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Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

By Alexandra Kaschuta

Subversive is a podcast by Alex Kaschuta about ideas that may not fit neatly into the Overton window and could use a nudge, or a sledgehammer. Alex chats to thinkers across the spectrum from iconoclast philosophers, rogue scientists, *real* journalists, and our true intellectual elite, Twitter anons.

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Kwamurai - Making Sense, Being Right & The Rise of a Counter-Elite

Subversive w/Alex KaschutaFeb 10, 2021

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Niccolo Soldo - The Course of Empire, from Washington to Moscow

Niccolo Soldo - The Course of Empire, from Washington to Moscow


Turboamerica - Never more united, never more powerful than it is today.

AIDS - https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-early-days-of-hivaids-introduction

Anatoly Karlin’s “Wokeness is the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity” as a replacement for noblesse oblige.

What we can learn from the Ukraine war about current empire(s).“Fighting for a better past” in the Balkans.

Why does Boris Berezovsky deserve infamy?

Tucker/Putin Interview - a landmark event or non-event?

Outlook for Ukraine and maybe, more interestingly, Poland, as US interest in the war wanes.

Mar 20, 202401:00:00
Mithras - Israel/Palestine: Everyone's War

Mithras - Israel/Palestine: Everyone's War

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In this episode we speak about:

  • Israel vs. Palestine, a conflict that pits left against left and right against right

  • Third-worldism vs. Boomer Zionism

  • The favorable status of Islamists in the UK

  • The Right needs a measured position toward the conflict

  • Brexit in hindsight

Mithras is a British writer and anonymous poster. He is on Twitter @hardtimeshere11

Mar 07, 202446:46
Fleur Meston: Promising Young Woman

Fleur Meston: Promising Young Woman

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We speak about social conservatism in young women, what attracts them, what repels them, the tradwife trend, and their attitude toward the opposite sex and masculinity. We also discuss purebred vs. revealed conservatism, the future of the dwindling majority in the UK, and being redpilled on sex differences by interacting with toddlers.

Fleur Elizabeth Meston is a writer, a researcher at Orthodox Conservatives, and a political commentator. She’s on Twitter at @fleurmeston.

Feb 07, 202401:02:58
James Orr - Religion Never Left

James Orr - Religion Never Left

We speak about his circuitous path to studying philosophy and theology, maintaining virtue when you’re not allowed to define it, technology as an almost magical confirmation of the victory of reason, the importance of status in spreading ideas, and much more. Dr. James Orr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford. He is also the UK Chairman of The Edmund Burke Foundation, a public affairs institute that aims to strengthen the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries.

Jan 31, 202457:48
Cremieux - Free the Data

Cremieux - Free the Data

We speak about the fact that often one study is more representative of reality than many, P hacking and the emptiness of much of social science, the many ways to lie with statistics, fertility and demographic collapse, lead exposure and the various disasters pinned on it, the midwits of Mensa, and much more.

Cremieux is an anonymous poster, a man well-versed in data analysis who plays first violin in a new wave of extremely statistically savvy anonymous accounts that popped up and exploded once the Twitter ban on wrongthink was somewhat lifted by the regime of Elon Musk.

Jan 17, 202401:10:52
J Burden - New Blood on Old Paths

J Burden - New Blood on Old Paths

We speak about getting married young, stepping into an uncertain world, chaotic, nihilistic energy versus more rooted ways, the exhaustion of politics, especially the electoral kind, technology, modern media and much more.

J Burden is the host of the J Burden Show, a podcaster and chronicler of the dissident right, he has on many up-and-coming influencers, from what I would describe as of one layer deeper into the ranks of the DR than my show. I love his show, it’s well worth a listen - especially liked the George Bagby and Thomas777 episodes.



Jan 03, 202401:18:45
Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad - Liberalism, an Autopsy

Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad - Liberalism, an Autopsy

We speak about the evolution of online ideologies, the increasingly unavoidable confrontation with post-liberalism, democracy, the individual, ideology itself as a child of the Enlightenment, Christianity as a necessary but eroding substructure of Western culture, and much more.

Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad is a legendary YouTuber, writer and podcaster, former politician, and a true renaissance man of the Internet age. You can find all his newest videos and essays at https://www.lotuseaters.com/

Dec 11, 202301:06:60
Philippe Lemoine - The Renaissance of War

Philippe Lemoine - The Renaissance of War

We speak about the case against Western intervention in Ukraine and Russia as a looming presence in Eastern Europe. We also speak about liberal imperialism, political pragmatism, France today, and much more.

Philippe is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Cornell and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.



Nov 28, 202301:14:33
Stephen Wolfe - Is Christian Nationalism an Option?

Stephen Wolfe - Is Christian Nationalism an Option?

