This podcast features interviews with a variety of theorists, artists and activists from across the globe. It's guided by the search for radical solutions to crises that are inherent to colonial capitalism. To this end, I hope to keep facilitating conversations that bring together perspectives on the liberatory and transformative power of care, in particular.
Pretty Heady Stuff
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This podcast features interviews with a variety of theorists, artists and activists from across the globe. It's guided by the search for radical solutions to crises that are inherent to colonial capitalism. To this end, I hope to keep facilitating conversations that bring together perspectives on the liberatory and transformative power of care, in particular.
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Recent Episodes
July 4, 2026
Katherine Stewart decrypts how Christian fundamentalism is seizing power in the United States
<p>Katherine Stewart has covered the intersection of faith and politics for over 17 years; her work appears in the New York Times, the New Republic, Religion News Service, the Guardian and elsewhere. Her latest book, Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, is one of Foreign Affairs magazine’s Best Books of 2025. Her previous, award-winning title, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, formed the basis of the documentary feature, God & Country. </p><p>I wanted to speak with Katherine to talk about the United States' evangelical bet on Christianity as a means of galvanizing a divided nation, and her research into the ways that this has been leveraging by the elite as part of a movement for securing minority rule.</p><p>The Power Worshippers, our main focus here, looks at how "the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage.... [T]his is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy.<br>#fourthofjuly #july4 #independenceday #americanpolitics #uspolitics #christianity #christianfundamentalism #evangelicalism #dominionism #christiannation #christiannationalism #whitenationalism </p>
July 1, 2026
Alex Marland scrutinizes party loyalty in Canada as a program of coerced consent
<p>What are the politics of party loyalty in Canada? Why do politicians follow the leader and rarely rock the boat? What solutions could exist for strengthening Canada's democracy by injecting more dissent into the system? Alongside Mireille Lalancette and Jared J. Wesley, Alex Marland is the author of No “I” in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics, a book that offers in-depth analysis of the social and cultural forces that inform party loyalty in Canadian government. Their book is essential reading for anyone that wants to understand why political change is so rare in Canada. What it reveals is that ossification and pious attachment to the ruling party are the rules of the game, that Canada is, in many ways, constitutively allergic to political change at the highest level of governing power. </p><p>Alex Marland is Acadia University’s inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership. A Professor of Canadian politics, he has authored or edited over a dozen books, including the acclaimed Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control (2016) and Whipped: Party Discipline in Canada (2020). </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/canada">#canada</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/canadianpolitics">#canadianpolitics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/canadaday">#canadaday</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nationalism">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/partypolitics">#partypolitics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/partisanpolitics">#partisanpolitics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/politics">#politics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/politicalloyalty">#politicalloyalty</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/partyloyalty">#partyloyalty</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/liberalparty">#liberalparty</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/trudeau">#trudeau</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/justintrudeau">#justintrudeau</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/pierrepoilievre">#pierrepoilievre</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/markcarney">#markcarney</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/leadership">#leadership</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/politicalleadership">#politicalleadership</a></p>
June 26, 2026
Carl Wilson referees the poptimism wars & explores nostalgia, protest & world-building in music
<p>Carl Wilson is a Canadian music critic who has written for many publications including The Globe and Mail. He writes wonderful long thought-pieces on music for Slate. </p><p>Best known for his classic book Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, published in Continuum's 33 1/3 series, Wilson unpacks the claims of that book in terms of contemporary trends in music. </p><p>Let's Talk About Love is putatively a critique of Celine Dion's bestselling album Let's Talk About Love, but it's more accurately an act of self-reflection and cultural analysis that gives a robust language for understanding what's at stake when we litigate taste.</p><p>Follow Carl at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqblBvMkZPNVBtOWZXYjVnS2g4bldGLUIwSmE0Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuS0lOcUtUSUpSdGFMWklSbzlyUGY1LVZGTGFZMWMtQTBZSDRjLVY5UG9fODdlTF9rWVVGbWthdW54QkFHZ2FLcUVjZjVuZ2dyc2JEcHN0QkRZVEM0QTVfN1c1QVpwalI5SEJLeEdQd3pkVTVYdm9KZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fcarlwilson.substack.com%2F&v=T0oG6P7dPiI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://carlwilson.substack.com/</a> 🎸</p>
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