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Matthew welcomes friend of the pod, Brad Onishi, back to Conspirituality. Brad is the co-host of Straight White American Jesus, and he’s got a new book out called American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy.&nbsp;
Onishi’s scholarship charts the Frankenstein alliance of reactionary Catholic integralists, Protestant Reconstructionists, and Silicon Valley monarchists who find a common vein of worship in their rejection of democratic rule and a preference for an unbound executive.
But: How will the trad-Caths out-maneuvre Pope Leo? Why do Paul Weyrich and Leonard Leo see&nbsp; Trump as a wrecking ball who precedes a Vance-type successor? How do they justify their openly minoritarian strategy?&nbsp;
And: can these post-liberal believers really subordinate markets to a "common good"? Or is that impossible, given the wrath of their true deity, capital itself?
Show Notes
<a href="https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/speaking">American Caesar by Bradley Onishi</a><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/tech-billionaire-thiel-says-greta-thunberg-servant-of-antichrist/">Peter Thiel calls Greta Thunberg a servant of the Antichrist (CTV News/AFP)</a><a href="https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-you-know-who-else-wants-to-regulate-ai-the-antichrist-2000823964">Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lectures target Pope Leo XIV over AI (Gizmodo)</a><a href="https://findingaids.loc.gov/repositories/19/resources/5521">Paul M. Weyrich</a><a href="https://www.jta.org/2022/08/22/politics/barre-seid-secretive-donor-to-pro-israel-causes-is-behind-1-6-billion-donation-to-conservative-nonprofit">Barre Seid's $1.6 billion donation to Leonard Leo's Marble Freedom Trust (JTA)</a><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-u-s-government-taking-a-10-percent-stake-in-intel/">US government takes 10% stake in Intel (CBS News)</a><a href="https://pv.suorcd.us/episode/p8hoFyTjgL">Kevin Roberts and Dwarkesh Patel, "Tech and the American Republic"</a><a href="https://www.catholicregister.org/item/3783-cultivating-a-return-to-the-land">Catholic Land Movement gaining momentum (The Catholic Register)</a><a href="https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/personalities/world-s-second-richest-man-says-ai-could-let-one-person-support-a-family-working-three-days-a-week-5131191.html">Jeff Bezos on AI and a three-day work week (VnExpress International)</a><a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/choonara-j/2011/xx/decoding.html">Review of David Harvey's The Enigma of Capital</a><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1">Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (Marxists Internet Archive)</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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