Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

I speak with Lee about the meaning of patriotism under the rainbow flag. We also speak about a desire for wild places and the frontier, homeschooling, family culture, being at home in your hometown, and more. You can find Lafayette’s work on his Twitter page @Partisan_O and on his Substack https://ruins.substack.com/

I speak with Ed about the current state of UK politics and the failures of its post-war conservative movements, the population collapse and why it is happening, grooming gang scandals, Eastern European fashion trends that may or may not include mullets, and much more. Ed West is an author, journalist, blogger, owner/operator of a substack called Wrong Side Of History, and the author of many books, including The Diversity Illusion and Small Men On The Wrong Side Of History. His recommended subversive thinker is N.S. Lyons and his substack, The Upheaval

I speak to Peter about our unprecedented information infrastructure and how it has captured the public discourse, and how we relate to others and ourselves. We also speak about Web 3, limbic capitalism, being powerless without common myths, and much more. Peter Wang is CEO and Co-founder of Anaconda, a software developer and former physicist, and an advocate for data literacy and the wider Python-based data science community. Peter's recommended subversive is Creon Levit

In this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale.    We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more.   This was one of my favorite conversations on this podcast, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.    Anthony's recommended subversive is Simon Leys, an essayist, and sinologist, one of the first intellectuals to denounce the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West.   Anthony Daniels, who is more well known by his pseudonym, Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison physician and psychiatrist and the author of many, many wonderful books, among them “Life at the Bottom” and “Our culture, what’s left of it."

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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."