236: Damage Control
As we ride out the aftershocks of the election and prepare for Trump 2.0, it’s as if nothing is bolted down. Trump’s cabinet appointments signal a disregard for competence or temperament as he seems t...
12 Dec 20241h 16min
Bonus Sample: The Raw Truth About Health
Researchers in California recently warned that just one mutation in H5N1, the bird flu virus, could make the disease transmissible between humans. While the virus was first identified in 1959 (and bec...
9 Dec 20244min
Brief: Freeing the Well-Trained Wife (w/Tia Levings)
Exvangelical author Tia Levings joins Matthew to discuss her harrowing memoir of indoctrination, abuse, recovery, and advocacy, The Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy. It’s a wild ...
7 Dec 202441min
235: MAHA Mamas (feat Mallory DeMille)
If you’ve spent one minute on social media in the last few months, you’ve probably heard that seed oils are extremely toxic, food dyes are the reason for rising obesity rates—oh wait, that’s glyphosat...
5 Dec 202458min
Bonus Sample: Deep State Religion
An essay from Matthew on how MAGA religiosity obscures the religious nature of liberalism, and how both obscure the underlying religion of capitalism. Inspired by Walter Benjamin, who in 1921 wrote: ...
2 Dec 20246min
Brief: The $100M Free Press
The Free Press founder, Bari Weiss, recently hosted Peter Thiel on her podcast. While The FP markets itself as as a return to independent and non-partisan real journalism, Julian and Derek point out t...
30 Nov 202445min
234: Trump’s Conspiracist Cabinet
Since the election, Democratic voter disbelief and despair has alternated between grief and rage. We watched some erstwhile vociferous critics of Trump in the legacy media, like Joe Scarborough and Mi...
28 Nov 20241h 8min
Relief Project #4: Rob Schenck
Matthew here with the fourth installment of Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person. Rob Schenck joined me in Episode 199 to discuss his deradicalization from the Evangelical anti-...
26 Nov 202419min
