Conservative Conversations with ISI

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 36—David Goldman on American Innovation & Great Power CompetitionIn this episode...David P. Goldman is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. He writes frequently for Asia Times, Law & Liberty, Claremont Review of Books, and First Things on political economy, foreign policy, and religion.Texts Mentioned:You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World by David P. GoldmanBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Elbridge Colby on Creating a Conservative Foreign PolicyIn this episode...Elbridge Colby, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development at the Department of Defense, discusses foreign policy fault lines on the right, America’s biggest adversaries today, and his thoughts on the conflict between Russia and UkraineTexts Mentioned:The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge ColbyBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Michael Brendan Dougherty on Populist Chaos, the Parental Principle And What Ireland Taught Him About Tradition.In this episode...Michael Brendan Dougherty, senior writer at National Review, discusses the implications of what he witnessed at his child’s school board meeting, his evolution as a conservative, and the parentless generation that was orphaned by historyTexts Mentioned:My Father Left Me Ireland, by Michael Brendan DoughertyMind of the New Majority, by Michael Brendan DoughertyWhat I Saw at the School-Board Meeting, by Michael Brendan DoughertyBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Tom Woods on Folk Libertarianism, the Biomedical Security State and the Anti-War MovementIn this episode...Tom Woods, host of the Tom Woods Show, discusses libertarianism, its drift away from Ron Paul’s values, and institutional libertarianism’s approach to government overreach during COVID-19Texts Mentioned:Tom Woods’ Reading ListThe Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron PaulBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Oren Cass on Breaking the College-for-All ModelIn this episode...Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America discusses his recent findings about the high-school-to-college pipeline, and potential solutions that could allow Americans on other paths to prosperTexts Mentioned:Coming Apart by Charles MurrayOur Kids Robert PutnamThe Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Road to Serfdom by F.A. HayekSerfdom by F.A. HayekBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 31—David Reaboi on National DivorceIn this episode...David Reaboi, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, discusses why he believes a national divorce is inevitable in the U.S. due to the fundamental disagreements between the left and moderates and conservatives.Texts Mentioned:The Closing of the American Mind by Allan BloomA Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Stakes by Michael AntonThe Michael Anton Tapes by Mark GranzaBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 30—Erica Bachiochi on The Rights of WomenIn this episode...Erica Bachiochi, legal scholar and author of the book “The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision,” discusses the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and how far recent feminist activists have shifted on issues such as abortion when compared to the movement’s progenitorsTexts Mentioned:Rights Talk by Mary Ann GlendonThe Rights of Women by Erica BachiochiThe Feminist Case Against Abortion by Marry HarringtonThe Children of Pornhub by Nicholas KristofBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 29— Helen Andrews on the BoomersIn this episode...Helen Andrews, a senior editor at The American Conservative, discusses her book about the Boomer Generation -- one which promised freedom and delivered disasterTexts Mentioned:"The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire" by Bruce Gilley"In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir" by Emile Draitser"Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster" by Helen Andrews"Port Huron Statement"Become a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28—Josh Hammer, op-ed editor at Newsweek, discusses the conservative legal movement, a recent abortion case that places two foundational modern abortion precedents in the crosshairs, and Hamiltonian jurisprudence.In this episode...“Common Good Originalism” is definedJosh walks us through the conservative legal movement’s historyJosh answers the question about whether conservatives should be cautiously optimistic about the abortion case in front of the Supreme CourtTexts Mentioned:“Common Good Originalism” by Josh Hammer“Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” by Alex MacGillis“Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone“The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s" by William I Hitchcock“The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell“The Crimean War” by Orlando Figes“Beyond Originalism” by Adrian Vermeule“The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood” by Josh CraddockBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28 - Pedro Gonzalez on the Crisis of ManhoodIn this episode...Pedro Gonzalez, an editor at Chronicles Magazine, talks about online fitness subcultures, the left’s attack on masculinity, and the role of men in American societyBooks Mentioned:Sun and Steel by Yukio MishimaThe New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness by David FrenchAmerica The Fat and Impotent by Pedro GonzalezBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events