I speak with Jon about one of the most important yet subtle phenomena happening right now: the absolute warping of our culture and politics to fit the incentive structure of internet platforms. We speak about the mechanics and flow of information on the internet, rumors, fake news, mob violence, short video as the ultimate format, mimetic desire, the move from surfing the web to feed-based viewing, how Jon Stewart led to Tucker Carlson, and much more. Jon Askonas is an assistant professor of Pol...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 61
We speak about Ethnonarcissism and revisionist histories, MLK as a modern saint, reparations, statistical parity, identity politics threatening the republican form of self-government, and the logical endpoint of social justice. David Azerrad is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington and has written very insightful pieces for every good outlet under the sun.
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 59
My conversation with writer, activist, and overall powerhouse Katy Faust on what we owe our children and the future. I speak with Katy about her upbringing in a lesbian household, the problems with same-sex marriage and how redefining marriage has redefined parenthood, the implications of surrogacy on the child, IVF, divorce and step-parents, the issues with adoption and what the rights of the child should be. Katy Faust is the founder and director of the children's rights organization, Them Bef...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 58
An exciting and rare double feature with two of anon Twitter's most fascinating denizens, the Night Owls. We speak about ethnicity, the delight of going to NatCon, Rosedale Texas, Elena Ceausescu as a woman in STEM, the real issue with urbanism and anti-car culture, tightening anarcho-tyranny, and much much more - a true potpourri of subjects and wild tangents. Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen are anonymous posters on Twitter, the hosts of one of Twitter’s best recurring spaces, an...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 57
We speak about the concept of the Self, the different visions it embodies across the ages, and how this perspective managed to infiltrate the popular imagination. We also speak about Expressive Individualism, authenticity, technology, romanticism, and much more. Carl R. Trueman is a theologian and ecclesiastical historian, a professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, and the author of many books, including “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” and his newest book, “St...
Mar 30, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 56
We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more. Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter.
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 56
A wide-ranging discussion on one of the least openly discussed issues of our time with a man deeply in trouble with both the left and right. I speak with Nathan about his defense of the study of race differences in intelligence and the question of Jewish overrepresentation in high-status fields, including his critique of “The culture of critique” by Kevin MacDonald. Nathan Cofnas is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works in the ph...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 55
This is one of my occasional Patreon/Substack exclusive episodes. You can find our entire conversation there: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkaschuta/p/roy-baumeister-no-escape-from-human https://www.patreon.com/posts/roy-baumeister-78301174 We speak about the replication crisis, particularly in psychology, men and women and their tensions in the workplace and beyond, the problem of evil, low infant mortality, low war casualties, his sexual economics theory, the self and how we perceive it, a...
Mar 01, 2023•11 min•Season 2Ep. 54
We speak about the origins of life on earth, the reaction to Covid-19, the dangers of CRISPR, genetic testing, embryo selection, IVF, the global fertility drop, synthetic wombs and their implications for the relationship between the sexes, and much more. Jean- Francois Gariepy is a biologist, the author of The Revolutionary Phenotype, and the Host of JFG Tonight.
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 53
We speak about gatekeeping, containment, neoconservatism, equality and egalitarianism, natural rights, the Frankfurt School and Marcuse, vitalism, Kondylis, the meaning of ideology, and much more. Paul Gottfried is an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of many books, among them After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and his latest: Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 52
I speak with Chris about his involvement in the Blake Masters campaign and what he learned from it about civilizational vitality, America in decline but still on top of the world, US narrative hegemony, technology, debt, the frontier, and much more. Chris Buskirk is an American entrepreneur and writer and founder, editor, and publisher at American Greatness. His latest book is " America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay" You can also find Chris on Twitte...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 51
I speak with Charles about his perspective on the dictum “No Enemies to the Right,” on its practical application, its potential limits, its pitfalls, its reception by people not trained in the finer points of political philosophy and tactics, and the conflicts he has been involved in trying to defend his position. Charles Haywood is the maximum leader of the Worthy House , a wonderful blog/magazine where he writes book reviews and long-form essays that illustrate his unique perspective on contem...
Feb 01, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 50
I speak with Peachy about life with young children, becoming redpilled at the office, being your children's supreme dictator, having as many children as humanly possible, the futility of dating, sacred drag queens, and much more. Peachy Keenan (pen name) is a writer, contributing editor at the American Mind, and the author of the upcoming Domestic Extremist.
Jan 25, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 49
We speak about the current state of the right wing after a turbulent decade, the promise of electoral victories, resisting the blackpill, good omens and worrying signs, possible heroes and false friends - and much more. Patrick Casey is a writer and the host of Restoring Order. He has written for Chronicles, American Greatness, and the American Sun.
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 48
I speak to CA about Twitter’s new management and what it means for the regime, biting the bullet on anti-liberalism and charging through the chaos, NRx as a valuable framework, effective altruism, and much more. Covfefe Anon is a Twitter poster @covfefeanon and recent Substack Owner/Operator at Tradeoffs and Conflicts; Institutions and Egregores
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 47
I speak to Michael about how trans went from a niche sexual fetish to the next rights revolution, about the common misunderstandings in the field, the differences between male and female sexual orientation, compassion for sexual minorities, and the thorny conversations around pedophilia. Michael Bailey is a psychologist, behavioral geneticist, a professor at Northwestern University, and the author of " The man who would be queen ." You can find him on Twitter at @profjmb...
Jan 04, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 46
We speak about what is so unsavory about the classics in our current time, about culture, education, and entertainment as an embedded experience in a way it has never been before, about Twitter spaces as an incredible new forum, and much, much more. Athenian Stranger is a famed Twitter Space host @Athens_Stranger , a philosophical maximalist, and the grey eminence behind Underground University
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 45
I speak with Soso about the main fault lines on the online right, between a focus on religion vs. a focus on immigration and the simmering conflict between family and vitalism. We also speak about aesthetics as a superior way of relating to reality - and much more. You can find Soso's writing on Twitter at @chernayakoshka
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 44
I speak with Steve about the people's republic of California, Liberalism under total honesty about hate-facts, applying Moneyball-style analysis to base reality, the possibility of meritocracy, the conflation between IQ and human worth, the strange relationship between Asians and affirmative action, the legacy of Barack Obama, Abortion’s effect on crime, coining "HBD" and the career of the concept, and much, much more. Steve Sailer is a writer, journalist, and blogger, and you probably read him ...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 42
I speak with REN about being in your body as an act of defiance against a regime that wants to enslave you through disembodiment. We also speak about the virtues of slonking, weight lifting, women in "the movement," medical malpractice, frankenfood, covid amnesty, and much more. Raw Egg Nationalist is an author and the editor of Man’s World magazine. You can find his books everywhere fine books are sold, including Amazon , and his ideas on Twitter . “If the broscientists have a spiritual leader,...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 41
I speak with Amy about all manner of unspeakable subjects - from racial achievement gaps to the question of IQ, to the possibility of liberalism under a de facto caste system, to Jewish overrepresentation in the upper echelons of almost every field, to reading Jared Taylor and much much more. We leave no stone unturned. Amy Wax is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is currently the subject o...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 40
I speak to Morgoth about the current state of the dissident right, Liberalism in a tailspin with the progressive view of history a mirage propped up on vulnerable infrastructure, blackpills, assisted and non-assisted suicide, therapy culture, and the world reserved for us after liberalism as a post-human landscape. Morgoth is a veteran YouTuber and Substack author https://morgoth.substack.com/
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 39
I speak with Katherine about a bizarre, relatively new outgrowth of the American psyche, the phenomenon of the school shooter. Beyond the "we need fewer/more guns" debate, there is a numb silence about the worldview that fuels the actual motivations of these young men. They are labeled and put away in the monster pile. But could it be that, in some ways, they see further than we can? Katherine Dee is *the internet historian* bar none, and she's been doing some necessary spelunking in the neglect...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 38
I speak to Sam about the shifting tides in UK politics, about a new "very right wing" government implementing price fixing, about energy strategy and fumbling it on a continent-wide scale, and about the decriminalization of crime in the UK and what alternatives may look like. Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a journalist who has been featured in The Spectator, The Critic, The Telegraph and many more publications. He is also the owner/operator of the Marginally Productive Substack . You can find him on Twit...
Nov 02, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 37
I speak with Helen about finding love, marriage, traditional gender roles, having and raising children, and doing it all under the watchful eye of gnostic rainbow millenarianism. Helen Roy is a writer, wife, and mother. She’s a contributing editor for the American Mind and the host of the Girlboss, Interrupted podcast. https://girlbossinterrupted.podbean.com/
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 36
We speak about the future of industrial agriculture, food safety, regenerative agriculture, economies of scale and local specialization, the wonders of LARPing, US crime rates and the new islands of “failed states” within the country, and much more. William Wheelwright is an anonymous Twitter poster, you can find his work @ploughmansfolly on Twitter.
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 35
I spoke with Jeremy about the history of immigration in the United States, the difference between settlers and immigrants, what the allegiance of our government class is towards citizens and non-citizens, brain gain and brain drain, immigration as apprenticeship, immigration as a fertility patch, and much more. Jeremy Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, where his primary focus is on immigration, multiculturalism, and nationalism in America. He was formerly at the Hoover Instituti...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 34
I speak with Aleksandar about our age of incoherence, the strange duality between the accelerating complexity of the online narrative and essential systems breaking down in reality, and much, much more. Aleksandar is an anonymous poster who has had many lives on Twitter, from @ajdhenry and "Turning Point Dyatlov Pass" to recently @FaucciMane, and is currently banned until the next respawn.
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 33
I speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more. Emmet Penney of the Ex-haust podcast, editor in chief at Gridbrief , contributing editor at Compact, and a well-known nuclear barbarian....
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 32
I’ve been looking to record this episode for a while, given that Eastern Europe is both in the news and has gotten a new reputation as a bastion of “based politics.“ To enlighten me on the subject, I brought in my friend Dan Dima, one of the most well-read people I know, especially on Romanian and Eastern European history and political philosophy. We speak about what it means to be on the left or right in a place where we recently had “communist nationalism.” We also discuss revisionism, Victor ...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 32
