The Theater of Trash with Alissa Bennett
Alissa Bennett is co-host of The C-Word podcast on Luminary as well as a decorated historian of bad behavior. “By sifting through the cultural trash heap of history,” her podcast dives deep into the l...
18 Jan 202140min
TRASH TALK SHOWS
There are few pieces of popular culture as problematic as the trash talk shows of the 1980s and 90s. Many of us remember Jerry Springer, Geraldo, Jenny Jones, and so many others trying to outdo each o...
11 Jan 202157min
'Falling for Fascism' Emergency Re-Release
Due to the what appears to be an attempted coup happening right now at the Capitol, I wanted to re-release this vital interview immediately. Please listen and share if you can. This is the colossal po...
6 Jan 202134min
Seekers and Swindlers with Glynn Washington
Podcaster and storyteller Glynn Washington grew up in an extremist religious sect called the Worldwide Church of God and also hosted the Heaven’s Gate podcast about the UFO cult that famously committe...
14 Dec 202024min
CHARISMATIC LEADERS
The charismatic leaders we are talking about today offer utopia and doomsday, salvation and absolute truth, perfection of the self and of the world at large, as long you dedicate yourself completely t...
7 Dec 20201h 3min
Walk with Me
“I would like to step out of my heart/and go walking beneath the enormous sky”, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in 1918, probably consumed with a similar human anxiety to the one we each bear every weir...
30 Nov 202040min
Black Evangelicalism and the Christian Right with Anthea Butler and Lerone A. Martin
Today we are talking to two scholars of religion, Professor Lerone A. Martin of Washington University in St. Louis and Professor Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania about the relationship ...
23 Nov 202055min
TELEVANGELISTS
At this point in American culture, televangelists are often seen as overblown parodies, with their pleas for private jets, their fiery sermons, their many scandalous falls from grace. However, million...
16 Nov 202053min
