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Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

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Aug 17, 2022 • 1h 27min

Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) - The Deep Right - A Manifesto

I'm joined once again by Curtis to discuss and dissect what is closest to a declaration of the propositions of the Deep Right. We focus primarily on the five principles as laid out in his Substack post: Principles of the Deep Right: Timelessness, Neutrality, Vitalism, Realism & Absolutism, but as always with  Curtis, exciting tangents abound. Curtis Yarvin is a writer, technologist, and dark lord of the dissident blogosphere. You can find his work at graymirror.substack.com
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Aug 10, 2022 • 1h 11min

Yoram Hazony - What Is There To Conserve?

speak with Yoram about what distinguishes British/American conservatism and how exportable it actually is, the liberal idea that politics can address itself to the public sphere alone, the possibility of democracy, the disenchantment of life downstream from technology, and much more. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, a Bible scholar, and a political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is also the author of the Virtue of Nationalism and the new book Conservatism: A Rediscovery.
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Aug 3, 2022 • 52min

Helena Kerschner - Rapid Onset Gender Madness

I speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner. Helena Kerschner is a 23-year-old girl who has believed herself to be transgender since she was a teen. She is now trying to educate people about "gender-affirming care" as an advisor for Genspect, through her Substack, her Twitter, and her many appearances on alternative and mainstream media on the subject.
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Jul 27, 2022 • 1h 16min

Louise Perry - Sex, Reimagined

The lovely Louise is back on the show to speak about motherhood,  "Cultural Deathgrip Syndrome," sexual disenchantment, sex education based on consent, the idea that sex is a skill, abortion, the inherent inequality of sex, the rough sex defense, and much, much more. Louise Perry is a writer, campaigner, a columnist at the New Statesman, and the author of the new book The Case Against The Sexual Revolution, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
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Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 4min

Luke Burgis - Wanting While Atomized

I speak with Luke about being an autonomous self in an overabundance of memetic and mimetic opportunity, about choosing unchosen bonds again, the positives of mimesis given that it is inescapable, metaphysical boredom, expertise, identity, and much more. Luke Burgis is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America in Washington He is also the author of Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire In Everyday Life His recommended subversive thinker (besides Rene Girard, of course) is Dietrich von Hildebrand.
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Jul 13, 2022 • 1h 15min

Matt Peterson - No Neutrality

I speak with Matt about how living together is possible when two different religious systems clash, about voice vs exit, Elon buying Twitter as an act of statesmanship, the accelerating "Current Thing" ratchet, civil rights law, based captains of industry as modern saviors, how we find each other and how we converge on a positive vision. Matt Peterson is the Founder and President of New Founding and Align, founder of The American Mind, and Publisher of Return.life. His recommended subversive is A.G. Sertillanges and his book "The Intellectual Life", described as "Thomist Jordan Peterson."
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Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 6min

Mary Harrington - Cyborgs In The Longhouse

Mary joins me once again to chat about her upcoming book, cyborg theocracy, modern feminism as class war, the power of the state in relationship to women, Bronze Age Mindset,  the concept of "progress", prostitution, the devouring mother as the animating force behind liberalism, and much much more. Mary Harrington is a writer and contributing editor to UnHerd. Her work has been featured widely and she is the author of the upcoming book "Feminism Against Progress." Her recommended subversive thinker is Ivan Illich and his book "Gender." You can also find her work on her Substack - https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/
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Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 17min

Walter Kirn - On Power And Bullshit

I speak to Walter about what makes one a dissident at the moment and what the nature of a coalition can be that unites a Romanian mom with a Hollywood chad-type, the necessity of free speech and freedom for the creative, what the true believer archetype looks like from the top and how many of them there are, what power looks like up close and much more. Walter Kirn is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is the author of eight books, including Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, which were turned into major movies. He has written for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, GQ, New York, and Esquire. His chosen (anti-) subversive is H. G. Wells and his book "The Outline of History".
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Jun 22, 2022 • 59min

Carlo Lancellotti - Del Noce & The Problem Of Atheism

I speak to Carlo about modernity as the elimination of the supernatural, atheism as the ultimate outcome of rationalism, the role of Marxism in the developments of recent history, transgender ideology as the next step in a gnostic unraveling, the convergence of the thought of Girard and Del Noce, asking questions as the first step and much more. Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island, a Faculty in Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and one of the world’s foremost experts in philosopher Augusto del Noce, whose works he has translated into English. Available currently are The Crisis of Modernity, The Age of Secularization, and the Problem of Atheism. His recommended subversive is catholic theologian Luigi Giussani and his book "The Religious Sense" You can find Carlo's work through his Twitter @_clancellotti and https://delnoceinenglish.org/
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Jun 15, 2022 • 1h 1min

Ben Sixsmith - Navigating The Digital Decades

I speak with Ben about life as an expat in Eastern Europe as storm clouds are gathering, the Zeitgeist of the last few decades under the shadow of all-encompassing technology, the new landscape of conservative magazines, identity as a product, navigating Twitter beefs, and his book "Noughties: Eleven Echoes of a Dismal Decade" Ben Sixsmith is a writer from the UK who currently lives in Poland, he's written for The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, The Critic, and American Conservative among many other outlets, and is the owner-operator of The Zone Substack. You can also find him on Twitter @BDSixsmith His recommended subversive thinker is philosopher John Gray and his books, "Straw Dogs" "Black Mass" and " Enlightenment's Wake"

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