#18 – The Madame Butterfly Effect (bonus episode)
This is a short piece I did for Daniele's History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I'd put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from Jim Jones, and...
11 Nov 202028min
#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple follow the remnants of the 1970s radical left into the fire.WARNING: Extreme language and disturbing content.Thank you to www.campuspress.com for sponsoring this series.Su...
17 Okt 20207h 53min
#16 – God’s Socialist, pt. 6: No Driver At The Wheel
This was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up.Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENTThe student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party is to...
15 Jun 20202h 43min
#15 - God’s Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King
This episode begins where the '60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crash headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive cli...
15 Jun 20204h 55min
#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution
This episode discusses the beginning of Peoples' Temple's slide into radicalism after Jim Jones leads his people to California. We also talk about the development of 1960s radical political movements,...
10 Feb 20206h 37min
#13 – God’s Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left
In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, J...
24 Jun 20194h 2min
#12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?
This is part 2 of a podcast series on Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple movement. An eccentric loner as a child, Jim Jones finds purpose in the fight for racial and economic justice.
15 Apr 20193h 18min
#11 - God's Socialist: Prologue
This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come. The next episo...
4 Mar 20191h 31min
