Podcast Episodes

Brief: The Spirituality of Vaccine & Mask Panics

Why do so many inflammatory culture war issues crystallize around vaccines and masks? What is so compelling about these forms of public health and mu…

2 years, 11 months ago

148: Marianne Williamson and Asshole Jesus

Is Marianne Williamson’s promotion of A Course in Miracles any more relevant to her political persona than Biden’s Catholicism? If it demonstrably in…

2 years, 11 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Final Battle

Why did Trump kick-off his 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas? Who were the Branch Davidians, anyway?

Julian unpacks the incendiary streams of…

2 years, 11 months ago

147: The Censorship Megaphone

Listen… Can you hear it?

All across the propagandist right and the free speech center, there's a new rallying cry: it's time to fight the “censorship …

2 years, 11 months ago

Bonus Sample: Losing My Charisma

Recording the audiobook at a swanky Toronto studio sends Matthew down a memory hole to wonder about performance, self-awareness, and anxiety, and the…

2 years, 11 months ago

146: The Reality of Online Child Abuse (w/ Håkon Høydal)

Conspiritualists are not wrong that Jeffery Epstein’s downline has so far evaded justice. Or that the highest levels of the Catholic Church aided and…

2 years, 11 months ago

Special Report: Nostalgia for the Superego (w/Sam Binkley)

Matthew sits down with Sam Binkley, Professor of Sociology at Emerson College in Boston to discuss his 2007 book Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption…

2 years, 11 months ago

Bonus Sample: The Privilege of Wellness

There are a number of philosophies presented in yoga spaces as "universal truths" that turn out to be little more than directives in an echo chamber.…

2 years, 11 months ago

145: Fever Dream Goes Mainstream in Florida

When Disneyworld becomes DeSantisland, Eric Weinstein will be in charge of the Epcot Planetarium, JP Sears will headline the Family Values comedy sta…

3 years ago

Brief: Roku-Q, The Sequel (w/Alex Kaplan)

QAnon ain't over—it's on your television. It's been mainstreamed, networked, and remixed. Senior online extremism and disinformation researcher, Alex…

3 years ago