It's in the Code ep 192: “Deep Thoughts…By Josh Hawley”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Josh Hawley claims to present a “biblical” model of masculinity and masculine virtue. But if we look more closely, it turns out that Hawley’s “Bible” is actually really weird. And so is his model of masculine kingship. And what does “kingship” mean for Josh Hawley? Well, pretty much the same thing you could read in any self-help book. Join Dan for this week’s episode as he tells us why. 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 Moondy
0:14.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back,
0:18.0	Mom! Up the stairs for something.
0:21.9	Back down.
0:23.3	No idea what I went up for.
0:26.1	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:27.7	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:31.2	Hello Fresh can't slow life down,
0:33.0	but it makes bringing everyone together around the table
0:35.8	a whole lot easier.
1:00.7	So its phones down, forks up. Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time. Hello. I'm gonna be able to be able to be able to be able to's in the Code.
1:03.1	The series is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
1:06.7	My name is Dan Miller, Professor Village and Social Thought at Lamar College.
1:07.7	I am your host.
1:09.4	As always, pleased to be with you.
1:11.9	As always, thank you for listening. As always,
1:16.2	thank you for supporting everything that I do here and everything that we do on Straight White American Jesus. We cannot do it without you. I want to keep plugging just a few episodes away from starting
1:22.6	a new series of episodes on questions. I wasn't allowed to ask in church or questions I wasn't
1:27.4	supposed to ask in church. What were the questions that got you in trouble? What were the questions that got you a stern talking to? What were the questions that maybe led you out of the tradition you were part of or made you rethink your faith? Please send those to me. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com. If you would, put in the header questions I wasn't allowed to ask or questions I wasn't supposed to ask. That'll let me know that those are coming. Really looking forward to doing those, been thinking of a few of my own to put into that series. So I look forward to seeing where that goes. In the meantime, continuing on today's episode, we're continuing close to the end of our look at Josh Holly's view of masculinity and the supposed masculine virtues that he claims will remake America.
2:09.3	We're in the final chapter of his book, his book, Manhood, where he presents the last of the six roles that he says men are called to play.
2:17.3	And that by playing these roles,
2:18.8	we mere men can exercise and develop our masculine virtues and save America. And so what is
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