From the New World

Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It

Jul 25, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
What's One Thing You Learned From Bipolar Disorder?
03:00 • 2min
3
Bipolar Disorder - How Do You Start Writing About Politics and Psychology?
05:12 • 2min
4
The Politics of Deference
07:42 • 4min
5
The Politics of Deference, Right?
11:48 • 3min
6
The Easiest Victories in Politics
15:15 • 3min
7
Are We Having the Wind Behind Our Sails?
18:13 • 3min
8
I'm a Zoomer, I'll Stick Up for the Doomers, Right?
21:24 • 5min
9
Is This Really Information Poisoning?
26:32 • 2min
10
What I'm Trying to Say About Revolutionary Change
28:10 • 4min
11
Is the Filibuster a Good Idea?
32:23 • 3min
12
State Capacity - I'm Having a Hard Time Attributing That Change to the Senate
35:52 • 3min
13
The Civil Service Exam Is a Good Place to Launch Off
38:24 • 2min
14
The Story of Decline in State Capacity
40:43 • 6min
15
Is the United States Unique in the Number of Veto Points It's Created?
46:25 • 2min
16
IDW Types
48:36 • 5min
17
The Problem With Equality Is That It's Just Vague
53:54 • 2min
18
Is There a Bridging the Gap in Public Infrastructure?
55:46 • 2min
19
Is There a Difference Between the Right and the Left?
57:29 • 5min
20
The American Addiction to Process
01:02:45 • 2min
21
Is the Right Process Oriented Right?
01:04:16 • 3min
22
We're Stuck in This Problem of the Right Lens
01:07:30 • 2min
23
Is There a Revolutionary Response?
01:09:40 • 2min
24
The Odds of a New Deal Are Not That High, Right?
01:11:55 • 2min
25
Curtis Jervyn: Is It Possible?
01:13:53 • 6min
26
Anti Psychiatry
01:19:42 • 4min
27
Is There an Over-Prescription Crisis?
01:23:41 • 4min
28
Do You Think Psychiatric Medicine and Mental Illnesses Can Hurt People's Brains?
01:27:48 • 5min
29
Anti-Vaxxers
01:32:48 • 5min
30
The Institutional Critique Is Accepted, Right?
01:38:03 • 5min
31
Are We Getting the Worst of Both Worlds?
01:42:51 • 2min
32
What's the Point of All This Symbolism?
01:44:32 • 3min
33
Can Mehmed Oz Win Pennsylvania?
01:47:40 • 3min
34
Politicians Don't Care About Politics, Right?
01:50:54 • 2min
35
Is There Any Ability to Look Busy?
01:52:42 • 3min
36
Is There a Filibuster in Congress?
01:55:57 • 2min
37
You Can Really Get Anger at Democrats About
01:57:56 • 2min
38
Do You Think the Democratic Party Really Wants the Pendulum Swing?
01:59:32 • 2min
39
What Is Downstream of What, Right?
02:02:02 • 3min
40
Is That What Animates Republicans?
02:05:22 • 4min
41
Are We Just Stuck Where We Are Right Now?
02:09:28 • 3min
42
Is There a Natural Successor to This Politics?
02:12:11 • 2min
43
Is There a Negative Thing About the Republican Party?
02:14:21 • 2min
44
Is Trumpism a Reversion to the Mean?
02:16:03 • 2min
45
Foucault-Drian - Is This What Is?
02:17:59 • 2min
46
Obama, Barack Obama, 2008 - Is That a Good Idea?
02:20:09 • 5min
47
The Elephant in the Brain
02:24:40 • 4min
48
Is It a Good Guy or a Bad President?
02:28:22 • 3min
49
Is There a Relationship Between the Electoral College and the Senate?
02:31:11 • 5min
50
How to Make Filibuster Reform a Reality?
02:35:51 • 2min
51
The Best or This Is the Worst Method Except All the Others
02:37:40 • 2min
52
Is There a Micro Politics Lightning Round or Something Like That?
02:40:04 • 5min
53
The Problem Isn't the Media, Right?
02:44:56 • 3min
54
Is MSNBC a Good Candidate?
02:47:45 • 5min
55
The Basis of Left Politics
02:52:59 • 3min
56
Do You Have an Explanation?
02:56:27 • 3min
57
The Industrial Revolution and Its Importance, Right?
02:59:20 • 4min
58
The Unabomber and the Industrial Revolution
03:03:08 • 6min
59
How Do Institutions Function?
03:09:03 • 5min
60
What Is Too Much Chaos and Could Use More Chaos?
03:13:34 • 3min