Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta
By Alexandra Kaschuta
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Subversive w/Alex KaschutaApr 27, 2022
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Going Godward - The Kids Are Not Alright
We speak about how ubiquitous internet access is warping the school experience, including how kids socialize, the rise of trans and other social contagions, the importance and effects of parenting, No intellectual life in students, TikTok beefs, raising sons, men and women coexisting in harmony and much more.
You can find Going Godward’s posts on Twitter and Substack at
Datepsych - Bringing Data to the Sex Wars
We speak about “sexual market value” and the distribution of attractiveness across men and women, incels, divorce statistics, divorce likelihood, hybristophilia or the female attraction to violent men, the dual mating hypothesis, the reliability of self-reported data, and much more.
Alexander is a graduate student in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and he blogs at datepsychology.com and in outlets like Aporia magazine.
Auron MacIntyre - Another Day in the Total State
We speak about online themes trickling into the mainstream, changes, and schisms on the Dissident Right, the ripening of the Manosphere, his elevator pitch for the total state, patronage, and how it can work for the Right, and much more.
Auron MacIntyre is a writer, Youtuber, and prolific Twitter poster. He is also the star of the Auron MacIntyre show on The Blaze and the owner/operator of The Total State.
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.
Charlie Peters: Hopeless Decades for the UK's Lost Girls
We speak about the decades-long fight of a handful of dedicated public servants to blow the cover off a scandal of epic proportions. Associated with places like Rotherham, Telford, and wider Oxfordshire, the mass rape of young girls by grooming gangs of mostly Pakistani origin has been covered up by every institution that existed to protect women and children. This seemed like the price to pay for social cohesion.
I speak with Charlie about the following and more:
How big the scale of this scandal is
The motivations of the perpetrators
The police in the UK - an anarcho-tyrannical superpower
Using new tech to intimidate victims
Administration insiders covering for perpetrators
Girls as young as 12 were judged for making “lifestyle choices”
Charlie Peters is a writer and broadcaster from London who works for GBNews.
His most recent documentary is Grooming Gangs: Britain's Shame. It is available for free and is very much worth your time.
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.
Heather Mac Donald - Destroying a Whole Civilization in a Few Easy Steps
We speak about the standard of “disparate impact” and its legacy, life and politics after accepting difference, Broken Windows policing, the great abdication of the police, the cost of violent crime to the victims, the role of NGOs in all this, family formation and fatherhood, and much more.
Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book is “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.”
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.
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.
Jon Askonas: The End of Reality
I speak with Jon about one of the most important yet subtle phenomena happening right now: the absolute warping of our culture and politics to fit the incentive structure of internet platforms.
We speak about the mechanics and flow of information on the internet, rumors, fake news, mob violence, short video as the ultimate format, mimetic desire, the move from surfing the web to feed-based viewing, how Jon Stewart led to Tucker Carlson, and much more.
Jon Askonas is an assistant professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America and a non-resident senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. His series in the New Atlantis is well worth your attention.
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.
Katy Faust - Our Children's Forgotten Rights
My conversation with writer, activist, and overall powerhouse Katy Faust on what we owe our children and the future.
I speak with Katy about her upbringing in a lesbian household, the problems with same-sex marriage and how redefining marriage has redefined parenthood, the implications of surrogacy on the child, IVF, divorce and step-parents, the issues with adoption and what the rights of the child should be.
Katy Faust is the founder and director of the children's rights organization, Them Before Us, and the author of “Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement.” You can also find her work on Twitter @Advo_Katy.
Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen: May You Live In Interesting Times
An exciting and rare double feature with two of anon Twitter's most fascinating denizens, the Night Owls.
We speak about ethnicity, the delight of going to NatCon, Rosedale Texas, Elena Ceausescu as a woman in STEM, the real issue with urbanism and anti-car culture, tightening anarcho-tyranny, and much much more - a true potpourri of subjects and wild tangents.
Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen are anonymous posters on Twitter, the hosts of one of Twitter’s best recurring spaces, and the hosts of the upcoming Night Owls Podcast.
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.”
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.
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
Roy Baumeister - No Escape From Human Nature (TEASER)
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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.”
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.
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.
