😈 In case you somehow managed to avoid our relentless self-promotion: Diabolical Lies was profiled in Jacobin (!) by the one and only . We talked about our political trajectories, blaming everything wrong with capitalism on feminism, the “wellness-girly-to-MAGA pipeline,” and finding a Third Way beyond girlboss and tradwife.1 They’ve graciously provided a Jacobin discount to Diabolical Lies listeners. (We both subscribe to the print & digital edition.)
Now, onto this week’s Sunday Service—meet your pastors:
In this conversation…
What does it mean to “run the government like a business” in America today? In today’s episode, we scrutinize the fetishization of “efficiency” and the American businessman, the role this valorization played in the ascendancy of our current “leaders,” and what everyone’s getting wrong about how business is done in America today—through the lens of a recent bombshell report2 that “breastaurant” Hooters is filing for bankruptcy.
