Sitemap - 2023 - Theory of Change Podcast With Matthew Sheffield

A cozy holiday crossover

Should Trump be banned from the ballot for his insurrection?

Clarence Thomas wanted more money for SCOTUS, threatened to quit

Democrats have a failure to communicate

Texas abortion law's ugly tyranny exposed in court case

Taylor Swift triggers MAGA (again)

Biden trails Trump a year out from the election, does it matter?

Kevin McCarthy announces resignation as MAGA plots revenge against America

What's next for George Santos? And why are people lying about Pramila Jayapal?

Republicans are horribly unpopular, why haven't Democrats been able to win big?

'Right privilege' and America's broken politics

Doomscroll Special: Lisa's first comedy album

How conspiracy theories about the famous Rothschild family tell the history of antisemitism

Elon Musk sues Media Matters for telling the truth about Twitter

Mike Lee won't retract debunked conspiracy theory about vape pen

Encore: How Mormonism has been reshaped by Evangelicalism

Congressional Republicans' fisticuffs and the right's history of violence

Fascism or incompetence? Trump and his toadies can't decide which they prefer

Inside TESCREAL, the new techno-religion that's becoming an obsession of billionaires

Bonus: Should Biden ban menthol cigarettes?

Is the far right's anti-democratic agenda beginning to catch up with it?

NY judge shocks Trump by holding him accountable

As libertarianism has radicalized, some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are turning toward fascism

Mike Johnson and the inverted worldview of religious fundamentalism

Mike Pence finally realized that everyone hates him

How the far right built a political machine that's crushing the opposition

Mike Johnson: Speaker of the House of Christian nationalism

House Republicans hate each other and we're here for it

Theory of Change #091: Blake Chastain on evangelicals and exvangelicals

So This Just Happened #009: Jim Jordan is a horrible person who's horrible at his job

House of Chaos: Jim Jordan humiliated in first Speaker vote

Theory of Change #090: David Paleologos on how 'unlikely voters' could change American politics

So This Just Happened #008: Doja Cat and toxic narratives

Doomscroll #013: Forbes boots Trump off richest 400 list

Encore: Edward H. Miller on how Republicans became the John Birch Society party

So This Just Happened #007: Republicans in disarray

Doomscroll #012: Kevin McCarthy's pathetic last stand

Theory of Change #089: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd on how reactionary college students invented 'cancel culture' and political consulting

So This Just Happened #006: Is the Fox RFK Jr. hype going to boomerang?

Doomscroll #011: Trump's fake union show

Theory of Change #088: Rich Logis on waking up from MAGA

Country music and Confederate Christianity

Doomscroll #010: Did Trump 'break' political comedy?

Theory of Change #087: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on fitness and fascism

So This Just Happened #004: Republicans can't get a date and they can't understand why

Doomscroll #009: Impeachment Groundhog Day

Theory of Change #086: Nyomi Banks on sex, intimacy, and self-care

Doomscroll #008: Burning Man floods and porta-potty wrastlin'

Theory of Change #085: Tasha Reign on sex work, consent, and companionship

So This Just Happened #003: Oliver Anthony and the coolness gap

Doomscroll #007: Fox host thinks mugshot Trump is hot??

Theory of Change #084: Kaytlin Bailey on sex worker rights and changing norms

So This Just Happened #002: Personal insecurity and political extremism

Doomscroll #006: Rudy Giuliani needs your money

Theory of Change #083: Marty 'DoktorZoom' Kelley on Idaho #InTheStates

So This Just Happened #001: Demonic tampons

Doomscroll #005: We're not getting that billionaire death match

Doomscroll #004: Presidential indictments from outer space

Theory of Change #082: Julie Millican and Olivia Little on right-wing media's new Satanic Panic

Doomscroll #003: Fox Freakout Factory

Doomscroll #002: Hollywood on strike

Theory of Change #081: Jonathan Howard on the epic failure of covid contrarianism

Theory of Change #080: Lance Aksamit on living and leaving far-right evangelical Christianity

Doomscroll 001: Cocaine fever

Theory of Change #079: Ty Ross on race, religion, and the Black Republican experience

Theory of Change #078: Colby Hall on CNN and Fox's very different identity crises

Theory of Change #077: Richard Bett on skepticism and the Zombie Socratic Method

Theory of Change #076: Tim Whitaker on 'The New Evangelicals'

Theory of Change #075: Gene Zubovich on the forgotten history of liberal Protestantism

Theory of Change #074: Renée DiResta on the epistemologies of content moderation

Theory of Change #073: David Masciotra on the ‘fanfiction left’

Encore: Angie Maxwell on how Confederate Christianity took over the Republican party

Theory of Change #072: Matthew Remski on Marianne Williamson and the strange hybrid worldview of self-help

Theory of Change #071: Phil Christman on Rod Dreher and Christian radicalization

Theory of Change #070: Dan Gillmor and Darius Kazemi on Mastodon, the Fediverse, and decentralizing the internet

Theory of Change #069: Elisa Shearer on why people listen to podcasts

Encore: Christopher Douglas on how evangelicals turned politics into Bible fan-fiction

Theory of Change #068: Timothy Shenk on what history can teach us about making political change

Theory of Change #067: Stephen Clermont on public opinion and AI

Theory of Change #066: Simon Willison on technical and practical applications of ChatGPT and AI

Theory of Change #065: Jeff Schatten and Gary N. Smith on AI and its implications

Theory of Change #064: Philip Bump on Baby Boomers and what comes next

Theory of Change #063: Justin Baragona and Diana Falzone on Dominion's Fox Files

Theory of Change #062: David Hollinger on the theological origins of the Christian Right

Theory of Change #061: Wajahat Ali on finding truce between religion and equality

Theory of Change #060: Seyward Darby and Katherine Abughazaleh on the sexuality of reaction

Theory of Change #059: Douglas Rushkoff on the doomsday fantasies of billionaires

Theory of Change #058: Nils Gilman on how the "designer economy" will replace neoliberalism

Theory of Change #057: David Golumbia on the political ideology behind Bitcoin and crypto

Theory of Change #056: Richard Barbrook on libertarianism, neoliberalism and "Californian Ideology"

Theory of Change #055: Lisa Curry on comedians crying "cancel culture"

Theory of Change #054: Brandon Bradford on America's masculinity crisis