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Straight White American Jesus

It's in the Code ep 181: “It’s Not About Sacrifice”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Josh Hawley argues that men are called to be fathers, and that fatherhood is defined by sacrificing oneself. But is it? Should it be? Why does high-control religion demand “sacrifice,” and how does Hawley’s account of masculinity reinforce these demands? How does he use this demand for sacrifice to demonize those who don’t share his social vision? And how do appeals to sacrifice mask the interests that lie behind his vision of masculinity? So many questions—take a listen to this week’s episode to hear the answers. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Axis Mundy Axis Moondy The Hello, and welcome to it's in the code. My name is Dan Miller, Professor Religent and Social Thought of Landmark College. I am your host. This, of course, is a series as part of the

0:38.8

podcast, Straight White American Jesus. Glad to be with you, as always. Been under the weather

0:44.2

for the last week or so, but starting to crawl out of the hole now. So excited to sit down and

0:49.5

do this. As always, I want to start by saying, thank you for listening to everybody who listens

0:53.9

to the different things we do or viewing us.

0:56.8

If you're on YouTube and watching this, you can see us in all of our glory and see me in my various t-shirts.

1:04.5

The t-shirts that Bradonishi is envious of.

1:06.6

He acts like he's not, but he is.

1:08.6

That's what it's really about.

1:10.4

In all seriousness, we can't do it without you, and thank you for your support.

1:14.0

This series in particular only works with you.

1:16.7

It comes from you.

1:18.0

Your ideas, your feedback, your input.

1:20.9

To that end, looking forward to starting a series here in a few weeks called questions

1:25.8

I was not supposed to ask in church or questions I was not supposed to ask in church

1:28.1

or questions I wasn't allowed to ask in church, something along those lines.

1:32.2

And as I've been saying, I want to continue to just invite you.

1:34.6

If you've got thoughts about that, questions that you couldn't ask in church, questions

1:38.4

that got you in trouble in church, questions that led you to leave the church, please send those

1:44.0

to me. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel

1:45.5

Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com, put in the heading questions I couldn't ask or something like

1:51.7

that and that'll flag those for me and I'm continuing to collect those and think about those

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