Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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?

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.

I speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more.

I speak with Lee about the meaning of patriotism under the rainbow flag. We also speak about a desire for wild places and the frontier, homeschooling, family culture, being at home in your hometown, and more.

I speak with Ed about the current state of UK politics and the failures of its post-war conservative movements, the population collapse and why it is happening, grooming gang scandals, Eastern European fashion trends that may or may not include mullets, and much more.

I speak to Peter about our unprecedented information infrastructure and how it has captured the public discourse, and how we relate to others and ourselves. We also speak about Web 3, limbic capitalism, being powerless without common myths, and much more.

Peter Wang is CEO and Co-founder of Anaconda, a software developer and former physicist, and an advocate for data literacy and the wider Python-based data science community.

I'm joined once again by Curtis to discuss and dissect what is closest to a declaration of the propositions of the Deep Right.

speak with Yoram about what distinguishes British/American conservatism and how exportable it actually is, the liberal idea that politics can address itself to the public sphere alone, the possibility of democracy, the disenchantment of life downstream from technology, and much more.

Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, a Bible scholar, and a political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation.

He is also the author of the Virtue of Nationalism and the new book Conservatism: A Rediscovery.

I speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner.

The lovely Louise is back on the show to speak about motherhood,  "Cultural Deathgrip Syndrome," sexual disenchantment, sex education based on consent, the idea that sex is a skill, abortion, the inherent inequality of sex, the rough sex defense, and much, much more.

I speak with Luke about being an autonomous self in an overabundance of memetic and mimetic opportunity, about choosing unchosen bonds again, the positives of mimesis given that it is inescapable, metaphysical boredom, expertise, identity, and much more.

Luke Burgis is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America in Washington

I speak with Matt about how living together is possible when two different religious systems clash, about voice vs exit, Elon buying Twitter as an act of statesmanship, the accelerating "Current Thing" ratchet, civil rights law, based captains of industry as modern saviors, how we find each other and how we converge on a positive vision.

Mary joins me once again to chat about her upcoming book, cyborg theocracy, modern feminism as class war, the power of the state in relationship to women, Bronze Age Mindset,  the concept of "progress", prostitution, the devouring mother as the animating force behind liberalism, and much much more.

Mary Harrington is a writer and contributing editor to UnHerd. Her work has been featured widely and she is the author of the upcoming book "Feminism Against Progress."

Her recommended subversive thinker is Ivan Illich and his book "Gender."

I speak to Carlo about modernity as the elimination of the supernatural, atheism as the ultimate outcome of rationalism, the role of Marxism in the developments of recent history, transgender ideology as the next step in a gnostic unraveling, the convergence of the thought of Girard and Del Noce, asking questions as the first step and much more.

Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island, a Faculty in Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and one of the world’s foremost experts in philosopher Augusto del Noce, whose works he has translated into English. Available currently are The Crisis of Modernity, The Age of Secularization, and the Problem of Atheism.

His recommended subversive is catholic theologian Luigi Giussani and his book "The Religious Sense"

I speak with Ben about life as an expat in Eastern Europe as storm clouds are gathering, the Zeitgeist of the last few decades under the shadow of all-encompassing technology, the new landscape of conservative magazines, identity as a product, navigating Twitter beefs, and his book "Noughties: Eleven Echoes of a Dismal Decade"

My friend Gio is back on the podcast as we engage in a sprawling discussion across very online spaces. We discuss his new project as a documentarian of the new right sphere, its warring factions, and memetic and mimetic dynamics, we also speak about beauty, the dating marketplace, dating archetypes, bronze age liberalism, "liminal spaces" and non-spaces, anonymity, being in the avant-garde and much much more.

I speak to Michael about his stance on Ukraine, on what it means to be contrarian under forced context collapse, on a possible escalation of the war, sanctions, the involvement of western NGOs, "do-something-ism" and much more.

I speak with AA about his political evolution and how it mirrors mine, about Libertarianism and its discontents, about the "current thing" as it manifests itself in the conflict in Ukraine, about blackpills and whitepills, and much more.   

Academic Agent is an internet renaissance man, one of the most prolific and successful content producers on the dissident right. You can find his work at the Academic Agency, where he offers courses on everything from economics to politics and research, on Twitter, on Substack, and most importantly on Youtube.  

Covfefe Anon joins me to discuss the ongoing dysfunction of the West, the 54th Clause of the Magna Carta, the woman question, history entangled with technology and the market, "do-somethingism" and much more.

I'm joined for a second time by James as we discuss what it means to be human and why this is worth holding on to as the tide of technology threatens to sweep us away. We also speak about technology as both tool and master, the future of one religion or many, the religious wars of the future, the old gods and the new, anarchoprimitivism, the power of images, permanent hysteria, and much more.

