The Magnificast

This week, Josiah Daniels has joined us from the frontlines of the culture war, where he's been reporting on the He Gets Us campaign for Sojourners. In this episode, we talk about the "elite capture" ...

18 Feb 20231h 8min

Dealing with your evangelical past means that sometimes you have to work really hard to recover particular spiritual practices, like praying. In this episode, we talk about learning to pray again thro...

12 Feb 202358min

Last week we chatted about development and liberation, this week we're introducing another big idea in that conversation: dependency theory. Dependency theory has fallen out of style lately, but it's ...

4 Feb 202353min

Within the orbit of liberation, there's a closely related term that we've never really talked about on the podcast before: development. What does it mean to be a "developing country?" What is that dev...

28 Jan 20231h 2min

It's time for the second installment of our Monopoly Capital series. In this episode, we talk about the ways monopoly capital reabsorbs all of the surplus it produces in some incredibly frustrating wa...

21 Jan 20231h 4min

Karl Marx is great, but a few things have changed since he wrote capital. Instead of corporations competing against one another, global corporations have gained monopoly power and are able to set pric...

13 Jan 20231h 1min

Folks, we're bringing 2023 in with a bang. Dean Dettloff, the cohost isn't with us for this one, but don't worry, Dean Dettloff the guest star, is! Tune in (is that what you do with podcasts?) and lis...

7 Jan 202358min

Folks, the holidays wiped us out! We'll be back in the new year with the hot content you crave. Until then, check out this classic episode about David Roediger's essay Making Solidarity Uneasy. -----...

31 Des 202253min