We speak about the theory and practice of a state organized according to Christian principles, which flavor and intensity of Christianity may apply, how to advocate for a religious solution in an era of dwindling faith, and much more.

Stephen Wolfe is a country scholar at Wolfeshire in central North Carolina where he lives with his wife and four children. He recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Wolfe is co-host of the Ars Politica podcast and has written for Mere Orthodoxy, First Things, Chronicles Magazine, and History of Political Thought. He is also the author of “The Case for Christian Nationalism”.


Nov 15, 202301:10:57
Bennett's Phylactery - Finding our Way Back to Children

Bennett's Phylactery - Finding our Way Back to Children

We speak about the problem of demographic collapse, what it could look like, and how both individuals and policy can address it. We also speak about the importance of religion, secular alternatives to religious natalism culture, government policy that works and doesn’t, testosterone and sperm count decline, fertility technology like IVF and embryo selection, surrogacy, exo wombs, and more.

Kevin is the organizer of the Natalism conference held in Austin Texas, in December 2023 and the Founder of Exit Group - a fraternal organization dedicated to ending our reliance on corporate employment, so that you can’t be threatened by a politicized HR department or an “employer mandate”.

Nov 01, 202359:55
Matt Goodwin - Who Rules Britain?

Matt Goodwin - Who Rules Britain?

We speak about what the ruling class of Britain looks like today and how it has changed in the last 50 years. We also speak about what the Tory party represents, the global elite and the status that comes with membership in it, immigration to the UK and what, if anything can be done about it, right-wing politics and the class divide and much more.

Matt Goodwin is a Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and the author of many fine books including his latest, “Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics”. You can find his latest work on his excellent Substack.

Oct 18, 202301:20:19
J.D. Haltigan - Nature & Nurture in our First Years

J.D. Haltigan - Nature & Nurture in our First Years

We speak about what matters in the early years of children’s lives: caregiving and social experiences, daycare, bullying, divorce, and sex differences in early childhood psychopathology. We also speak about long covid and its strange link with bisexuality, the difference between destigmatizing and normalizing, DEI in universities and more.

JD Haltigan studies Developmental & Evolutionary Psychopathology and specializes in Early Experience & Life History. You can find him on Twitter at @JDHaltigan

Oct 04, 202301:01:57
John O'Sullivan - The New "New Right" and its Future

John O'Sullivan - The New "New Right" and its Future

We speak about the three eras of the “New Right”: from William F. Buckley and James Burnham to the second “New Right” under Reagan and Thatcher and now the third “New Right” that is taking shape in the wake of the populist revolutions of Trump and Brexit. We also speak about immigration, liberalism as a self-liquefying force, Thatcher’s legacy, Brexit, Orban, and much more.

John O’Sullivan is a political commentator and journalist. He was the senior policy writer and speechwriter in 10 Downing Street for Margaret Thatcher when she was British prime minister. He is also the former editor of National Review in the years 1988-1997 and is now an editor at large. Since 2017, he has been president of the Danube Institute in Budapest.

Sep 20, 202301:09:40
Eric Kaufmann - Demographics and the Destiny of the West

Eric Kaufmann - Demographics and the Destiny of the West

We speak about his long-standing interest in the demographic crisis, the religious inheriting the earth, expressive individualism and egalitarianism as the acid preparing the fall of Anglo-America, being a liberal National Conservative, negative vs. positive liberty under NatCon, liberals voting for diversity but living in micro-ethnostates, and much more.

Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London. His topics of research include nationalism and political and religious demography. He is also the author of Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities, among many other fine books.

Sep 06, 202301:13:37
Tara Ann Thieke - Creating a Life with Children

Tara Ann Thieke - Creating a Life with Children

We speak about how to view children, what they are, and what they can ideally be. We also speak about why parents matter, exposing kids to the world, how to think about peers, the strained relationship between men and women, the new horizon of surrogacy, and the importance of rituals in the lives of children and everyone else, and more.

Tara Ann Thieke is a homemaker and writer. She’s on Twitter at @taraannthieke.

Aug 23, 202301:13:25
Henry George - Getting Unstuck from Theory

Henry George - Getting Unstuck from Theory

We speak about how politics, ideas, and culture are connected, if individuals and ideas shape social change more than institutional networks and social structures, the ideal of the neutral institution. We also speak about libertarianism, the problem of empathy, disability, gratitude, immigration, and much more.

Henry George is a freelance writer living in the UK. He holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. He is also on Twitter at @intothefuture45.

Aug 09, 202301:12:04
Chris Arnade - A Student of Life at the Bottom

Chris Arnade - A Student of Life at the Bottom

We speak about being a class traitor, the journey between these two worlds, the concept of dignity, the tension between personal responsibility and paternalism, the patterns of addiction and sexual abuse in people living on the street, justified and unjustified fears when it comes to dealing with people at the end of their tether, the problem of nonjudgmentalism, helping and not helping, and much more.

