Podcast Episodes
Back to Search293: Trump and Fascist Dementia
As Trump surges his Gestapo and threatens to annex new territory, his brain is collapsing. He’s sundowning on Truth Social, nodding off in meetings, …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Sample: Simone Weil: We Have Obligations Before We Have Rights
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Simone Weil was skeptical about the project of “rights.” They argued that obligations come before rights, and that rights …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Brief: Prospirituality Predictions for 2026
If conspirituality names the ways religion and spirituality are weaponized to justify power, prospirituality points to religious traditions doing the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
292: Women of Jan 6 (w/ Noelle Cook)
Noelle Cook’s The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging is the first ethnography of conspirituality, and it comes via someone wh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Sample: Oil, Power, and Theocracy
In 1953 the CIA and MI6 participated in a coup d’etat in Iran. That true sentence (and what usually follows) can create an oversimplified distortion …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
MAHA’s Selective Skepticism
Whole milk is back! The war on protein is over! Mainline meat!
Derek investigates the new inverted pyramid and everything lacking in the new dietary…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru
“Train your mind gently, not to deny what is hard, but to see what is still good” implores the monk sharing spiritual messages to his 2.5 million Ins…
2 months ago
Bonus Sample: Overwelled
From Andrew Huberman's Goop collab and Mel Robbins' protein shots to MAHA flipping the long-defunct food pyramid and making meningitis great again, t…
2 months ago
Brief: Censorship Industrial Complex
Marco Rubio’s office published an official press release last month titled “Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship Industrial Comple…
2 months ago
290: Trump Derangement Science
What do fascists need to do to convince their rank and file that they’re the smartest in the room? They invent new science to trash the old science t…
2 months, 1 week ago