HeyJaredFlux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)
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Non-religious people still need to think about meaning and selfhood (opens the original)
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Across multiple surveys, about 30 percent of Americans say they have no religious beliefs , and for the past several years, a majority of people say they “seldom or never” attend religious services. People are free to think whatever they want to about philosophy and metaphysics, of course, but are they actually doing so? I have my doubts . Whether you agree with religions or not, they at least get people thinking something about minds, selfhood, and ethics. Daoism, Buddhism and some other Easter
How scientists are fighting the Trump administration’s attempts to silence them (opens the original)
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We’ve talked a lot on the program about the Trump administration’s wars on science and education and why they’re doing as part of a larger far-right attack on the achievements of modernity . This month, the president announced that a change to federal immunization guidance for infants to reduce the number of recommended shots . He cited no actual evidence, just his ludicrous belief that doctors were pumping infants with a liter of vaccine liquids . I wish I was joking. In addition to the harms t
How corporations took over the federal courts (opens the original)
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American democracy has been widely seen as embattled for the last 10 years or so, but the factions seeking to undermine or replace it have been active for many decades. We’ve covered the political groups who have been at work in this regard here on Theory of Change, but it’s also the case that many business leaders have become increasingly radicalized to view democracy as a threat to business — even though the social democratic nations of Europe have combined vigorous capitalism with strong demo
Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead? (opens the original)
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As November draws nearer, Democrats’ electoral prospects are looking very similar to how they were in 2018 before the party swept to victory in many congressional and statewide seats. 2028 is much further away, of course, but there is a very real possibility that Democrats could gain trifecta control of the presidency, Senate, and House. If the recent past is any indicator though, in just two years’ time, voters will swing wildly in the opposite direction, handing control back to Republicans. Am
How Jeffrey Epstein did it (opens the original)
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The life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein were so complex that 5 years after his death, there is much about him that remains yet unknown. The system of sexual violence and exploitation that he devised is as infamous as it is uncovered. The financial structures he set up for himself were so complex that it takes hours to list them all, and his political and business connections were so vast and mysterious that to describe them in detail makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist. But knowing and sha
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