Money, Lies, and God: An Interview with Katherine Stewart (Warren Throckmorton; Telling Jefferson Lies: Debunking the Myth that America was Founded as a Christian Nation)

Today Warren features an interview with Katherine Stewart, the author of the New York Time bestseller Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. The segment is timely in that we discuss income disparities accentuated by the passage of the recent Trump budget. The dominance of Christian nationalism in the current administration isn't helping many of the foot soldiers who helped bring Trump to power.

Katherine discusses her new book and much more. Here is a sampling of topics: 

• The uneasy coalitions in Christian nationalism and MAGA world
• The lifeblood of Christian nationalism: bad history
• Religious liberty means the freedom to do what Christian nationalists want to do
• Religion is a tool of autocratic leaders
• The threat of the New Right to American governance
• Power is what unites the religion of the New Right
• David Barton (Where's Waldo) is still active
• The rank and file are ultimately victims of the theology of power

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-tpnse-265d68ff

 

Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience (The Michael Shermer Show podcast 191)

Everyone has heard of the term “pseudoscience”, typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella — astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields “pseudo” is a far more complex issue. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements — both of which display allegations of “pseudoscience” on all sides — there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. Shermer and Gordin explore the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-8na49-f1d49db