Rick talks to Peter Simi, a sociology professor and expert in extremism, about the alarming rise of white supremacy in the US, where the movement has evolved from the overt image of the Klan to a slick, social media-driven force. Simi highlights how figures like Donald Trump and his talking heads amplify these ideologies and how followers are being recruited ... Show More
Dec 2021
White Supremacy Is Evergreen
Maria and Julio are joined by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, historian, writer and professor at Princeton University, and Adam Goodman, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, for a conversation about the deep-rooted history of white supremacy in this country. They discuss the ... Show More
37m 50s
Aug 2024
Nazis, Nihilism, and the Evolution of the Fringe Right
CNN’s Elle Reeve did her best-known reporting during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when she followed neo-Nazis over a weekend of violent protests. Seven years later, her new book looks at how that movement — born in online communities of mostly whit ... Show More
39m 51s
Aug 2024
Anti-DEI Moms & the Alt-Right: Two Sides of the Same Coin
At first blush, the successful, suburban moms in Southlake, Texas who helped kick off the anti-CRT/anti-DEI movement animating school board fights across the country have little in common with the young, self-described losers and incels who make up much of the alt-right. In fact, ... Show More
1h 11m
Nov 2024
Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. David Cunningham, chair of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis, is author of ... Show More
24m 27s
Feb 2025
#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right
Sam Harris speaks with Katherine Stewart about her new book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. They discuss Project 2025, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, whether the backlash against wokeness has been overblown, the asymmetric standa ... Show More
32m 37s
Jun 2021
Timcast IRL #315 - John McAfee Got Epstein'd, Then Posts Crazy Image AFTER He Died w/Michael Knowles
Tim, Ian, and Lydia join friend and fellow podcaster Michael Knowles to discuss the recent unfortunate demise of John McAfee, the woke general who is now in charge of the US military, the recent 'Karen' movie trailer, the active threat of a social justice military, and the finer ... Show More
2h 7m
Jul 2
Get In the Fight Against White Christian Nationalism
Check out the JVN Patreon for exclusive BTS content, extra interviews, and much much more - check it out here: www.patreon.com/jvn Separation of Church and State is under attack, and the spread of White Christian Nationalism is ever present. Luckily, organizations like Americans ... Show More
55m 42s
Apr 2025
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
This week, we interviewed two people with leading roles in the rapidly escalating conflict between the Trump administration and American higher education.Today, we speak with Christopher Rufo, who led the conservative critique of, and assault on, critical race theory and diversit ... Show More
43m 49s