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🔗 Ars Technica: Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio

By giving talk radio a pass, Carr gives away the game. There's nothing "equal" about this enforcement.

White American Christianity’s Box Canyon

Since my book was released in September 2024, I have received three letters in response: two from relatives, and one from a former pastor. Today I want to talk about the one from my former pastor. I won’t address everything my pastor said, but I did want to talk

New interview: Money, Lies, & God with Katherine Stewart

Available across the web.

New interview: On Fire for God with Josiah Hesse

Available on YouTube & all podcast platforms.

🔗 WIRED: How to Film ICE

Necessary considerations for 2026.

What I'm working on in 2026, and why

My first interview of 2026 with Sara Moslener is now live.

🔗 Episodes: The Vibes Aren't Shifting

Some good cultural analysis for you.

The Verge: Gemini is winning

Gemini is winningCould Siri be the last piece of the puzzle?The VergeDavid Pierce Being an incumbent and a company with a $4T market cap has its advantages.

Resisting Fatalism

New year, same struggle.

CT: Yancey admits to affair, retires.

Yancey was a significant influence on me in my teens and 20s as I wrestled with evangelicalism. This is how his career ends.

The Exvangelical podcast (& more!) will return in 2026.

(A brief look back, and a quick glance ahead.)

Welcome to the new site

Hi there. 👋🏻 If you're reading this, it's likely because you're on the mailing list for my newsletter, The Post-Evangelical Post. I'm migrating off of Substack to my own Ghost website. In November 2025, after almost a decade of working full-time and publishing

I may have to start wearing a watch again.

The ugly Pebble 2 Duo is the smartwatch for meThis is a welcome new-old idea about smartwatchesThe VergeDavid Pierce Pebble is so back.

Reading Notes: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

I just recently started the latest Cory Doctorow book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. I'm early on in the book - he's still providing case studies of enshittified platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, and Apple - but I'