Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:Jay Richards joins the podcast to talk about the political machine that drives the transgender ideology that has captured the American public squarehow fighting gender ideology offers an opportunity for conservatives to make allies with others across the political spectrum to defend realitypractical advice for how to become an expert in any topicTexts Mentioned:Chloe Cole testimony before CongressIrreversible Damage by Abigail ShrierCass Report“gender unicorn” diagramBook of JoelBuck v. BellWhen Harry Became Sally by Ryan AndersonThe Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl TruemanStrange New World by Carl TruemanLove Thy Body by Nancy PearceyBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Sohrab Ahmari, author and founder of Compact magazine, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Tyranny Inc. about private coercion and its role in harming the American working classTexts Mentioned:“Sohrab Ahmari on the Unbroken Thread” episode of Conservative ConversationsThe Unbroken Thread by Sohrab AhmariTyranny, Inc. by Sohrab AhmariA People’s Tragedy by Orlando FigesRerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIIIThe Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles SellersThe Rise of American Democracy: Jackson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentzcompactmag.comBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Acclaimed journalist and activist Christopher Rufo joins the podcast to discuss his new book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everythingwhy language is an essential tool in driving social and political changewhat the Right can do to reform and change the institutions that have been captured by Leftist prioritiesTexts Mentioned:America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo“The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” by Aaron Rennrufo.substack.comBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Brad Wilcox, the Director of the National Marriage Project, joins the podcast to talk about marriage, family formation, and childrenThe important keys to successful and happy marriage, and what elites tell us that we need to rejectwhy men and women are alienated from each other, and what each sex should go to recover a calling to family lifeTexts Mentioned:Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox“Women Who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids are Getting Richer” by Molly Smith“Should Couples Merge Their Finances?” by Joe Pinsker“One Key to a Happy Marriage?: Joint Bank Accounts” by Jenny Olson“Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” by Brad Wilcox, Emma Fuentes, and Michael KriegerBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Glenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Narrow Passage, about the permanent political problems that stem from reason in politicshow the modern project rejects the humility of the classical tradition, and has ushered in the philosophic tyranny of the modern administrative state and woke ideology why the Left is built upon a contradiction between postmodernism and a belief in rational post-political expertiseTexts Mentioned:The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers“Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jonathan Haidt“German Nihilism” by Leo StraussThe Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America by Glenn Ellmersclaremont.org“PODCAST: Glenn Ellmers on Harry Jaffa and the Soul of Politics” by The Anchoring Truths PodcastBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Joseph DeReuil, a student at Notre Dame and editor-in-chief emeritus of ND’s Irish Rover, joins the podcast to talk about being sued by a Notre Dame professorwhat life is like on a Catholic college campus like Notre Dame, and how ISI and the Collegiate Network has helped him make a differencewhat aspiring journalists should pay attention to when honing their skillsTexts Mentioned:“No Man Can Serve Two Masters” by Mary Frances Myler“Keough School Professor Offers Abortion Access to Students” by Joseph DeReuil“Tamara Kay Explains Herself to Notre Dame Democrats” by Luke Thompson“We Will Not Be Silenced” by The Irish Rover editorial staffirishrover.netBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award Winner Daniel Mahoney and former attorney general and senator Jeff Sessions join the podcast for a live interview with Johnny about Dan’s book The Statesman as Thinkerwhether the Founders were too successful in setting up a system of checks and balances that ultimately undermined statesmanship of “great-souled men”the pathologies of American education, and the need for alternative institutions to excite the “life of the mind” and a serious commitment to the pursuit of truthTexts Mentioned:The Statesman as Thinker by Daniel J. MahoneyThe American Commonwealth by Lord James BryceDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleThe Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John JayThe Life of George Washington by John MarshallOn Duties by CiceroHis Excellency: George Washington by Joseph EllisThe Logic of Liberty by Michael Polanyi“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick DouglassWinston Churchill MIT Commencement SpeechMeditations by Marcus AureliusBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Lee Edwards joins the podcast to celebrate 100 episodes of Conservative Conversations and talk about the history of ISIhow fusionism remains a vibrant approach to conservative politics and scholarship in bringing together seemingly disparate persuasionsthe importance of Bill Buckley not only as an intellectual or a political actor, but as an organizer in creating many of the central institutions in the conservative movementTexts Mentioned:Educating for Liberty by Lee EdwardsGod and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr.“For Our Children’s Children: A Fifty Year Program” by Frank ChodorovThe Conservative Mind by Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order by Russell KirkThe Quest for Community by Robert NisbetWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.: The Maker of a Movementby Lee EdwardsWhat is Conservatism? edited by Frank Meyer“Consistency in Politics” by Winston ChurchillVictims of CommunismBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

 In this episode: Claes Ryn joins the podcast to discuss his most recent book, The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Takenwhy the imagination of a culture is central to its political disposition, and why the Left has been successful in dominating the American imaginationhow Strauss, particularly his critique of historicism, has eroded American traditions, and ultimately been unsuccessful against left-wing attacks on American traditionsTexts Mentioned: The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Takenby Claes RynThe Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945by George NashDemocracy and Leadership by Irving BabbittRousseau and Romanticismby Irving BabbittTreatise on Law by Thomas AquinasBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

In this episode:Zak Slayback, Marlo’s husband and a partner at 1517 Fund, joins the podcast to discuss the critical distinctions and concepts regarding discussions about technology in the modern worldwhat “scale” and “time-frame” considerations do on a social scale with different technological disruptions, especially in the information agehow techno-realism charts the right course for conservatives between techno-optimism and techno-pessimismTexts Mentioned:“How Tech Works” by Zak SlaybackThat Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis“Living in a Tech Age” with Jon AskonasThe Epic of Gilgamesh“The Optimistic Thought Experiment” by Peter ThielRerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIIIA Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.Become a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events