Matthew and Julian discuss America’s first pope in a nation gone MAGA.

Matthew’s guest today persuasively shows that the movements we think of as “nonviolent” never really are. Why don’t we know this? Through a tangle of academic malpractice, spiritual bypassing, liberal wish fulfillment, and erasing anticolonial voices.

The AI nonsensient flattery machine is designed to hook you into the regurgitative process of self-seduction. Is this a new spiritual delusion, or more of the same? And what does that kind and agreeable bot conceal?

Derek is joined by two members of the nonprofit organization, Health Care for All Oregon: Collin Stackhouse, the Social Media Coordinator, and Rebecca Schoon, an Associate Professor of Public Health at Pacific University, who’s on the board. Together, they map out Oregon’s journey to universal health care.

Mallory DeMille returns to discuss one of the most insidious wellness grifts: selling ionized water to “treat” cancer.

Julian looks into this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner—and Substack’s rival event.

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has leased the public space of OP to the Therme Spa company, which promises to bring wellness and democracy to the good citizens of Toronto, for a price.

Bruce Van Dieten and Ann-Elizabeth Samson of Ontario Place for All join Matthew to discuss the history and possible future of Toronto's cherished public space.

Historian Craig Johnson joins Matthew to discuss his new book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism.

Someone’s got dirt on RFK Jr. We cover the cursed game of telephone that bounced around right-wing podcasts speculating on who that is—as if the blackmail is real to begin with.

Cultural and psychological anthropologist Katie Rose Hajtmanek joins Derek to discuss her new book, The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon.

Derek and Julian discuss Abundance, the new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

Derek and Julian discuss new NIH director Jay Bhattacharya first official interview—with Bari Weiss of the Free Press.

Today we look at “Adolescence”: the origin story, the strengths and liabilities of its one-take technique, and its deceptively conservative messaging.

Matthew's third edition of the Antifascist Woodshed.

We look at Curtis Yarvin, a man who has the ear of those reshaping our world at breakneck speed.

Derek and Julian discuss Robert Paxton's 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, in light of 2025 America.

McGill University science communicator, Jonathan Jarry, was recently given hundreds of hours of Zoom calls between alt-med salesman, Joseph Mercola, and a supposed clairvoyant that goes by Bahlon. Jonathan joins us to discuss what he found.

Julian covers the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. Headlined by Jordan Peterson, featuring Konstantin Kisin, Ayan Hirsi Ali, Jonathan Pageau, and Eric Weinstein, the conference positioned itself as an inspiring cultural gathering focused on reclaiming Western values. 

Trump administration Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently stated the American economy is going to need a "detox" period. And so today we look at peak the conspirituality convergences between biological and political purification projects.

First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance with and without force, unarmed violence and property damage, and armed violence are so incredibly hard to talk about in a culture thick with spiritual and political bypassing.