Director of the Center for Catholic Media & Great Books adjunct @benedictineks Husband. Father of six. Co-Host of The Great Dangerous Books Podcast.
Joined October 2020
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
May 28
Join us as @JaredZimmerer and I go for a swim in the turbulent waters of Zizek's critique of antisemitism and other perverse ideological fantasies.
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
Apr 13
This week @JaredZimmerer and I think dialectically about progress and The End with the Wizard of Negation!
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
Jan 26
@@JaredZimmerer and I are coming back hard on the GDB with Nietzsche and the deceptions of language.
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
Jan 7
Stranger Things in the Heartland of the Real, by @JDMadden3 open.substack.com/pub/jdmadd…
Stranger Things? Tim McVeigh? Kurt Cobain? Oh my!
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
15 Dec 2025
Given our recent episodes, current events, and my going obsession with work by our fellow commentators on the spectacle, @BirdWendy2 and @fourthreichpod, @JaredZimmerer can't keep this episode behind the paywall any longer!
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12 Dec 2025
Not every day that wifey gets you something to remember one of your teenage crushes…
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9 Dec 2025
This week we chat Fromm’s Mechanisms of Escape - and the only way out!
9 Dec 2025
The Sadism-masochism dialectic as the inner truth of authoritarianism and mass hypnosis as the underpinning of consumer society - this week @JaredZimmerer and I continue to learn a great from Fromm.
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6 Dec 2025
These “catholic bros” so concerned about a woman’s place are operating from a place of insecurity. The minute the leader of any institution has to remind people who’s boss, they’ve already lost the respect of those in their care. Leaders know they don’t know everything.
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2 Dec 2025
This was a fun one! Be sure to check it out
1 Dec 2025
Anyone up for a wide-ranging exploration of the underlying psychology of authoritarianism ocassioned by a classic text of psychoanalysis? @JaredZimmerer and I have something for you!
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
24 Nov 2025
@JaredZimmerer and I are talking Manson, Mindhunters and mediation by fantasy. This one is full of dialectical reversals, and we tip our hat to fine work by @BirdWendy2 and @fourthreichpod.
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31 Oct 2025
For a special Halloween episode for our Patreon supporters, @JDMadden3 and I dove into two works by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Imp of the Perverse'. I have to say 'Imp' might be one of my all-time Poe favorites now!
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17 Oct 2025
The latest Great Dangerous Books in which @JDMadden3 and I explain that all of us are Oedipus Rex:
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14 Oct 2025
Catholic outrage grifting while undermining the very community you claim to be defending is wild to me.
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
11 Oct 2025
Do you want to understand Zizek? In this episode, @JaredZimmerer and I explain how you can get a start with just four pages! Join us for a discussion of ideology, liberation, and the inescapable stupidity of the Big Other.
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
4 Oct 2025
@JaredZimmerer and I appreciate your support, but by all means, steal this podcast!
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Hit us on Patreon to get our take on "The Gulf War Did Not Happen" and our current situation in the simuation!
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25 Sep 2025
Technology, Mind, and Destruction: Prometheus Bound with @JDMadden3 for the Great Dangerous Books
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24 Sep 2025
Jake Paul is ruining a sport I love. The fact that so many boxers are willing to go through the charade for a payday makes it so much worse.
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24 Sep 2025
Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and the consequences of rebellion with @JDMadden3 on The Great Dangerous Books podcast:
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9 Sep 2025
Check out the latest Great Dangerous Books where @JDMadden3 and I discuss the absurd in Camus' Myth of Sisyphus! To rebel is to stay alive!
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Dr. Jared Zimmerer retweeted
9 Sep 2025
People with “street smarts” what is your best street tip?
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