This is the first part of our conversation. The full episode and the complete archive of Subversive episodes, including exclusive episodes and my writing, are available on Substack. You can also subscribe to the podcast sans writing on Patreon for a bit less. This is how the show is financed and grows, so I appreciate every contribution! Please subscribe at: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive My conversation with Richard covers the origins and implications of civi...
Apr 24, 2024•50 min
This is the first half of our conversation. The full episode and the complete archive of Subversive episodes, including exclusive episodes and my writing, are available on Substack. You can also subscribe to the podcast sans writing on Patreon for a bit less. This is how the show is financed and grows, so I appreciate every contribution! Please subscribe at: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive/ Our conversation explores the topic of the heritability of IQ and perso...
Apr 17, 2024•38 min
This is the first half of our conversation. The full episode and the complete archive of Subversive episodes, including exclusive episodes and my writing, are available on Substack. You can also subscribe to the podcast sans writing on Patreon for a bit less. This is how the show is financed and grows, so I appreciate every contribution! Please subscribe at: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://patreon.com/aksubversive/ My guest today is Radfem Hitler, she is an anonymous poster on X, formerly ...
Apr 10, 2024•38 min
The full episode and the complete archive of Subversive episodes, including exclusive episodes and my writing, is available on Substack. You can also subscribe to the podcast sans writing on Patreon for a bit less. This is how the show is financed and grows, so I appreciate every contribution! https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Anatoly Karlin is a writer and researcher, and he blogs at https://www.nooceleration.com/ The complete timestamps for the extended episode...
Apr 03, 2024•48 min
The complete archive of Subversive episodes, including exclusive episodes and my writing, is available on Substack for the monthly cost of an (admittedly extravagant) coffee - 7$. You can also subscribe to the podcast sans writing on Patreon for the price of a (bog standard) coffee - 5$. This is how the show is financed and grows, so I appreciate every contribution! Please subscribe at: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive We speak about: Positive gamification - giv...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Turboamerica - Never more united, never more powerful than it is today. AIDS - https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-early-days-of-hivaids-introduction Anatoly Karlin’s “Wokeness is the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity” as a replacement for noblesse oblige. What we can learn from the Ukraine war about current empire(s).“Fighting for a better past” in the Balkans. Why does Boris Berezovsky deserve infamy? Tucker/Putin Interview - a landmark event or non-event? Outlook for Ukraine and m...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr
If you like my work and would like access to bonus episodes, early access to episodes, all my writing and the Subversive Community, please consider signing up on my Substack or Patreon: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/ https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive We speak about social conservatism in young women, what attracts them, what repels them, the tradwife trend, and their attitude toward the opposite sex and masculinity. We also discuss purebred vs. revealed conservatism, the future of the dwi...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 3 min
We speak about his circuitous path to studying philosophy and theology, maintaining virtue when you’re not allowed to define it, technology as an almost magical confirmation of the victory of reason, the importance of status in spreading ideas, and much more. Dr. James Orr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford...
Jan 31, 2024•58 min
We speak about the fact that often one study is more representative of reality than many, P hacking and the emptiness of much of social science, the many ways to lie with statistics, fertility and demographic collapse, lead exposure and the various disasters pinned on it, the midwits of Mensa, and much more. Cremieux is an anonymous poster, a man well-versed in data analysis who plays first violin in a new wave of extremely statistically savvy anonymous accounts that popped up and exploded once ...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min
We speak about getting married young, stepping into an uncertain world, chaotic, nihilistic energy versus more rooted ways, the exhaustion of politics, especially the electoral kind, technology, modern media and much more. J Burden is the host of the J Burden Show , a podcaster and chronicler of the dissident right, he has on many up-and-coming influencers, from what I would describe as of one layer deeper into the ranks of the DR than my show. I love his show, it’s well worth a listen - especia...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 19 min
We speak about the evolution of online ideologies, the increasingly unavoidable confrontation with post-liberalism, democracy, the individual, ideology itself as a child of the Enlightenment, Christianity as a necessary but eroding substructure of Western culture, and much more. Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad is a legendary YouTuber, writer and podcaster, former politician, and a true renaissance man of the Internet age. You can find all his newest videos and essays at https://www.lotuseaters...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 7 min
We speak about the case against Western intervention in Ukraine and Russia as a looming presence in Eastern Europe. We also speak about liberal imperialism, political pragmatism, France today, and much more. Philippe is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Cornell and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 15 min
We speak about the theory and practice of a state organized according to Christian principles, which flavor and intensity of Christianity may apply, how to advocate for a religious solution in an era of dwindling faith, and much more. Stephen Wolfe is a country scholar at Wolfeshire in central North Carolina where he lives with his wife and four children. He recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Wolfe is c...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min
We speak about the problem of demographic collapse, what it could look like, and how both individuals and policy can address it. We also speak about the importance of religion, secular alternatives to religious natalism culture, government policy that works and doesn’t, testosterone and sperm count decline, fertility technology like IVF and embryo selection, surrogacy, exo wombs, and more. Kevin is the organizer of the Natalism conference held in Austin Texas, in December 2023 and the Founder of...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 76
We speak about what the ruling class of Britain looks like today and how it has changed in the last 50 years. We also speak about what the Tory party represents, the global elite and the status that comes with membership in it, immigration to the UK and what, if anything can be done about it, right-wing politics and the class divide and much more. Matt Goodwin is a Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and the author of many fine books including his latest, “Values, Vo...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 76
We speak about what matters in the early years of children’s lives: caregiving and social experiences, daycare, bullying, divorce, and sex differences in early childhood psychopathology. We also speak about long covid and its strange link with bisexuality, the difference between destigmatizing and normalizing, DEI in universities and more. JD Haltigan studies Developmental & Evolutionary Psychopathology and specializes in Early Experience & Life History. You can find him on Twitter at @J...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 75
We speak about the three eras of the “New Right”: from William F. Buckley and James Burnham to the second “New Right” under Reagan and Thatcher and now the third “New Right” that is taking shape in the wake of the populist revolutions of Trump and Brexit. We also speak about immigration, liberalism as a self-liquefying force, Thatcher’s legacy, Brexit, Orban, and much more. John O’Sullivan is a political commentator and journalist. He was the senior policy writer and speechwriter in 10 Downing S...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 74
We speak about his long-standing interest in the demographic crisis, the religious inheriting the earth, expressive individualism and egalitarianism as the acid preparing the fall of Anglo-America, being a liberal National Conservative, negative vs. positive liberty under NatCon, liberals voting for diversity but living in micro-ethnostates, and much more. Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London. His topics of research include nationalism and political and reli...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 73
We speak about how to view children, what they are, and what they can ideally be. We also speak about why parents matter, exposing kids to the world, how to think about peers, the strained relationship between men and women, the new horizon of surrogacy, and the importance of rituals in the lives of children and everyone else, and more. Tara Ann Thieke is a homemaker and writer. She’s on Twitter at @taraannthieke.