Chris Buskirk - Nurturing Vitality in an Age of Decay
I speak with Chris about his involvement in the Blake Masters campaign and what he learned from it about civilizational vitality, America in decline but still on top of the world, US narrative hegemony, technology, debt, the frontier, and much more.
Chris Buskirk is an American entrepreneur and writer and founder, editor, and publisher at American Greatness. His latest book is "America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay"
You can also find Chris on Twitter at @thechrisbuskirk.
Charles Haywood - No Enemies To The Right
I speak with Charles about his perspective on the dictum “No Enemies to the Right,” on its practical application, its potential limits, its pitfalls, its reception by people not trained in the finer points of political philosophy and tactics, and the conflicts he has been involved in trying to defend his position.
Charles Haywood is the maximum leader of the Worthy House, a wonderful blog/magazine where he writes book reviews and long-form essays that illustrate his unique perspective on contemporary politics and what it means to be on the right and to be effective under the current regime.
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.
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.
Covfefe Anon - Effective Autism > Effective Altruism
I speak to CA about Twitter’s new management and what it means for the regime, biting the bullet on anti-liberalism and charging through the chaos, NRx as a valuable framework, effective altruism, and much more.
Covfefe Anon is a Twitter poster @covfefeanon and recent Substack Owner/Operator at Tradeoffs and Conflicts; Institutions and Egregores
Michael Bailey - Uncomfortable Truths in Sex Research
I speak to Michael about how trans went from a niche sexual fetish to the next rights revolution, about the common misunderstandings in the field, the differences between male and female sexual orientation, compassion for sexual minorities, and the thorny conversations around pedophilia.
Michael Bailey is a psychologist, behavioral geneticist, a professor at Northwestern University, and the author of "The man who would be queen." You can find him on Twitter at @profjmb
Athenian Stranger - Reactionary Classicism
We speak about what is so unsavory about the classics in our current time, about culture, education, and entertainment as an embedded experience in a way it has never been before, about Twitter spaces as an incredible new forum, and much, much more.
Athenian Stranger is a famed Twitter Space host @Athens_Stranger , a philosophical maximalist, and the grey eminence behind Underground University
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
Steve Sailer - A Lifetime Of Noticing
I speak with Steve about the people's republic of California, Liberalism under total honesty about hate-facts, applying Moneyball-style analysis to base reality, the possibility of meritocracy, the conflation between IQ and human worth, the strange relationship between Asians and affirmative action, the legacy of Barack Obama, Abortion’s effect on crime, coining "HBD" and the career of the concept, and much, much more.
Steve Sailer is a writer, journalist, and blogger, and you probably read him all the time.
You can find him on Twitter @Steve_Sailer and on his blog https://www.unz.com/isteve/
Raw Egg Nationalist - Your Body's Great Reset
I speak with REN about being in your body as an act of defiance against a regime that wants to enslave you through disembodiment. We also speak about the virtues of slonking, weight lifting, women in "the movement," medical malpractice, frankenfood, covid amnesty, and much more.
Raw Egg Nationalist is an author and the editor of Man’s World magazine. You can find his books everywhere fine books are sold, including Amazon, and his ideas on Twitter.
“If the broscientists have a spiritual leader, it would be a man who calls himself Raw Egg Nationalist.“
Tucker Carlson, "The End of Men"
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.
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/
Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) - Liberalism's Homegrown Shooters
I speak with Katherine about a bizarre, relatively new outgrowth of the American psyche, the phenomenon of the school shooter. Beyond the "we need fewer/more guns" debate, there is a numb silence about the worldview that fuels the actual motivations of these young men. They are labeled and put away in the monster pile. But could it be that, in some ways, they see further than we can?
Katherine Dee is *the internet historian* bar none, and she's been doing some necessary spelunking in the neglected digital footprints of people like Adam Lanza, with startling results. You can find her work on her Substack at defaultfriend.substack.com and on her podcast, The Computer Room.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes - The Return Of European History
I speak to Sam about the shifting tides in UK politics, about a new "very right wing" government implementing price fixing, about energy strategy and fumbling it on a continent-wide scale, and about the decriminalization of crime in the UK and what alternatives may look like.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a journalist who has been featured in The Spectator, The Critic, The Telegraph and many more publications. He is also the owner/operator of the Marginally Productive Substack. You can find him on Twitter at @SAshworthHayes