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Antisemitism -- What? Why? Who? | Yaron Brook Show
🎙️ Recorded live November 9, 2025

Antisemitism—What? Why? Who? | The Roots of Hatred and the Fight for Reason

Antisemitism is back in the mainstream—from campus mobs to conservative media—and few dare to ask why.

In this episode, Dr. Yaron Brook dives deep into the history, psychology, and moral roots of antisemitism—from early Christianity to today’s nationalist and collectivist movements. Why does this ancient hatred persist? What ideas fuel it? And what does its resurgence tell us about the collapse of reason and the Enlightenment?

💬 Featuring 40+ live audience questions on antisemitism, capitalism, nationalism, and the future of reason.

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Timestamps:
0:53 — Why we’re talking about antisemitism today
1:08 — History, definition, Zionism, anti-Zionism: the full picture
2:01 — Upcoming shows and Super Chat notes
3:40 — Tucker Carlson’s “demon” story—what’s really going on
5:49 — Tucker Carlson: populist, propagandist, or philosopher?
6:14 — What is antisemitism, really?
7:24 — Defining antisemitism: hatred of reason, success, and independence
8:40 — Who are “the Jews”? Religion, culture, nation, identity
11:10 — Yaron on his Jewish identity and individualism
13:38 — The persistence of collective guilt
16:23 — Why conspiracy theories target Jews
19:00 — How early Christianity seeded antisemitism
24:49 — Theologians, the Church, and the invention of the “eternal Jew”
35:24 — The Crusades, blood libels, and the Black Death
45:35 — Martin Luther: the theological father of modern antisemitism
50:46 — From Luther to Hitler: connecting the dots
53:34 — Economic myths and envy: Jews as scapegoats
56:04 — 19th-century Europe: secularism, nationalism, and the “dual loyalty” myth
1:03:56 — The Dreyfus Affair and its modern parallels
1:14:15 — Antisemitism → Anti-Zionism: same hatred, new mask

Live Audience Q&A Highlights:
1:20:35 — MAGA, Mamdani, and the rise of political extremism
1:24:48 — Collective judgment vs. individual virtue
1:26:48 — Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and the moral implosion of the Right
1:29:48 — Superman, Moses, and mythic morality
1:32:17 — Cities, wealth, and the mixed economy
1:36:34 — Megyn Kelly’s cowardice and the fear of Tucker
1:38:05 — Antisemitism is mainstream now—what that means
1:38:34 — Philosophic premises the Left and Right share
1:40:05 — Is antisemitism regional or class-based?
1:41:04 — Why hatred endures—and why it’s a moral failure
1:44:01 — The danger of self-victimhood
1:49:39 — Is hate stronger than love?
1:52:03 — Collective judgment: the root of all irrationality
1:59:34 — Does Christianity breed irrationality and hate?
2:05:40 — The “pincer” attack on Jews—from Left and Right
2:07:27 — Tucker Carlson as ideological launderer
2:12:57 — Is antisemitism proof that the Enlightenment is fading?
2:16:02 — Is antisemitism an expression of altruism?
2:18:19 — Why even “rational” people flirt with antisemitism
2:23:22 — What drives nationalist hypocrisy on tariffs and freedom?

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Transcript

Intro / Opening

Speaker 1

A lot of the funds of last and any individual lots. This is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome to your One Book Show on this Sunday, November ninth. I hope everybody is having a good weekend, and are you ready for another episode of you One Book Show? All right, Okay, We're gonna talk about anti Semitism today. That's the topic of the show. I figured we talked about a lot yesterday, and it's come up a number of different shows in

the past few weeks. We might as well just wrap it all up with one show dedicated to this topic. I'll answer any questions about it, any issues, any anything

Why we're talking about antisemitism today

else you have. We we can cover it all in one go. I'll cover some of the comments I got on Twitter for the various things I posted. We'll do the history, kind of try to define it. We'll talk

History, definition, Zionism, anti-Zionism: the full picture

about Zionism, anti Zionism. I mean, there's a lot to cover, a lot to cover in this one and but we'll try to kind of have this a definitive show from my perspective, at least with regard to with regard to Semitism, so that late I can refer people, Oh you want to hear my views on at Semmetism. Go watch that show. Although I fear, I fear that this is a topic that I'm gonna have to deal with over and over and over and over and again in the years, uh

and and maybe decades to come. But it's certainly in the years to come. Decades. It's a long time anyway, the years to come. So this is a this is at least a one one, you know, an kind putting down with regards to this topic. But it is it is going to be sad that we're going to be talking about this for a long time. Uh. Let's see.

Upcoming shows and Super Chat notes

Michaels already started us off with some super chats. He did promise that today I would achieve my goal easily because he has so many questions. So Michael's getting us started, and I expect him to fill up the screen with lots of questions. But you too can ask questions about anything. It would be great if we got a bunch of questions related to this. But as you know, I take questions on everything and anything. They get answered in the first based on how much money you put up. That

is the above twenty dollars. Questions get ranked based on the amount of money and then answered, and all the under twenty dollars basically get answered in the order in which they are asked, So don't worry. I answer all the questions. I respond to everything. I read out all the comments. If you want to insult me, one way to get me to read out your insult is to

put it into super Chat. Also, I wanted to just remind you show tomorrow, probably in the evening, and then Tuesday from California, and then no show Wednday, Thursday, and hopefully a show Friday from Colorado. Uh, and then no show Saturday Sunday a week from today, a show back from home. All right, you know, Uh, I just got to comment on Twitter that's just too funny to ignore.

Tucker Carlson's "demon" story-what's really going on

So let me just say. I said something about that, you know, a video of talking talking about the demons scratching him and stuff, and I said, this guy's nuts and crazy. And this is the response I got. Demons are and were accepted by just about every culture throughout history, and decent people tend to avoid the personal attacks, whereas warmongers and israel worshippers seem to thrive on them. All right, you know, demons are not accepted by any culture of reason.

A culture of reason rejects demons and thinks that people who believe in demons are little nuts, and particularly if they live in the twenty first century, which is a century built on a foundation of an age of reason called the Enlightenment, where demons were not taken seriously, and the idea that in the twenty first century in America, in spite of all the secularization, in spite of all the reason, in spite of all the science, in spite of everything else, anybody who claims to be attacked by

demons and didn't document, they didn't take pictures of the scratches, and admit to having four dogs in the bed with them at the time has to be called a kook. And that's exactly what they are. And anybody who defends demons and the existence of demons and the the presence of demons in our lives and the ability of demons to attack you during your sleep even though you got four dogs protecting you, is another kook. And personal attacks. This is not a personal attack. It's a personal evaluation.

It is a moral I don't know, a state of mind evaluation of me, you know, in my view, Tucker Calson, for a variety of reasons, is a coke, is a nutcase. He's lost contact with reality, He's lost contact with any kind of truth. He is in the category of nutty. Above and beyond his immorality and his immorality and his advocacy for many evil ideas. The guy's just nuts. He's

Tucker Carlson: populist, propagandist, or philosopher?

just crazy. And you want to take the craziness seriously, go for it, embrace it, you know, go all out. But I I do attack people personally when they are or not attack. I evaluate people personally, and if they behave like kooks, I call them kooks. If they advocate for evil more evil ideas, I call them evil, particularly

What is antisemitism, really?

if they're adults, and there's reason to believe that those they should know better than the evil ideas that they hold. I believe in moral evaluation and generally evaluating people, and I will make those evaluations public to the extent that they are public figures. If they're a private figure, there's a kook who's my neighbor, I'm not going to make it public. But they're out there telling stories about demons scratching themselves, then they're begging to be called a nut.

And with all due respect, to all of you who love Tucker Causon and view him as a demigogue. Tucker Causon is nuts. All right, Let's talk about another nutty set of ideas, and that set of ideas is an anti semitism. Anti Semitism is, of course a pretty agent of ideas. It's uh uh, it is not new. We'll talk about the history of it. We'll go back to where it started. This, of course, will not be a comprehensive, thorough uh you know, thorough analysis of of antisemitism. That

would take a massive book. And I do intend to do some work on this. I presented as a lecture and things like that, but for now, this is this

Defining antisemitism: hatred of reason, success, and independence

is going to be my take on the phenomena. So first let's let's talk about what it is. Uh, what is anti Semitism? I mean, here's a definition. Antisemenis is hatred, uh, discrimination, prejudice, hostility of violence against Jews as Jews. It includes, it includes the belief in a whole variety of conspiracy theories that view Jews somehow, you know, having extraordinary power over people's lives and over over over the world in which

we live. Now, part of the question is and and I think an important part is who Jews, what our Jews? What is your what is this refer to? What is jew refer to? And I think it refers to a few things, and it doesn't refer to these as a separate but all is one, Bob. If you have questions, the super chat is available, happy to answer all of your questions. Do you refers to the religion, It refers

Who are "the Jews"? Religion, culture, nation, identity

to a culture, It refers to a particular ethnic group, and it refers to a perception of the existence of a nation and a Jewish a nation. Jew refers to all of those in and members who belong to any one of those people who practice the religion, people who have a and it reforms to you know, genes, to a genetic heritage, whether you know people. People refer to other people as Jewish even when Jews don't refer to them as Jewish. For example, according to Judaism, you can

only be a Jew unless you conferred. But it can only be a Jew if your mother was Jewish. If your father's Jewish and your mother's not Jewish, you're not Jewish. And yet again, I think people refer to the Jews if anybody related to them was Jewish at some point. And here's the important part about jew in the context

of anti Semitism. I mean a lot of people refer to themselves as Jewish because they are religious, or because they view themselves as part of a nation that they define and is Jewish, which is pretty amorphous, or because they are collectivists and view themselves as somehow belonging to other people through some kind of genetic genic relationship. I don't consider myself a Jew in day to day life. You know, it has no relevance to me. I'm not religious.

I'm not religious. I'm an atheist it culturally, you know. I'm sure the Jewish culture had an impact on me and my life, but you know, I've chosen a different culture. Most of my friends today are not Jewish. The culture in which I live is not a Jewish culture. Genetically, I'm certainly a Jew, but I don't know what that means. That means nothing. You're not. Who you are is not your genes. Who you are what you make of yourself. It's the choices you make in your life. So in

that sense, I don't consider myself Jewish. I don't celebrate any of the Jewish holidays, so that's religion. Now culture is out. I just don't think of myself as belonging

Yaron on his Jewish identity and individualism

to to I don't believe in race. I don't believe in the concept of race, and even even the concept of you know, ethnicity is kind of an antichotist What does it actually mean, particularly if you detach it from particularly if you detach it from the issue of race. So you know, to me, I am not a Jew, except that the anti Semites, those who hate Jews, clearly define me as such. That as I know that when they start rolling up the Jews, however they want to define it, I will be one of the people being

rounded up. When people express anti Semitic views, they are pointing their finger at me. My own views about at about Judaism or being Jewish are irrelevant to the very fact that the anti Semite has his own definition of who a Jew is. I mean, Hitler, what was it two generations? If you had anybody, any of your grandparents was Jewish, you are jew. It didn't matter whether you

considered yourself one or not. And one of the things that led Hrzel, the founder of a designist movement, to found designist movement is the realization that the haters, the haters of the Jew, the anti Semites would never let Jews assimilate. He was a completely assimilated Jew, didn't consider himself a Jew until he faced the Dreyfus trial and realized that as assimilated as you get, the anti Semites

will always, always, always view you as a Jew. Bob doesn't like Jews, but he also says, we don't like libertarians either. Well that's good because I'm not a libertarian. So there we go. I'm not Jewish and I'm not libertarians. You love me, now, Bob? Do you like me?

Speaker 2

Now?

Speaker 1

The haters have come. At least, you know, Bob represents them. I don't know how many else they are available, all right,

The persistence of collective guilt

So so, anti Semitism is a hatred, discrimination, prejudice, stility, violence against Jews. It is the the advocacy and the embrace of conspiracy theories related to to the Jews, and we'll talk about those. It is it is characterized by, uh, you know, by by stories of primarily of Jews doing horvable things that then justify the hatred, prejudiced and violence against them. Right, if if Jews are really you know, killers, if Jews really do I don't know, drink the blood

of whatever, then violence against them is justified. Right. So, uh, Anti Semitism not only has this hatred and violence and prejudice, but it also builds up the stories. It builds up the theories, it builds up the justification for that violence. And I think you can only understand the stories about Israel, the lying about Israel, the the constant lies about Israel in the context of they need to constantly rationalize the hatred.

They need to constantly justify the hatred, they prejudice. And ultimately what they want is that the violence against the Jew and and they will they will, they won't make up stories. Uh. You know, blood libels go back to the very early you know, Christianity and and really to the beginning of Christianity. We'll get to the original blood libel in a minute. But blood libel, the idea that Jews kill this, do that you know, they're responsible for blood that that kind of blood libel is always used

as justification. Let's go slaughter the Jews, Let's go kill the Jews, let's discriminate against the Jews. Let's so you need a story. You know, they control the world, they make money off of exploiting Christians, they make money off of off of useless interest or whatever. You know, all of this is uh is the case Cook says, blood libel is starting in England. No, it didn't actually starts

way before that. If if we understand what blood libel really is, we'll see that it starts really way before that. So you know, this is the this is the essence of of of of antisemitism. It's the the the the

Why conspiracy theories target Jews

hatred that is then justified by conspiracy theories and and and look, the the original conspiracy theory and the original blood libel, the original conspiracy and the original blood libel, and the justification uh for much of the hatred of Jews and discrimination against them and the violence against them by Christians in the uh you know period of the early Church all the way through the Middle Ages and through the Crusades, is the conspiracy and the blood libel

that the Jews, the Jews, not age you, not a group of Jews, but the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. That is the idea that Jesus was killed by the Jew. That is that the theologically you blame Jesus's death on the Jew becomes really the first blood libel and becomes the first great conspiracy theory that

justifies hatred. I mean, if if Jesus was the Messiah and Jesus was the superhero in Jordan Peterson's terms, and Jesus was God's son, whatever the hell that means, and God himself, whatever the hell that means, and the Jews killed him, well that's bad. And remember that he was crustified, so it wasn't just any death. It was a particularly brutal, horrible, painful, excruciating death. And the Jews are responsible. So this is

really where it starts. Now. You could argue that there's certain passages in the New Testament that already are suggestive of kind of a very negative attitude towards Jews, and certainly it's the way it's been interpreated. It's certainly the way. It's certainly the way it's been interpreated. And whether I'm sure there are other interpretations that are not anti Semitic, but certainly certain elements than the Church have used these interpretations.

How early Christianity seeded antisemitism

For example, in John eight forty four, you are your father the devil, which has been interportal to me and Jews were collectively guilty for rejecting and killing Christ, and they are basically the devil, and they were created by the devil, and they are the devil. But really, and I you know, anti Semitism really takes off with certain figures in the early Church, and then we'll see it gets institutionalized in the Middle Ages and just thrives in there.

So we're going to just go, I'm going to read you some passages just to give your sets of the extent of which Christians, early Christians at least some leading figures among early Christians. I do not want to say that all early Christians believe this, but certain figures among early Christianity were you know, you know, viewed, viewed, uh, viewed Jesus, sorry, viewed the Jews as really horrific, really evil, really bad, and that the source of that was the

fact that they were responsible for the death. And and again let me note it's I've noted this in other contexts. But what they do is they they they shift right, because we know who was responsible for you know, jesus death, and that was the Roman, the Roman Empire, Roman authorities. But it very quickly, certainly from you know, the rise of Constantine on, it becomes very politically not very good, very politically bad to blame the Roman Empire because Rome

now becomes Christian are the good guys. The Romans are the ones spending Christianity all over Europe. She can't blame Rome for for this attack on h on on on Jesus. You've got to find somebody else. Uh. And he's right there and and he's like, you know, the Jews identified very early on as the killers of Christ. So it's

easy to do. It's easy to do. Mh. I mean, I just before we do this, before we uh talk about some of the early Christian commentators, let me let me one more point I want to make, and that is that people have said people have in a comment section keep saying to me, no, no, Christians didn't invent anti Semitism. Anti Semitism existed before that. Lots of people hated the Jews. For example, the the Egyptians enslaved the Jews.

That's the beginning of anti Semitism. But that's silly, right, I mean, the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, They enslaved lots of different people. They did enslave the Jews because they would Jews. They enslaved the Jews because they were foreigners who came to Egypt and didn't have a home, and it was easy to enslave them. It was more politics

geopolitics of the time, right. Jews were people without really a home at that point, and the Egyptians just used opportunity to enslave them, and people w enslaved all over the Middle East at that point in time. Slavey was just part of life. It was even Jews had slaves later on in the Old Testament, so you know, and people fought wars, and people hated each other, but it

wasn't there wasn't a theme here. We hate Jews, quad Jews, you know, we hate those people because we'd like to pillage and take their stuff and we'd like to conquer their land. That is not the same as antisemitism. Not

the same as antisemitism. So that is so I do consider the beginning of anti Semitism really, the beginning of anti Semitism really the first Christians to articulate the case for hatred of Jews, and then Christianity dominates the West and it becomes the fountain head of all anti Semitism, secular and religious, including much of Muslim anti Semitism, you know, probably to large extent, originates, particularly the modern form of it,

originates with Christianity. So you know, justin the matter one hundred and fifty five, see in the Common Era, in a dialogue says, the tribulations were justly imposed on you, Jews, for you have slain the just one, Jesus, and there's prophets before him, and now you reject those who hope in him. See here's the basic Christian claim. Jews killed Jesus again collective guilt. Even if now all those disciples would Jews, he was a Jew, many of his disciples

would Jews. I mean everybody or most people in that part of the world at the time would Jewish. But it's collective guilt. It's all Jews killed Jesus. Even Jews that come generations after Jesus was killed, killed Jesus or share the blame in the killing of Jesus. But here's the more subtle reason why they hated Jews at the time of Jesus and then repeatedly over the decades, centuries,

Theologians, the Church, and the invention of the "eternal Jew"

really millennia, a couple of millennia, Jews have had opportunity to see the light Jesus was among them. Christians surround them. They could convert to Christianity at any point in time. They can become Christians, and the Christians will embrace them if they become Christians, at least up to a point, you know, as the Inquisition in Spain showed, not completely, but they claimed that they would embrace them. And yet the Jews resist or resistead. They didn't embrace Christianity. You

reject those who hope in Him. They don't become Christian And that's what really makes them evil. That's what really justifies discrimination and hatred and sometimes violence against them. It's the not willing to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, the responsible for his death, collective guilt over millennia, and they won't convert to Christianity or they won't become Christians. John Chu, I can't pronounce his name, hy Suwstom three eighty six. I mean he was he was particularly vicious. This guy

was really hated Jews. Again, one of the fathers of the Church, one of the early great thinkers of the church. He did eight homilies delivered in an Antioch, among the most explicitly antisemitic. There was a lot of antisemitism there. But among the most explicit antisemitic Semitic works is this one, I mean, the whole thing is is probably, if not the most one of the most anti semitic works produced by a Christian. The synagogue is worse than a brothel.

It is the dan of scoundrels and the repair of wild beasts, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ. There it is again assassins of Christ right through the generations. Every generation is responsible for. Again, I hate the synagogue precisely because it has the law and the prophets. It is the dwelling of demons. Remember demons. Hmm, Maybe it was Jews that scratched, that scratched the taker cows. Maybe maybe it was them. Sir John was particularly bad, particularly bad.

You can read, I mean, you can find lots of other stuff. Let me see you once again, I had head here. I mean ce this is Saint Ambos. Saint Ambos is considered one of the great thing is of really Christianity. I mean, he was the Bishop of Milan. He was the bishop to the Emperor who was in Rome, but the Empire often was ruled out of Milan, so he was the most influential, one of the most influential you know, Christians, theologians, leaders of his time. And you

know he wrote extensively. Is again considered one of the fathers of the Church. And and here here is this quote about Jews. Right, this is this is sorry he was born in three forty this is three seventy nine, so this is all the first century. Remember this is this is after Christianity has now become the religion of the Roman Empire. Bob, I don't have a bronxy accident than the bunks never lived anywhere near the bunks quote. I mean, he's such a Bobby, is such an idiot?

Quote the most worthless of all men. That's Jews. They are lecherous, greedy, raptures. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the devil, their religion as a sickness. The Jews of the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God. There is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and that you must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential that all Christians hate them. Whoa I mean, it doesn't

get much more explicit than that. Now he goes on and on. I mean, some Christians burned down a synagogue, and the Emperor comes in, and he says, no, us rebuild it for them. You must compensate them, rebuild it. I mean that the Roman empires often, you know, wanted religious pluralism, and and and and and didn't want to discriminate. And and Ambos goes to the Pope, to the Uh Emperor says, absolutely not, should not build their temple. Remember this the next time you see one of these scoundrels

somewhere spouting Jewish hatred. Ambo said, God always hated the Jews. It is essential, not optional. It is essential that all Christians hate them all all, all the all uh what's his name? Fuentis and Tucker Casson, all these guys and and Candicon. All they're doing is doing what Ambo said all Christians should do. Hillary uh again for a century. Jews are perverse people, accused by God, accursed by God forever. Greg Graving, I see again one of the great thinkers

of the early Christian Church. The Jews are brood of vipers, haters of goodness. The Jews are brute of vipers. Haters of goodness. That's from n see it. And again another one from Saint Jerome. Saint Jerome, of course, the saint. If you call it a synagogue, if you call it a synagogue of brothel a then of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprive the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster, or whatever you will. You are

still saying less than it deserves. And you can see how for Intance and Tucker Carlson kind of mild in their anti Semitism as compared to these early Christians. And you can see how, you know, the Christian world later on, much later on, can easily come up with the protocols of the Elders of Zion. You can see how they can claim the Jews control everything, and I mean, this is yeah, it's pretty bad. This is pretty bad. Now.

