Podcast Episodes
Back to Search284: When Prophecy-Science Fails (w/Thomas Kelly)
In 1954 a doomsday alien cult headed up by Chicagoland housewife Dorothy Martin was waiting for the cataclysmic flood that would herald the arrival o…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Sample: Temple of Blood & Fire
They offered initiation into ancient Christian mysticism, ritual communion with the spirits, an understanding of reincarnation, and the destined tran…
4 months ago
Brief: Does Calley Means Get Anything Right?
RFK Jr's senior advisor and supplements salesman, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern me…
4 months ago
283: Guys
Back in June, we published an episode about the "Speaking with American Men" (SAM) project, a $20 million initiative designed by political consultant…
4 months ago
Bonus Sample: MAHA Inaction
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The nonprofit organization (and its adjoined Super PAC), MAHA Action, is leading semi-regular Zoom calls featuring a host …
4 months, 1 week ago
Brief: Taylor Swift Goes MAGA?
Taylor Swift: Nazi sympathizer, freshly-minted racist, MAGA trad wife. Or so proponents of a recent conspiracy theory would have it. For years, the m…
4 months, 1 week ago
282: Mutual Aid Against ICE
When restaurants and cafes in Portland and elsewhere link into networks of food pantries and soup kitchens, will mutual aid feel real in the US? When…
4 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Sample: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 2)
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Part 2 follows the money flowing from US agencies and interests to anti-Liberation Theology figures in Latin Am…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Brief: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part deep dive into how U.S. foreign policy stared down the political threat of Liberation Theology by promoting Evangelic…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
281: Jeffrey Tucker, MAHA Dandy
“Meet the man who built RFK Jr’s kitchen cabinet” goes the title of a recent investigative article in Politico. Yet that man, Jeffrey Tucker, is much…
4 months, 2 weeks ago