Unreasonable Podcast
1) Finale: Postmortem For A Country...And A Podcast
What did you do on inauguration day? If you’re like us, you were seeking shelter from the impending storm, some sort of diversion to preserve your mental health before the inevitable onslaught to come...Show More
2) "The End (Is Only The Beginning)" with Andrew Seidel
As Unreasonable's production comes to a close, and American democratic norms shift towards theocracy, we sought perspective, a calmer voice that might, while acknowledging the darkness, also offer a g...Show More
3) "Secularism Without Cynicism" with Sasha Sagan
As we enter what promises to be an era of American-style Christo-fascism, it's hard for secular people -- people of reason, of science, who believe that faith is earned by evidence -- to not be cynica...Show More
4) "Is Israel A Theocracy?" with Bernard Avishai
Whatever your position is on Israel, on Zionism, on Hamas' attacks on October 7, 2023 or Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, it's undeniable that Israel had an outsized influence on our recent...Show More
5) "How Religious Organizations Game The IRS" with Prof. Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Despite the New Testament’s recording of its main character making a clear distinction between what man owes his government (taxes) and his lord (devotion), in real life it’s never quite worked out th...Show More
"How Religious Organizations Game The IRS" with Prof. Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
1:03:30 | Nov 30th, 2024
6) "It's An Opus Dei World, You're Just Living In It" with Gareth Gore
In 2017, like many financial journalists, Gareth Gore went to Spain to report on the sudden collapse of the global bank, Banco Popular. And, like every other reporter, he missed the real story. That i...Show More
7) "The Risk of Left-Wing Political Cartooning" with Jesse Duquette
Early last week we recorded an interview with illustrator Jesse Duquette. Then we got the word over the weekend: Meta not only shut his account down, but permanently deleted its posts and eradicated h...Show More
8) "Conversations with THOSE People" with Pierce Watkins
Pierce Watkins is a Zen-master of epistemology.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, epistemology is “the theory of knowledge and understanding, esp. with regard to its methods, validity and sco...Show More
9) "Ziklag" with Andy Kroll
Just when you thought you had a handle on all of the Christian Nationalist efforts to reshape America into their biblical paradise (think New Apostolic Reformation, Seven Mountains Dominionism, Jerich...Show More
10) "Faith, Interfaith and Non-Belief at the DNC" with Sarah Levin and Hemant Mehta
After a long long week of activity in Chicago, our friends Sarah Levin (Secular Strategies) and Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist), graciously agreed to connect for an exclusive conversation for Unreason...Show More
"Faith, Interfaith and Non-Belief at the DNC" with Sarah Levin and Hemant Mehta
45:02 | Aug 24th, 2024