Chris Arnade went from Wall Street to street photography and wrote an excellent book called Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He is also the owner/operator of a great Substack.


Jul 26, 202301:30:01
Going Godward - The Kids Are Not Alright
Jul 05, 202301:02:00
Datepsych - Bringing Data to the Sex Wars
Jun 28, 202301:19:50
Auron MacIntyre - Another Day in the Total State
Jun 21, 202301:04:43
Nate Fischer - Tech and Finance in the Service of the Right

Nate Fischer - Tech and Finance in the Service of the Right

We speak about the virtues and vices of finance, how tech can help the Right organize and reach policy goals, AI diminishing the possibility of costly signaling, low-trust societies, and much more.

Nate Fischer is the founder and CEO of New Founding. New Founding is a venture firm and talent network focused on building parallel economic institutions that enable meaningful cultural change.

Nate also co-founded American Reformer, which works to revitalize contemporary Protestant thought and institutions. Nate previously co-founded a real estate investment firm that grew to more than $1 billion of assets, and has a variety of other entrepreneurial and investment experience. He is a Claremont Lincoln Fellow, and lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife and four children.

Jun 14, 202301:10:05
Charlie Peters: Hopeless Decades for the UK's Lost Girls
Jun 07, 202301:09:29
Simone & Malcolm Collins - Breeding To Save The World

Simone & Malcolm Collins - Breeding To Save The World

We speak about the fertility decline across the West and beyond, the limited perspective of almost everyone on this issue, prosperity-induced fertility collapse, the real dangers of an inverted population pyramid, South Koreans as an endangered species, having and raising children in alternative ways, and much more.

Simone & Malcolm Collins are parents, passionate about education, avid pro-natalists, authors of the Pragmatist's Guide series of books, and famously the first people to publicly have “Gattaca babies.” They are also founders of the Collins Institute for the Gifted.

May 31, 202301:20:41
Heather Mac Donald - Destroying a Whole Civilization in a Few Easy Steps
May 24, 202301:31:18
Catgirl Kulak - The Media Is Not Your Friend

Catgirl Kulak - The Media Is Not Your Friend

We speak about the death of regime media, the beauty of the niche, the cosmos of Kitsch and why it’s better than mainstream art, the death of progress in the world of atoms, China as an overblown nemesis, and much more.

Catgirl Kulak is a Twitter poster @FromKulak, Substack owner/operator, and occasional guest on the Bailey Podcast.

May 17, 202301:18:54
Jacob Phillips - Do we still have a duty to each other?

Jacob Phillips - Do we still have a duty to each other?

We speak about Jacob’s journey to his current worldview, the question of ‘obedience to what?”, safetyism, the Anglo spirit, what happened to London, the Catholic church and its failings, and much more.

Jacob Phillips is an academic, a writer, and the author of “Obedience is Freedom.” You can find him on Twitter at @counteredlogos.

May 10, 202301:11:60
Jon Askonas: The End of Reality
May 05, 202301:24:07
David Azerrad - Stop Worshiping Your Enemy's Idols

David Azerrad - Stop Worshiping Your Enemy's Idols

We speak about Ethnonarcissism and revisionist histories, MLK as a modern saint, reparations, statistical parity, identity politics threatening the republican form of self-government, and the logical endpoint of social justice.

David Azerrad is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington and has written very insightful pieces for every good outlet under the sun.

Apr 20, 202301:04:00
Katy Faust - Our Children's Forgotten Rights
Apr 12, 202301:05:53
Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen: May You Live In Interesting Times
Apr 05, 202301:39:57
Carl Trueman - A Hidden Revolution of the Self

Carl Trueman - A Hidden Revolution of the Self

We speak about the concept of the Self, the different visions it embodies across the ages, and how this perspective managed to infiltrate the popular imagination. We also speak about Expressive Individualism, authenticity, technology, romanticism, and much more.

Carl R. Trueman is a theologian and ecclesiastical historian, a professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, and the author of many books, including “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” and his newest book, “Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution.”

Mar 30, 202359:28
Elon Bachman - Minds Evolving Online

Elon Bachman - Minds Evolving Online

We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more.

Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter.

Mar 16, 202301:21:09
Nathan Cofnas - On The Jewish Question

Nathan Cofnas - On The Jewish Question

A wide-ranging discussion on one of the least openly discussed issues of our time with a man deeply in trouble with both the left and right.  

I speak with Nathan about his defense of the study of race differences in intelligence and the question of Jewish overrepresentation in high-status fields, including his critique of “The culture of critique” by Kevin MacDonald.  

