"Meg writes with a rigorous precision and emotional clarity I find genuinely intimidating, but also admire with a force I can only call 'love.' When powerful forces try to silence her, she handles their hostility with grace and power...she keeps writing from inside difficult things, not above them."
Podcast
BBC's The Coming Storm
Join us as we go through the looking glass, into a world where nothing is as it seems, where the storming of the Capitol on January 6 2021 was a piece of theatre, the institutions of the state are a façade and behind the scenes, hidden hands are believed to be pulling the strings.
Article
Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment
Even influencers who don’t explicitly talk politics are often indirectly promoting a political stance, Conley said: “There’s a formula to becoming a large influencer family, and some of that formula does include white Christian nationalist messaging.”
Interview
Columbia Journalism Review: Voicemails
"Recently, when Conley and I made plans to meet up in her neighborhood, she told me how I could spot her: “Pink dress. Frizzy hair.” She is 38, sincere and a bit shy; she said that she has trouble maintaining eye contact. She often punctuates a deep thought with a self-conscious burst of laughter."
Podcast
Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom
The Wall Street Journal's John Jurgensen explains how Sound of Freedom, an action-drama about fighting child sex trafficking, beat Tom Cruise and Indiana Jones at the Box office. Writer Meg Conley explains the murky truth behind the movie.
Essay
Every Day I Worry My Kids Will Be Killed at School
Mass shooters are not vengeful demons. They are insurgents in a broad coalition including Christian nationalists, MAGA politicians, and accelerationist venture capitalists.
Essay
Why Everyone from Freud to the Mormon Church Loves to Peek in Women's Purses
You can tell a lot about a woman by what she carries. Or can you?
Interview
The Edenic Allure of Ballerina Farm
"There is a lot going on here! And I am grateful that Meg agreed to unpack some of it with me, using a set of analytical tools and frameworks you don’t often see in influencer commentary."
Essay
What the Conversation Around the "Great Resignation" Leaves Out
The dominant form of American capitalism should be named after its value-extraction hub: care work. Care-work capitalism captures value from care workers while disenfranchising them as stakeholders.
Podcast
Vol. 2, Ep. 9: How to Live in the Circle
"Meg's work often attracts the kind of attention that elevates thoughtful writing into the general discourse. Meg was incredibly forthright and insightful about this week's movie, Arrival."
Podcast
NPR's It's Been a Minute: 'LulaRich' reveals how MLMs mirror the American economy
Sam interviews women's work and economic justice writer Meg Conley about how vulnerable people still get sucked into multi-level marketing schemes because their shape mirrors the American economy.
Interview
What Got Left Out of LulaRich
"Meg Conley is doing some of the smartest and most challenging writing on intersection of women, home, money, and care. She is an exquisite writer, constantly surprising me with the turns and clarity of her prose."
Essay
Called by God
I’d never heard of Operation Underground Railroad when its founder, Tim Ballard, called me suddenly in the summer of 2014. Ballard said OUR had a child-trafficking sting planned for the Dominican Republic—and he wanted me to come along to document it.
Unholy war: Is #DezNat an online platform for defending the LDS Church or a launching pad for extremists?
For Meg Conley, the hashtag is “alarming when you understand their work is the memeification of our religion’s worst excesses — the misogyny, the homophobia, and the racism.”