All Episodes

167. Dave Greene: Is the GAE Weaker in the Center than the Periphery?

165. Garen Kaloustian: America Is an Economic Zone, Actually

166. Year A - 5th Sunday of Easter - 1 Peter 2:2-10 - "You Are God's Chosen Race"

164. Ben Fleming: Let's Talk About the Reformation

162. Ben Fleming: Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"

163. Year A - Palm Sunday - Philippians 2:1-11 - "Radical Obedience"

159. The "Exception" and So-Called Artificial Intelligence

158. Why Ideological Populism Is a Dead End

161. Year A - 4th Sunday of Lent - Ephesians 5:8-14 - "Children of Light"

160. The Story of God and Cain

157. Thinking Theologically About Immigration

155. The Black Horse: Discussing the Fertility Crisis

154. Ben Fleming - Edmund Burke: The Father of Everything Wrong with Conservatism

156. Year A - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 - "We Are God's Building"

152. The Problem of Complexity: or Why You Can't Just Do Things

153. Year A - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Matthew 5:1-12 - "The Beatitudes"

151. The Black Horse: Peter Thiel, a Surprisingly Deep Thinker

150. Ron Dodson: The Covenant, the Body of Christ, and the Nation without a Homeland

149. David Bănică: Mircea Eliade and the Burden of History

148. Year A - Epiphany - "The Mystery of Christ"

147. Year A - First Sunday After Christmas - Hebrews 2:10-18 - "He Became One of Us"

146. Why Are There No Evangelical Elites: A Roundtable Discussion

144. Party Politics and "The Political" Are Not the Same Thing

145. Why Are There No Evangelical Elites?

142. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 3, Bildung (Culture)

140. In Praise of Folly: There Is No Right Wing Marx and Why This Is a Problem

143. Steven DeLay: This Present World: Aphorisms for Knowing God

139. Ben Fleming: What Is Art? What Happened to It? Part 2

138. Ben Fleming: What Is Art and What Happened to It? Part 1

137. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 2, Forward and the Problem of Method

141. Daniel Tyrie: The Dominion Society

136. It's All Kayfabe: Or, How I Learned to Love the Centre Left

135. Athenian Stranger: Gadamer's "Truth and Method" Part 1, Background and Introduction

134. Gio Pennacchietti: What Happens When Mass "Culture" Dies?

133. Athenian Stranger: You Need to Abandon the Idea of "History"

132. Duncan Reyburn: How Modernity Cuts Us Off From the Holy

131. Dr. J. Burden: The Current State of the Discourse

129. Athenian Stranger: Why Embracing the Idea of Objectivity Makes You a Regime Stooge

130. Cooking with Kruptos

125. Johann Kurtz: Be a Man

128. Ron Dodson: The Talmudic Nature of Managerialism

121. You Don't Want to Hear This, But...

127. Athenian Stranger: Misunderstanding the Friend-Enemy Distinction

126. Mark Granza: Being a Man in an Age of Social Media

120. Why You Should Read Karl Marx

124. Your Life is Hidden "with Christ"

123. You Are "In Christ"

122. You Are the Body of Christ

119. Ben Fleming: Discussing Jeremy Bentham's "Anarchical Fallacies" ... or Why Constitutions Suck

118. The Case for Protestant Mysticism

117. Walking, Wildfires and Managerial Control

116. All Religious Claims Are Religious Claims

115. Bits of Paul: The Case for Beautiful Worship

113. Why the NY Stock Exchange Is Bad for Federalism: A Discussion of the Problems of Distributed Ownership

112. Athenian Stranger: Neo-Paganism

111. The Floundering Church: Trying to Be Something It Is Not

110. Brandon Zaffini: Can Complex Systems Survive without Scale?

109. Actually, The Things You Do in Your Bedroom Are Everyone's Business

108. Dimes: Living within the Simulacrum

107. Aristocratic Utensil: What Is the Right?

106. The Political Implications of Imago Dei

105. The Archetype of the Hero Past and Present

104. Why Diversity Isn't Our Strength

103. Ben Fleming: Why We Are Stuck in 1925

102. Now Is Not the Time for Heroes

101. Preview: Southern Baptist Convention 2025

100. Modern Art: Revealing the Hidden Thing

99. Mastery: The Path to Creativity

33. Conscious Caracal - Ernst van Zyl: the Future of the Afrikaner in South Africa

98. Why There Can Be No "Conservative" Administrative State

97. The Destructive Effects of Propaganda on Society, Politics, and the Christian Faith

96. "God's Will for Your Life"