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 72
We speak about how politics, ideas, and culture are connected, if individuals and ideas shape social change more than institutional networks and social structures, the ideal of the neutral institution. We also speak about libertarianism, the problem of empathy, disability, gratitude, immigration, and much more. Henry George is a freelance writer living in the UK. He holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. He is also on Twitter at @intothefuture45.
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 71
We speak about being a class traitor, the journey between these two worlds, the concept of dignity, the tension between personal responsibility and paternalism, the patterns of addiction and sexual abuse in people living on the street, justified and unjustified fears when it comes to dealing with people at the end of their tether, the problem of nonjudgmentalism, helping and not helping, and much more. Chris Arnade went from Wall Street to street photography and wrote an excellent book called Di...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 70
We speak about how ubiquitous internet access is warping the school experience, including how kids socialize, the rise of trans and other social contagions, the importance and effects of parenting, No intellectual life in students, TikTok beefs, raising sons, men and women coexisting in harmony and much more. You can find Going Godward’s posts on Twitter and Substack at Going Godward
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 69
We speak about “sexual market value” and the distribution of attractiveness across men and women, incels, divorce statistics, divorce likelihood, hybristophilia or the female attraction to violent men, the dual mating hypothesis, the reliability of self-reported data, and much more. Alexander is a graduate student in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and he blogs at datepsychology.com and in outlets like Aporia magazine.
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 68
We speak about online themes trickling into the mainstream, changes, and schisms on the Dissident Right, the ripening of the Manosphere, his elevator pitch for the total state, patronage, and how it can work for the Right, and much more. Auron MacIntyre is a writer, Youtuber, and prolific Twitter poster. He is also the star of the Auron MacIntyre show on The Blaze and the owner/operator of The Total State .
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 68
We speak about the virtues and vices of finance, how tech can help the Right organize and reach policy goals, AI diminishing the possibility of costly signaling, low-trust societies, and much more. Nate Fischer is the founder and CEO of New Founding. New Founding is a venture firm and talent network focused on building parallel economic institutions that enable meaningful cultural change. Nate also co-founded American Reformer, which works to revitalize contemporary Protestant thought and instit...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 67
We speak about the decades-long fight of a handful of dedicated public servants to blow the cover off a scandal of epic proportions. Associated with places like Rotherham, Telford, and wider Oxfordshire, the mass rape of young girls by grooming gangs of mostly Pakistani origin has been covered up by every institution that existed to protect women and children. This seemed like the price to pay for social cohesion. I speak with Charlie about the following and more: How big the scale of this scand...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 66
We speak about the fertility decline across the West and beyond, the limited perspective of almost everyone on this issue, prosperity-induced fertility collapse, the real dangers of an inverted population pyramid, South Koreans as an endangered species, having and raising children in alternative ways, and much more. Simone & Malcolm Collins are parents, passionate about education, avid pro-natalists, authors of the Pragmatist's Guide series of books, and famously the first people to publicly...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 65
We speak about the standard of “disparate impact” and its legacy, life and politics after accepting difference, Broken Windows policing, the great abdication of the police, the cost of violent crime to the victims, the role of NGOs in all this, family formation and fatherhood, and much more. Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book is “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equit...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 64
We speak about the death of regime media, the beauty of the niche, the cosmos of Kitsch and why it’s better than mainstream art, the death of progress in the world of atoms, China as an overblown nemesis, and much more. Catgirl Kulak is a Twitter poster @FromKulak, Substack owner/operator, and occasional guest on the Bailey Podcast.
May 17, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 63
We speak about Jacob’s journey to his current worldview, the question of ‘obedience to what?”, safetyism, the Anglo spirit, what happened to London, the Catholic church and its failings, and much more. Jacob Phillips is an academic, a writer, and the author of “Obedience is Freedom.” You can find him on Twitter at @counteredlogos.
May 10, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 62
