Conspirituality
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Bonus Sample: The Wellness Civil War
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the full episode here. When RFK Jr announced that Tylenol might be implicated in autism, he forefronted correlative research that has yet ...
Brief: MAGA’s Censorship Hypocrisy
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA congressman Clay Higgins recently sent a letter to top tech executives demanding subservience when it comes to "acceptable" speech. This comes tw...
276: Inventing Saint Charlie Kirk
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Kirk became the latest victim of gun violence in America on September 10. And he wasn't the only person shot on a school campus that day, nor ...
Bonus Sample: Antifascist (Autistic) Christianity — Simon(e) Weil (Part 2)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second installment in a two-part exploration of Simon(e) Weil for the ongoing Antifascist Christianity series and the Antifascist Woodshed project...
Brief: Antifascist (Autistic) Christianity: Simon(e) Weil (Part 1)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew begins a two-part exploration of Simone Weil—French philosopher, mystic, and antifascist activist—through the lens of autism, embodiment, ...
275: It’s Never the Guns
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Less than two weeks after a shooter unloaded 500 rounds at the CDC in Atlanta, RFK Jr gutted that agency's violence prevention research by firing 100 ...
Bonus Sample: The 9/11 Rorschach Test
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The events of September 11, 2001 changed the world. Julian reflects on several interpretations of what they meant, proposing that each is a kind of Ro...
Brief: MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Derek worked for nearly 10 months on a NY Times opinions video, "You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories," which was published ...
274: Is Rogan REALLY Leading a Death Cult?
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If it wasn't all so tragic, politics might seem like a bad joke. But how did comedy become so unfunny, so politically toxic? From his hideout in a ...
Bonus Sample: How Wellness Influencers Became Radicalized
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Biostatistician Halbert Dunn's 1961 book, High Level Wellness, set the stage for the modern wellness movement. Derek reads it alongside some of today'...
Brief: Conspiracies Down Under
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recent killing of two police officers (and wounding of a third) in Porepunkah, Australia has highlighted the dangers of sovereign citizen-style co...
273: Trump Will Die
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is still alive, though a lot of folks are excited that won't last. Maybe it’s testimony to the allure of the fantasy that he really is powerfu...
Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 2)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of ant...
Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 1)
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of ant...
272: Jillian Michaels is the Biggest Loser
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The unavoidable question of the week: why is Jillian Michaels on CNN commenting on slavery, exactly? As it turns out, Netflix provides the answer. T...
Bonus Sample: The Beatles’ Billionaire Yogi
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Levitation, world peace, and blissful enlightenment were all essential to the hippie counterculture. But it came at quite a price. Maharishi Mahesh Yo...
Brief: Ground Zero Grifting
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Plandemic creator Mikki Willis recently hosted an hour-long webinar to promote his supplements company. Marketed as a storytelling hour to share the p...
271: The Miseducation of PragerU
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The right has waged a war on “woke” Sesame Street for generations. When the party passed the 2025 Recissions Act, they were finally able to take a...
Bonus Sample: The Naturopaths Are At It Again
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In preparation for this Thursday's episode on PragerU, Derek looks at one of the propaganda organization's videos featuring naturopathic practitioner,...
Brief: Olympics for Dopers
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Enhanced Games promises to display the "true potential" of athletes by letting them use any sort of performance enhancement drugs available when i...
270: Kennedy's Bloodbath
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The implications of awarding Robert F Kennedy, Jr with a position he’s completely unqualified for are becoming clearer by the day. While he’s made...
Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-p...
Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-p...
269: The Book of Gwyneth
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Odell calls Goop “a powerful platform for spreading health misinformation.” So many topics Goop has c...
Bonus Sample: The '80s Zen Master Con Man
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything about Zen Master Rama was fake—except for the piles of money he made. His black belt in paranormal martial arts, three past lives as a Bu...
Brief: DJ Khaled of Pseudoscience
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Strange billboards have been popping up all over Los Angeles featuring disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and an unidentified man listing a...
268: Rogan’s Christian President
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We catch up on three figures this week. First is Bari Weiss, who's trying to sell her upstart media org, The Free Press, to Skydance for a reported ...
Bonus Sample: "Natural" Snake Oil?
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAHA hates petroleum-based food dyes. Yet, as Derek unpacks, many of the main influencers in this movement monetize products synthesized by the same e...
Brief: Mehdi Hasan vs Jordan Peterson
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee appearance has blown up—and so has criticism of the entire media operation. Derek and Julian discuss the value and pitf...
267: Epstein Never Died
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Epstein’s name is being screamed into the headlines again. The late and former self-described best-friend of Donald Trump's highly suspiciou...
Bonus Sample: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 2)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly? Professor ...
