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People have four great hopes: a second innocence after long immersion in a broken world, a justice that is clean and without ambiguity, a security that cannot be undermined, and a world in which there are no more difficult labours. In this episode, we will consider the ways in which Identity Politics attempts to provide shortcuts to the realization of these hopes, with reference to Joshua Mitchell's book American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of our Time.

In this episode we conclude our look at Mattias Desmet's book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, drawing some conclusions and offering an evaluation of Desmet's conclusions.

This week I read a letter that was published on the Aquila Report, and talk about the way in which identity politics twists the Christian concepts of transgression, innocence, and the scapegoat for its own purposes.

In this episode I go through chapters seven and eight of Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. In this week's episode we'll look at "The Leader and the Masses," and "Conspiracy and Ideology."

This week we'll continue our journey through Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism, and work our way through the fifth and sixth chapters - "The Desire for a Master," and "The Rise of the Masses."

This week we'll look at the third and fourth chapters of Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. In these chapters, Desmet discusses the goals of the mechanistic ideology, and the method that adherents of this ideology uses to gather knowledge. This episode follows up on last week's episode, which discusses the introduction and first two chapters of the book, so if you haven't already listened to that episode, I recommend that you start there!

This week I begin a detailed look at Mattias Desmet's 2022 book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, in which he explains the nature of "mass formation" and its results. In this episode we'll go through the introduction and the first two chapters of the book, in which Desmet begins to discuss the issue of Science and its Psychological Effects.

This week's episode is a preview of my forthcoming book, How In The World Did We Get Here? Today I read Chapter 4, "Sexual Revolutions," which explores the Twentieth Century sexual revolutions which have shaped our prevailing culture's views on sexuality, marriage, family, and the relationship between the sexes.

In this week's episode, I address the question of how we should live in the light of the concerning current events and trends that we are witnessing and experiencing. Does expressing concern about the state of the world mean that we are living in fear? And does speaking out about these issues make us fear-mongers?

Following up on the previous two episodes focusing on family life and the important role that parents have in their children's lives, this week we consider the role of fathers, especially as it relates to their responsibility toward their sons. Is there a "crisis of masculinity" in our society? And if so, what is behind it?

This week's episode follows up on last week's discussion of the "separationist" trend, focusing specifically on the issue of government-subsidized universal daycare and the way the separation of children from their mothers continues to be encouraged. Beginning with Brian C. Robertson's book, Day Care Deception: What The Childcare Establishment Isn't Telling Us, we'll examine the question of who benefits from the move from in-home parental care to institutional care of children outside the home. Hint: it's neither children nor their parents!

Experts tell us that absence of parents in children's lives is not as damaging as we may imagine it to be. In this episode, we examine that claim, using Mary Eberstadt's 2004 book Home-Alone America as our starting point.

In this week's episode, we take a look at a recently-published article about "cultivated meat," and the way in which the narrative is being shaped to promote the consumption of meat substitutes grown in bioreactors.

This week's episode is a conversation with Dwayne Faber, an American dairy farmer, writer, and public speaker, about a number of issues surrounding the production of food and the agricultural industry. In a wide-ranging conversation, we touch on issues including environmentalism, food security, GMOs, and how to think of these issues in a way that is shaped by our Christian worldview. Dwayne's website is https://dwaynefaber.com/, and he can be found on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/dfaber84.

In this week's episode we take a look at the Rockefeller Foundation's 2020 policy paper, "Reset the Table," and examine the way in which this organization is seeking to shape the narrative about the "food system" in the United States (and the world).

In this week's episode we follow up on last week's discussion of Klaus Schwab's "great narrative" by taking a more in-depth look at the ideology and practical outworking of the technocratic system of government, using Parag Khanna's 2017 book Technocracy in America as our starting point.

Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum want to make their ideas "palatable so that a large majority of citizens embrace them." In order to accomplish this goal, they have come up with their own "Great Narrative" - their own understanding of the challenges that the world is facing, and how those challenges can be dealt with. In this episode, we'll look at Klaus Schwab's latest book, The Great Narrative For a Better Future, and evaluate the worldview that Schwab is promoting, as well as his proposed solutions.

You may remember Smokey Bear, or McGruff the Crime Dog. You may see or hear "public service announcements" brought to you by the same folks who brought you those famed commercial characters of old, The Advertising Council. But what is the Ad Council? Who runs it, and who funds it? In this episode, we'll look at the Ad Council and the role it plays in propagandizing the masses.

As the sphere of personal privacy continues to shrink and attacks on privacy rights worsen, the issue of privacy is very much a living concern. In this episode we discuss the relationship between privacy and power, the history and meaning of privacy, and why it is so important to us to maintain and fight for the right to privacy.

Stanley Milgram's 1962 experiment investigated the human tendency to obey authority figures, even when that obedience meant acting against one's own moral principles. In this episode, we take a look at Milgram's experiment and some of the conclusions that he drew, and apply these conclusions in today's world.

In this week's episode I sat down with Tim Jonker and William Ravensbergen to speak about their participation in the Freedom Convoy and the Ottawa protest in recent weeks. We talk about their experiences from the beginning of the convoy to its ignominious end last week, and speak about how their Christian faith led them to take part in this protest, what it accomplished, and where we go from here.

In this week's episode I speak with Pr. Nathan Zekveld about what our Reformed confessions have to say about the current situation in Canada and elsewhere. The confessions, especially the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism, have a lot to say about how the Church, and we as individual Christians, should deal with issues such as lockdowns, decrees forbidding or limiting corporate worship, and participation in peaceful protest. We address these issues from the perspective of our confessions, and the Word of God, upon which they are based.

In this episode I'm joined by Pr. Tim Schouten for a conversation about Romans 13. Over the past two years, this passage of Scripture has been debated and discussed by many Christians. We discuss what this passage means, what the broader context of Scripture has to teach us about submission to authorities, and how we should apply it today.

Late last week I sat down with Lucas and Tyler from Reformed Perspective’s Real Talk podcast for a good long chat about a number of issues that I’ve addressed here on Dan 11:32. I highly enjoyed our conversation, and encourage you to check out their podcast as well: https://www.realtalkpodcast.ca/

As a massive convoy of truckers and their supporters makes it way to Canada's capital, attracting enthusiastic support and a lot of attention around the world, we consider Saul Alinsky's thirteen "rules for radicals," and how these rules relate specifically to the reaction to this movement.