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Our mailbag runneth over! Unsurprisingly, we received so many excellent questions from subscribers for our most recent episode that we decided to answer even more of them. Once again religion seemed to be on the minds of listeners, and we take up charismatic Christians and the evolution of both the religious right and the Republican Party, as well as the role of Christian Zionism in U.S. policy toward Israel. But that's not all: other topics include leftist theory bros; Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the politics of sexual blackmail; Gore Vidal at 100, and more.
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Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth (1970)
Daniel G. Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (2023)
Wilson Carey McWilliams, "The Bible in the American Political Tradition," in Redeeming Democracy in America, ed. Patrick Deneen & Susan McWilliams (2011)
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932–1940, ed. Gershom Scholem (1992)
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, (1938)
Phil Christman, Why Christians Should Be Leftists (2025)
Sam Tanenhaus, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America (2025)
Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn (1988)
Christopher M. Elias, Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (2021)
Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993)
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