Podcast Episodes

Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 1)

Marianne Williamson—New Age matriarch and popularizer of A Course in Miracles—is polling at 9%. Muscular Catholic antivax entrepreneur Bobby Kennedy …

2 years, 9 months ago

Brief: RFK Jr., The Anti-Vax Candidate

Another Kennedy is running for President. But discussion of his anti-vaccine activism often overlooks how it affects people with autism. Julian talks…

2 years, 9 months ago

155: We Want Them Infected (w/Jonathan Howard, M.D.)

What "really" happened during the pandemic? Conspiracists have decided to take a victory lap. They were right, you see? The vaccines failed, and besi…

2 years, 9 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Dangers of Slogans

In 1970, farmer, writer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry published his essay, "Think Little." In it, he writes about the dangers of not maki…

2 years, 9 months ago

154: The Truth Wars (w/Renée DiResta)

In the post-truth world, journalists who report facts are disparaged as perpetuating the narrative while candidates who hold the appropriate qualific…

2 years, 10 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of painfully inflammatory takes, so I took a month t…

2 years, 10 months ago

Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)

We've seen it over and over again: somehow, in some way, globalists are involved. George Soros is pulling the strings. Jews will replace us, with oth…

2 years, 10 months ago

153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)

Did you know that it’s not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen? Or that sunscreen is actually a Big Pharma creation to keep you from receiving …

2 years, 10 months ago

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to th…

2 years, 10 months ago

Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick

Marianne Williamson? Inexperienced? Not at all.

In fact, she does have a ton of experience… in New Age, on-stage pseudotherapy, where she solves the p…

2 years, 10 months ago