James Poulos is a writer, the founder, and editor of the American Mind, founder and publisher of Return.life, the author of The Art of Being Free, and his most recent book:

I chat with Ben about the escalating situation in Ukraine, the waning US empire, and the Covid truth regime, from origins to medications to side effects, animal reservoirs of the virus, and what you can do to strengthen yourself against its likely effects as Omicron comes for us all.

The audio is a bit choppy as we had some connection issues, but it's mostly intelligible.

I chat with Thomas about Ukraine and historical precedents, Chinese dominance vs. Western hegemony, technology as a motor of history, Liberalism, Religion as a vacuum that needs to be filled, scale, localism, having children and the global fertility decline, going mainstream, making the transition from obscure forums to Substack, his advice for young'uns, and much more.

Zero returns to discuss fracturing factions on the dissident right, publishing a book through crypto sorcery, the 1000 pod stories submitted to the Passage prize, the war with rationalists, human rights, veganism, Covid as a guiding light to lost souls, and the things that make the liberal mind and much more.

I speak to Pedro about his merciless attacks on neocons, being faced with accusations of antisemitism and surviving them, the "new right" candidates and political recalibration, the slow death of fusionism, "Trans" as a profound distortion of reality, Trump as necessary but not sufficient, castizo futurism and much more.

I speak with Blake about limbic capitalism, regulating technology, the dream of a one-income family, libertarianism and its discontents, the problems of scale, "CRT is anti-white", ultra-woke/uber-based Silicon Valley, Immigration and H1B visas, the rights of citizens, pointing out the elephant in the room, the GAE egregores, demons, and mind viruses, uncle Ted's genius and much more.

Blake Masters is a venture capitalist, author, president of the Thiel Foundation, and co-author of probably the most famous and to-the-point book about startups, “Zero to One”, together with Peter Thiel. He is currently running for U.S. Senate in Arizona.

His recommended subversive thinker is Ted Kaczynski.

I speak to Amanda about the role of women on the dissident right, making subversive art, difficult family life, growing up in Hollywood, therapy culture, trying to make right-wing movies, can republicans create change in the administrative state, the new threats on Ukraine, John McAfee and the archetype of the heroic outcast, masculinity and making documentaries.

I chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research and genetics. Which knowledge is allowed, which knowledge is ignored, and which knowledge is simply unacceptable.

I speak to Simon about how the United Kingdom changed since he was growing up, what prompted him to speak about the changes he was witnessing, Immigration, Rotherham, Colonialism and slavery (of all colors), polish concentration camps, black history month, homeschooling and much more.

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive

Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/

I chat to Auron about the IDW model of reality and why it is broken, Christianity and its role in the west, "no friends to the right", postmodernism and a right-wing critique of positivism, moral relativism vs. facts, NRx in the mainstream, anarchotyranny, class and the culture war and much more.

I speak to Eugyppius about the last two years of warped existence under the Covid truth regime. We speak about its likely origins, the measures imposed through a sudden global burst of autocracy, the insanity of "Covid 0", the ever-shifting narrative around the virus and how it maps politically, the vaccine and its potential effects (and non-effects), "an epidemic of the unvaccinated!", mRNA vaccines in general, mandates and Covid as ersatz religion.

I chat to Wolf about Democracy, what it's missing, what it's hiding and what it can still do, we also talk about elite theory and our elites, what's wrong with them and how to create skin in the game beyond (or after) noblesse oblige. We chat about Wolf's "luxury political theory" project and building a cult to build a culture. We also speak about religion, gnosticism and transhumanism and Wolf's vision of the Bisonsphere™️

I chat to Dave aka The Distributist about the current moment in the ever-shifting movement that is the Dissident Right.

We chat about the perils of social media, Twitter, Youtube, his break with liberalism, the evolution of the dissident right on the internet, the sexual revolution, and much more.

The audio comes in two parts (slight tech failure) but both are very worthwhile.

I chat to anonymous poster (by night) and Wall Street analyst (by day), Apex, about the values and assumptions that are at the base of our current order.

We talk about: liberalism's love affair with autonomy, oversocialization as a useful lens borrowed from uncle Ted himself, "the marketplace of ideas" and the expert class, libertarianism and its discontents, and much more.

His recommended subversive is John Safranek with his book "The myth of Liberalism"

I talk to Charles about finding ourselves at a very generative intersection of political ideas, in what feels to be a pivotal moment & in great company - post-liberalism is here and it is up to us to feel out the contours of the future, to at least not let it surprise us, and at best have a part in creating it.

We speak about:

The three strands of post-liberal thought - what does the territory look like?