So this is the early Church. I will say Augustine, Augustine maybe the most influential of all the early Church fathers, is the most influential of all the Church fathers. And one of the two, you know, probably I think is in Christianity Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Augustine again late fourth century early fifth century is generally less violent towards the Jews. He's not an advocate of violence, but his attitude, nonetheless, is this. The Jews, by their own scriptures, a testimony

to our truth. They bade the mark of Kine, living as wanderers, so that they, by their dispense, dispersion, they may be witnesses to us. In other words, the reason Jews exist, and the whole point of having Jews out there, is that they witness the success, They witness the grandeur, they witness the greatness of Christianity. They are witnesses their

whole purpose of being. And of course, from the perspective of the Christian Jewish suffering Jewish dispersion, the minority status of Jews is a reminder to all Christians that their misery, their poverty is a reminder of all Christians of the proof of Christianity. You can see now, in some sense why when Jews become rich, strong, able, when Jews establish their own state, that this is an affront to Augustinian theology.

No longer are the Jews witnesses to Christianity's success. The Jews are successful, but that's a perversion and distortion to the Augustinians, I mean for the Gastinians. And this is at least for millennium, but I think it still has influenced to this day. Jews were to be preserved in misery. This partially explains the creation of the Jewish ghettos as

proof of Christianity's truth. And if that is true, If that statement is true, then when Jews are not in misery, when Jews rich, successful, prosperous, and maybe even having their own state, what does that say about Christianity truths.

Speaker 3

So some of the elements that build up towards modern anti Semitism.

Speaker 1

The fourth latter in Council. This is now twelve fifteen. It's quite a bit later. In some provinces different a

The Crusades, blood libels, and the Black Death

difference in dress distinguishes the Jews or Saracens from Christians. We decree that such Jews and Severacens are both sexes in every Christian province, and at all times shall be distinguished from other people by the character of the address. So this is the beginning of kind of a gold star that the Nazis embraced. Afterwards, we want to be able to tell whose Jewish and who's not by what

they wear. Now twelve fifteen, of course, reminds one also of the of the you know, the Crusades and uh and literally remember the Crusades were a great opportunity for Christians, uh, to to express the hatred of Jews toro, you know, incredible acts of violence. Uh and uh, I'm just looking for some of the material of heavenness. One second. Unfortunately I didn't organize this. Uh where was it? All right, doesn't matter, you know, because it's uh, I know this stuff.

The First Crusade, Oh yeah, the Crusades again military campaigns that were launched by Western Christendom, originally to liberate holy lands for Muslims. They were also they also called the Crusades, the attacks in the Spanish Peninsula, the Barian Pilliansida on the on the Muslims. They also in Spain they also called crusades. The attempts by the Christians, success full teremps by the Christians to Christianize the Northern Europe, in particular Scandinavia.

The conversion of the Pagans to Christianity by the Sword, I might ask and will also considered crusades. But anyway, in the Crusades, the First Crusade, the idea was. The idea was that we had to go, and the Christians had to go to fight the Infidel, and to fight the Infidel and to liberate the Holy Land. The whole point was fighting the Infidels, and the idea was to set out the Holy This is Pope. This is Pope

up in the second announcing the First Crusade. Let those who have hither throw being robbers now become soldiers of Christ, set out for the Holy specter Jusalem, rescue that land from the wicked race. And rejected to yourself right now, this is aimed at Muslims. That is the wicked race that he intends. But you can see how well, there's another wicked race here in Europe amongst us. Why should we go all the way over there to the Middle East. It's far away, so it's a trek right in ten

ninety five. It's a trick to get that to get there. So what about the wicked race that's among us? What about the wicked race that's right here, right here in front of us? And indeed they use this to basically, you know, aggress or slaughter the Jews on the way. On the way. Now it's worth mentioning that the Pope did not attend this, and the Pope spoke out against the killing of the Jews during the crusade. The Pope

did not support it. The Pope rejected it and actually argued against it, but he was not on the ground. By the time he heard about it was too late and it didn't stop anybody. There were enough religious authorities that supported this that he was just ignored. Here's a German cleric describing what happened in Germany in the area

of minz In in north northwest Germany. As this rabble of robbers and others, guided by preachers and holy Man, traversed through Germany on their way south to the Holy Land. The people, inflamed by a new spirit, said, why go to fight the enemies of Christ and distant lance? While the Jews whose father killed him dwell on us in peace. They slew them, spared neither age nor sex. Hundreds of Jews and whole communities were wiped out. They were given

their option of converting to Christianity. Some chose suicide, but most were just slaughtered when they refused to convert to Christianity. And you know this is a well documented by people at the time. And you know, thousands agains of Jews were killed in Germany as part of the First Crusade. Of course, when the Christians actually got to Jerusalem, they didn't differentiate between Jews and Christians who were living there, Jews and Muslims who were living there, and indeed the Jews.

Here's a quote from William of Tire who writes a history of the First Crusade. The Jews who had dwelt in Jerusalem were burned alive in this synagogue, which was set on fire by our men, crying out, Christ is our Lord.

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You know, this is the history of Christianity. This is whoops, what happened to my right?

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There we go. This is the Christianity. This is you know how progressed. Of course, you know it doesn't stop there, because you have constant blood libel against Jews. You have constant blaming the Jews for the problems that the Christian world is encountering. Uh. You know, for example, uh, you know, just to add uh, just to give you a just to give you a sense of this, right, that was

the First Crusade. The Second Crusade, you get s Bnad of Clovo condemns the attack that says the Jews are not to be persecuted, killed, the exiled, They are for us as a living sign. And yet you are killed throughout thewai Inland. Again nobody's listening to him. The killings are regardless. In the Third Crusade eleven eighty nine to eleven eighty two, anti Jewish riots in England occur, during

which of the first Coronation. They then occured York in eleven ninety where the entire where much of the Jewish community is destroyed. Now, part of that has to do with usury and Jewish users and you know who are bankers basically lending money at interest. And this is this is where they take the opportunity to burn all the books of the bankers so that they don't have to

pay their debts back. And the Fourth Crusade, it continues basically on and on, and then you get the blood libels which are always associated with these with these programs of Jews, you get Norwich in eleven forty four, you get Trent in fourteen seventy five. And then during the Black death Right, the Black death that is wing out huge numbers of Europeans, huge numbers of Europeans. You get, you get that the Jews are responsible for the Black death.

They are poisoning the wells uh and and the black death is the consequence of the well poisoning, and that is why Christians are dying. And of course the consequence of that or again mass killing of Jews throughout this period. Uh. Jews are then later on in in in European history, Jews are then isolated in in ghettos in the major cities. UH so that they so that they you know, they they could still live in the city, but they're all in one quarter, usually very very very uh very crammed

into a corner where they're living standards horrific. And again they are they serve as witness, witness to what happens to a people who don't accept Christ and h and witness to the to the Christian success and and Christian

power over them. So this is very much a part of Christianity really, you know, until the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, where the Catholic Church makes efforts to apologize for to some extent a complicity with the Holocaust and to for the history a long history of anti Semitism. They acknowledge it, and they somewhat apologize for it, although arguably they've never really they've never properly they've never properly

taken full responsibility for it. But there's no question that UH, anti Semitism has its origins, has its roots deep into in Christianity. And and this is not uniquely Catholic. When when Luther rebels against the Catholic Church and and start basically the protest Protestant uh, prot Protestantism, I can't say that word right, He riles reels against against the Jews. Uh.

Martin Luther: the theological father of modern antisemitism

He is one of the most anti Semitic thinkers UH that Christianity has produced. UH and UH he shapes much of the attitude towards Jews UH within the Protestist Protestant religion. And and remember Lutha is in Germany. German anti Semitism. It was not invented in the twentieth century. It has its roots going back to the early Church. But it certainly has its roots going back to Lutha and in

the sixteenth in the sixteenth century. It's interesting, you know, he starts out kind of rejecting the idea that that you know, the Jews are to blame for Christ's death. He writes, we have to treat the Jews kindly and deal with them in a friendly way if we want them to become Christians. Right, so we want them to become Christians. And he reminds his reader is that Jesus was born a Jew. But over time he really changes and he writes a number of different essays you know

that basically attack the Jews. They don't reform, they don't join the Provenceton movement because he blames the fact that Jews didn't become Christian. Well, it's because the Catholics will corrupt. So he's between fifteen thirty eight and fifteen forty three, you know, he starts producing more venomous works. So on the Jews and their Lies fifteen forty three, we'll get to that in a minute, of the Unknowable Name and the generation generations of Christ. On the last words of

David against the Sabbatarians, that's the Jews the Sabbath. So he's writing extensively about the evil of the Jews because they're not converting to his new religion. On the Jews and their Lies fifteen forty three, which is sixty five thousand words, just has the whole litany of accusations against the Jews that Christianity has developed over the decades. Just to give you a few a few of the citations, this is Luther. The Jews are base, horring people, full

of the devil's feces. Their synagogues are incurageable, whole and evil slut. He continues on another passage, they are nothing but thieves and robbers, who daily eat no morsel and wear no threat of clothing which they have not stolen from us. This is primarily in the context of usury. Usury is theft. According to Christianity, usury is a mortal sin. The Jew with the bag of gold around his neck is in the seventh running of Hell, with the gold

dragging down into the fire. Jews are usurers, and the Christians hate them for that. He then writes their synagogues should be set on fire and their schools destroyed. So Luther is actually calling for violence against Jews in fifteen forty three, this is what he proposes for rulers in Protestant nations. This is what they should do. They should burn synagogues and schools that destroy Jewish homes. They should

confiscate prayer books and talmuds. They should forbid rabbis to teach, they prohibit safe travel, they should force Jews into manual labor expulsion. And he framed these acts as Christian duties. They would actually save souls and protect society from Jewish blasphemy. And it's theological reasons for this. Jews refused to accept Christ as proof of divine rejection. Jews were instruments of Satan, keeping Christians from truth. And you know the idea of

the apocalyptic. During the apocalypse, there would be a final conversion of the Jews to Christians or they all go to Him, which you know Christians still believe to this day. Now, luckily it's rare the Jewish rulers actually acted on his recommendations. I think too many of them needed the Jewish money landers It's a fund many of their wars. But again, this is lu. This is not some second rate unknown nobody out there preaching. This is this is the founder

of the Protestant Protestant religion. Uh and uh and and this circulated thoroughly. And by the way, you know the Nazis. The Nazis mined the fifteen forty three essay for for for for juicy bits. You know, they they reprinted excerpts.

From Luther to Hitler: connecting the dots

One of them was was you know what Luther said about the Jews? Which was a pamphlet after christal Nach Luther and bish Martin Sass published a pamphlet celebrating that the synagogue burns on Luther's birthday, and Hitler himself mentioned Luther approvingly in speeches as a great reformer. I mean, Luther's authority, minutes sense, gave kind of the modern anti Semites a theological pedigree, a theological excuse for what they

believed in. So, you know, in other words, at the end of the day, anti Semitism again has its roots deep into Christian theology. Christianity has basically allowed perpetrated anti Semitism through the last couple of millennia, particularly, i'd say up until the you know, the eighteenth century, it was primarily a feature of Christianity. So one wonders where does antisemitism, hatred of Jews come from. It comes from the father

of the Church, the fathers of the Church. It comes from Augustine, It comes from Ambos of Milan, it comes from Luther, it comes from popes and bishops and theologians who wrote extensively about this, about the hatred of Jews and the legitimacy of violence against them for almost two thousand years. And the sin is the collective guilt of killing Christ. The sin is that they will not convert to Christianity. Is you know, when you have two mystical religions,

and Judaism is mystical, just as mystical as Christianity. But do you have two mystical religions, how do you prove one is better than the other? Well, you can't, So you just have to declare one better than the other. And particularly if you're in a position of power, i e. Christian in this book. Point at this point, then the fact that you know the other party doesn't recognize that you are the truth and they are not is a

Economic myths and envy: Jews as scapegoats

sign of their depravity. That is the evil of mysticism and religiosity. And you know the subjectivism that it implies, because there is no truth there, there's just there's subjective emotions. Now if you add to that the economic argument again the Jews, which I've talked about and written about extensively elsewhere, so I'm not going to cover it here. We're already approaching an hour, and that is the fact that Jews were usurers, that they were successful, that they made money.

