Podcast Episodes

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon)

Episode 197

Why are the vast majority of Western reactions to the Wuhan Plague irrational? This classic work helps us understand.

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Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Freedom (Sebastian Junger)

Episode 196

What is freedom? Not in the philosophical sense; that's boring and done to death. Rather, what is freedom as something that emerges from lived reality, and how does it relate to human flourishing? Th…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Russell Duncan)

Episode 195

Of Robert Gould Shaw, a man who was once the embodiment of heroism, and of what heroism means, and should mean, today.

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Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)

Episode 194

Hannah Arendt's semi-worthwhile thoughts on revolution, mostly superseded or proven wrong in the fifty years since, and written in an opaque and annoying style.  (This review was first published Sept…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Carl Schmitt)

Episode 193

The dense-but-very-worthwhile thoughts of Carl Schmitt, preeminent political philosopher, on democracy, parliamentarianism, liberalism, and much more, all with notable application for us today.

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Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past

Episode 192

Our future, if we have the will to grasp it, in a nutshell.

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Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Michael Anton and Charles Haywood

Episode 191

Something different--not a complete Worthy House offering, but a direction to one related to The Worthy House. I am pleased to announce that The Claremont Institute, in the form of The American Mind,…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

What to Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide (Robert Conquest)

Episode 190

Of a forgotten book that precisely predicts our current American situation, and is a salutary reminder of the universal behavior of the Left.

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Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (Guillaume Faye)

Episode 189

The insane, yet weirdly compelling and with flashes of great insight, vision of the late Guillaume Faye, who wrote of combining the past and the future, while erasing the present.  (This review was f…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (Brian Alexander)

Episode 188

Of the downsides, and a few upsides, of private equity and other financial engineering, viewed through the decline of Lancaster, Ohio, a condensed symbol of much that has gone wrong with America.

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Published on 4 years, 7 months ago