Podcast Episodes

On Wealth and Poverty (Saint John Chrysostom)

Episode 267

Ancient, yet precisely contemporary, thoughts and advice on the proper approach to both being rich and being poor.

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Published on 3 years ago

The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium (John Strickland)

Episode 266

Thoughts on how, not whether, Christianity and the state should be intertwined, combined with history that largely revolves around the same.

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Published on 3 years ago

Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)

Episode 265

Of the evil genius of Russian Communism, of the utopianism that drives the Left, and of how the search for transcendence is the driver of most modern political action. (This article was first publish…

Published on 3 years ago

The Eggs Benedict Option (Raw Egg Nationalist)

Episode 264

An exhortation to change our ways, in particular how we eat, both for our own health benefit and for our freedom from oppression.

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Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Oren Cass)

Episode 263

An exploration of how society should be organized to reward, rather than punish, the productive, rather than parasitical, members of society, and of why GDP is a stupid way to measure both wealth and…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

On the Fragility of the Current Regime

Episode 262

My complete, and I do mean complete, analysis of the fragility of the current Regime, including responses to all possible arguments by those who incorrectly claim the Regime is strong.

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Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The Concept of the Political (Carl Schmitt)

Episode 261

Carl Schmitt's most famous book—with discussion of the friend/enemy distinction, as applied to America today, along with discussion of Christian duties with respect to the public enemy, hostis, which…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Breakfast with the Dirt Cult (Samuel Finlay)

Episode 260

A modern classic, of war and relations between the sexes, with a great deal to say about the present American moment.

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Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Andrew Willard Jones)

Episode 259

In which I (mostly) criticize integralism, and in which, when this article was first published four years ago, the outlines of Foundationalism are becoming apparent.  (This article was first publishe…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

The Populist Delusion (Neema Parvini)

Episode 258

Thoughts on elite theory, through an update of James Burnham's "The Machiavellians."   And most importantly, of whether overthrow of our current regime depends on the prior development of a counter-e…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago