You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ Sergiu Klainerman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, where he’s been teaching since 1987. He's also a fellow Romanian, an anti-communist dissident, someone who successfully fled the regime, and, recently, a fearless voice in what he sees as a rise in the US of the sa...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 29
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com This week I chat to Eigenrobot, prolific poster, podcaster, and unofficial king of post-rationalism (whatever we finally decided that is). We chat about: - Having babies, making families and community work - What leads to low trust societies and the drifting away from high trust in the west - "The conservation of suffering" - Wh...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 29
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I chat with Aaron Sibarium about our post-liberal moment. About how we can’t make sense of history and politics without understanding technology. The challenges of Online Localism vs Real Life Localism Is our future in competitive city-states? Identity and signaling in the “Marketplace of Ideas” The self-fulfilling prophecy of d...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 28
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I speak to Bluebook Cities & Praxis Society co-founder and CEO, Dryden Brown, about a positive vision for the future, about foundational values, what it takes to build and maintain a community, frontier thinking, his concept of TradHumanism, cults, and what we can learn from them, sequester states and the magic of the intern...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 27
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I speak to Darren Beattie about quaint Transylvanian towns and who has power in the politics of Eastern European backwaters, the Globalist American Empire and how narrative warps reality, color revolutions, who has the moral high ground and why it matters, the origins of our present derangements - philosophy, material emergence,...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 26
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I speak to Prof. Ed Dutton, aka the Jolly Heretic about how genetics can impact the social fabric, coordination, culture, and of course, politics. We speak about his new thesis on how feminism's interplay with genetics has shredded the fundamental building blocks of western societies. We also speak about the differences between ...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 25
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I speak to Angela about rootlessness as the price of empire, woke NGOs as the enforcers of global capital, hyperreal online spaces and the people that populate them, boring local politics vs. the dopamine rush of the 24/7 kaleidoscope of U.S. politics, having skin in the game of politics and what happens if you don't, the machin...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 24
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I chat to writer and California public school teacher, Alex Gutentag, about the world we inhabit in the wake of over one year of continuous COVID restrictions. We talk about the greatest wealth transfer from the lower-middle class to the rarefied strata at the top, and about the impact social isolation is having on vulnerable pe...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 23
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I talk to Justin Murphy about building a platform and a career on the internet, Gen Z shitposters, academic defectors, getting married already, aging and attractiveness, fertility and pronatalism, cheating, casual sex culture, minors fornicating, Urbit, a *different kind of internet*, private communities. You can find Justin's w...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 21
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I talk to Geoffrey Miller about the problems of dating in the 21st century, how casual sex culture is a race to the bottom, about marriage, polyamory, the fertility crisis, incels, algorithmic dating, and other runaway algorithms, and about other existential risks to our survival as a species. Geoffrey Miller is an evolutio...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 21
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I talk to Delicious Tacos about women writers and the XO Jane confessional essay, the changing face of the pick-up artist community, dealing with feds, prostitutes, the demon of alcoholism, masochism, and God. Definitely the most raunchy, no-filter episode I've done, also the funniest. Subversive is generally not for small ...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 20
You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or access my writing as on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I talk to Jason Snyder about the problems of scale, urbanization, the complexity of the modern condition, and how you can still build an expansive life when everything contracts. We talk about homesteading, cosmopolitan localism, being LARPers and liking it, permaculture, and the option of homeschooling or the...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 19
You can support this podcast, get early releases and exclusive content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com Papa Moldbug is imparting his hard-won knowledge about our moment in history - about how to be a dissident without getting your head chopped off and why it seems darkest before the dawn. We talk about the energies behind a counter-elite, rule-by-Basilisk/AI, the fertility crisis, religion, Martian colonies, too...
Apr 28, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 18
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I speak to James Poulos, author, scholar, and master of the esoteric tweet about the promise, limits, and the sheer body horror of tech. We chat about the Silicon Valley counter-elite, technological slavery (the reality, not the book), the religious nature of man, the manly nature of religion and try to answer the question:...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I've talked to student of human nature and the mac daddy of "luxury beliefs", Rob Henderson about the state of dating today. We chat about the role of evolutionary psychology - interesting factoids or unbreakable iron destiny? - about the cascading to hell effects of app dating algorithms, about polyamory as a luxury belief...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 16
You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com Samo Burja has an encyclopedic mind, is an extremely broad thinker, and was a delight to speak to. We talk about how great founders are at the core of societal evolution, about bureaucracy, managerialism, the iron law of oligarchy, about building elites and aspirational societies, about both of us being "children of transition" out of communism, ab...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 15
You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com In this episode, we talk about frigid bitches, why Generation Z is definitely not "sex-positive," porn culture, ambiguous sexual norms, #metoo, the rise of BDSM as standard, sex trafficking, the "Aziz Ansari Paradox", the new polygyny in universities and cities and why "consent" is a necessary but not sufficient part of the dating landscape. Louise ...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 14
You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com I talk to Zero HP Lovecraft about women, men, and the future of dating in the age of acceleration. We also talk about toxic masculinity, bullying, how he has seen the dark heart of man, signaling, status, pick up artists, his righteous war with the Oatly intern, what "radicalized" him, and why incels won't get to have a Marxist class revolution. Zero...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 13
You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I talk with Patrick Deneen about why Liberalism failed, about the frictionless society, being alone, technology and supernormal stimuli, why Libertarianism failed and keeps failing, the problems of scale, the West strip-mining the world for intelligence, fertility traps, and much more. We also cover what could come next, which will be the topic of Prof. ...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 12
I talk with national security and political warfare expert David Reaboi about the way the media shapes narratives, the wrong lessons learned from the cold war, the fact that universal values are a spook, about credentialism, and building new institutions. You can find David's work at https://www.davereaboi.com/ and on Twitter at @davereaboi. David's new book, "Qatar's Shadow War" will be out soon as well. You can also support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Music: Discovery...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
I've talked to the extremely erudite and prolific Twitter poster, Yeerk.P We talk about reeducation with "facts", the nature of truth, freedom, individuality as a consumption pattern, sex as a social construct, family bonds, the problem with scale, expressing emotions, and using inner states as political tools. You can find his work at @PYeerk on Twitter. Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
I speak with cultsultant, prolific poster, and esoteric Twitter personality GRITCULT about our future - we talk about tech, stonks, dating, traditionalism & returning to nature. You can find GRIT's sprawling empire here https://link.snipfeed.co/cult Or on Twitter at @GRITCULT You can support this podcast and my work at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Default Friend is a writer, cultural commentator, tech familiar, and, coincidentally, a friend. We talk about the future of tech and tech optimism under the dark cloud of a year of skepticism about technocratic forces at work in our world. We also chat about dating, sex work, Mormons, wine aunts, simps & incels. A fun conversation with a very smart lady. You can find her work at defaultwisdom.substack.com and on her Twitter @default_friend. You can support this podcast on Patreon: https://ww...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mary is one of my favorite writers, but I've learned the most from her in matters of feminism, sexuality, and motherhood. We chat about Mary's concept of reactionary feminism - she almost had me applying for my membership card - about LARP-ing and our fractured, multipolar reality; about porn & censorship and the fact that it's high time to reckon with ubiquitous and often abusive forms; about not being sex-positive, and about the ravages of hyper-liberalism. Mary writes primarily for Unherd...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Pascal joins me from his lead-lined wine cellar via Ham Radio (Radio Jambon in French), so excuse the wild audió. It's partly his incessant smoking and partly my incompetent amplification. We talk about the consulting farms masquerading as College that we both attended, Catholicism, Neoliberalism (as always), weak men, and our love of, and pretty much existence as, Internet Weirdos. Pascal is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and writes for all the big name brands in journalism a...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Geoff Shullenberger is a senior lecturer at NYU, a self-described marginal academic, and one of the most incisive analysts of the current moment that I've yet to chat to. We discuss his analysis of Postmodernism in the context of the now-famous release of "Cynical Theories" by Lindsay/Pluckrose, the rediscovery of Christopher Lasch & Rene Girard, and how power is flexing its beefy managerial apparatus in this time of *emergency*. We also cover the recent Mark Crispin Miller thought crime sca...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Recently unpersoned Twitter great, Indian Bronson, joins me in a conversation about the realities of being someone with a conservative temperament in a world with no guard rails. We talk about the dying gasps of the Republican Party, Voice vs. Exit, his work facilitating remote work and other exit opportunities, and the state of love & dating in the era of hyper-liberalism. IB is both extremely eloquent and dark-redpilled on the practical matters of navigating life, so definitely worth a lis...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode of the Subversive Podcast, I talk to Gio Pennacchietti, a writer, impressionist painter, and Jungian Traditionalist. He gracefully explains art to me without laughing at my ignorance once and delivers a searing analysis of why we're in the equivalent of aesthetic end times - and why it's not all bad. It's a longer podcast, just because it was incredibly fun. You can support Subversive at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Any donation is greatly appreciated and makes the podcas...
Jan 09, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
On the first episode of the Subversive podcast, I talk to philosopher and rationalist Roko Mijic about where we're heading and how to get there in one piece (maybe). Roko is more of a tech optimist than I am, but he gives me hope. You can find Roko's latest work on his substack: https://hereticalupdate.substack.com/ And follow Roko on Twitter for continuous doses of subversion: https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons — Attri...
Jan 02, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
