Just a bunch of random stuff: degrowth economies, AI popstars, Tucker Carlson's interview with Larry Sinclair.

We are prepping an episode on the Muslim Manosphere, so stay tuned for that.

We hit a bunch of topics on this one: sexual currency, Fousey update, quick hit on Intisar Rabb's 'Doubt in Islamic Law,' airline safety, and a New York Times poll that shows people on both ends of the political spectrum agree that the United States is failing.

We cover a few random topics like the unhinged PragerU kids' curriculum featuring Christopher Columbus, the return of Fouseytube, and a letter Obama allegedly wrote as an undergrad that conservative conspiracy theorists will surely go nuts over.

Our main topic for this episode is about Wael Hallaq's 'The Impossible State,' and why Sharia governance is incompatible with post-colonial nation states.

We answer some questions. Please direct any corrections to our DMs on Instagram @The_Field_Between_Pod

We watched Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' and use Arundhati Roy's essay, 'The End of Imagination,' about India's nuclear bomb test in 1998 to discuss it.

Episode artwork: Batata lounging in the sunny window while we discuss the sheer psychological horror of nuclear annihilation.

We finally decided on a new structure for this podcast. Every other week we will discuss a reading, and in the in-between weeks, we'll do something fun. This is a fun one! We do call-out culture on one another's bad behaviors.

We share some of our favorite Sufi poetry by Ibn Arabi and Rumi. Also, SOMEONE gets fact-checked twice on this episode.

If you're interested in the translation we're using, you can find them here:

Michael Sells' translation of Ibn Arab: Stations of Desire

Omid Safi's translation of Rumi: Radical Love

We dive deep into Ahmed's childhood trauma featuring Mel Gibson's body-horror 'The Passion of The Christ' (2004).

We discuss some great American heroes, and then give a Pittsburgh update.

I was gonna do a solo episode on the road, but that didn't work out. Enjoy my ramblings about carvanserai, highway rest stops, and public space.