95. Revealing the City of God

94. "Seek the Lord While He Might Be Found"

32. Forgiveness

31. Dimes -- First Principles

26. The Culture War: It Really Is About Using Sex to Undermine Resistance to the Regime

14. Bible Reading Project: Romans 12-16

24. Progressivism: Conserving Bourgeoisie Power

13. Bible Reading Project: Romans 9-11

93. "Bad America" Comes to Munich

30. Charles Haywood: Are We Being Manipulated by the Vibes?

92. What Propaganda Does To You

12. Bible Reading Project: Romans 5-8

29. The Problem with Infinity

91. We Are the Propagandists Now

28. Christian Civilization Is a Good Thing, Actually

11. Bible Reading Project: Romans 1-4

27. Last Things: From Turbo Lib to Christian Faith

90. You Need Propaganda

89. Thinking about the Post-Literate World

88. Losing Alignment: Some Further Thoughts

26. Nate Fischer: Can Technology Solve the Problem of Scale?

87. The Necessary Conditions for Propaganda to Be Effective

10. Bible Reading Project: James

86. Why The Meritocracy Isn't Coming Back to Save America

9. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 26-28, The Passion

25. The Christian Ghetto: Why Managerialism Feminizes Society

24. The Christian Ghetto - J. Burden: The Rise of the Millennial Male

8. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 24-25, The Olivet Discourse

85. Propaganda: Its Types and Classifications

23. The Christian Ghetto - On Squirrels: The Power of a Condensed Symbol

7. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 21-23

22. The Christian Ghetto: Jeremy Carl -- The Jewish People and Christianity: A Personal Reflection

84. "The News" Makes You Vulnerable to Propaganda

6. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 17-20

21. The Christian Ghetto: Ron Dodson - A Priest Forever in the Order of Melchizedek

5. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 14-16

20. The Christian Ghetto: Stephen Carson - Christendom and Liberty

83. Propaganda: Controlling You with Your Own Myths and Stories

4. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 11-13

19. The Christian Ghetto: Athenian Stranger - Is Truth Really That Important?

82. Propaganda: It's Not What You Think

3. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 8-10

18. The Christian Ghetto: Auron MacIntyre - Why Internet Community Is Not Real Community

81. Contest, Sexuality and Consciousness: Present Issues and the Life of a Culture

2. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 5-7, the "Sermon on the Mount"