Nathan Cofnas is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works in the philosophy of biology and ethics, and you can find his work on his website at nathancofnas.com and Twitter @nathancofnas

Mar 08, 202301:24:30
Roy Baumeister - No Escape From Human Nature (TEASER)

Roy Baumeister - No Escape From Human Nature (TEASER)

This is one of my occasional Patreon/Substack exclusive episodes. You can find our entire conversation there:

https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkaschuta/p/roy-baumeister-no-escape-from-human

https://www.patreon.com/posts/roy-baumeister-78301174

We speak about the replication crisis, particularly in psychology, men and women and their tensions in the workplace and beyond, the problem of evil, low infant mortality, low war casualties, his sexual economics theory, the self and how we perceive it, and much more.

Roy F. Baumeister is a social psychologist, the author and co-author of many books, among them “Willpower,” “The Power of Bad,” “Is There Anything Good About Men?” and his latest, “The Self Explained.”

Mar 01, 202310:39
Jean-Francois Gariepy: Gene Editing - The Dangers Ahead

Jean-Francois Gariepy: Gene Editing - The Dangers Ahead

We speak about the origins of life on earth, the reaction to Covid-19, the dangers of CRISPR, genetic testing, embryo selection, IVF, the global fertility drop, synthetic wombs and their implications for the relationship between the sexes, and much more.

Jean- Francois Gariepy is a biologist, the author of The Revolutionary Phenotype, and the Host of JFG Tonight.

Feb 22, 202301:03:54
Paul Gottfried - The New Right - Reborn or Reheated?

Paul Gottfried - The New Right - Reborn or Reheated?

We speak about gatekeeping, containment, neoconservatism, equality and egalitarianism, natural rights, the Frankfurt School and Marcuse, vitalism, Kondylis, the meaning of ideology, and much more.

Paul Gottfried is an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of many books, among them After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Fascism: The Career of a Concept, and his latest: Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade.

Feb 16, 202301:11:35
Chris Buskirk - Nurturing Vitality in an Age of Decay
Feb 08, 202301:04:44
Charles Haywood - No Enemies To The Right
Feb 01, 202358:33
Peachy Keenan - The Making of a Domestic Extremist

Peachy Keenan - The Making of a Domestic Extremist

I speak with Peachy about life with young children, becoming redpilled at the office, being your children's supreme dictator, having as many children as humanly possible, the futility of dating, sacred drag queens, and much more.

Peachy Keenan (pen name) is a writer, contributing editor at the American Mind, and the author of the upcoming Domestic Extremist.

Jan 25, 202359:23
Patrick Casey - Take Wins Where You Can Get Them

Patrick Casey - Take Wins Where You Can Get Them

We speak about the current state of the right wing after a turbulent decade, the promise of electoral victories, resisting the blackpill, good omens and worrying signs, possible heroes and false friends - and much more.

Patrick Casey is a writer and the host of Restoring Order. He has written for Chronicles, American Greatness, and the American Sun.

Jan 18, 202301:00:31
Covfefe Anon - Effective Autism > Effective Altruism
Jan 11, 202301:39:15
Michael Bailey - Uncomfortable Truths in Sex Research
Jan 04, 202356:35
Athenian Stranger - Reactionary Classicism
Dec 28, 202201:26:44
Soso @chernayakoshka - Aesthetics > Morality

Soso @chernayakoshka - Aesthetics > Morality

I speak with Soso about the main fault lines on the online right, between a focus on religion vs. a focus on immigration and the simmering conflict between family and vitalism. We also speak about aesthetics as a superior way of relating to reality - and much more.

You can find Soso's writing on Twitter at @chernayakoshka

Dec 21, 202201:10:08
Steve Sailer - A Lifetime Of Noticing
Dec 07, 202201:24:21
Raw Egg Nationalist - Your Body's Great Reset
Nov 30, 202201:21:58
Amy Wax - Truth At Any Cost

Amy Wax - Truth At Any Cost

I speak with Amy about all manner of unspeakable subjects - from racial achievement gaps to the question of IQ, to the possibility of liberalism under a de facto caste system, to Jewish overrepresentation in the upper echelons of almost every field, to reading Jared Taylor and much much more. We leave no stone unturned.   Amy Wax is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is currently the subject of a dispute with the law school over remarks she has made that were deemed dangerous.

Nov 23, 202201:23:17
Morgoth - We're Approaching Post-Humanity

Morgoth - We're Approaching Post-Humanity

I speak to Morgoth about the current state of the dissident right, Liberalism in a tailspin with the progressive view of history a mirage propped up on vulnerable infrastructure, blackpills, assisted and non-assisted suicide, therapy culture, and the world reserved for us after liberalism as a post-human landscape.

Morgoth is a veteran YouTuber and Substack author https://morgoth.substack.com/

Nov 16, 202201:06:23
Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) - Liberalism's Homegrown Shooters
Nov 09, 202201:00:53
Sam Ashworth-Hayes - The Return Of European History
Nov 02, 202253:55