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Essay Questions

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Essay Questions is the podcast in which your hosts, Joe & Josh, read an essay that's interesting to them and/or of historical importance, and then talk about it. Pretty simple, right? Well, we like to think we're using these essays as a starting point for conversations that end up going in strange and surprising directions. Nothing makes us happier than dragging luminaries like Mencken, Orwell, Adorno, and Didion into our own long-standing obsessions with conspiracy theories, the National Se ...
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Todd led a movement over 20 years impacting tens of thousands of lives across the globe. With a pastor’s heart, an academic’s clarity of thought, and a entrepreneur’s vision, Todd is a rarity in the ministry world. His ability to motivate people to deliver outcomes helped build an organization that achieved incredible feats. Todd shoots straight. He has a no-bullcrap-attitude that makes him a bit of a gangster. He has a network of relationships that reaches all over the world. He has wisdom ...
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In this episode of The Remnant, we are back with Tim Barton, co-author of “The American Story: The Beginnings.” Tim and Todd sit down to discuss our Founding Fathers, their faith, and the principles they fought to keep in our Constitution. Join us as we examine where Christian Nationalism began, slavery laws in the colonies, and how many are rewrit…
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In this episode of The Remnant, we are joined by Tim Barton, co-author of “The American Story: The Beginnings.” Tim and Todd delve into historical nuances such as dispelling myths around the 1619 project and examining the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. They explore the importance of a robust moral foundation in society, taking a look …
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Would you give up your life long dream if it meant you sacrificed true peace? Todd is joined by Blaine Hale Jr. a professional golfer and long time friend of Todd and his family. Ever since Blaine was 3 he has dreamed of becoming a professional golfer and recently he achieved that very thing. What roller coaster of faith do you go through working s…
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Americans have become less and less motivated to work. Seeking purpose outside their 9-5 jobs, many corporate employees have adopted the phrase Quiet Quitting - meaning they “put in the minimum effort to keep their job, but don’t go the extra mile for their employer.”In this episode of The Remnant, Todd Wagner and his son, Cooper, discuss how quiet…
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Rumors and speculation have surrounded the Second Coming, since the first ascension of Christ. Every era believes they’ve seen the signs and that the end must be coming soon. In this episode of The Remnant, we will discuss - • Israel and Hamas • Moral Destruction in America • End-Times: Where Does America Fit In? • Premillennial vs. Postmillennial …
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With 2024 rapidly approaching, a Trump-Biden rematch seems likely. Many Christians have supported Donald Trump in the past. Both in 2016 and 2020, a large portion of Christian voters aligned themselves with Trump’s policies, conservative values, and promises to protect their religious freedoms. However, many have grappled with the moral and ethical…
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In this episode of The Remnant, Todd Wagner is joined by his son, Cooper, and colleague Matthew Lopez as they discuss the dangers of micro-dosing harmful ideologies. What you are consuming affects you much more than you realize. Take a moment to reflect on how intentional you’re being with your information diet. What are you really giving your atte…
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A new Tiktok trend has sparked a lot of attention for a decade's old letter written by Osama Bin Laden to America following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Many young people are saying to read the letter and to come back and talk about it - This is because many of them are sympathizing with the points made in the letter by Bin Laden. In this episode, w…
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Join Todd Wagner and Matthew in this powerful and candid conversation that delves into the intersection of faith, trauma, and the transformative power of redemption. The dialogue begins with a deep dive into biblical perspectives on discipline, repentance, and the unforgivable sin, exploring the complexities of mental health and spirituality. As th…
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In this episode of the Todd Wagner podcast, Todd does a deep dive into the faith journey of his friend Matthew Lopez, touching on God's blessings, forgiveness, repentance, scripture interpretation, and profound personal transformation. Matthew shares his raw experiences with addiction, anger, bitterness, and trauma and how he found healing through …
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Join Todd Wagner and his special guest Clint Bruce in this thought-provoking episode as they discuss leadership on the ball field, battlefield, boardroom, and the breakfast table. They delve into the significance of the breakfast table as a metaphor for our relationships in life. Gain valuable insights on leadership in your career, but more importa…
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Todd is joined by Shlomo Lifshitz, an IDF General who led the siege of Beirut in 1982. Shlomo has more than 20 years of experience in the IDF and has an intimate knowledge of the war between Israel and Hamas. In this episode we explore the historical context, the humanitarian aspects, and the complex relationship between Israel and its neighbors. T…
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In this little wrap-up of Season 2, Joe & Josh discuss Dorothy Thompson's famous 1941 Harper's essay "Who Goes Nazi?" In it, Thompson asked readers to look around the room at their next dinner party and guess who would collaborate with a fascist government in the United States. This piece, and the grim parlor game it describes, made the rounds on s…
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Mark Fisher (1968-2017), aka k-punk, was one of the most sensitive and original Leftist writers the internet age has yet produced. In both his major work, Capitalist Realism, and his many essays and blog posts, Fisher expounded on literature, technology, and pop culture from a class-conscious but undogmatic perspective. For his gentle but firm crit…
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Dylann Roof's murder of nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC shocked the nation in 2015, the most appalling act of right-wing terrorism in the U.S. since the Oklahoma City bombing - and the first inspired by the proliferation of racist, neo-fascist, and Alt-Right ideas online. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's masterful 2017 essay for GQ captu…
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As this season's readings have already made clear, male grievance and organized misogyny are a crucial feeder into the fevered swamps of the Alt-Right. So why would an otherwise sane, smart, independent woman want to make common cause with the Nazi contingent of the #gamergate and MGTOW crowd? In this episode, Joe & Josh discuss what motivates righ…
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The road from paranoid conspiracy theorist to out-and-out Nazi is a well-trod one, but no one has followed that road further than Andrew Anglin, the 5'4" American Goebbels of internet fascism. Founder of The Daily Stormer, perpetuator of long-discredited anti-Semitic canards, Filipino child bride-seeker, and man who is maybe 5'7" in his skinhead bo…
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It seems like "traditionalist" neo-Nazi organizer Matt Heimbach has reached the end of his ignoble career, facing accusations of vicious assault in the wake of a sordid affair with the wife of his top deputy, who is also Heimbach's wife's stepfather. (Good work on keeping the family sacred, Heimbach clan.) That story is bonkers, but in this episode…
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Did you hear the one about the Jewish gal who was married to a Nazi? How about the sorrowful dad who disowned his Nazi son after Charlottesville? Or the one about "edgy" podcasters who went from making dark Holocaust jokes to humorlessly advocating for a second Holocaust? Pure comedy. In this episode, (((Joe))) & Josh examine Andrew Marantz's oddly…
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Once a prominent figure only in the wilderness of right-wing internet culture, Richard Spencer has become the smug public face of the so-called Alt-Right. He can lay at least a partial claim to originating the phrase "alternative right" itself, and he has been the subject of numerous profiles since Trump's election, some of which have been criticiz…
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Manosphere. Men's rights. MGTOW. All dumb names for the same controversial thing. But is it malevolent? Is the connection that so many journalists and analysts have made between these men's movements and the Alt-Right justified? In this episode, Manischewitz & Mendacity red-pill you on Warren Farrell, an early proponent of therapeutic misogyny, wit…
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Liberals and leftists hated Andrew Breitbart in life and cursed him in death. "F*ck him," wrote Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone immediately after Breitbart's death was announced in March 2012. "I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead." But even Taibbi had to concede that Breitbart's public humiliation of then-Senator, not-yet-pariah Anthony Weiner was a …
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While hardly a counter-cultural figure himself, the late Samuel Francis was enormously influential in fringe right-wing movements at the turn of the century, helping to popularize with his writing both an explicitly racialist view of civilization and a "Gramscian" strategy - after the theories of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci - of cultural warfar…
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In this full-length introduction to Season Two, Joe & Josh explain why they've devoted this next batch of episodes to discussing the Alt-Right, that tangle of ugly political and cultural phenomena that has been explained, attacked, and analyzed to death by all quarters of the media in the past two years. What else is there to say by now? Starting w…
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The normalization of mass shootings is perhaps the most horrifying aspect of modern American life - which is saying something. In this episode, Joe & Josh delve into the minds of of the men and boys who commit such crimes, with the help of Andrew O'Hagan's masterful synthesis of their self-serious, self-pitying manifestos, "Who's the Alpha Male Now…
