J6 ONE YEAR LATER, Ep. 5: The Violence of Playing Indian
Dr. Dana Lloyd is an expert on Native American religious traditions and faculty at Villanova University. She speaks to Brad about how the QAnon Shaman’s appropriation of Native American symbols extends a long lineage of White people “playing Indian.” According to Dr. Lloyd, “playing Indian” is a means of eliminating indigenous peoples by using their […]
Weekly Roundup: Falwell’s Fall and America’s Backlash
+ Put A Black Woman on SCOTUS
You’re Not Welcome Here, Ep. 4: “Why Now?”
If all of politics involves “identity,” and if we all possess identities, why do so many feel like contemporary “identity politics” is something new and experience it as threatening? If identity has always been a fundamental part of shared social and political life, why does identity figure so prominently in that shared life now? In […]
J6 ONE YEAR LATER, Ep. 4: Shofars, Flags, and a Declaration of War
Leah Payne on the Pentecostal Presence at J6
Weekly Round Up: Party of Lincoln and Election Fraud
What Are God’s Pronouns?
You’re Not Welcome Here, Ep. 3: “Identities are like elbows and a**holes.”
What is identity? It isn’t something limited to particular social groups claiming equal rights or something that only applies to minority groups of different kinds. On the contrary, “identity” is something we all have and it’s how we categorize and sort individuals and groups to shape our shared social life. It’s also fundamental to our […]
Identities are like elbows and a***holes.
What is identity? It isn’t something limited to particular social groups claiming equal rights or something that only applies to minority groups of different kinds. On the contrary, “identity” is something we all have and it’s how we categorize and sort individuals and groups to shape our shared social life. It’s also fundamental to our […]
J6 One Year Later, Ep 3: It’s Us Against Them
Brad interviews Phil Gorski, Professor of Sociology at Yale, and the author of the new co-authored book with Sam Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to Democracy. Gorski breaks down how the rioters thought about the Insurrection–it was not about right or wrong. It was about us vs them. […]
Weekly Round Up: The Civility Rights Movement
Brad and Dan begin this MLK weekend show by going over the outlines of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Selma marches, and King’s missives to White moderates. They link this to the current fight for voting rights and the misugided logic of Senator Synema, who continues to stand in the way of new voting […]
You’re Not Welcome Here: Religion, Politics, Identity Ep. 2
What do politicians like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders have in common? They’re critical of “identity politics.” In this episode, we’ll take a closer look at how people on both the political left and the political right are critical of identity politics and the unexpected similarities of their perspectives. We’ll also talk about […]