Ep 1012: A Convo With Matthew Sheffield
About this episode
Driftglass interviews Matthew Sheffield about his unique perspective on American radicalization and his journey from fundamentalism to conservative blogging.
In a special crossover episode, Driftglass sits down with Matthew Sheffield of Flux and the Theory of Change podcast — a journalist with a genuinely unusual vantage point on American radicalization. Sheffield grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family, left that world, then spent years as one of the internet's first conservative bloggers before walking away from that movement too, disillusioned by its hostility to facts and to people. The conversation explores why things are happening the way ...
People in this episode
Host: Driftglass
Guest: Matthew Sheffield
Topics covered
- American radicalization
- fundamentalism
- conservative blogging
- disillusionment
- political commentary
Keywords
- radicalization
- fundamentalist Mormon
- conservative blogger
- disillusionment
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Flux, Theory of Change podcast
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