Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:a Modern Age panel on the release of Patrick Deneen’s newest book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future,featuring Patrick Deneen, Senator JD Vance, Kevin Roberts, and Christine Embahow the classical tradition of mixing “the many” and “the few” in a regime gave way to the modern liberal project of unending progress, to the detriment of the common goodwhat regime change would actually look like in terms of the American economic, political, and social orderTexts Mentioned:Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick DeneenWhy Liberalism Failed by Patrick DeneenHillbilly Elegy by JD VanceRethinking Sex by Christine EmbaThe Kevin Roberts Show“Liberalism is Loneliness” by Christine EmbaHumanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI“The Sun Has Set on Global Europe” speech by Kevin RobertsBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:McKay Stangler, ISI’s Director of Foundation Relations, joins the podcast to discuss Richard Weaver, one of the luminary figures of the early conservative movementa crash course in the themes of the southern agrarian tradition: practice, place, and solidarityhow to recover a sense of the shared use of language, and the social solidarity that accompanies itTexts Mentioned:Ideas Have Consequences by Richard WeaverVisions of Order by Richard WeaverBoomers by Helen AndrewsAfter Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre“Up from Liberalism” by Richard Weaver“House Divided Speech” by Abraham LincolnBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

 In this episode:Alexander Salter, professor of economics at Texas Tech University, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Political Economy of Distributismhow capitalism does or does not support the common good of society, and how the re-emergence of discourse about the common good in politics can be bolstered by returning to the distributist writerswhat Wilhelm Röpke contributed to both economic science and towards creating a “humane economy,” and why we need to read him todayTexts Mentioned:The Political Economy of Distributism by Alexander Salter“Catholic Social Doctrine and the Dignity of Work” by Sen. Marco RubioThe Servile State by Hilaire BellocThe Outline of Sanity by G.K. ChestertonA Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpkeawsalter.comBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Archduke Eduard Habsburg joins the podcast to discuss his new book, “The Habsburg Way,” about his family, their values, and characterhow marriage and family were both central to the Habsburg’s personal and political success and longevitywhy nationalism and imperialism are not necessarily opposing political philosophies, and how there can be an integration of nations within “supranational organizations”Texts Mentioned:The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times by Archduke Eduard Habsburg1984 by George OrwellThe Education of Cyrus by XenophonOn Kingship by Saint Thomas AquinasUtopia by Saint Thomas MoreThe Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony“The Nationalist Mistake” by Phillip BlondBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Hadley Arkes, founder and director of the James Wilson Institute, joins the podcast to discuss his newest book, Mere Natural Law how the Dobbs ruling dodged the essential moral questions at the heart of abortion, and why conservative jurisprudence has failed to do sohow principles of natural law are so suffused into America’s law and the American regime that they are inseparable from any judgments about law in the judiciaryTexts Mentioned:Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution by Hadley ArkesFirst Things  by Hadley ArkesMere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauProlegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel KantRoe v. WadeDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationThe Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John JayLectures on Law by James WilsonConstitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths by Hadley ArkesNatural Rights and the Right to Choose by Hadley ArkesISI Homecoming, June 2-3, 2023Become a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Enrique Pallares joins the podcast to discuss conservatism and liberalism in the Spanish tradition, and how it is influenced by and departs from other European political traditionsa deep dive into the life and thought of Miguel de Unamuno, a Spanish thinker who opposed ideology and stressed the centrality of the personhow ideology subjugates the human person and closes us off to living a truly human lifeTexts Mentioned:The Roots of American Order by Russell KirkIntelligible Spain by Julian MariasCadiz Constitution of 1812Unam Sanctam by Pope Boniface VIIIEn Torno al Casticismo by Miguel de Unamuno (in English and Spanish)“What is Ideology?” by Mark ShiffmanGorgias by PlatoThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevskycasacarmenwines.comBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

 In this episode:Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Filma crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral orderhow the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spiritTexts Mentioned:Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad BirzerThe Conservative Mind by Russell KirkBeyond Tenebrae  by Brad BirzerReflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund BurkeDandelion Wine by Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyDemocracy and Leadership by Irving BabbittEnemies of the Permanent Things by Russell KirkThe Batman Trilogy The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien“Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter LawlerStranger ThingsThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyWatchmen by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan MooreTenetInterstellarBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:The Hon. Paul J. Ray, former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), joins the podcast to give a primer on the administrative state and how it workshow the administrative state cuts against the American tradition of self-government and each citizen’s ability to exercise practical reasonhow the federal system of American government serves as an application of subsidiarity in our political regimeTexts Mentioned:Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas AquinasRerum Novarum  by Pope Leo XIIINicomachean Ethics  by AristotleBureaucracy by James Q. WilsonBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Julius Krein, founder and editor of American Affairs journal, joins the podcast to talk about problems in America’s advanced post-industrial economy, and how we can address issues like family policy, debt, innovation, taxation, and labor marketshow Americans should really think about capitalism as “private wealth accumulation,” and break out of the “textbook economics” bookish view of  market systems, important as they might bewhat listeners need to know about the landscape of the political and social realignment in recent American history, and where the Right needs to continue moving to create a new “inside consensus” on various policy frontsTexts Mentioned:“America Pulls Back from Values that Once Defined It” by Aaron Zitner“The Last Gasp of an Ideology” by Julius KreinThe Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle“The Digital Age Produces Binary Outcomes” by David GoldmanAmerica, Inc.? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State by Linda Weiss“The Long, Slow Death of Global Development” by David Oks and Henry WilliamsRegime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. DeneenBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In This Episode:Joseph T. Salerno, Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute, joins the podcast to talk about Murray Rothbard’s political and economic thoughtwhy a demagogue is necessary for the masses to re-establish control over their government in the age of social democracya primer on the economic theory of the Austrian economists, as well as their underlying anthropology and praxeologyTexts Mentioned:“Education in Economic Liberty” by Wilhelm Röpke in What is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer“Why I am Not a Conservative” by F.A. Hayek“The Use of Knowledge in Society” by F.A. HayekAmerica’s Great Depression by Murray RothbardHuman Action by Ludwig von Mises“Murray Rothbard versus the Progressives” by Joseph T. Salerno“In Defense of Demagogues” by Murray RothbardRothbard versus the Philosophers edited by Roberta Modugno“Why a Socialist Economy is Impossible” by Joseph T. Salerno“The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited” by Murray RothbardThe Road to Serfdom by F.A. HayekThe Constitution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek“Joe Salerno on His Career as an Heir to Rothbard” by Joseph T. Salerno“A Radical Right-wing Alternative” in the New York Times, 1971Dan McCarthy “Conservative Conversations” special lectureMises InstituteMoney: Sound and Unsound  by Joseph T. SalernoBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events