Brief: Did MAHA Put MAGA In Power?
The silence of MAHA influencers around the murder of Renee Good (and ICE generally) has been excessively loud. Yet that’s expected from the coalition that voted for Donald Trump in order to install RF...
31 Jan 37min
293: Trump and Fascist Dementia
As Trump surges his Gestapo and threatens to annex new territory, his brain is collapsing. He’s sundowning on Truth Social, nodding off in meetings, slurring words, slurping at the saliva pooling in h...
29 Jan 58min
Bonus Sample: Simone Weil: We Have Obligations Before We Have Rights
Listen to the full episode Simone Weil was skeptical about the project of “rights.” They argued that obligations come before rights, and that rights only become real when obligations are recognized a...
26 Jan 5min
Brief: Prospirituality Predictions for 2026
If conspirituality names the ways religion and spirituality are weaponized to justify power, prospirituality points to religious traditions doing the opposite: grounding resistance, ethical clarity, a...
24 Jan 28min
292: Women of Jan 6 (w/ Noelle Cook)
Noelle Cook’s The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging is the first ethnography of conspirituality, and it comes via someone who was able to really embed themselves in a volatile...
22 Jan 1h 8min
Bonus Sample: Oil, Power, and Theocracy
In 1953 the CIA and MI6 participated in a coup d’etat in Iran. That true sentence (and what usually follows) can create an oversimplified distortion of history—and present. But Iran is in the news aga...
19 Jan 7min
MAHA’s Selective Skepticism
Whole milk is back! The war on protein is over! Mainline meat! Derek investigates the new inverted pyramid and everything lacking in the new dietary guidelines. Show Notes The New Dietary Guidelin...
17 Jan 23min
291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru
“Train your mind gently, not to deny what is hard, but to see what is still good” implores the monk sharing spiritual messages to his 2.5 million Instagram followers. Clad in an orange robe—well, some...
15 Jan 1h 6min
