You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I speak to the bête noire of Marxist commentary & nemesis of the dirtbag left, Aimee Terese about: Leaving the Left. Being "post-left" & the tyranny of political labels. Love for the little guy & the genius of small accounts. Being honest under weaponized dishonesty. Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker & liberal "progress porn." "There are no more nazis or communists." Covert authoritarianism and the Right adopting enemy framing by default. Compulsory enjoyment & loving everyone (or else). Turning social dysfunction into GDP go BRRRRR. Climate change freaks & "the world will end in 12 years" millenarianism. Who is "the worker" in 2021? No real difference between market & state: State Capitalism gone global. Using individualism as a shield to ignore collective problems and reneging on our responsibility to each other. Indigenous rights in Australia and the tyranny of empty gestures. Her recommended subversive thinker is Rosa Luxemburg. Aimee is the co-host of the What's Left Podcast and can be found on Twitter @aimeeterese

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive   Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I speak to brilliant Twitter anon @extradeadjcb about Mormonism, Family, and Faith. We also speak about: - The elevator pitch for Mormonism - Missionary religions and how they work - Can you resurrect faith "because we need it"? - Teenage rebellion is not a human universal - Travel as a psyop and other cultural messages to women - Making decisions in life and moral universals - "Trad" what it means and what it can't mean - Cthulhu doesn't always swim left - Anti-natalism and demographic collapse - Polygamy vs. Polyamory - Anxiety about the future of the church JCB's recommended subversive is Brigham Young, who "wrote about a lot of things and was right about most things". You can find JCB's insights on Twitter @extradeadjcb.

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive    Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I speak to Malcom about the future of the left and cutting ties with it. We also talk about: - Who is the working class in the contemporary West? - Elite overproduction and the real class project of the current left: Saving the Professional Middle Class from their own uselessness. - Commie techno-utopianism and its Experts need to be destroyed - Poor immigrant women voting for racist parties in enlightened Sweden - A new breed of right-wingers thirsty for insights from the old school left, from class analysis to cliodynamics. - The app economy as a new form of tax farming - The left's never-ending war on the Kulaks - What happened to Anti-Globalization as the core of the dissident left? His recommended subversive is John Michael Greer, the very prescient writer of http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ Malcom Kyeyune is a writer based in Sweden. He is also on the steering council of the Swedish think tank Oikos, a gray eminence behind the infamous Sweden Democrats and a shitposting virtuoso @tinkzorg.

You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com​ I speak to Joe Norman about the perils of running a civilization at scale, localism, and how small is not only beautiful, it's the only scale at which humanity works. We also chat about: - Being Luddites - The cheapening of "Lindy" and timelessness as a better concept - Jordan Peterson and his adventures with GMOs - Covid as a warning on the dangers of scale - The dangers of modeling society on one single level - the individual - Distributism as a potential political compromise re: scale - Deflating big institutions - How to cultivate options without getting trapped in infinite optionality - Libertarianism and its discontents His recommended subversives are Christopher Alexander (architect) and Robert Rosen (theoretical biologist). Joe Norman is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Applied Complexity Science, LLC, and one of the world's most interesting and outspoken voices in the field of complexity science. He's also the author of the brilliant Applied Complexity Newsletter. You can find this and his other work through his Twitter @normonics

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I speak to Sohrab Ahmari about being an outsider to the Western Tradition, loving the West without needing to love liberalism, about "facts don't care about your feelings" and other wishful thinking, about Progress with a capital P, about the emerging coalition of (actually) diverse thinkers and the cross-pollination happening outside the traditional parameters of left and right, about Twitter friends, and our mutual love of Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address, where he drops a prescient assortment of pills on a stunned crowd expecting an ode to the triumph of the West. Sohrab is the OpEd editor of the NYPost, and the author of “The New Philistines”, “From Fire, By Water” and the new book “The Unbroken Thread” His recommended subversive thinker is 19th-century conservative political theorist Juan Donoso Cortés. * We had a little issue with Sohrab's mic picking up background sound in the first 10 minutes, but it is fixed after that.

I speak to Inez Stepman about our rejection of nature in the search for Utopia. We also speak about: - What it means to be an anti-feminist woman. - Demographic collapse, the fertility crisis, and anti-natalism - Politics on a simple axis: humanity is fallen or changeable? - Abundance as a double-edged sword. - Technology as a way to forget about nature. - Transhumanism and rationalism - The desexing of sex and the death of sexual tension - Rape, consent, and the unlucky draw of simply being an awkward man - Women don’t know what they want and that’s fine. - The insanity of “Catching feelings” vs. “Bringing your whole self to work” And much more. Inez is a Lincoln Fellow at the Clairmont Institute, a writer for the Federalist, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and the host of the new podcast High Noon. You can find Inez's work on her Twitter @InezFeltscher

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/  Sergiu Klainerman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, where he’s been teaching since 1987. He's also a fellow Romanian, an anti-communist dissident, someone who successfully fled the regime, and, recently, a fearless voice in what he sees as a rise in the US of the same forces he left behind in 1980s Romania.   We speak about: His story, becoming disenchanted with communism early on, falling in love with mathematics, and finding a way to escape. The spreading politics of grievance Romania and the eternal Transylvania vs. Bucharest beauty contest Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address, "A World Split Apart" and how prophetic he was about what was already happening to a devitalized and self-consuming western liberalism. Faith vs. Reason in mathematics and beyond "The Scientific Consensus" and its discontents Covid and narrative "Science" His recommended subversive thinker is Galileo Galilei. You can find his recent essays in Newsweek, Quillette, and National Review.

You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com​ This week I chat to Eigenrobot, prolific poster, podcaster, and unofficial king of post-rationalism (whatever we finally decided that is). We chat about: - Having babies, making families and community work - What leads to low trust societies and the drifting away from high trust in the west - "The conservation of suffering" - What is post-rationalism? - The American Cultural Empire and its consequences - Preference Cascades and how everything can change overnight - Echo chambers and internet hyperreality - The Scott Alexander witch hunt - Is there a real marketplace of ideas? - Wokeness as an ethical-managerial superstructure that will be hard to dismantle - Podcasting with friends Eigen's recommended subversive thinker is medieval philosopher and theologian Peter (Pierre) Abelard and his book "Sic et Non" You can find his work on Twitter, at @eigenrobot

You can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com​ I chat with Aaron Sibarium about our post-liberal moment. About how we can’t make sense of history and politics without understanding technology. The challenges of Online Localism vs Real Life Localism Is our future in competitive city-states? Identity and signaling in the “Marketplace of Ideas” The self-fulfilling prophecy of diversity programs The marriage of meritocracy & wokeism Aaron’s recommended subversive thinkers are: Derek Parfit - On the liberal concept of personal identity and the self and population ethics - “The Repugnant Conclusion” G.A. Cohen - On the liberal/libertarian idea that we can draw distinctions between corporate and state powers and a critique of libertarianism from the left. “Albion’s Seed” - David Hackett Fisher - Subverts the idea that the U.S. is a purely credal nation and the idea of universalism. “Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America” - Hugh Davis Graham Aaron Sibarium is a writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He graduated from Yale University, where he was the opinion editor of the Yale Daily News. Before joining the Free Beacon, he was an editor at The American Interest. You can find his work on Twitter @aaronsibarium.

Dryden Brown, Bluebook Cities & Praxis Society co-founder, talks about TradHumanism, community building, sequester states, and the magic of the internet. They discuss modern-day myths, cultural diversity, tribal identity, and empowering individuals for positive change.