David Gornoski sits down with Johnathan Bi for a conversation on Johnathan’s introduction to the work of Rene Girard, Girard’s eschatological views, mimesis in the workplace, how Girard proposes we withdraw from conflict arising from mimetic desire, how the Left-Right dialectic plays out as mimetic doubling in our current culture, how Christ unleashes the personhood […]
[For this hour, skip past 50 minutes in the video.] The Biden administration just smeared conservative dissidents as “terrorists” and claimed that government cannot overreach in any way. Will the FBI release the unredacted raid affidavit? What horrors are being undertaken by gender-transition ideologues? Also in the show, James Kourtides calls in to comment on […]
[Video contains both hours. Skip past 35 minutes for hour 2.] For this episode, David Gornoski is joined by Devin Barras who talks about his Substack article on the sacrificial crisis of our time. How is the “cathedral” connected with the sacrificial crisis of the pandemic? Listen to the full episode to find out. Plus, […]
David Gornoski sits down with academic Leigh Fetter who discusses his journey from secular atheism to Christianity by discovering the works of Rene Girard. David and Leigh discuss a variety of topics such as the Christian undermining of ancient myths; the possibility of Orwellian totalitarianism; the Nietzschean problem of recreating values; how Girard provides a […]
How can we explain the government’s self-contradictory measures such as punishing non-violent law breakers by putting them in prisons where violence is rampant? Why do we allow such laws to exist? David Gornoski argues that history has been built on the sacrifices of the ones by the many. We need to change our mindsets and […]
How can we expect to win against COVID-19 when our immunity is made vulnerable by the lockdowns? Are top-down solutions any good in combating the pandemic? David Gornoski gets to the heart of the matter and explains how the key to fighting coronavirus lies in our sovereignty. Plus, Sir Owen returns to the show to […]
Because he refuses to hide the knife of the state, Trump is a heretic invader in the Holy of holies of our state religion. That also makes him the scapegoat supreme of our reigning religion of state power which feigns decorum and transcendence to mask the vulgarity and power lust inherent in every state action. […]