You can see why people are hostile to was them because they're making money. They're doing something that the Christian considered a mortal sin. They're lending money. They're making money off the loans of the Christian. How dare they their inferior There were wicked people, and yet they're making money off of us. You can see how this just exacerbates everything.

By the way, one of the reasons, just as an aside, one of the reasons there are so many Jews in Eastern Europe, or were so many Jews, I should say, were so many Jews in Eastern Europe before Hitler managed to kill most of them. One of the reasons for that is that Western Europe became so poisons poisonous, so anti Jewish, anti Semitic, that they just couldn't stay there.

And indeed, there were kings in Poland and Lithuania and the Baltics who were, you know, who needed population, who needed people to come and populate the area, who were willing to tolerate the Jews, willing to be positive about the Jews, and As a consequence, the Jews moved there for their own safety. And for a long time Eastern Europe was relatively safe for Jews until eighteen Suddenly, the nineteenth century things flipped and Eastern Europe became again a

land of pogroms. Now, let's move quickly into the nineteenth century, you know, and the world is becoming secularized, and yet anti Semitism is still alive and well. And now now it shifts. There is a there's a shift from primarily

19th-century Europe: secularism, nationalism, and the "dual loyalty" myth

religious explanations of anti semitism and two dominantly economic and nationalistic. Now the economics, the economic anti semitism is primarily expressed, you know, beyond the acquisition of usury. It's primarily expressed by Carl Marx. Now again, uh, if you if you're interested in the relationship between anti capitalism, between Carl Marx and and antisemitism. I have a number of lectures on

this online. You can find it. Just put you on book Anti Semitism, Anti Capitalism, and you will find the lectures. I'm not gonna belabel them here, but I'll just say that Marx has an essay, his first published essay, which is highly recommended that you read uh. It is an essay that basically it's called on the Jewish Question, that basically declares the Jews the problem with the Jews is

they're self interested, the capitalists, and capitalism is evil. Self interest is evil, and there for Jews evil and that the problem with Christianity, the problem with Europe of the nineteenth century is that Europe is adopting Judaism in a sense that it's adopting capitalism, and that, you know, Judaism has to be in a sense eliminated and first farm Christianity and then from Jews themselves. It is a scathing antisemitic essay, which again you can find on Marx dot og.

I think just put call marks on the Jewish question and you will find it. It's quite striking. The second thing that happens during the nineteenth century is you get a rise of nationalism. Nationalism is the phenomena, is a phenomena of the nineteenth century. You get, you know, nationalistic revolutions. People start defining themselves in terms of tribal but but in terms of a collection of tribes rather than tribal city or tribal very small locations, not a collection of

tribes and now it's called the nation. So suddenly you create you get this creation of nations. You get the creation of Germany, you get the creation of Italy, you get the creation of uh uh. You know, the Czech today is the Czech Republic in Slovakia. And all these become nations. They were never nations before. They were part of empires, and you belong to a particular tribe within the empire. But now the idea was to deliberate the nation from the empire. And they were belled against Australian

given empire. They were billed against or in Italy and in Germany it is it is a process of uniting city states or disparate provinces that each have autonomy or each have uh independent. And now what you see is a consolidation of power in the creator of nations. And then the question is the question is in all these new nations that are being created, is what is what

is the place of the Jew here? And by the way, this is part of the Jewish question that car Marx is trying to answer, because what what's going on is during this period Jews have now some of them have assimilated into the common the the culture of the of the of the place and the time, right, so uh specific time and place uh. And they were gaining civil rights in place like Fans and even Germany, Austria and others.

And it wasn't clear how they belonged because they weren't part of the tribes that made up even of these nations. And they were the original globalists, right. And they were even called it the time Cosmopolitans. Right, it's a it's a code word for jew. Marx was not a Jew. Max was a Christian. Max has raised a Christian uh. And his father had converted from Judaism to Christianity and raised Marx as a Christian. Marx grew up in an

environment of Christians hating Jews and absorbed that environment. He had Jewish relatives, but he was a baptized Christian. So Max was not a Jew. But during this period of nationalism, where do you where do you put the Jew? How do you refer to the Jew? They don't. They can't assimilate into us, They can't become German or French or Austrian because they're not. Because what defines German, French, Austrian is genes is genes and the Jew has different genes.

It comes from a different lineage. Notice collectivism. Once you have collectivism and tribalism. Well, the other, the other, the one who doesn't belong to your tribal or collective, Well, how do you categorize him? What do you do with it? How do you treat him? I mean romantic nationalism cutting out of Germany defined the nation as ethnic bloodline, and

the Jews were outsiders. They were outsiders. And of course, just like what was done in Christianity, every problem that was created, every problem that happened, was blamed on the outsider, and the convenient outsider was the Jew among us, not only and now, of course, the Jews as a successful in the nineteenth century, or at least some Jews were. The assimilated Jews certainly were, and now it was easy to go after them. They were no longer the witnesses

of Christianity. Now they were successful, which was horrific to the Christian They were not part of the nation. They were outsider and they fought. You know how, Right now, Tucker Kausen and others are accusing Jews of having more than one allegiance. They're not just they don't have the allegiance to America, they have joint citizenship, they have allegiance to some other cause, and ifore, we can't trust them. Right,

this is not new. This is not new. Jews during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were constantly accused of not having allegiance to the state in which they lived. I mean, this is the whole argument against Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a French senior officer in the French Army, accused of spying, clearly false accusations motivated by antisemitism. He was

completely assimilated, motivated by anti Semitism. And the whole point that was being made is, well, he's a Jew, so can't really be a Frenchman, So how can we really trust him to be committed to the French interests Because he's a Jew, He's of a different nation. He's not part of our nation. He can pretend he can speak French, he can be part of our culture, he can go to our concerts, he can sing our songs, but he'll never be French because French is in the blood Dreyfus.

This is Dreyfus. So this idea of dual loyalty is

The Dreyfus Affair and its modern parallels

not new. It's just another one of those you know, accusations. They're being thrown to Jews for hundreds of years. The Tucker's just reerring, revoicing. None of the anti Semitism around today. The nick four intess type, the tech of Cosson type is new. They're just rehashing old myths. Now, People like Bob who's on the Chat believe something like, well, the Jews have been accused of all these evils for two thousand years. Yeah, they didn't really kill Christ because the

Romans did it. And yeah, all the stories of them poisoning whales, Yeah, it turns out rats for the reason, actually caused a black death. Any Yeah, that idea of them drinking the blood of children, it turned out to be wrong. And it turned out that all of these you know, blood things, it turned out to be wrong. Yeah, but it can't all be wrong. I mean, God, I mean, people can be wrong for two thousand years about Jews. There must be something true behind it. There must be

something that they've done. I mean, they were kicked out of England, and they were kicked out of Spain, and they were kicked out of all these places. So I mean it can't all be just false accusations, and yet it absolutely is. They were kicked out of Spain because they refused to convert to Christianity. They didn't do anything, they just refused to become Christian. And yet every single one of the accusations, every single one of the accusations made to them about them, it's turned out to be

false and collectivistic garbage and try ballistic nonsense. Have they been bad Jews? Of course? Are they bad Christians? Of course? I mean, but collectivizing guilt disgusting, despicable evil. So what exactly I am at fault because some jud did something bad? Well, human beings do bad stuff, all people do bad stuff, But you collectivize the guilt. That is the worst kind of tribalism, the kind of irrationality, the worst kind of evil, Bob evil. Anti Semitism is, Yeah, did one of Jesus'

disciples betray him? Did that disciple happen to be Jewish? Probably because I think most of them were Jews. And does that mean all Jews killed Christ? Of course not. I mean, that is so irrational, so illogical, But that's how a collectivistic, tribalistic mind works. So you know, we don't, we don't have time. But the made up stories about Jews just continued. You know. During during the early twentieth century, you get the what do you call it, Protocols of

the Elder was Zion. This is a book that was published by anti Semites in Russia Neo Odessa, which is today in Ukraine, claiming to be a Jewish manifesto about the Jews desire to take over the world. Clearly afford, clearly written by Christians, not by Jews, and yet became the basis for programs all over Eastern Europe and Russia.

Uh and uh and to this day is cited by people and to this day, maybe they don't refer to the Elders of Zion, but they refer to the Jews controlling the world, I mean, for interest does this all the time? The Jews controlling finance and therefore controlling the world. Of course, the fact that Jews was so successful in finance, the fact that they thrived onder capitalism, not all Jews, some Jews. But because those some Jews thrived on the capitalism,

the socialists always hated them. The left hated them and again collectivized the guilt. The few who thrived under capitalism were Jews, and therefore all Jews were bad, and the Christians of the non Jews, who maybe didn't thrive any capitalism, hated them, resented them, rejected them for being successful. They were the other. For decades, Wall Street in America was quite anti Semitic. The traditional firms refused to accept Jews

as partners in the investment banks. Jews how to create their own investment banks in or to compete, and ultimately they did a better job. So yes, you know, in in Ivy League, universities in the United States only part of the twentieth century had a quota for Jews, just like they in the latter part of the twenty cent she had a quota for Asians. And you know, again anti semitism. Country clubs wouldn't accept Jews in them, certain

companies wouldn't accept Jews. Again, his senior positions in them. Anti Semitism has been with us forever, and sadly it appears is spiking again in the United States and in Europe, motivated both on left and right, and motivated to some extent at least by Muslims, by Islam. By Islam's adoption of many of Christianity's anti Semitic views. Although the Quran is filled with hatred of Judaism and Jews, it's just that that hatred has manifested itself in a much more

violent way among Christians than among Muslims. All right, Just to summarize it, anti Semitism is a consequence of viewing the world through the prism of collectivism. It is it is the consequence of viewing the world through the idea that your primary identity is determined by your bloodline. This

is blood and soil collectivism. It's who your ancestors will that determines you're worth the lack of it, and you are you benefit and you'll get blamed for what your ancestors did and what other members of your so called tribe do today. Now, granted, Jews the guilty of this collectivism as well. They take pride in the achievement of Jews that they have no relations to. And you know they they engage in the same kind of collectivism in

self identifying, well, we Jews. It's someone understandable because whether they engage in the idea of self identifying as a members of a collective or not, the rest of the world will brand them as such anyway. So Jews, sadly, we live in a world full of collectivists anti Semitism. The hatred of Jews is motivated by collective guilt, the hatred of the other, envy of their success, and a deeply rooted, deeply rooted anti Semitism within the Christian Church,

