John Nichols on Crime and the Democrats, Plus Sarah Posner on Sex and the Southern Baptists

John Nichols on Crime and the Democrats, Plus Sarah Posner on Sex and the Southern Baptists

Writers join the Start Making Sense podcast to discuss Tuesday’s primaries in California and the scandal that could shake the Christian right. 

Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Flipboard
Pocket

The results of Tuesday’s primaries in Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to The New York Times, were “a stark warning to the Democratic Party about the potency of law and order as a political message in 2022.” John Nichols disagrees. He joins the Start Making Sense podcast to discuss. We also provide a preview of the live TV hearings of the House committee on the January 6 insurrection.

Also on this episode, author Sarah Posner joins us to talk about sex, politics, and the Southern Baptists. The Southern Baptists have been at the center of the Trump movement, but now the denomination has been rocked to its core by a massive sex abuse scandal. Could this change the Southern Baptists for good?

Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe.

Thank you for reading The Nation!

We hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.

Throughout this critical election year and a time of media austerity and renewed campus activism and rising labor organizing, independent journalism that gets to the heart of the matter is more critical than ever before. Donate right now and help us hold the powerful accountable, shine a light on issues that would otherwise be swept under the rug, and build a more just and equitable future.

For nearly 160 years, The Nation has stood for truth, justice, and moral clarity. As a reader-supported publication, we are not beholden to the whims of advertisers or a corporate owner. But it does take financial resources to report on stories that may take weeks or months to properly investigate, thoroughly edit and fact-check articles, and get our stories into the hands of readers.

Donate today and stand with us for a better future. Thank you for being a supporter of independent journalism.

Thank you for your generosity.

Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


Start Making Sense Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.  


Ad Policy
x