Brief: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 1)
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly? Professor ...
266: Jubilee’s Body Image Debates
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Body image is a phenomenon that has long simmered below the surface of the wellness industry. We’ve spent years covering the hard and soft eugenics ...
Bonus Sample: Globalize The Intifada?
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Protest slogans are designed to pack a punch. They communicate potent emotions and persuasive ideas to the public while galvanizing activist allies. A...
Brief: Vaccination, a Delusion?
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1898, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace published a pamphlet entitled, "Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime." This work be...
265: Guru Rehab
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We return to the ongoing saga of Aubrey Marcus. As a wealthy, anti-vax New Ager who campaigned for RFK Jr (before going MAGA), he’s a pole star for ...
Bonus Sample: Purity Tests & Coalition Building
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC democratic mayoral primary has been filled with deflections and pivots so that politicians and pundits don't have to f...
Brief: The Liver King Crash-Out
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 24, Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, was arrested in Austin for threatening Joe Rogan. The infamous raw organ "primal" influencer has since ...
264: The Mamdani Effect
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Tonight we made history," grinned Zohran Mamdani as his supporters cheered with delight, "I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York...
Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learn...
Brief: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 1)
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learn...
263: The Apostle Assassin
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Dad went to war last night” read Vance Boelter's text to his family in the early hours of June 14. This was sent after his shooting rampage aimed...
Bonus Sample: The Two-For-One Guru of MSIA
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He built a lucrative seminar empire in the 80s, owned an Italian Villa, founded a “spiritual university,” and travelled the world with a harem of ...
Brief: MAHA Mass Casualty Horizon
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What dangers does an RFK Jr HHS pose to Americans, really? Derek dives into science writer's Laurie Garrett's work, who spoke to the dangers we're fac...
262: Dems Ask “What is a Man?”
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
takeover—legacy media and Democratic strategists have the same question on their lips: What is going on with young men? Though Kamala Harris won the...
Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure...
Brief: The Ghost Lab
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology conten...
261: Where Are They Now?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From 1999-2002, VH1 ran a show called “Where Are They Now?” The irregularly produced series wondered aloud what happened to former cultural icons ...
Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a...
Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a...
260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megamillionaire supplements and New Age life coach tycoon Aubrey Marcus recently claimed the goddess Isis told him that he must impregnate both his wi...
Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support Conspirituality on Patreon. Does the word protestor conjure a masked figure in black clothing smashing windows and lighting fires or a weeken...
Brief: The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad claim they're going to open the "black box" at the FDA, an agency they're now both employed at. So they started a podcas...
259: MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been talking about RFK Jr for years, and even dedicated an entire chapter to him in our 2023 book—and we’re going to keep covering him. Si...
Bonus Sample: A Master Class in Wellness Propaganda
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Calley Means is one of RFK Jr’s top advisors. Alongside Tucker Carlson, Means has claimed responsibility for shepherding Kennedy into Trump’s camp...
Brief: The Gospel of MAHA Apologetics
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After being confirmed as Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr started installing his cabal of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors across the government's ...
258: Pope Bob Vs. Trump World
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The most annoying convert TradCath in the world, JD Vance, whose cherubic face belies all his bootlicking aggression, gets his moment with Pope Bob. U...
Bonus Sample: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 2)
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. A...
Brief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1)
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may have grown up with the term “nonviolence” shining like a pole star over every discussion of how we accomplish socio-political change. But ...
257: AI Gurus
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those...
Bonus Sample: The UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It begins with a failed human sacrifice in Detroit in 1932. Some would say it actually starts with an evil god-scientist who created the first white p...
Brief: What Will Universal Healthcare Actually Require?
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As i...
256: Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille)
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling...
Bonus Sample: How Did Gen X Go MAGA?
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gen X went from leaning slightly right in 2016 to become, as one analysis puts it, “the bedrock of Trumpism.” Derek meditates on what happened to ...
Brief: The New Media Order
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a little different this year. No president. No comedian. The event featured a mea culpa from an Axios jou...
255: A MAHA Wellness Scam at Ontario Place
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has leased the public space of OP to the Therme Spa company, which promises to bring well...
Bonus Sample: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 2)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of Matthew’s conversation with historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley), who hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of ...
Brief: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 1)
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley) hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an ex...
254: The Great MAHA Purity War of 2025
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Someone’s got dirt on RFK Jr. MAHA voters went MAGA because Bobby said he was going to end vaccine mandates—their code for ending vaccines, period...
Bonus Sample: God is a Cloned Alien Love-Machine!
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the aliens landed, they told a young musician and wannabe race car driver that he was the chosen one, and they were the real gods. He should buil...