Catholic and Protestant. And it seems to rear it had whenever there is existential angst among the people, whenever there are things happening that people cannot understand, whenever there is challenges and problems, it's easy to blame the other. It's easy to blame the tribe over there, the people who are different, particularly if they're successful. And that's exactly what we're seeing today. Exactly what we're seeing today, we're seeing a rise in anti Semitism on the left and on

the right. Now we will have to do another show because we've gone for so long already. We'll do another show on the relationship between anti Semitism and anti Zionism, anti Israel, the relationship between those those things, because that's important both to understand left wing anti semitism and today right wing anti semitism. They couture very much. In terms

Antisemitism → Anti-Zionism: same hatred, new mask

of anti Israel. It's the same anti semitism as in the past, it just couched differently, it's presented differently, and it's very similar left and right, and both are influenced by Christianity. In the end, you know, the left is much more influenced by marx and by altruism, by explicit

altruism in the form of intersectionality. The right is much more influenced explicitly by Christianity and by the stories of the Both are influenced by the stories of the elders of Zion, the conspiracy theory the Jews control the world. So we will get to that. That's kind of at the heart of of Tucker's kind of anti Semitism. It's

this uh anti anti Israel. And but let me leave you with this Israel as the ultimate symbol of you know, the awful jew It's all is successful, is all is strong, and Israel is now a nation, is now a nation, and of course a nation that is you know, identifies as Jewish and is strong and powerful and successful and rich. Is a repudiation of the whole idea of the Jews kept miserable in order to be a testament for Christianity

and to prove Christianity's value and truth. Maybe Christianity not true if God is favoring the Jews right now, m particularly if christian is a feeling angst, if Christians is feeling insecure. Well, when Christians feel insecure, lash out at the strong Jews, lash out at the successful Jews. The only antidote to antisemitism, ultimately is individualism. It's to stop treating people as collectives. It stop treating people as members of tribes. It's to eradicate the idea of collective guilt.

It's the idea of treating individuals based on the nature of their character. Now, look me telling you about Christianity and its history of antisemitism does not mean that every Christian is an antisent might, of course not. Indeed, many Christians are not antisemits. Many Christians saved Jews during the Holocaust, you know, But the Catholic Church didn't behave itself particularly well, you know, at least the pope didn't during the Holocaust. Again,

I'm not a collectivist. I'm saying the ideology as articulated by the leaders of the church has been antisemitic and has contributed, contributed to anti Semitism. But I don't blame Germans today for what Germany did in the past. I don't blame Christians today what Christianity did in the past. I'm just saying, this is the influence. This is the influence. And you cannot understand taka. You cannot understand nik foantis.

You cannot understand the anti semitism of globalizing to fada without understanding the history, without understanding its source, without understanding the last two thousand years of Christian ideology, the Christian ideology of jew hatred. It is not to condemn every Christian. All right, I am way behind. We did an hour and twenty minutes. I didn't think it would be that long, and we didn't cover everything I wanted to cover. So we will do the kind of Israel and anti Semitism

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really appreciated guys. Thank you. All right, let's jump in with questions, and let's start with Michael, who's asked I think most of the questions, yeah, but let's start with Michael's fifty dollars question. He says, Megan, mam donnie one. Because voters are saying, if you don't fix out life economically, we're going to get radical politically. We need a significant

MAGA, Mamdani, and the rise of political extremism

shift towards capitalism, or we're going to get configurations of national socialism. Yes, I think that's absolutely right, m donnie one. Because people are unhappy with the state of the economy. They're unhappy with the cost of living inflation in other words, or price inflation. They're unhappy with the cost of housing. And what you see is what you don't see is anybody coming up with solutions that are consistent and is

willing to argue passionately for them. There's very little you can do as mayor of New York to reduce the cost of living when it comes to groceries and things like that. So ma'm donni can pretend that he so Mamdani offers what Mamdaney does HEAs he offers fantasies. You can pretend that by starting a government run a grocery store you can lower the cost of groceries, but that is just a fantasy. Socialists generally proposed fantasies to solve

economic problems. You can pretend that price controls rent control can lower rent, and that seems to a zero sum mentality person reasonable. Most people don't know economics. They don't know that rent control never works. And who is going to go out there and tell them. I mean Como, who's a democrat, who's a little less socialist than Mamdani, but not really that much. What you need is somebody to come out and say, yes, cost of living is way too high. What we need is to crush inflation,

price inflation. And you do that by getting rid of the FED, by privatizing money. And what about housing, Well, you do that by privatizing housing, getting rid of zoning and getting rid of all these restrictions and taking years and years and years to get a permit to build, and height restrictions and parking restrictions and the millions of restrictions that inhibit construction. Make construction great again. Build, Build, Build. That's how you lower the price of housing. There's demand.

People want to live in New yok In spite of how some of you think how awful it is to live there. People want to live in New yok. What they need is more housing. You need to have greater supply, that'll lower housing. It's economics. I want somebody needs to advocate that, not mildly moderately, but passionately, and that indeed price controls, rent controls will only make things worse, not better.

But for that you need some understanding of economics. You need to have passion abound freedom and free markets, and you need to be able to willing to go on TV and advocate for that and advocate for it passionately, consistently. And we don't have a political figure willing to do that. I mean, Milai and Argentina is about it. But nobody in the United States that I know of, oh I've seen running for political office, has been willing to go

all out on economic liberty, on economic freedom. But that's what's needed. We need capitalism because the alternative to capitalism is socialism or fascism. And what we're likely to get is alternating. You know, the socialists will win. It'll be a disaster, and the response to that will be a fascist response, and I'm not sure there'll be an election after that, but you get you get some fascism and then some socialism and maybe some moderate will come in

the middle. And make things a little better for a little wobb but not too much, and then you'll get back to that. So you just keep going in the same path, same path. So you know, truly, truly, we need some passion and consistent advocates of liberty and freedom and free markets. And we're not getting them, not getting them. Certainly the right is not producing them, and the left you can't even pretend could produce them. So we're just

not getting them. Andrew, of course there are some bad Jews, but in general Jews a highly productive and peaceful group. Antisemitism is based on a highly inaccurate judgment. I'm against

Collective judgment vs. individual virtue

collective judgment, but if one is going to do it, at least come close to the truth. Yeah. But again, it's a success that inspires the anti Semitism. If they weren't successful, particularly modern times, they'd be less anti semitism against them. Remember, Augustine relish is the fact that they're unsuccessful. Wants to keep them unsuccessful because they become a testament to Christianity success. Now they are successful, well, now we really need to hate them. We need to make them

unsuccessful by knocking them down a few notches. So I don't think these people don't assess Jews as successful or even as productive. But that creates envy, and that creates resentment for a variety of different reasons, and they hate it in spite of that or because of that. So again, altruism demands that we hate the successful and the productive and the rich and the powerful powerful economically. So you know, we hate Jews, and now they even have their own country,

we suddenly have to hate them. That's ridiculous. So so yes, I don't think it's an issue of assessment. I don't think it's an issue of assessment. I think it's an issue of what you do with that assessment and how you interpret that assessment. All right, Michael, also fifty dollars, Thank you, Michael. Ben Shapiro had to cut ties with Candice on Stephen Crowder and Tucker calls an over anti Semitism. I wouldn't be surprised if Pat Walsh is next. Doesn't

Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and the moral implosion of the Right

he see the conservative movement he helped create is imploding in on him. I don't know what Ben Shapiro Seesar doesn't see. I mean again, he is a collectivist and an and he is a religionist, and you know, I don't know. I think he's I think he's afraid at this point. I think he's worried. I think it is collapsing around him. How much he can recognize it and how much he can clearly identify the causes of this and the problems with it, I don't know. Because he

can't reject the Conservative movements religious roots. He can't accuse them of He can't go after Christianity as the root cause of anti Semitism because that will alienate all the other conservatives. He's not gonna suddenly become a supporter of capitalism and of reason, because that's not who he is, not fully, so I get it. You know, he supports the poor visual conservatives, and he is more rational than the rest. But he's in trouble and this is not

where the conservative movement is moving. And I think he knows that, and I think he is afraid. I think he's worried and afraid. And I mentioned this yesterday on the show. He has to worry about Matt Walsh and Knowles. He has to worry about them. There's every reason to believe that they are that they will bolt from the Daily Wire unless he's got them tied up in some way that they can't legally. But you know, he's lost Candice Ow. He lost another woman. I can't to to

the Blaze. I mean, he's losing people. The Daily Wire can't just be him, although I'm sure he could have a very successful what do you call it, a podcast all by himself, but the Daily Wire is a whole infrastructure that has you know, massive costs, and that those are not sustainable without a whole network. Yeah, he lost Brett Kooper, so you know, this incredible success there was the Daily Wire just a few years ago is in trouble. And I think I think Ben Shapiro knows that he

knows that he doesn't belong. He doesn't belong, partially because he's Jewish, but also partially because he's better than these other people. He's better than them on economic issues. He's been mildly better than them on Trump, although he sold his soul to some extent on Trump, and he knows that as well. He knows he sold his soul. So I don't so Ben, I think is not feeling too good about himself generally right now. It's my I don't

have any first and information. That's just my supposition. Charzbad says, I've heard that Superman is a Moses allegory. In the new movie, it is revealed that his parents sent him

Superman, Moses, and mythic morality

to Earth with a manifesto unbespoken to him, which urged him to become the king of the planet and acquire horrm of concubines. That is bizarre, that's really, really, really weird. I assume he rejects that. That's part of the storyline, that he rejects that that assignment, that manifesto. Why is he a Moses? I mean, who is he leading out of out of slavery? I mean, isn't he just there to save the world from evil? And so I don't I mean Moses is like that? You know. I was

called to Moses by your Mazzoni. In our debate. He kept calling me Moses trying to lead the individualists out of a collectivistic world. I took it as a compliment, I guess, coming from him, but I'm not sure he meant it as a compliment. But I took it as a compliment. Although Moses is a positive character for him, so he viewed me as kind of leading, leading these individualists out. But he also viewed it as a as a as a inherently going to be unsuccessful. But yeah,

I don't. I don't get the Moses is Superman analogy. Don't get it. I mean Moses is I mean Moses was born a Jew who was then raised within the Egyptian court, the king's court. But he was born a Jew, and you know, and and the pharaoh had decided to kill offers Jews, so he was he was put in a in a in a little what do you call a floating thing, and put in a nile, and discovered by the daughter of a pharaoh and raised within the courts. I'm not sure how even that is related to to Superman.

I just oh, I guess that he's raised among human beings, but he's not from here. Yeah, not a good analogy anyway. Michael asks, does the mix the economy concentrate wealth in cities so Middle America ends up being screwed? Or all the people who gravitate towards cities smarter and have better values,

Cities, wealth, and the mixed economy

so they create more wealth for themselves. No, I mean again, you are assuming a zero some world. I really don't understand the argument. Cities an immense value. Cities have the economic mass, they have the mass of talent, and they always thrive. They were a sign of civilization, but they don't come at the expense of Middle America. Middle America thrives.

