Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez compare Jenner to other California celebrity candidates, explore the meaning of the politics of validation, and ask whether voters should demand that candidates have a history of public service.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss America's relentless culture of progress, its least celebrated discontents, and wonder whether white Evangelicalism is based more on resisting modernity than theology.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson's questioning of the use of government to dictate culture, the relative absence of religion in the U.S. Constitution, and whether the public will soon tire of the Culture Wars.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez ask whether the pandemic exacerbated America's post-reality politics, whether our obsession with rights makes it impossible to discuss the common good, and whether President Biden's biggest asset is that he's viewed as non-threatening.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez ask whether appearances trump agenda in U.S. politics, whether Americans have entered the post-reality age, and whether emptiness leads to the death of empathy.

Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez explore America's sentimental view of racial conflict, and ask whether there's such a thing as a Latino Community and whether America can really fit into a handful of Census categories.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss whether there's really an immigration problem, why Americans can't talk about the issue rationally, and where the next anti-immigrant wave might pop up.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss falling cable news ratings, voter fatigue, and whether political polarization is making us dumber.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss America’s growing disdain for elites, why it has some politicians all twisted up, and whether the rich really can enter heaven easier than a camel can squeeze through the eye of a needle.

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Mike Madrid and Gregory Rodriguez discuss the meaning of the recent royal kerfuffle, the trend of defining oppression upwards, and whether America's elites have failed their country.

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