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American Campus PodcastConservatives and Classical education with Catherine TebaldiTrad wives make great teachers.Make a request for future episodes here!We're prepping for an upcoming mailbag episode, ask us anything here!References and suggested readings:Catherine Tebaldi. 2025. Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics. Routledge. Janet MacIntosh. 2024. Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press.Chelsea Ebin. 2024. Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. University Press of Kansas.Carl Neville. 2020. Eminent Domain. Repeater.Alexandra Kollontai. 2011. Red Love. Createspace Independent Publishing.Follow Cat Tebaldi on Bluesky @cat-tebaldi Support the showBrowse th...
2025-12-1027 min
The Last Democratic PresidentWhat is the Catholic right, and what is the Catholic utopia Catholics seek to build in America?Send us a textIn this podcast I talk with Dr. Chelsea Ebin about J. D. Vance, the modern Catholic right, its similarities and differences with Protestant right wing politics, and about the Christian utopia that both Catholics and Protestants seek to built in America. Dr. Ebin is an assistant professor of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. She teaches a range of courses that focus on American politics and constitutional law, political theory, and gender. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Women and Gender Studies d...
2024-10-0544 min
Premium Ad-Free: Straight White American JesusThe Radical Catholic Right from Paul Weyrich to JD Vance: Part 2Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/In part two of my interview with Dr. Chelsea Ebin, we dig deeper into how radical strains of Catholicism have influenced American politics, particularly through figures like JD Vance and historical activists such as Connie Marschner. Our conversation explores how these groups have long pushed to use government power to enforce conservative Christian values, especially around issues of family and gender. Dr. Ebin and I unpack the...
2024-09-3032 minStraight White American JesusThe Radical Catholic Right from Paul Weyrich to JD Vance: Part 2Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/In part two of my interview with Dr. Chelsea Ebin, we dig deeper into how radical strains of Catholicism have influenced American politics, particularly through figures like JD Vance and historical activists such as Connie Marschner. Our conversation explores how these groups have long pushed to use government power to enforce conservative Christian values, especially around issues of family and gender. Dr. Ebin and I unpack the...
2024-09-3032 min
Premium Ad-Free: Straight White American JesusThe Radical Catholic Right from Paul Weyrich to JD Vance: Part 1Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/In this episode, we dive into the influential role of Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation, and his impact on conservative Catholic involvement in American politics. Dr. Chelsea Ebin, author of The Radical Mind, helps unpack Weyrich's reaction to Vatican II, his strategic efforts to unite conservative Catholics and Protestants, and his vision of integrating Catholic morality into the U.S. government. We also explore how...
2024-09-2338 minStraight White American JesusThe Radical Catholic Right from Paul Weyrich to JD Vance: Part 1Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 600-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/In this episode, we dive into the influential role of Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation, and his impact on conservative Catholic involvement in American politics. Dr. Chelsea Ebin, author of The Radical Mind, helps unpack Weyrich's reaction to Vatican II, his strategic efforts to unite conservative Catholics and Protestants, and his vision of integrating Catholic morality into the U.S. government. We also explore how...
2024-09-2338 min
Refuse FascismMale Supremacy: Common Ground for the FascistsTwo interviews this week about the fascist assault on the right to abortion and the re-assertion of violent misogyny that it is a part of: Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her (@schemaly, sorayachemaly.com) and Chelsea Ebin, co-founder and fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (@crrebin, malesupremacism.org).
Plus: commentary about the latest developments from the January 6 commission.
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Washington Post Opinion: 3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection by Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson
For the 90th...
2021-12-201h 11
Darts and LettersThe Road From Roe (ft. Becca Andrews, Chelsea Ebin & Laurie Bertram Roberts)
For years, abortion rights advocates have worried about the United States drifting towards abolishing Roe vs. Wade. Could this be the moment? The Trump-heavy, right-wing, partisan Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The court may overturn two decades’-old decisions–Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey–that protect the right to an abortion. At the same time, a Texas case that bans abortions after six weeks is also making its way through the court. On this episode of Darts and Letters, we look at...
2021-12-031h 17