In this episode we explore an imagination stunted by American Exceptionalism. In our society, even as other nations and regions of the world find success in recovering from COVID, we can't conceive of a post-pandemic USA. In our inability to recover from exceptionalist thinking, how can we recover from this pandemic?

Is praying for a "full and speedy recovery" for the president the Christian thing to do? Is it bad to pray for his downfall? Or his death? Join us as we discuss the religious responses to Trump's illness.

Join us as we discuss Trump's COVID diagnosis. What does it mean for the election? How might it change the government's response to the pandemic? Why is it stirring a plethora of conspiracy theories?

Transmission is back from our break to unleash our one-hundredth episode upon an eager world! It's "Fascism Friday." In this episode we discuss Trump's shout-out to the white nationalist "Proud Boys" and the revelation that the president and first lady have contracted COVID-19.

Join us for the last episode of September, before returning next month with episode 100! In it, we discuss the rumors that "antifa" started the fires in Oregon, why the term "extremism" only ever applies to the far ends of the political spectrum, and the mayor of Louisville's decision to declare a "state of emergency" in anticipation of the grand jury decision on the murder of Breonna Taylor.

When you struggle for rights, you tend to exercise them. In our society, many people take various rights for granted—the right to a free press, the right to vote, the right to due process—the powerful infringe upon them even as we take them for granted. In this episode, we talk about rights, how we take them for granted, and how we tend to look the other way when others' rights are violated.

We aren't a special snowflake amongst the nations.

What does it mean to have faith in a time of COVID?

Wherein we talk about the pandemic as an apocalypse, an unveiling of the realities of USAmerican society.

In which we talk about mental health in the wake of the pandemic.