Against Everyone with Conner Habib

A spiritual reframing of economics that asks why money feels mysterious and who it serves. Discussions range from unpaid data extraction and compelled labor to how interest creates impersonal obligations. The episode explores money’s changing forms, porosity versus scarcity, the commons and gift-based exchange, and practical questions for building an economy rooted in love and shared gifts.

Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already. Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not.This episode is part of my series on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism:A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETYThis time, I talk about POLITICS - why politics in our time is about so much more than elections, political parties, protests, and laws. It's about time, utopia, and connection.Support the show today via ⁠patreon⁠or⁠Make a one time contribution⁠.Want to work with me on your creative, business or everyday life? ⁠Click here for a list of services⁠.

A deep look at culture as a spiritual sphere that shapes the world. Stories from Joyce, Kafka, and a Buddhist parable illustrate creative perseverance and destiny. Discussion of art as transmission, purification as a way to make inner life public, and how personal development fuels cultural renewal. A warning about inevitability narratives that steal collective freedom.

A call to wake up to how every life shapes culture, politics, and economy. A guide to pausing automatic patterns and acting with intention. An introduction to social threefolding as a framework for renewing cultural, political, and economic life. An invitation to explore spiritual principles for building a more balanced, creative, and interconnected society.

A candid dive into childhood sexual abuse, why survivors often do not disclose, and the confusion shame creates. A political thread links the Epstein files to elite networks, institutional coverups, and moral panics like Pizzagate. Discussions touch on harmful policies, surveillance, weaponized rhetoric, and paths toward accountability, healing, and spiritual growth.

J.F. Martel, author, teacher, and Weird Studies cohost, makes a case for art as humanity's saving power. He traces art's role in shaping consciousness, the line between art and artifice, and how eroticism, technology, and cultural institutions reshape aesthetic life. They also explore masks, mortality, and why reading and deliberate creation matter.

Asad Haider, the political theorist and philosopher, whose book critiquing identity politics from a (non-class-reductive) leftist perspective, Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology remains a powerful contribution and who was on AEWCH 26, died suddenly in December of last year.I’ve reproduced that episode as AEWCH 314*, with a new introduction. To plant a tree in Asad's memory, go here.To support the show, go to patreon.com/connerhabib

In conversation with Pilar Lesko about change, Christianity, the dead, and more.Happy New Year!support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib

Friends,Happy New Year! And welcome to the New Year’s Resolution episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, featuring my conversation with esoteric scholar and writer, MITCH HOROWITZ.But this show is filled with special guests, including:Philosopher and writer FEDERICO CAMPAGNAEsoteric teacher ALAN CHAPMANBestselling author and death expert CAITLIN DOUGHTYMystery and horror novelist SARA GRAN Christian Community priest and esoteric christian PATRICK KENNEDYCap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, and Kinsella & Pulse front person TIM KINSELLASpiritual teacher and abundance explorer PILAR LESKORapper and cultural theorist VIC MENSAArtist and journalist UNA MULLALLYWriter and Team Human host DOUGLAS RUSHKOFFOn this episode Mitch and I talk about the resolutions sent in by these past AEWCH guests, and I hope our discussion inspires you to come up with a meaningful resolution for yourself, whether you’re listening to this before the year turns over to 2026, or in the days, weeks, and months that follow. A New Year’s resolution is an expression of vulnerability. They reveal how we see ourselves, our strengths, and our failings, in relationship to the world.So I (and Mitch!) encourage you to make them, and offer thoughts on how and why.May this episode be a small well to draw nourishment from whenever you need to access some resolve.With love, always with love,CHSupport the show: patreon.com/connerhabibSign up for a yearlong tarot reading, The Year of Light, with Conner by January 5 2026 and get a discount when you use the code: brandnewyearAt AEWCH.square.site

In this double-length and in-depth episode, I look at the social-political project of the late 19th early 20th century occultist, philosopher, and social reformer Rudolf Steiner with scholars and academics Aaron French and Henry Holland, who are writing Steiner's biography for SUNY Press, and have just offered the keynote at Harvard University's conference on Rudolf Steiner's life and work.On this episode, we attend to a question Henry asks: “Is a leftist reading of Steiner possible?"Please support this show on patreon:Patreon.com/connerhabib