldbug, computer pro...
12 Aug 20245min
Brief: Stealing Democracy for Jesus
Ziklag’s ultra-wealthy network of Christian donors is spending nearly $12M to mobilize Republican voters in order to secure a Trump victory this November. ProPublica found that their plan involves pur...
10 Aug 202436min
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
217: Childless Cat Lady
If something real occurs in this timeline, but no conspiracy theorist is there to FUBAR it, does it actually happen? An old man, weakened by COVID, picks up an old-timey phone handset on a Delaware Sa...
1 Aug 20241h 14min
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