Gatekeeping on our side: "no friends to the right"

The Enlightenment and its discontents

"The regime is extremely fragile"

Neoreaction and his take on Curtis Yarvin

What does the new online right look like and why is it so generative?

Seeing tech as a tool, not a savior and space, the final frontier

Why you should read "The Demon in Democracy" by Legutko

Charles' recommended subversives are Carl Schmitt and Ernst Junger.

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive

Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/

I chat to rogue scholar Michael Millerman about what political philosophy can teach us in a post-liberal age.

We also talk about:

Michael's recommended subversives are Leo Strauss, Alexander Dugin, and Martin Heidegger.

I chat to exiled academic Bo Winegard about how what we've learned about human diversity affects how we can live together under liberalism and beyond.

We also speak about:

His recommended subversive thinker is J. Phillippe Rushton.

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive

Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/

I speak to the bête noire of Marxist commentary & nemesis of the dirtbag left, Aimee Terese about:

Her recommended subversive thinker is Rosa Luxemburg.

You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive   

Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/

I speak to Malcom about the future of the left and cutting ties with it.

We also talk about:

- Who is the working class in the contemporary West?

- Elite overproduction and the real class project of the current left: Saving the Professional Middle Class from their own uselessness.

- Commie techno-utopianism and its Experts need to be destroyed

- Poor immigrant women voting for racist parties in enlightened Sweden

- A new breed of right-wingers thirsty for insights from the old school left, from class analysis to cliodynamics.

- The app economy as a new form of tax farming

- The left's never-ending war on the Kulaks

- What happened to Anti-Globalization as the core of the dissident left?

I've talked to the extremely erudite and prolific Twitter poster, Yeerk.P

We talk about reeducation with "facts", the nature of truth, freedom, individuality as a consumption pattern, sex as a social construct, family bonds, the problem with scale, expressing emotions, and using inner states as political tools.

You can find his work at @PYeerk on Twitter.

I speak with cultsultant, prolific poster, and esoteric Twitter personality GRITCULT about our future - we talk about tech, stonks, dating, traditionalism & returning to nature.

Default Friend is a writer, cultural commentator, tech familiar, and, coincidentally, a friend.

We talk about the future of tech and tech optimism under the dark cloud of a year of skepticism about technocratic forces at work in our world. We also chat about dating, sex work, Mormons, wine aunts, simps & incels.

A fun conversation with a very smart lady.

This is a cozy podcast in the wake of the Capitol riots, featuring the formidable poaster also known as Kashiwagi @kwamurai.

We talk about the Capitol riots as a reason for optimism and/or sheer terror, marketing memes, the influence of the fringes, face-posting vs. being anonymous & how things could shift with the rise of a new counter-elite.

I'm being interviewed just as much in this one -  I tell the story of my time at Vice, the monoculture of Tech, ethnic tensions in Romania, and how we stumbled onto the darkness of fringe politics.

Mary is one of my favorite writers, but I've learned the most from her in matters of feminism, sexuality, and motherhood.

We chat about Mary's concept of reactionary feminism - she almost had me applying for my membership card - about LARP-ing and our fractured, multipolar reality; about porn & censorship and the fact that it's high time to reckon with ubiquitous and often abusive forms; about not being sex-positive, and about the ravages of hyper-liberalism.

Pascal joins me from his lead-lined wine cellar via Ham Radio (Radio Jambon in French), so excuse the wild audió. It's partly his incessant smoking and partly my incompetent amplification.

We talk about the consulting farms masquerading as College that we both attended, Catholicism, Neoliberalism (as always), weak men, and our love of, and pretty much existence as, Internet Weirdos.

Pascal is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and writes for all the big name brands in journalism and is NOT the France whisperer, so get that out of your head.

You can find him at @pegobry on Twitter.

Geoff Shullenberger is a senior lecturer at NYU, a self-described marginal academic, and one of the most incisive analysts of the current moment that I've yet to chat to. We discuss his analysis of Postmodernism in the context of the now-famous release of  "Cynical Theories" by Lindsay/Pluckrose, the rediscovery of Christopher Lasch & Rene Girard, and how power is flexing its beefy managerial apparatus in this time of *emergency*.

We also cover the recent Mark Crispin Miller thought crime scandal at NYU, where Geoff lectures as well.

Audio isn't ideal but workable. If you want to help me get a sound engineer, please consider donating to the show's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive

You can find Geoff's latest work at outsidertheory.com

And on his Twitter @daily_barbarian

In this episode of the Subversive Podcast, I talk to Gio Pennacchietti, a writer, impressionist painter, and Jungian Traditionalist. He gracefully explains art to me without laughing at my ignorance once and delivers a searing analysis of why we're in the equivalent of aesthetic end times - and why it's not all bad. It's a longer podcast, just because it was incredibly fun.