Brief: The Cult of Crossfit
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When cultural and psychological anthropologist Katie Rose Hejtmanek set out to study Crossfit, she knew she had to throw herself into it fully. For se...
253: The Politics of Abundance
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"In order to have the future we want, we have to build and invent more of the things we need." That’s the central claim of Ezra Klein and Derek Tho...
Bonus Sample: We Already Know What September Will Bring
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been quite the week at HHS with Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge. Derek considers what's been going on: Bobby's announcement that he's going to "det...
Brief: Karma & Christ at the NIH
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Bhattacharya, Covid contrarian and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, is now the Director of the NIH. The day before beginning his new...
252: Netflix vs. Andrew Tate (On “Adolescence”)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a mystery of violence swirling in and amongst the kids these days. Especially boys. What could it be? Snapchat? Video games? Andrew Tate? A ...
Bonus Sample: Antifascist Woodshed 3.1: The Kids are Alright
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two: Matthew remembers the snow job of “The Sound of Music.” Also: more on Sophie Scholl, introducing the Edelweiss Pirates, the “adult gaz...
Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 3: The Kids are Alright
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
But the parents? Meh. When fascism rises, and some young people are drawn into its orbit, because everyone from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate has f...
251: Who Is Curtis Yarvin?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia." That's neo-reactionary philosopher Curtis Y...
Bonus Sample: American Oligarchy and the Kremlin Wizard
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is an oligarchy, exactly? Is the US entering a period similar to post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s? What do Russian oligarchs have to do with prove...
Brief: Is It Fascism?
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Derek and Julian discuss Robert Paxton's 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, in light of 2025 America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
250: The Mercola Tapes
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
McGill University science communicator, Jonathan Jarry, was recently given hundreds of hours of Zoom calls between alt-med salesman, Joseph Mercola, a...
Bonus Sample: The War on Fat People
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Wellness Company is now selling retatrutide, a weight loss drug currently undergoing stage 3 trials by Eli Lilly. An anti-vax company that uses fe...
Brief: Jordan Peterson’s Shady Billionaire Backers
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julian covers the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. Headlined by Jordan Peterson, featuring Konstantin Kisin, Ay...
249: Kings of Pain
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump administration Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently stated the American economy is going to need a "detox" period. And so today we look a...
Bonus Sample: Antifascist Woodshed 2.1 (Punching Nazis?)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Click here to hear the full episode on Patreon. Second of Matthew’s two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance...
Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance with and without force, unarmed violence and proper...
248: What Side Are You On?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lately a lot of folks (including us) have been doing the fascism comparisons. The questions we ponder this week: How long it takes for fascism to ful...
Bonus Sample: Sex, Lies, & Communist Spies
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe for full episode The MAGA attack on government jobs, takeover of government agencies, and purge of supposed “DEI” and “woke” profe...
Brief: MAHA's Soft Eugenics
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MAHA's response to the measles outbreak has been horrific, though expectable. Yet RFK Jr's op-ed, in which he advocated for the MMR vaccine, ripped ap...
247: The Deeper State
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re looking at how folks who associated themselves with the magical and morbid QAnon memes about the “coming storm” that would destr...
Bonus Sample: What’s a Nazi Salute, Really?
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former "race realist" Richard Hanania recently published an article on The Free Press claiming that all those Nazi salutes the right is waving high in...
Brief: Smooth-Talking Anti-Feminism
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is life worse for women now than in the 1950s? In a recent interview for The Free Press, author Louise Perry and journalist Bari Weiss muse on just ho...
246: Shock Doctrine of Discovery
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump has decreed it’s the Gulf of America, and Google agrees, at least for US users. Rep Buddy Carter has introduced HR 1161, the Red White and Blu...
Bonus Sample: Manners, the Machine, and Malaparte’s Technique de Coup d’État
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we worry more about: the far-right beliefs of trolls, or the coding skills of the trolls? The split focus on Marco Elez and Elon Musk—are ...
Brief: Antifascist Woodshed
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Education / Public service alert: Matthew critically reviews six books that define fascist eras and recount how they have been opposed. A kind of “h...
245: Raw Dogging Wellness [feat Mallory DeMille]
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raw Milk. Raw Water. Raw Meat. Mallory DeMille returns to break down the raw trend in wellness. We look at the science and cultural implications behin...
Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The eighth installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person. Friend of the pod Blair Hodges joins Matthew to ta...
Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, start a religion.” With those words, prolific sci-fi pulp fiction writer L...
Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Given how much shit the zone is being flooded with right now, you might have missed Donald Trump screaming about the supposed mistreatment of white So...
244: Battle for the Onesies
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As of recording time, RFK Jr has not yet been confirmed to the HHS Secretary position by the Senate. That might change by publication date. But if we ...