2024 Presidential candidate and bestselling author Marianne Williamson returns to Bad Faith to explain why she unsuspended her campaign, what she makes of RFK’s success, and how her politics toward Israel bear on her approach to the crisis in Gaza. She reflects on past criticism from the left -- including Norm Finkelstein and RBN -- and debates the characterization of her views as "Zionist." Stick around until the end for some Oscars 2024 discussion.
Today's podcast considers the terrorist attack in Russia and what it means for the war in Ukraine—and what the chaos in Congress means for the war in Ukraine as well. Also, lesson #257 in what happens if you try to get a job in mainstream media when you're on the right, and what the new Netflix show Three-Body Problem might tell us about our coming debt cliff. Give a listen.
Over the last 200 years, railroads have been one of the most important methods of transportation. Railroads helped make the modern world. They are capable of transporting people and goods quickly over long distances at a low cost.
However, most people would be shocked to learn that railways predate the development of locomotives. In fact, the earliest evidence of using some sort of premade track dates back thousands of years before the first locomotive.
…and despite the development of new and faster forms of transportation, rails look to continue to have a bright future.
Learn more about railways, their history, and their future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
NPR's Sarah McCammon grew up in the white evangelical church — and though she left the tradition as an adult, she's continued to cover its ties to Trump's politics closely as a journalist. Her new book, The Exvangelicals, chronicles why so many people like herself have removed themselves from evangelicalism. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the different breaking points she heard from other defectors — from COVID to racial justice — and why a decline in people who identify as evangelical might actually explain the group's rising political profile.
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Located on a peninsula and series of islands off the southeastern coast of China lies what is today called the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong didn’t play a central role in the thousands of years of Chinese history. However, it has played a pivotal role in the region for the last 200 years.
It went from being a backwater to becoming one of the most important financial and business hubs in the world.
Learn more about Hong Kong, its past, present and future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In the early 17th century, Japan was witness to a samurai who was arguably its greatest warrior.
He wasn’t just one of the greatest swordsmen in history; he was a philosopher, a writer, an artist, and, in contravention to the samurai code at the time, he was a vagabond.
Today, he is considered a saint of Japanese martial arts, and he has been portrayed in Japanese movies and books.
Learn more about Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s greatest swordsman on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are fine concepts, but DEI offices on college campuses appear to have fostered a problematic culture. Greg Lukianoff is coauthor of The Canceling of the American Mind.