And what Middle America is good at doing. It might be in agriculture, it might be in industry, it might be just in what do you call those people who who live in the countryside and work in the city remotely. They might just be places that people want to live for lifestyle reasons, but yet they can benefit from modern technology and work anywhere. But there's no contradiction between the two in a purely capitalist market, there's no zero sum here.

The thriving in the cities only makes Middle America more prosperous, not less prosperous. And indeed, Middle America becomes poorer if the cities fail. I mean, cities are signs of civilization. Cities collapse a sign of civilization collapse. So it's not a sign of the mixed economy that wealth is concentrated in cities. And it's not true that wealth is concentrated in the cities. Think of one Buffett living out in the middle of nowhere in or think of the Koch

brothers who are from Nebraska, or Kansas. I can't really remember. They're all live in the middle of Norway, so it's not even that concentrated. It's the reality is that cities will always be under capitalism in everywhere is richer at least at least there's a concentration of wealth because they have the benefit of maximizing division of labor and specialization, and they have the benefits of economies of scale in labor.

You can get more people working, but there's still rich people in the center of the country, and those people are better off. Even the poor people in the center of the country are better off of the city's success than otherwise. So nobody is being screwed. Nobody is being screwed now in a mixed economy that we have today, I don't know who's being screwed. Maybe the cities are being screwed, right, I mean, the the middle America is full of farmers being subsidized by taxes paid by city folk.

Industries are being kept alive through cronyism in all kinds of states because of cronyism. Uh, military bases are kept alive and and not closed when they need to be closed because of various levels of cronyism in parts of Middle America. So it's not clear who's who's being screwed. If you think about the fact that Middle America is subsidized, then in a mixed economy, somebody is paying to get to give them the subsidy. And who pays most of the taxes.

It's the cities, it's the coasts. Most of the taxes are paid by California and New York places like that. So in the mixed economy, everybody's being screwed. Everybody's being sacrificed to somebody. And you know, everybody being screwed, for example, by inflation. So the distortions and perversions everyway, and everybody's being screwed by them, everybody who lives in that country. Enrick, thank you for the sticker. And I saw one of

the sticker. Linda, thank you for the sticker. Really appreciate that, all right, So thank you, Michael. Another Michael saying, Michael, but another question, Part one. Megan Kelly is such a disappointment. She's afraid of going against taking ganis on same with the head of the Heritage Foundation. I don't know, I'll

Megyn Kelly's cowardice and the fear of Tucker

just come into this. I don't understand why Megan Kelly is a disappointment because I don't understand what you expected of her. Making Kelly's always being a you know, a Fox she was a Fox show host. She always followed the party line. When she went out on herself. She she's a trumpist. She she mouths the the what was expected of her. I mean, it's not like Making Kelly was some great journalist that's gone rotten. She was never

very good. She was always like this part two. This suggests that anti semites are no longer on the fringes of society. They have they have numbers, and mainstream conservatives outlets are taking notice. Yes, I think that's right. I think that's why it's such a problem. I'm saying, uh, and yeah, it's being mainstreamed and and uh. These are

leaders of the conservative movement. These are not fringed characters. Unfortunately, Tucker calls and Making Kelly and and and this is coming to it because it's a powerful political force within conservatives. Soria charitch is massive there. It shows the fact that

Antisemitism is mainstream now-what that means

they intellectually bankrupt, they intellectually bankrupt, and that they have to appease a large base of people that have accepted these horrific ideas. Paul, can you give three examples in basic philosophical or political premises where the right and left agree, Well,

Philosophic premises the Left and Right share

it depends which right and which left, but you know they agree. They both agree that individual rights need to be violated in order to satisfy something that they categorize as the public good or or the common interest or what's good for America, or what's good for the politarian and what's good for somebody in right and left agree that rights are not inaliable. Rights can indeed be violated

for the common good. They just define the common good differently in different circumstances, but the principle of rights can be violated. What else do they Well, they agree. You know, this is a manifestation of the fact that they fundamentally agree in collectivism. They both view collectivism as the standard. You know, the right might view the collective as the nation and the left might view the collective as the poor or the apolitarian of the workers, or something like that.

But they both agree that the standard of value and the standard by which we should all behave as a collectivistic standard. It's the standard of the group, not the individual. And this relates of course the fact that they don't believe in protecting individual rights. Jennifer Sis My dad was a Jewish atheist. I grew up with the name Feldman and luckily never got any anti semitism, maybe because I

Is antisemitism regional or class-based?

grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Michigan. Is anti Semitism worse in the South? Yes, I think it is worse in the South. It's also worse in places that don't have a lot of Jews or where they're not exposed to a lot of Jews. And you know, the more Christian a place, the more anti Semitism you're going to get generally. And that's why I think you get more of it, or got more of it in the South.

I don't know about today. But it also depends on All it takes is a couple of kids to express anti Semitic views, and other people join the little gang. So sometimes it's just an issue of the particular people that happen to be in your class or in your social group, whether you feel the anti semitism or not. Clark, doesn't it ever shock you how deep human hatred and narationality can urtionality can go. There's so many layers and it builds up over time to create monsters seem like

Why hatred endures-and why it's a moral failure

a completely waste of energy, complete waste of energy. Absolutely, I mean it really is horrific, and it's it's unbelievably sad and pathetic because think of that energy and that focus and that enthusiasm going towards productive activities, productive endeavors. Uh, think about what could be what could be made? The hate, the the the irrationality, Think about all those irrational people being rational, what kind of a beautiful, amazing world we

would have? And yes, they build up to create monsters, monsters like real monsters like Hitler or you know, monsters on the communist side like Stalin and Mao, but even you know, junior monsters, smaller monsters that just entrenched our mixed economy and refuse to allow us to move towards greater eat them in greater prosperity. Monsters come in all sizes, in all types. So yes, or the Nick Frantis type monsters, the techer Costan type monsters. Waste our time, waste our energy,

and waste so many people. I want to say mind, but do they have a mind? Waste waste the energy of so many people, so many people, Andrew, how do you explain that there's still immense man made pain and suffering because of a belief in gods at the same time when science and technology is an advanced state. Well, I think basically, what religion provides people and this is the hook and then it gets its fangs into its claws into us. It provides me both morality. So and

this is this is and an epistemology. So it tells people where the truth comes from. Uh, and yeah, you know this is not truth about the natural world that comes from science, but the truth primarily about morality. The battle is really about morality. And uh, people don't know

what to do without religion guiding their their morality. So uh, the consequence of that is that people embrace this primitive, primitive ideology because they view it as the only source of malco the only source of how to be good if you will, right, all right, all right? Uh, let's see it's yea. Andrew also says, what about Jewish people or any minority seeing themselves as victims? Jews have a claim of legitimate victimhood or at least a being maligned

The danger of self-victimhood

by nasty conspiracy theories. Still, isn't it bad? To label oneself a victim. It is unless you are a victim, right, I mean, so if somebody steals, if somebody burglarizes you, or somebody kidnaps you, and and and I don't know, puts you in a jail or puts you in the dungeon, you're a victim. And you've got to label yourself, not label yourself as a victim, as in, I'm always a victim,

but right now I'm a victim. And part of the reason you if that happens is you need to know who to fight, how to fight, what to do to stop being a victim. But yeah, sometimes you're being victimized. So you have to acknowledge reality when it's really reality and deal with it. Now. You're right in a sense that you can't in turn, I've been victimized heref I'm always a victim. I am a victim. I should always be a victim. And yes, some Jews do that and some you know, some Jews do that and they live

with that. But that's that's true of individuals, that's true of groups. You know, you've got to face reality. You're a victim. When you're a victim, you're not a victim when you're not a victim, and you have to deal with that, and you have to when you are victim, you have to get out of that situation as quickly as possible and and and figure out how to never become a victim again. Talk about victim. You know, I get this question. I've been getting this question for for

forty years, right from anti Semites and haters generally. This is John Smith and the Chat teach us about the USS liberty. Now, volumes have been written about this. There's nothing new I'm going to say about this, but this is just this talk about victim right, This is this is the This is the non Jewish victimhood, the victimhood of anti Semites. Who this is another blood libel. It's the same blood libel as the poisoning of Welles. It's the same blood libel as the Jews killed, you know,

killed Christ. It's the same blood libel as everything. Now, you know, this was a US Navy ship that was attacked by the Israeli Air Force in the lead up to the Sixth Day War, and it clearly was an accident and Israel's you know, it's been explained and analyzed and explained and expecially Theoris don't matter. The idea is that Israel did it on purpose. Now, let's even assume that that is true, that Israel did it on purpose. Okay, that was sixty you know, that was almost sixty years ago.

What relevance does it have to anything today? The people who did it are all dead. The people who did it are all dead. You know, if you put that aside, Israel has been an amazing fen to the United States. It's in pro us in a way that no other country in the world has been. What exactly is the problem. Let's assume they made a mistake. Let's assume they did it on purpose. Okay, go, you know, why why are you continuously hopping on this on the USS liberty again?

It was almost sixty years ago. It's irrelevant anything going on today, It's irrelevant. It turns out to the relationship between Israel and the United States. Certainly, everybody who investigated it, everybody in power in the United States who looked at it, decided that was irrelevant. But Israel didn't kill them. It was a mistake. It was an error. You don't commit errors. Do you feel the same way about the Vietnamese? Do you know how many Vietnamese killed am American American serviceman.

Do you hate the Vietnamese is the same way you hate Israelis? No, you don't. The Germans killed tens hundreds of thousands of Americans World War one and two. Do you hate them as much? Uh? You know many Americans, many, many, many Americans have been killed, servicemen and others have been killed by Palestinian terrorists and everb terrorists over the years. You hate them? No, it's it's just pure victimhood, you know, and in a victim victim mentality, And it's just pure

anti Semitism. And it doesn't matter how many times what happened to the liberty is explained to people, no matter how many people investigated and come up with the same conclusion, it doesn't matter. The conspiracy will always be there. It is the poisoning of Wells cause the Black Death. And it doesn't Facts don't matter, reality doesn't matter, truth doesn't matter. All the matters is the Jews did it? She? Just John Smith or whatever you call it. You're just an

ugly anti semit that's all you are. And look in the mirror and that's what you should see. That's right. What you do. See? All right, how about Campbell, let's go on. I don't think love by nature is stronger than hate. Hate seems to have won out for most of human history and is unfortunately dominated today. Well, it depends what we need by stronger. Love is what builds things.

Is hate stronger than love?

Love is what creates things. Love is what makes life possible. Love of values, love of self, love of the people you love. You don't get skyscrapers, you don't get onobiles, you don't get technology, you don't get iPhones, you don't Without love, all hate can do is destroy. Now, what have we had? More creation or destruction? Clearly creation. Clearly, love is stronger than hate. Clearly love is more dominant than hate. Clearly the productive of winning in spite of everything. Now,

they're not willing enough. Imagine a world in which love dominated and hate was gone. You know all of that, But no, I completely disagree with you. Hate is way too powerful, there's too much of it, and it's horrible because we could be so much more productive. But love ultimately is dominates and most people, most people are much more loving than they are hating. John, thank you for the five dollars, And that was your fifth super chat.

