Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

I chat to anonymous poster (by night) and Wall Street analyst (by day), Apex, about the values and assumptions that are at the base of our current order. We talk about: liberalism's love affair with autonomy, oversocialization as a useful lens borrowed from uncle Ted himself, "the marketplace of ideas" and the expert class, libertarianism and its discontents, and much more. His recommended subversive is John Safranek with his book "The myth of Liberalism" You can find Apex's latest work on his prolific Substack: apexsnotes.substack.com and on Twitter @apex_simmaps

I talk to Charles about finding ourselves at a very generative intersection of political ideas, in what feels to be a pivotal moment & in great company - post-liberalism is here and it is up to us to feel out the contours of the future, to at least not let it surprise us, and at best have a part in creating it. We speak about: The three strands of post-liberal thought - what does the territory look like? Gatekeeping on our side: "no friends to the right" The Enlightenment and its discontents "The regime is extremely fragile" Neoreaction and his take on Curtis Yarvin What does the new online right look like and why is it so generative? Seeing tech as a tool, not a savior and space, the final frontier Why you should read "The Demon in Democracy" by Legutko Charles' recommended subversives are Carl Schmitt and Ernst Junger. Charles is a successful entrepreneur, an ex-lawyer, and the maximum leader of the Worthy House, a blog and podcast where he reviews a variety of books from a right-wing, post-liberal perspective.

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 chat to rogue scholar Michael Millerman about what political philosophy can teach us in a post-liberal age. We also talk about: Having roots in Eastern Europe as a motivation for learning political philosophy Post-liberalism as a reality beyond liberalism, communism, and fascism What does Alexander Dugin add to the conversation? Questioning the Individual and replacing him with different other subjectivities. “Freedom means the freedom to reject liberalism” Going back to the roots of our tradition to understand the fruits of it Each Ethnos and the possibility of universal political principles - does Ango-Saxon politics work in Eastern Europe? Can everyone get a liberal education? Infohazards in understanding political philosophy. The Marketplace of Ideas as a filter for truth. Eastern Mysticism and how it helps us see nuance in “the self” Being embodied vs. being in your body - Gnosticism as a fundamental imbalance. Michael's recommended subversives are Leo Strauss, Alexander Dugin, and Martin Heidegger. You can find his latest projects at @M_Millerman on Twitter and his excellent political philosophy courses on Teachable at: https://millerman.teachable.com/

I chat to exiled academic Bo Winegard about how what we've learned about human diversity affects how we can live together under liberalism and beyond. We also speak about: His love for Western Civilization and what that means Controlling for genetics and the fate of social explanations for disparity across both the Left & Right What the Post-Liberals miss about diversity His Trump regrets The Enlightenment and its aftermath Science as the model for "continual progress" in every domain His recommended subversive thinker is J. Phillippe Rushton. You can find Bo's latest work via his Twitter and support his projects via his Patreon. 

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