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Encore: Angie Maxwell on how Confederate Christianity took over the Republican party
Listen now (69 min) | ‘The South did not become Republican, so much as the Republican Party became Southern’
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Theory of Change #072: Matthew Remski on Marianne Williamson and the strange hybrid worldview of self-help
Listen now (69 min) | How conspiratorial thinking has become its own political ideology and a gateway to extremism
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Theory of Change #071: Phil Christman on Rod Dreher and Christian radicalization
Listen now (48 min) | How an oversharing Christian blogger acquired a leftist anti-fandom by inadvertently documenting his own radicalization
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Theory of Change #070: Dan Gillmor and Darius Kazemi on Mastodon, the Fediverse, and decentralizing the internet
Listen now (73 min) | Open protocol social media needs to be the future
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April 2023
Theory of Change #069: Elisa Shearer on why people listen to podcasts
Listen now (37 min) | Pew Research Center researcher breaks down new study on how podcasts fit into the personal and political landscapes
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Encore: Christopher Douglas on how evangelicals turned politics into Bible fan-fiction
Listen now (63 min) | Reactionary Christians think they're starring in a Bible story and that their political opponents are the servants of Satan
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Theory of Change #068: Timothy Shenk on what history can teach us about making political change
Listen now (85 min) | Most movements to make political change fail, what do the ones that succeed have in common?
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Theory of Change #067: Stephen Clermont on public opinion and AI
Listen now (66 min) | The public is skeptical it can tell true from false and prefers regulation to entrepreneurship
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Theory of Change #066: Simon Willison on technical and practical applications of ChatGPT and AI
Listen now (71 min) | Big business and government are adopting artificial intelligence, what can it do for the rest of us?
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March 2023
Theory of Change #065: Jeff Schatten and Gary N. Smith on AI and its implications
Listen now (58 min) | An introduction to artificial intelligence and how it’s changing the world
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Theory of Change #064: Philip Bump on Baby Boomers and what comes next
Listen now (50 min) | America’s largest generation fundamentally changed the country, but how they head for the political exit is to be determined
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Theory of Change #063: Justin Baragona and Diana Falzone on Dominion's Fox Files
Listen now (53 min) | Dominion’s Fox lawsuit has utterly exposed that Rupert Murdoch's Fox isn’t news
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