So I appreciate that, Andrew, I'm going fast because otherwise this will take all night. It was interesting to me. It was interesting to me that rand wrote in her journal about Peterson that she makes collectivistic judgments, which is horrifying. But it's true. Collectivistic judgment is an extremely irrational way to judge an individual. But it's true. Collectivist collective judgment

is an extremely irrational way to judge an individual. Yes, yes, she wordered about Isabel Patterson that she makes collective judgments, and Einran thought it was horrific, horrifying, And yeah, collective judgments are horrifying, and the particularly horrifying, particularly horrifying when they are kind of negative collective judgments, and they necessitated

some negative action against whoever? Bobby what aari ever consider adding an addendum the description of the first lecture of objectivesm Through Induction to reflect that doctor Peacock no longer

Collective judgment: the root of all irrationality

holds that causality is volitionally induced. What. Yeah, I don't know, I mean, I don't remember what he says in Objectives and through Induction in that first lecture, And yeah, I'm not sure, and I'm not sure what Leonard would think about that, but certainly I can ask, okay, ask See, I can't remember that first lecture. I organized it, I was there live, but I can't remember it. So I don't know what he actually says in that lecture. What does he how does he think if it's not causally induced,

where does it come from? How do we know? How do we know it volitionally induced? Oh, it's induced but novolationally? I see, I think that's right. Okay, we'd have to find way. Do you know where he actually says that? And I can look into that, Andrew, it's normal for an objective is to get the principles on deeper level over time, as he learns the philosophy better and makes new observations. Twenty years in, and I still get shocked at new integrations of the evil of altruism. Yeah, I

think that's right. It's still I mean, I don't know that I'm shocked, but I still make new integrations and still here, other people make new integrations. And some of them are new integrations that are really old, but some of them are you. And this is the beauty of this is a philosophy that gives you the tool to constantly grow, to constantly see to constantly integrate. It is

the ultimate philosophy of integration. Hughes has any thoughts on the new show Pubius by Breaking Bad Creative Vince Gillium. It seems to have an explicitly individualistic versus collectivist esteem. Only watched the first episode, and it does it's a little creepy, and it seems a little weird. It's weird. Let me see more of it, and we'll see if that is indeed the theme and what comes of that theme,

how how it develops. And it is sad though you'll notice one of the one of the other sub themes is that the collective is all happy, the blob, the group, the collective, it's all happy. It's all hopeful and happy and benevolent and nice and friendly. And though the individualist, who is not susceptible to this virus and is not is not being contaminated by it, is a cynic miserable. We'll see again how that developed and that I think

that'll hold. I think the theme will be something like, it's better to be a individualism entails misery, but that's better than happiness under the blob, under the collective, which is better than nothing, but that's not a good thing. I mean, I'm still waiting for the happy individualist to be projected in a movie. Steve and how you on I start a very demanding job tomorrow in immigration law. WHOA. What advice do you have for people starting high stress

jobs to boost productivity and actually impress their bosses. Well, don't start a job with the idea that you're going to impress your boss. Be the goal shouldn't be the purpose. You should answer a high stress job with the idea that you want to do as good of a job as you can do. You want to be the best

Stephen Katz that you can be. You want to be the best in immigration law that you can that you're just gonna do a good job, and that you care about the job and you're gonna, you know, hopefully derive real satisfaction from doing that job. Well, it's it's uh, it's not uh, it's not a m It is not a about impressing your boss. It's about impressing yourself. It's about doing a good job for you. Focus on you. Focus on doing the job because you love doing a good job,

because you have pride. Focus on your pride. Screw your boss. Focus your pride, and if you do that, and if you do good job, your boss will be impressed, hopefully if he's rational. But don't. If you start with the secondhand assumption that your purpose is to impress your boss, things will go haywhile because you'll start thinking about not about doing a good job, but about what your boss wants, and that will not lead to good things. All right,

thank you for the twenty and fifty dollars questions. Let's move on to our ten and below questions and see how long it'll take to get through these. Michael, seeing seeing choose behind everything. Seeing Jews behind everything doesn't reveal the world. It reveals the rot in our mind. Yes, I mean the anti Semite who sees Jews behind everything, or the or the conspiracy theoriess generally, and the conspiracy

theories who are not anti Semite. So though the amount of overlap is pretty amazing, basically gets wrought in their own mind. It's it's it's finding causality whether it is none, it's it's uh, it's integrating things that do not belong together. It's a failure of reason and rationality, and uh that even if it's not caused by rot develops rotten brain. Matt. I hope your book will have a chapter on anti Semitism.

It will not. It will not. That maybe is a different book or certainly a different essay, uh, different talk. Maybe it will become a book one day, but it won't. It won't be in this in the book on Christianity, it will not cook. Speaking of demons, what's the quote people who can convince you of absurdities can convince you to commit atrocities. That's true, and that's scary. That's scary because if if Takakossan can convince you of the insanity of his demon's claim and things like that, then what

is he going to demand of you? What is he going to convince you to do? Because at some point his agenda will turn to doing. It will not always stay. And I'm just asking questions. And that's scary given the size of his audience, Liam says, does Christianity make populations dumb, hateful and racist? Christianity taken seriously consistently at least as

Does Christianity breed irrationality and hate?

it was understood uh in in in the Middle Ages. Yes, I mean no science, no real progress, uh civilization of the kay uh hatefulness, the hate of the jew and and and hate hate of the other. Yeah, all part of that Christian world. Destruction of art, destruction of science, destruction of economic progress, destruction of money. That's all part of the Dark Ages. It's all part of a period

in history where religion was taken seriously. It had to come out of that period only by discovering Aristotle, discovering Greek ideas, which starts happening in the eleventh century, twelfth century, really kicks off with Equitas in the thirteenth century, and

really gets integrated into society with the Renaissance. Andrew no hates on autobiographies, but it is said, but it says something positive about Rand's psychology that when asked if she'd write her by autobiography, she said no, it would bore her. She was no narcissist. Absolutely absolutely. I think that's right. Harpercampbell. I get a sense Nick Foint just doesn't actually believe any of this. He's a master antagonizer and troll and found a way to make a lot of money by

saying outrageous nonsense. No, I actually think he does believe it. I think he believes it. He tells the story of coming home from college and telling his parents how much he loves Hitler and at the Holocaust didn't really happen, and how they are shocked. I don't think he only did it to shock them. I think that was an added value. But I and particularly if you start repeating it and saying it often enough, I think it becomes

part of you. But given that he was just in college, Yeah, I think he believes it, or at least to the extent that you can believe stuff like that. I think he believes. He believes it, and it's part of him. It's part of who he is now. He can't separate it out. He cannot separate He's not just an entertainer. Michael. If Donald Trump ran for president in the nineteen eighties, would you have gotten to know it? Why was the country responding to the optimism of Reagan despite how miserable

and cynical the nineteen seventies were. Yeah, because I think the culture was a lot better in the nineteen eighties, a lot better. I think the American sense of life still existed, the can doism, and I think Americans were frustrated by the seventies and they wanted something better, and they were looking for something better. They had a much much better sense of life. I mean, you could argue that that sense of life had been nourished by iron

Rand and that so many Americans had read her. But beyond that, it just hadn't been corrupted by time quite as much, and it still had remnants of that nineteenth century or founding Father's kind of sense of what it meant to be an American. So no, Donald Trump would have been a complete flop in the nineteen eighties. You would have never succeeded. Americans could see right through him.

I think during that period they responded to optimism because that's who they were, That's what Americans were, and it's only I don't think Donald Trump could have succeeded in the nineties, and not even in the two thousands. Donald Trump is a post nine to eleven, post financial crisis phenomena. He's Americans giving up on being American, and that manifested itself in the response of nine to eleven and in response of financial crisis, and there was nothing left by

the time Donald Trump showed up. Jonathan miss Rand did not generally speak of her Jewish heritage unlist faced with anti Semitism. Yes, as with Isabel Patterson. As far as we know, the only time she talked about it that she said was that she did not consideredself Jewish accept when faced with antisemitism, and I I have the same approach,

I guess, not that I'm comparing myself to rand. I don't think of myself as Jewish, quite Jewish, except when I faced anti Semitism, and then suddenly you know, yeah, now I'm a Jew. What of it. It's like, I'm not a Zionist. I'm not a Zionist except when you get these anti Semitic, anti Zionists creeps, and then I'll defend Zionism. Right. God, I'm looking at my Twitter feed

and people are so delusional, They're so nuts. I boasted the the all the all the quotes about from the Christian fathers about Jews, and this guy says, ever noticed how much the West has declined since we abandoned this view? Really? I mean, the West was like at the bottom of the pit of hell when that view was held. It was poor, it was pathetic. The Muslims were better and more advanced than the West when the West held those views. Explicitly,

what is he talking about? The West rose when it abandoned those views when it embraced reason and science and secularism. People are ignorant, they're so that my book will address. Okay, we're seeing a pincer movement right now. This is from James against Jewish community from both left and right. It's a type of political formation to gain power. No, I

The "pincer" attack on Jews-from Left and Right

don't think so. I don't think it's planned. I don't think it's that sophisticated. It's just, you know, anti Semitism rears it's ugly head whenever irrationality is strong, and irrationality is strong on both left and right right now, and that's why we're seeing the anti semitism. So no, it's not some power grab. It's just a manifestation of the evil are both left and right right now. And it's still not true that a majority of Americans hold this.

Neither majority of Democrats, a majority of Republicans are not don't buy into this garbage, James says, have you read mind COMF? Was there anything unique about Hitler's orientation towards anti Semitism and how to gain power from the phenomena? I have not read mine COMF. I'm really not interested. I see no value in it. I mean, some people

get value found, you know. And if you're studying the period and used to studying Hitler and you really want to understand Hitler, I guess you need to read it. I've never read it and not really interested in it. And I don't think he has a unique perspective. He combined. His perspective is nationalistic, blaming the Jews for basically the fa of World War One and the failure of the German people to rise up to its full potential. And

you blame the other And that's historically consistent. There's nothing really that original there other than the particularly integration that he makes of the time and place. Not you have a jog with him. Tucker calls an acts as an ideological laundeuer of other people's evil. Yeah, sol, though we add some spice to it, all, right, Jacob. Did the

Tucker Carlson as ideological launderer

Jews even have free will in killing Jesus? It was prophetized and Jesus didn't save himself at the Garden of Jests. I mean, that is a deeply theological question that I have no answer to, right, I don't know. I don't know what that I don't know. Once you accept God, the Jewish and Christian God. Once you accept his existence as this kind of being and petermination as part of the consequence of that, the whole thing is is The whole thing doesn't make any sense. None of it makes

any sense. Not do you have a j'all go with him? And argument to be convincing requires someone entertaining it. Motivation is part of the persuasion pluzzle. Many people unmotivated to seek truth and level up. Well, many people are not don't have don't know the tool, the tool i e. Reason, They're not capable. Uh, they're not that they don't value reason, they don't elevate reason, they don't engage in reason. Uh. And and therefore they don't know how to seek truth

even if they wanted to. Reason is the only tool for truth. John says this is in the chat, an old Russian propri that you will always tell you what happened to him, but he won't tell you why. I'm telling you why because of the irrationality, the collective, the nastiness of early Christianity, of nationalism, of collectivism and tribalism. I'm telling you exactly why. That's why these bad things happened to the Jews. It's not because of anything the

