Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
Conspirituality28 Dec 2024

Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine

We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlowski stood out. Derek and Julian take no issue with the piece, which was an emotional plea to understand the ravages of polio and the efficacy of vaccines. The comment section is another thing. Show Notes Polio Ravaged My Family. Forget Its Horror at Your Peril. The First Five Errors in the Moth in the Iron Lung Book The First Five Errors in Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries Amazon Won’t Take a Stand in War Over Anti-Vaxxer Book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bonus Sample: The GOP Thinks Food Stamps Are the Real Problem

Bonus Sample: The GOP Thinks Food Stamps Are the Real Problem

Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...

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Brief: Woman, Life, Freedom (w/Negin Shiraghaei)

Brief: Woman, Life, Freedom (w/Negin Shiraghaei)

The death of Mahsa Jina Amini at the hands of the Islamic Republic’s “morality police” in September 2022 lit a fuse on a fervent global protest movement. Jina’s crime was wearing an “improper” headsca...

30 Mars 202434min

Brief: Yes, Huberman’s Behavior Matters

Brief: Yes, Huberman’s Behavior Matters

In response to Kerry Howley’s meticulous reporting on the deceptions of Andrew Huberman in New York Magazine, Huberstans around the world are braying that the man’s private life has nothing to do with...

30 Mars 202427min

199: Inside Anti-Abortion Christian Nationalism (w/Rob Schenck)

199: Inside Anti-Abortion Christian Nationalism (w/Rob Schenck)

Reverend Rob Schenck spent 30 years on the front lines of the Evangelical war against Roe V. Wade. He blockaded abortion clinics, screamed at women in crisis, used fetal remains as political props, an...

28 Mars 20241h 12min

Bonus Sample: Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children (Series Intro)

Bonus Sample: Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children (Series Intro)

In this series of audio essays, Matthew will examine how children as symbols—but not persons with their own internal lives—are at the center of conspirituality anxiety and discourse.  There are two ty...

25 Mars 20248min

Brief: Unmasking Jay Shetty (w/John McDermott)

Brief: Unmasking Jay Shetty (w/John McDermott)

Former monk turned spiritual influencer to the stars, Jay Shetty, has amassed 15 million followers on Instagram. He’s interviewed Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, and Kobe Bryant on his popular podcast...

23 Mars 202429min

198: Holy Food (w/Christina Ward)

198: Holy Food (w/Christina Ward)

Does God have a recipe? That’s the first line of the blurb of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat: An American History by independent food historian, Christi...

21 Mars 20241h 6min

Bonus Sample: Ketamine Soul Mates

Bonus Sample: Ketamine Soul Mates

Dolphins, drugs, new age music. Isolation tanks as a portal into other dimensions. True love and fake aliens. Julian shares a personal love story from the nineties that intersects with the work of pro...

18 Mars 20245min

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