What In God's Name

S7 Ep732: Destroy Your Opponents: Political Annihilation and the Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life

The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.

S7 Ep731: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Existential Despair (3 of 4)

Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?

S7 Ep730: Ethical Incoherence--The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life (2 of 4)

The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society

S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)

Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.

S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.

You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down

S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope

Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?

S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions

The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.

S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order

How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.

S7 Ep724: How Liberals Helped Make America's Moral Mess

On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism

S7 Ep723: Absurdity As A Weapon: What You Need to Understand about the Attack on Goodness in Our Common Life

Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.

S7 Ep722: Civic Friendship to Civic Enmity: What You Need to Understand about this Moral Shift in Our Common Life

Using our government's recent security breach on Signal and Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting on it as a point of departure, we help you understand the friend/enemy binary in our society.

S7 Ep721: Good People Do Not Exist: What You Need to Understand about The Moral Battle in Our Common Life

WIGN Short Form helps you understand the moral dimensions of our common life, and why they are important.

S7 Ep720: What You Need to Understand about Power and Authority after Yesterday's Events

What In God's Name looks at the Zelenskyy-Trump meeting through the moral lens

S7 Ep719: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 6 of 7)

S7 Ep718: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 5 of 7)

S7 Ep717: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 4 of 7)

Today: Religious literacy to the rescue? How are we to have more open and honest conversations about public questions? Brandon and his University of Virginia students have some answers.

S7 Ep716: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 3 of 7)

S7 Ep715: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 2 of 7)

S7 Ep714: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 1 of 7)

S7 Ep713: What's Your Temperature On The Election? Pivoting from the Political to the Moral Lens