17. The Christian Ghetto: The Knightly Orders

1. Bible Reading Project: Matthew 1-4

80. The Problematic Nature of "the Solution"

31. The True Source of Authority

16. The Christian Ghetto: John Slaughter, Esq.: Warriors and Soldiers

78. The "Conservative Progressive"

15. A Discussion with Nate Fischer on the New Founding Manifesto

21. Fulfill Your Role: the Song of Roland

77. Oligarchs vs Administrators

14. The Christian Ghetto: Eugyppius - The Right in Europe and America

76. The Woke Right? Identity Politics on the Right.

75. Where Does Culture Come From?

13. The Christian Ghetto: What is America, and How Should Christians Understand Their Relationship to America?

12. The Christian Ghetto: Discussing the "Regimevangelical" Phenomenon

74. Understanding the "Regimevangelical" Phenomenon

73. Educating Boys: or Why Latin Disappeared

11. The Christian Ghetto: A Conversation with Dr. Carlo Lancellotti

72. Boys Will Be Boys: Facing the Contest

71. What Is a Man? Introducing the Idea of "Contest"

70. There Is No Fixing What Is Wrong

10. The Christian Ghetto: Christian Discipleship in an Age of Social Decay

69. The Burden of Being Better

68. Fake Friends: The Friend-Enemy Distinction in a Deracinated Mass Society

9. The Christian Ghetto: The Practical Realities of Building a Parallel Polity

8. The Christian Ghetto: Why It's Important for Christians to Be Political

67. Why I Hate the Term "Re-Enchantment"

19. Can Humanity Master Technology?

66. The True Nature of the Culture War

65. Ruled by Men or Governed by the System?

7. The Christian Ghetto: The Only Way Out Is Through: The Dissident Right and Postmodernism

64. The Politics of Transcendence: the "Miracle of Law"

6. The Christian Ghetto: Vitalism and Christianity

5. The Christian Ghetto: The Texas Border Crisis pt. 2

4. The Christian Ghetto: Muscular Christianity and The Texas Border Crisis

63. The Case for Coercive Christianity

62. Conservatism Is Not a Thing in the USA

60. Building a Parallel Polity: Sketching Out the Road Ahead

59. What is Truth? Narrative Control and Dissident Politics in the Age of Propaganda

58. Anarchy and Christianity

57. Live Your Own Truth? Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture

56. What is America?

55. Managerial Christianity

54. What is Freedom?

53. The Ongoing NETTR Discussion: Agency and Authority

3. The Christian Ghetto: Building Communities of Resistance

52. Towards a Theology of NETTR

51. The Right to Free Speech is the "Queering" of Speech

10. Technique, Propaganda and the Left Liberal Nature of the West

2. The Christian Ghetto: Afterparty Discussing the @_kruptos Interview with @AuronMacIntyre

50. Living within the Machine: the Problem of Deism

49. Why the Administrative State Renders the Idea of Elite Replacement Theory a Non-Starter

48. Man or Machine? The "Necessary" Total Revolution: Part 6 of a Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution"

47. Teeny-Bopper Revolutionaries: Part 5 of a Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution"

46. The State Is the Enemy: Part 4 of a Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution"

45. Why the Future of the Dissident Right Is Christian

44. A Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution" pt.3: The Causes and Conditions for Revolution

43. Trailer Park Mom: A Reflection

42. A Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution" pt. 2: The Rational Bourgeoisie State.

1. The Christian Ghetto: "The Threat of Materialism"

41. A Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution" pt. 1: Revolt and Revolution

40. The Loss of ᾰ̓ρετή: Why Technology Makes You Dumber and Less Capable While Making You Feel More Powerful

39. Rejecting the Idea of History

38. Humility: A Key Virtue of the Post-Liberal Order

37. Black Aragorn?

36. The Loss of Community and the Role of the State in a Mass, Market Driven Society

35. Why True AI Will Never Happen

34. Breaking the Habits of Western Thinking: Cause and Effect is Not a Thing

33. Discipleship, Politics and the Problem of a Christian Society

32. The Warrior, the Priest and the Merchant

23. Revolution and Reaction: First Gleanings from Augusto del Noce

20. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Problematic Nature of Parliamentary Democracy

18. The Bikeable/Walkable City: the Example of the Netherlands

17. The Political Illusion pt.5: The Heroic Quest for Self-Government (Door No. 3)

16. The Political Illusion pt. 4: The Administrative State Cannot be Controlled or Reformed

15. The Political Illusion pt. 3: Propaganda and the Political

14. The Political Illusion pt. 2: The Autonomy of Politics

13. The Political Illusion pt. 1: The Necessary and the Ephemeral

12. Christian Realism and the "Necessity" of Violence

11. The Fiction of Managerial Effectiveness

9. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Concept of the Political pt. 3

8. Myth, Originalism and Natural Law

7. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Concept of the Political pt. 2

6. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Concept of the Political pt.1

5. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Problem of Legitimacy

4. Carl Schmitt for the Masses: The Problem of Sovereignty

3. The True Political Divide: Original Sin

2. Follow the Science?

1. What's with the Name: Seeking the Hidden Thing?