Jews did. Now, John, who's an anti Semite, will never accept that Michael, just like Trump's no longer fail to be accused of violating the Constitution and acting like a dictator. That the new right is not a fraid of being called anti Semitican racist. That's right, because too many Americans like John already anti Semitican racist, and they're just capitalizing

in on it. And I've told you that I think that Donald Trump in his first term opened the door to this and in a sense implicitly wink wink, embraced the old rights and allowed the old right to grow and become dominant. Clark, do you see a time in the next ten to twenty years when Islamics and Islamists and Jews are rounded up in some capacity by the authorities and exclusive from society. It was I mean, maybe not ten, maybe twenty years in Europe in certain parts

of Europe. Yes, I do think that is a possibility that Muslims are we wounded up, and I think Jews will be thrown in for good measure. Why not. So I do think that's possible in Europe, and I think it's why you know, it's not the main reason Jews are leaving Europe. They're leaving you primarily because of Muslims, but ultimately they'll also lead because of what non Muslims are going to do. All right, Michael, how do emotions respond to higherarchy of values we've created? Well, I mean

they reinforce the higher KA values. Once you have a high K of values, start feeling towards the higher values more passionately than you do towards the lower values. If you completely integrate it so it takes actual work. It doesn't happen instantaneously. The emotions follow the evaluation, and if it's integrated, ultimately your passions will correspond to the higherarchy of value. High K value is not created by your passions,

but your passions will adjust to it. Right, Liam says, even though Southeast Asian cultures may be more collectivistic than we are when it comes to duty and family, they don't have the same contempt for worldly things or the work that Europe has because they unsaturated with Christianity, which is why they'll eventually overtake us and objectives and will

rise there first. I mean that is quite possible. I do think Asia has this huge advantage of not having Jesus on a cross constantly looking down at them and inflicting guilt on the earthly success Catherine. Such a sad topic for Sunday, but very interesting. Well, but it's appropriate for Sunday. This is instead of going to church Part one, could you have at least one objectivist anti Trump rally,

maybe at the next No King's protest. I'm not saying it will change the culture, but it helps grow confidence within our own movement. I don't understand why by getting ourselves offline in an organized physical space while simultaneously increasing network and networks of trust amongst objectives. Well, that's what ocon is for. But when you do that, you should strive to have a positive not a negative. We shouldn't

come together in order to fruitlessly demonstrate against Trump. We should come together to study positive ideas, to share our positive values, to reflect on, you know, on Iran's great achievements. So I just don't get the protest thing. And what is appealing about it is the Trump phenomena and the mainstreaming of anti Semitism and notification that the impact of the Enlightenment is fading. It's being able to hold us afloat.

Is antisemitism proof that the Enlightenment is fading?

But now we see a real drop off. You know. Yes, it's only dropping off. It's been dropping off for one hundred years. It's been in decline. We know that, and so this is to be expected. It is the impact of the Enlightenment that is fading. Reason and individualism fading and reason and individualism are the achievements of the Enlightenment. So yeah, Michael, the Jewish conservatives seem to be better than Christians. Ben Shapiro and Mike Lavin orders a magnitude

better than Tucker calls in Matt Welsh. Yes, Judaism, modern Judaism, your modern secular Judaism, not the Judaism of the ultra Orthodox, is a much healthier religion because it's much more this worldly than Christianity. And therefore, and I think Mark Livin is pretty secular. I don't think he's an atheist, but he's pretty secular. So yeah, I think they are better.

I think Jewish Jewish conservatives generally are better than the Christian counterparts because to the extent that they're religious, the modern version of that religion is a more this worldly religion than the Christian type. Hypacambo. When Nazi Germany arose, there was America to stop it. If America dissolves into Nazism, there's no one to stop it. That's right, that's right. Let's hope it doesn't happen. But again, the ominous powallel is very much predicted that it would happen. Andrew, is

species pride valid? That is, when in awe of a great artworker, technological achievement, one can feel pride in being a member of the species that created that or is that collectivistic? No, not in the sense that you relate to what made it possible, and you see that in yourself. So you relate to your species because you see it, you see the capacity in yourself. So it's a pride in self. It's a pride in those attributes that you have as part of that species. But only if you

choose to engage them. Liven, thank you for the sticker. Really appreciated. Who didn't more in the name of protecting individual rights from Americans? Charlie Coca Dick Cheney. God, I don't, I mean that's ridiculous. I mean, i'd say Jick Cheney. Cheney was a congressman who was quite good. It was quite good primarily on economic issues. He was not bad.

I mean, yeah, I don't know. I mean they're both bad, right, I mean Charlie Coco's bad, particularly towards the end, more and more Christian, more and more interventionist, lesson less capitalist. Dick Cheney sent troops to Rock for no reason. So both mixed bags. I used no way to rank them. Paul is anti semitism and expression of altruism. I mean, I think on the left it is that is. I do think that the the the leftists intersectionality is a

Is antisemitism an expression of altruism?

big driver of the anti semitism. And that's pure altruism. I've talked about it many times. I don't see it quite as much on the right. On the right it's more motivated by hatred. Uh and uh and and you know, Christian view of their own superiority. I like numbers. Are big city mayors a sign of where culture is? No, I mean big city mayors are being democrats for a long long time. I mean maybe yes, to the extent that that the culture has been very left, much more

left than the economy other things. Yeah, in a sense it is and and uh, most big city mayors are democrats because the cultures dominantly democratic, productive people, educated people, predominantly vote Democratic sadly well, I mean, given the alternative Republicans Republicans, it's not that hard to understand. Yeah, it's

certainly an indication of where things are. Anyway, Why didn't Jews from their own kingdom form their own kingdom elsewhere after dispersing by Romans in another favorable area, it was the religious adherents to the land of Jews or otherwise could have been better. There was a Jewish kingdom, There was a Jewish state in Central Asia, the Khazars, I think they were called. That lasted a while. I do not know the history of it. I don't know how it was formed and why it went away, but there

was something there. But also, you know, they were always they were always a minority with this exception, and there was under the thumb of the majority that was around them, where the Muslims or Christians. So they never had the opportunity form their own state, and they were always dispersed because the powers to be made sure that they were dispersed. Matt. Some people I know who are mostly irrational flirt with Athles shrug claiming with as as claiming something's up Anti Semitism,

Why even "rational" people flirt with antisemitism

Something's up when seeing many Jews in high positions, Why is this irrational? Because why can't it just be that those people are successful, and why can't it be that maybe they come from a culture that emphasize the success. Are we anti Asian because Asians are relatively successful? I mean, it's completely irrational. Just I mean, Indians in the United States are even more successful than Jews, Indians from India, and you can see now that people hate Indians. Look

at the Indian hatred that maga is expressive. Why because they're successful, the more successful than mega failures. Indians are successful and they have brown skin, and that's unacceptable. So it's the same phenomenon as Jews. Why are they successful because they have a culture that emphasized success and they're envious. I'm proposing a two hundred year mortgage. What do you think, Well, I mean, nobody's going to buy a two undred year mortgage.

I'll talk about Trump's suggesting a fifty year mortgage on the show tomorrow. So if you're interested in that, I'll talk about it tomorrow. Marius, to which extent do you agree with Theodore Hurtzel's idea of a Jewish state and which degree do you think it's a collectivistic idea. Again. I mean, I've talked about this in the past, and I'll talk about it again in the future. I'll do

a quick version. I agree with the idea that there needs to be a state for Jews, that is, a state that is dedicated for the self defense of Jews. Jews can escape there, and since Jews will be a majority there, there will be no anti semitism in the state. Given the global nature of anti Semitism and how prevalent it is and how common it is across time, someplace to protect Jews, even Jews who don't consider themselves Jews,

is worthwhile having. To that extent, I agree with Hurtzel's state for Jews, not even Jewish states state for Jews. To what degree do I don't it's a collectivistic idea. Well, it is collectivistic because it's for Jews, but of course that has been forced on Jews by everybody else again, whether they accept it or not. And to the extent that it becomes Jewish, the law is Jewish in any kind of way, which is not hurtilized the idea but did develop later that is wrong. So the laws of

the State should not be Jewish. John Smith says, Greek Rome, Great Britain, United States has been European dominance from the beginning. Yeah, but you skipped from Rome to Great Britain. You skipped over what twelve hundred years, one thousand, two hundred years, where Central Asia, where the Middle East, where North Africa, where China and India were far more advanced than Europe, far more advanced than Europe. She can take the racist

nonsense and find somebody else to believe in it. Let's see, Bobby. Yeah, he says it at the end of Actions Induction one, first lecture of Induction in Physics and Philosophy. Okay, I'll take a look at it, Bobby Williams, My bad. It is more completely formula related an hour into the second part of this of what of induction of the second

part of his Physics and Philosophy Induction in Physics and Philosophy. Okay, Andrew, I think it really speaks to an objective sense of life that Rand wrote in her journal that Gold was a lover of reality. Shouldn't we all experience that metaphysical feeling on a basic level, Yes, lover of reality and lover of the human mind for being able to integrate

reality and capable of achieving what we can achieve. But yes, a love of reality is a beautiful statement, and this is a sense in which I think love is far more powerful than hate. Cook Besides Constantine's Sword by James Caroll, are there any other books on the topic of anti Semitism you to a command? I don't have them here. I haven't. I've read bits and pieces. I haven't read anything I will right now. I'm working on this side

of the project. At some point I work an anti Semitism project, which will involve reading books, and then I'll be able to recommend more to you. But I think there's a lot of stuff out there on anti Semitism that is probably worth reading. Nothing that comes to mind right now, Andrew. What makes me nuts about matt Levin is he spends half an hour outraged that Trump has the legal right to impose tariffs, while never mentioning that

What drives nationalist hypocrisy on tariffs and freedom?

that power is supposed to be limited to emergencies. Yeah, I mean matt Levin is outrageous in the sense that he will justify things that Trump is doing the deep down he knows are evil and wrong, And there are only a few issues in which he's willing to criticize Trump, Ukraine being one of them, but very few others. Nate, why do activist hedge funds like to do stock buybacks during a hostile takeover a corporation? I don't understand any

of that activist hedge funds. Who's stuck? Are they buying back? When you do a hostile takeover corporation, you're buying at stock, So I don't know what the who they're buying back. I don't understand stock buy back. The question doesn't make any sense to me, So maybe try to formulate it differently tomorrow on tomorrow show, on a future show. But there's something that doesn't add up in that, you know, ask me a more direct question where the different components

are clearer. But how stock buyback is related to takeover? Those don't go together. All right, guys, thank you really really appreciate the support. I'm going to go off to dinner and I will see you tomorrow. I think it'll be in the evening. We'll do a show tomorrow, but I will see you tomorrow and we will we will talk more than about you know, there's a lot of stuff to talk about a lot of stuff to talk about.

Among other things, I'll call, I'll talk to him about the fifty year mortgage proposal, and a lot of other things, a lot of other things. Talk to you soon, BUYE everybody

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