Podcast Episodes
Back to Search56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)
In June 2020, equity consultant and journalist Dax-Devlon Ross—who you might remember from Conspirituality 4 that very same month—published an essay …
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn
Humanity has an apocalypse fetish. But wrapped up In the doomsday death wish is a utopian fantasy of the ascension that comes after a fallen and sinf…
4 years, 9 months ago
55: Games Against Humanity (w/C. Thi Nguyen)
This episode is co-hosted by Dr. C. Thi Nguyen, a philosopher who teaches at the University of Utah. His breakthrough book is about agency in games, …
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?
News from Alabama: after a 23-year ban on yoga in schools, generated by a Republican moral panic, Governor Kay Ivey signs a bill that lets kids do yo…
4 years, 9 months ago
54: Māori MAGA (w/Joe Trinder and Anke Richter)
Matthew sits down, across 9,000 miles of mostly ocean, with journalist Anke Richter and reporter and Māori rights activist Joe Trinder to discuss the…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: How Many Monuments Must Fall?
Derek looks back at three important historical figures with unsavory pasts to ask the question: who gets to decide who gets canceled, and why?
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4 years, 9 months ago
53: Learning Cultish (w/Amanda Montell)
We’re extremely pleased that someone who isn’t a Boomer — and is younger than us — is making a serious but accessible contribution to this golden ag…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: Loaded Language & Productive Discussion
Julian and Matthew discuss words, world views, and how productive disagreement can lead to mutual understanding. In today’s overheated discourse, soc…
4 years, 9 months ago
52: The Clerical Class of the Right (w/Alex Ebert)
This week we learned that Melinda Gates was disturbed by Bill’s men’s-club relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way back in 2011. And for fuck s…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Sample: No Moral Outrage Porn, No Punching Down
Matthew had a plan for this week — a 4K word essay on what could be learned from studying the content of an outrageously offensive conspiritualist… b…
4 years, 10 months ago