Megan Basham
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Augustine, and everybody's just raving about Augustine.
And they said, we've got to search for our soul, and the most important thing you can do is to fight against Trump to enrich your soul.
I was like, oh, my word.
No, but this is what they're doing.
Right.
The next day, Russ Douthat writes a piece saying, I want more Christianity in Christian nationalism.
No, he doesn't.
You're at the paper record, and you never write about the chief attributes of God or Christianity at all, right?
The dominant theme in the New Testament is the kingdom of God.
You want Christianity, Russ?
Write on that sometime.
I don't see the New York Times educating Christians on what faith is, affirming certain knowledge.
What knowledge, Russ?
They all get clever and have their witty banter.
And then I'll just go into the empirics.
Everybody ought to get thisβ
A little thing you can find online, Gapminder, gapminder.org.
Download it on your computer.
It takes a minute.
Hit play, and you'll see economic growth, and you'll find a curiosity that's verified by a Berkeley economist, Bradford DeLong.