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Populist anger. Viral conspiracy theories. "Fake news." Anti-immigrant fear and loathing. Belief that an alien religion threatens to destroy our way of life. To say that "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstadter is just as relevant today as when first published in 1964 is a painfully obvious truth. As low-level minions of the …
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In this sister episode to last week's discussion of "Avant Garde and Kitsch," Joe & Josh continue their less-than-plausible attempt to present themselves as highbrow snobs by tackling Dwight MacDonald's "Masscult and Midcult." While the tech-driven atomization of American culture has largely destroyed the homogenous commercial machine MacDonald, wr…
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What is art? It's a perennial, impossible question, one made even more difficult to answer by the fact that so many people tend to bristle - in America especially - at the idea of making quality distinctions between serious art and mere entertainment in the first place. In this episode, Joe & Josh sorta try to provide a defense of whatever "art" is…
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Most of us remember exactly where we were when President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, bringing an end to the War on Terror and restoring peace to the Middle East. But ever since that fateful night, when all Americans celebrated our unmitigated victory in the most tasteful and least bloodthirsty way possible, some skeptics h…
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Dig this and don't goof, hepcats and hepkittens: Joe & Josh are going to school you in cool by reading Norman Mailer's 1957 essay "The White Negro." This seminal examination of the mid-50s zeitgeist - the work that popularized the term "hipster" - is 9,000 words of streamed consciousness that your hosts genuinely struggled to comprehend. In trying …
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On this episode of the "Old Time Gospel Program," Joe & Josh search the scriptures for answers to the most hotly contested questions of our day. They also have a look at the most famous essay from skeptic, cynic, and so-called "sage of Baltimore" H.L Mencken, "The Hills of Zion." Mencken's report from the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, TN paints a …
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German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno is a key figure in the post-war Frankfurt School of critical theory and one of the top writers every graduate student in North America pretends to have read more extensively than they actually have. Well, we should all stop pretending and hit the books, because Adorno's work on the culture industry, especially t…
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Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, is a strong candidate for greatest English essayist of the twentieth century, and "Politics and the English Language" is his final and most famous statement on propaganda, obfuscation, and how linguistic degeneration as a sign of civilizational decline. You probably got assigned this essay in college and don't remembe…
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In this inaugural mini-episode, Joe & Josh give their defense of the Essay Questions podcast and explain what made them want to do it in the first place. They give an overview of some of the authors and topics that this season will cover, argue that long-form essays are of vital importance in an age of social media and short attention spans, and ex…
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In their first episode, Joe & Josh read America's least controversial writer, Sam Harris, on how science can help us answer moral questions. And they're more than a little skeptical. Along the way, they talk about the meaning of life, moral relativism, and the origins of good and evil. As first episodes go, this one is perhaps the greatest in the h…
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Veronica K. Clark specializes in World War II and military history. She has two associate degrees, one of which is in Diesel Mechanics Technology and she completed one year of doctoral studies in Organizational Psychology. In this final World View Conversation Ms. Clark and Rodney discuss: Rodney’s Essay, “Why White Nationalism Fails”: https://anaa…
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Welcome to the truth about South Africa. WARNING THE TRUTH IS GRAPHIC and NOT FOR CHILDREN please maintain their innocence while seeking the truth. Our mission is to bring awareness to everyone around the world about the truth in South Africa and what is being done to the White Race one person at a time. The Living Waters Foundation - A 100% no pro…
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Welcome to the truth about South Africa. WARNING THE TRUTH IS GRAPHIC and NOT FOR CHILDREN please maintain their innocence while seeking the truth. Our mission is to bring awareness to everyone around the world about the truth in South Africa and what is being done to the White Race one person at a time. The Living Waters Foundation - A 100% no pro…
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May 14, 2015 This week: HAC raps on the Northwest Constitution, we hear from Gretchen and the Trucker, and HAC bites the head off a race-mixer on the Mike Harris show. (Last segment of the April 10th show.) "If we had a Country of our own, this wouldn't be happening" Visit the Northwest Front: WWW.NORTHWESTFRONT.ORG Visit the ANA & ANN: WWW.ANA-ANN…
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