What In God's Name

S7 Ep732: Destroy Your Opponents: Political Annihilation and the Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life 18.09.2025 9:53 ↓

The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.

S7 Ep731: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Existential Despair (3 of 4) 31.08.2025 10:50 ↓

Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?

S7 Ep730: Ethical Incoherence--The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life (2 of 4) 05.08.2025 11:24 ↓

The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society

S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4) 25.06.2025 10:14 ↓

Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.

S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why. 25.05.2025 9:14 ↓

You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down everything you cherish.

S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope 17.05.2025 9:21 ↓

Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?

S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions 07.05.2025 9:29 ↓

The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.

S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order 27.04.2025 9:00 ↓

How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.

S7 Ep724: How Liberals Helped Make America's Moral Mess 16.04.2025 7:49 ↓

On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism

S7 Ep723: Absurdity As A Weapon: What You Need to Understand about the Attack on Goodness in Our Common Life 05.04.2025 8:09 ↓

Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.

S7 Ep722: Civic Friendship to Civic Enmity: What You Need to Understand about this Moral Shift in Our Common Life 29.03.2025 9:38 ↓

Using our government's recent security breach on Signal and Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting on it as a point of departure, we help you understand the friend/enemy binary in our society.

S7 Ep721: Good People Do Not Exist: What You Need to Understand about The Moral Battle in Our Common Life 23.03.2025 7:55 ↓

WIGN Short Form helps you understand the moral dimensions of our common life, and why they are important.

S7 Ep720: What You Need to Understand about Power and Authority after Yesterday's Events 01.03.2025 8:31 ↓

What In God's Name looks at the Zelenskyy-Trump meeting through the moral lens

S7 Ep717: Beyond the Wall of Separation: Must Religion Be a Conversation-Stopper? with Brandon Edwards, PhD (episode 4 of 7) 09.01.2025 29:27 ↓

Today: Religious literacy to the rescue? How are we to have more open and honest conversations about public questions? Brandon and his University of Virginia students have some answers.

S7 Ep712: "Hope" As Used In Politics: Does It Need a Transcendent Source? 10.10.2024 37:10 ↓

We consider hope from a political and a theological perspective

S7 Ep710: Presidential Debate: The Real Human Dynamics at Work in Our Politics 12.09.2024 32:13 ↓

Chris and Shayna bring the moral and theological lens to see more deeply into our moment.