November 12, 2025 – Hour 1

Marcus’s Monologue: Nick Fuentes and the rise of the Woke RightThe continued popularity of figures such as Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens and the growing faction known as the “Woke Right” is one of the strangest spectacles in contemporary public discourse. What began as a resistance to identity politics has curdled into its own version of extremism. Marcus has more.Links for this SegmentHow Critical Theory Paved the Way for Nick FuentesFrom Frankfurt to Fox: The Strange Career of Critical TheoryLife in Afghanistan under the TalibanThe Taliban have set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and prevention of vice” in Afghanistan. The rules include dozens of standards for dress code and how women may conduct themselves in public, with severe punishments for violating the rules. Luma Simms joins us to discuss the Catholic and Islamic views of the nature of the human person and the role religion can play in supporting democracy.On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical IslamDemocracy without Religion Is DeadDemocracy without Religion Is Dead: Part IIMarcus’ Monologue: The New Tower of BabelIn November of 1990, two scientists proposed a method of linking documents across a network of computers. Their dream is what we know today as the World Wide Web. In the decades since, the Web has evolved from something constrained to a large desktop in the corner of the room, to something we carry around in our pockets and can never fully disconnect from. It has become a 21st-century Tower of Babel. Marcus has more.Links for this SegmentWhy the Web Won’t Be Nirvana (Published in 1995) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit avemariapm.substack.com