After touching on football, brain injuries, the nature of blogging and podcasting, and a comparison between politics in Japan and the West, Colin, Andy, and Richard attempt a diagnosis of "reactionary conservatism" in the United States and that country's "Old-Time Religion."
Notes:
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, "Culture of Defeat"
Mimizuka ("Shrine of the noses")
Richard Spencer, "The Glenn Beck Deception," essay on Glenn Beck and David Barton
Elizabeth Wright, "Carnival of Repentance: The Outcome of American Conservatism"