Axis Mundi. Yesterday July 21st, 2024, President Joe Biden announced he would be stepping aside and not seeking

re-election this fall.

In the moments after that, Kamala Harris's candidacy appeared strong out of the gates, and by the end of

the day, she had raised $60 million via the Act Blue platform.

We give our first reactions to Biden's dropping out and what seems inevitably to be a Harris

candidacy and

Now because of the news yesterday our entire week of content is a little bit mixed up and not what we scheduled

So today we're bringing you what is meant to be our bonus episode. That's the monthly episode that Dan and I do together and the first half, the first hour or

so is free to everyone and you will find it on your feed whether you're a

subscriber or not. If you are a premium subscriber you will find another half an hour

or so of content for me and Dan. We did have to cut it a little bit short because I am solo parenting this week and have a sick kid who was up all night and

needed my attention before we were able to finish the final couple of minutes.

Tomorrow I'll bring you an interview with Natalie Hastings, an activist from Ohio who reports

on Lifewise, a school education program that takes kids out of their normal school programming

in public schools and allows them to go to Bible lessons and Christian teaching.

It's spreading across the country and you guessed it. It's connected to Project 2025.

Wednesday will have it's in the code and Friday the weekly roundup.

So today on this bonus episode, not only do we have our reactions to

Biden and Harris, but we dig deeper into the JD Vance candidacy and the ways he ties together

two groups who desperately want to reshape American public life.

On one side, reactionary Catholics, those who want to impose their understanding of the common good on all of us.

This is not only a wing of Catholicism that is associated with the likes of Leonard Leo and Opus Day, but also a host of Catholic and right-wing intellectuals,

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