Fresh Air

How Sept. 11 changed American life

I think the first thing it tells you is that since September 11th, Islamophobia has become the most tolerated, most accepted form of bigotry in the United States, because nothing else could explain people's objections to Mamdani being at the ceremony. He's the mayor of the city. He's an extremely popular mayor of the city.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]

The really revolutionary thing about America is not Silicon Valley. It's the combination of the Protestant ethic, the work ethic, the moral framework, and the technological dynamism. You get God and Gold and Silicon all working together, and that's what makes it so powerful.

Book of the Day

Sen. Raphael Warnock argues that progressives should bring spirituality to politics

My faith is not a weapon, it's a bridge. And what I offer in the book is not a condemnation, but an invitation, even with those who are my political opponents.

Fresh Air

A former nun on why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' life

I think I'd had a sense of transcendence very strongly when my father died. And that led me on to want to get closer to the source of transcendence. And I thought, you know, religion maybe had the key.

It's Been A Minute

You're not broken. You're experiencing 'Church Hurt.' | It's Been A Minute

The most damaging thing about conversion therapy was it said everything that is natural that felt natural to me... was sinful and that my desire to express myself as a person who wants to be in relationship with another human being — that because it was directed to someone of the same sex that I had to completely reorient and change everything about me to be acceptable to God.

Code Switch

Pete Hegseth's American crusade | Code Switch

As as people thought that they were doing the will of God through violence, well, suddenly there's a sanction for violence that has almost a universal adapter.