It's in the Code ep 180: “Freedom and Constraint”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Josh Hawley argues that “modern-day Epicureans” abandon all notions of “history, family, home, and tradition.” He argues that without these, humans have no identity, and that these “Epicureans” have no real sense of who they are. But is this true? Does everyone who disagrees with Hawley’s understanding of the human person lack any identity? And do “history, family, home, and tradition” really define us completely? Join Dan for this week’s episode and find out! Subscribe for $3.65: ⁠https://axismundi.supercast.com/⁠ Subscribe to our free newsletter: ⁠https://swaj.substack.com/⁠ Order American Caesar by Brad Onishi: ⁠https://static.macmillan.com/static/essentials/american-caesar-9781250427922/⁠ Donate to SWAJ: https://axismundi.supercast.com/donations/new Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AXIS Mundi.
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1:00.6	It's in the Code.
1:01.8	Part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
1:04.1	My name is Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought.
1:07.5	Glad, as always, to be with you.
1:09.0	And as always, this series more than I think probably anything else we do on straight white American Jesus depends upon you. And so I invite you to please let me know what you think about this episode. Ideas for other topics. I did ideas for other themes. Ideas for other series. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com is the most direct way to reach me.
1:30.2	And as I've been saying, we are still in Josh Hawley's book on masculinity, but we're looking
1:35.0	beyond that to a series on questions I was not supposed to ask in church or questions I
1:40.9	couldn't ask in church or maybe even questions I was afraid to ask in church.
2:05.5	You get the idea. Please, if you've got thoughts about that, the kinds of questions that got you shut down, the kinds of questions that got you in trouble, the kind of questions that led you to leave high control religion, whatever it might be, email those to me. Let me know what they are. I'm putting that together. Put in your heading, if you would, your subject heading. Questions I was not supposed to ask or something like that. That'll alert me that that's what I'm looking for.
2:07.2	And looking to build that out.
2:12.6	And I'm just going to dive in here this week to this week's episode.
2:17.4	As I mentioned a minute ago, we are still looking at Josh Holly's book, Masculinity.
2:17.8	We're looking at that to explore sort of contemporary right-wing conceptions of masculinity and masculine virtue, as you know, hot topics in American society.
2:26.7	As they were elaborated by the U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, and we've been looking at his chapter on fatherhood.
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