Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

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.

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 Darren Beattie about quaint Transylvanian towns and who has power in the politics of Eastern European backwaters, the Globalist American Empire and how narrative warps reality, color revolutions, who has the moral high ground and why it matters, the origins of our present derangements - philosophy, material emergence, or both, the question of "does voting even matter?", the impact of technology on how the game of politics evolves and about his dissertation on another subversive, Heidegger. Darren is an author, former speechwriter for President Trump, and the gray eminence behind Revolver News. He’s also one of the most incisive analysts of our current moment both in terms of US politics but also of the wider reverberations around the world. You can find his most recent work on Twitter @DarrenJBeattie

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 Prof. Ed Dutton, aka the Jolly Heretic about how genetics can impact the social fabric, coordination, culture, and of course, politics. We speak about his new thesis on how feminism's interplay with genetics has shredded the fundamental building blocks of western societies. We also speak about the differences between liberals and conservatives, the great testosterone collapse, our adaptation to rape and rape fantasies, witches, incels, app dating, elite overproduction, ethnocentrism in Eastern Europe, the collapse of IQ, and life in London.

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 Angela about rootlessness as the price of empire, woke NGOs as the enforcers of global capital, hyperreal online spaces and the people that populate them, boring local politics vs. the dopamine rush of the 24/7 kaleidoscope of U.S. politics, having skin in the game of politics and what happens if you don't, the machinations of power at a global level, and the fertility crisis. Angela Nagle is the author of "Kill All Normies" and a writer for American Affairs and Unherd.

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 to writer and California public school teacher, Alex Gutentag, about the world we inhabit in the wake of over one year of continuous COVID restrictions. We talk about the greatest wealth transfer from the lower-middle class to the rarefied strata at the top, and about the impact social isolation is having on vulnerable people, especially children. Alex brings her perspective as a teacher through one of the most restrictive lockdowns in the US. Her recommended subversive thinker is Imre Kertész and his books "Fatelessness" and "Fiasco." You can find Alex and her most recent writing at @galexybrane on Twitter.

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 talk to Justin Murphy about building a platform and a career on the internet, Gen Z shitposters, academic defectors, getting married already, aging and attractiveness, fertility and pronatalism, cheating, casual sex culture, minors fornicating, Urbit, a *different kind of internet*, private communities. You can find Justin's work at @jmrphy on Twitter, at https://otherlife.co/ and https://www.indiethinkers.org/

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 talk to Geoffrey Miller about the problems of dating in the 21st century, how casual sex culture is a race to the bottom, about marriage, polyamory, the fertility crisis, incels, algorithmic dating, and other runaway algorithms, and about other existential risks to our survival as a species. Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Intelligence (2008), Spent (2009), and Mate (2015) current book Virtue Signaling. He has a B.A. in Biology and Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University, and now a tenured associate professor at the University of New Mexico. You can find his work on primalpoly.com and he is @primalpoly on Twitter. His recommended Subversives include: Darwin Sir. Francis Galton Sir. Ronald Fisher And Geoffrey's books: "The Mating Mind", "Spent" & "Virtue Signaling"