Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

I speak with Jon about one of the most important yet subtle phenomena happening right now: the absolute warping of our culture and politics to fit the incentive structure of internet platforms. We speak about the mechanics and flow of information on the internet, rumors, fake news, mob violence, short video as the ultimate format, mimetic desire, the move from surfing the web to feed-based viewing, how Jon Stewart led to Tucker Carlson, and much more. Jon Askonas is an assistant professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America and a non-resident senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. His series in the New Atlantis is well worth your attention.

We speak about Ethnonarcissism and revisionist histories, MLK as a modern saint, reparations, statistical parity, identity politics threatening the republican form of self-government, and the logical endpoint of social justice. David Azerrad is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington and has written very insightful pieces for every good outlet under the sun.

My conversation with writer, activist, and overall powerhouse Katy Faust on what we owe our children and the future. I speak with Katy about her upbringing in a lesbian household, the problems with same-sex marriage and how redefining marriage has redefined parenthood, the implications of surrogacy on the child, IVF, divorce and step-parents, the issues with adoption and what the rights of the child should be. Katy Faust is the founder and director of the children's rights organization, Them Before Us, and the author of “Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement.” You can also find her work on Twitter @Advo_Katy.

An exciting and rare double feature with two of anon Twitter's most fascinating denizens, the Night Owls. We speak about ethnicity, the delight of going to NatCon, Rosedale Texas, Elena Ceausescu as a woman in STEM, the real issue with urbanism and anti-car culture, tightening anarcho-tyranny, and much much more - a true potpourri of subjects and wild tangents. Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen are anonymous posters on Twitter, the hosts of one of Twitter’s best recurring spaces, and the hosts of the upcoming Night Owls Podcast.

We speak about the concept of the Self, the different visions it embodies across the ages, and how this perspective managed to infiltrate the popular imagination. We also speak about Expressive Individualism, authenticity, technology, romanticism, and much more. Carl R. Trueman is a theologian and ecclesiastical historian, a professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, and the author of many books, including “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” and his newest book, “Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution.”

We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more. Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter.

A wide-ranging discussion on one of the least openly discussed issues of our time with a man deeply in trouble with both the left and right.   I speak with Nathan about his defense of the study of race differences in intelligence and the question of Jewish overrepresentation in high-status fields, including his critique of “The culture of critique” by Kevin MacDonald.   Nathan Cofnas is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works in the philosophy of biology and ethics, and you can find his work on his website at nathancofnas.com and Twitter @nathancofnas

This is one of my occasional Patreon/Substack exclusive episodes. You can find our entire conversation there: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkaschuta/p/roy-baumeister-no-escape-from-human https://www.patreon.com/posts/roy-baumeister-78301174 We speak about the replication crisis, particularly in psychology, men and women and their tensions in the workplace and beyond, the problem of evil, low infant mortality, low war casualties, his sexual economics theory, the self and how we perceive it, and much more. Roy F. Baumeister is a social psychologist, the author and co-author of many books, among them “Willpower,” “The Power of Bad,” “Is There Anything Good About Men?” and his latest, “The Self Explained.”

We speak about the origins of life on earth, the reaction to Covid-19, the dangers of CRISPR, genetic testing, embryo selection, IVF, the global fertility drop, synthetic wombs and their implications for the relationship between the sexes, and much more. Jean- Francois Gariepy is a biologist, the author of The Revolutionary Phenotype, and the Host of JFG Tonight.

We speak about gatekeeping, containment, neoconservatism, equality and egalitarianism, natural rights, the Frankfurt School and Marcuse, vitalism, Kondylis, the meaning of ideology, and much more. Paul Gottfried is an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of many books, among them After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and his latest: Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade.