Book Club: America, USA
“I do not love America, and never have, especially now.” With an opening sentence like that, you know you’re in for a ride, and Eddie Glaude Jr does not disappoint. Derek discusses touch points from ...
4 Jul 29min
315: Lifestyles of the Rich and Optimized
Wellness for everyone. That’s how virtually every wellness event pitches their offering. If the everyman and woman did these practices or ingested these products or adopted these mindsets, we’d all be...
2 Jul 1h 15min
Bonus Sample: Why Does JD Vance Think Catholic Social Teaching is Cool?
JD Vance calls Catholic Social Teaching (CST) a "fully integrated theory of a good human life" — and he's not wrong that it sounds good. So how’s he going to weaponize it? Matthew traces why CST's mo...
29 Jun 5min
Brief: Tulsi Gabbard & the Cult Leaders in the News
Has former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s career been scripted and controlled by the strange leader of a breakaway Hare Krishna group? Chris Butler formed the Science of Identity or...
27 Jun 33min
REWIND: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)
Recent reporting in the Washington Post found that Tulsi Gabbard has been taking policy guidance from her guru. We revisit our episode from May 2023, where we lay out Gabbard's lifelong involvement in...
26 Jun 1h 34min
314: JD Vance Rebrands as Church Dad for Prez
As the gases slowly leak from Trump’s orifices and IV holes, the bright flame of his inspiration to MAGA Christians is fading. Did he drain the swamp? Prosecute the pedophiles? Save the Holy Land? Low...
25 Jun 1h 23min
Bonus Sample: RFK Jr Reboots Reaganomics
Listen to the full episode RFK Jr has been one of the loudest champions of the Trump's work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP recipients. While he frames it in the language of health, he's really ju...
22 Jun 6min
Brief: Conspirituality Viewed Through Neofeudalism and Vectoralism
Matthew applies three interlocking frameworks to the conspirituality phenomenon—and to the podcast itself. Drawing on Jodi Dean's theory of neofeudalism, Yanis Varoufakis's technofeudalism, and McKenz...
20 Jun 34min
