In Other Words
In Other Words is a podcast about how we know what we know—and why it matters. The stories we inherit, the systems we trust, and the “truths” we repeat are rarely as simple as they seem. Most have been shaped, spun, and repackaged until the lines between fact and narrative blur.
This show peels back those layers. Each episode looks at the assumptions beneath our politics, history, and culture, tracing how they took shape and what they leave out.
In other words, come unlearn with us.
In Other Words
Latest Episodes
Who gets to be a patriot?
Republicans speak constantly in the language of freedom, law and order, religious liberty, free speech, parental rights, and patriotism. This episode asks why those principles seem to change meaning depending on who is claiming them.This...
The myth of us
This episode traces how national identity is engineered long before citizens ever learn to question it. Beginning with the origins of the Pledge of Allegiance as a marketing ritual, the story widens into a deeper examination of how American exc...
We teach in stories
The episode moves from developmental neuroscience to curriculum politics, showing how the United Daughters of the Confederacy helped normalize the Lost Cause through textbooks and monuments, and how modern textbook markets and state standards c...
Once reality becomes optional, so does democracy
Democracy depends on shared reality: facts that can be checked, institutions that can correct themselves, and a public willing to ask how something is known. This episode follows what happens when verification gets replaced by narrative perform...