{"podcast":{"title":"On the Nose","slug":"on-the-nose-4035786","podcast_index_feed_id":4035786,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/on-the-nose/","website_url":"HTTPS://www.Jewishcurrents.org","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2a127a56-456e-4230-b90b-d287cbccdb37/rjd_USHJ8yblBQZvj9Vkcq57.jpeg","author":"Jewish Currents","episode_count":149,"summary":"On the Nose is a biweekly podcast by Jewish Currents, a magazine of the Jewish left founded in 1946. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:19:50.375145+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786"},"episode":{"title":"MAGA Catholics in Revolt","slug":"maga-catholics-in-revolt","published_at":"2026-03-12T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786/maga-catholics-in-revolt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786","url":"https://jewishcurrents.org/maga-catholics-in-revolt","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/95b5cb9b-fa12-49c8-9c88-27262cbd3ed5.mp3","summary":"In early February, clips began circulating from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission hearing, where the former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller challenged Jewish activists Yitzhak Frankel and Shabbos Kestenbaum about the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the conflation of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Notably, Prejean Boller framed her opposition to political Zionism in terms of her Catholicism: “I’m a Catholic and Catholics do not embrace Zionism,” she said. She raised the charge of deicide, reading the New Testament verse about the Jews killing Jesus and questioning a panelist about whether he would have tech platforms censor the Bible on account of antisemitism claims. And she challenged the theology undergirding evangelical support for Zionism, dispensationalism, which understands Jews as God’s chosen people that help fulfill the end times prophecy by settling in the land of Israel. A number of prominent “America First” isolationists are Catholic, including Pat Buchanan, one of the fathers of America First paleoconservatism who famously opposed the Iraq War. Vice President J.D. Vance, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, far-right strategist Steve Bannon, and columnist Sohrab Ahmari are all America Firsters skeptical of foreign intervention. Catholicism also appears dominant among a cohort of extremist Groyper-style figures infusing their anti-Israel worldview with classically antisemitic language and ideas, including streamers Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens, the Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, and now Prejean Boller, who has aligned herself with Owens in particular. On this episode of On the Nose , Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with Matthew Cressler, author of the forthcoming Catholics and the Making…","meta_description":"In early February, clips began circulating from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission hearing, where the former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller chall…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2638,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/on-the-nose-4035786/episodes/maga-catholics-in-revolt/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-the-nose-4035786/maga-catholics-in-revolt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}