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Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. It's Wednesday. So if you're looking for political hot takes on Mayor Pete's voyage into the manosphere, Scotty Besson's damage control, Trump's approval numbers, head on over to the next level podcast with Sarah JVL and I. That's going to come out later

this evening, comes out on Wednesday evenings. But on this show, we're getting a little

sociological and ecclesiastical and welcoming senior fellow in governance studies at the

Brookings Institution, a contributing writer at the Atlantic. His latest book is Cross Purpose.

Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy. It's Jonathan Rauch. Hey Purpose. Christianity's broken bargain with democracy.

It's Jonathan Roush. Hey, Jonathan. Hi, happy to be here. Welcome, welcome. I guess you were on

the spot with Charlie a while back. I was trying to check. I went and re-listen to that this morning.

So it's a welcome back, not a welcome. Appreciate you. And I want to get to the new book in a bit, I promise.

But I feel like I have to pick your brain about what's happening in D.C. first.

You wrote a column for years called what's called Social Studies.

Is that right?

Yeah.

I'm kind of how government society interact and function.

And so looking at the first three months of this administration, did you ever imagine

the social studies will look anything like this? No, no. You know, I'm in the same boat. A lot of people are.

I'm astonished, bewildered, disoriented, dismayed, distressed, distracted, sometimes depressed.

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