Know Your Enemy

TEASER: How To Be Normal (w/ Phil Christman)

Episode Summary

Matt talks to writer Phil Christman about his new essay collection, "How To Be Normal" — addressing religious fundamentalism, Christian conspiracy theories about rock music, Mark Fisher, impersonal love, and much more.

Episode Notes

Matt talks to writer Phil Christman about his new essay collection, How To Be Normal. They talk about the meaning of "normal" (especially in these pandemic times), religious fundamentalism, Christian conspiracy theories about rock music, Mark Fisher, love, and much more.

Sources:

Phil Christman, How To Be Normal (Belt Publishing, 2022)

                               "Turning Nothings Into Somethings," Commonweal, Dec 3, 2020

                               "What Is It Like To Be a Man?" Hedgehog Review, Summer 2018