“Sacrificing your neighbor’s won’t solve problems. To solve problems you need to sacrifice your fear.” How close is politics to religion? “The state,” David says, “is a vestige of old-time religion.” Join David Gornoski as he analyses the infusion of Woke politics into the military, the origins of Wokeness in the French postmodernists, the scapegoating […]
“We cannot allow people to teach us dependency,” David Gornoski says as he starts the episode. Mainstream media narratives aside, how can we recognize real narcissism in politics today? Listen to this episode as David takes on the news, including stories such as Cuomo’s refusal to resign, statists “permitting” the embracing of loved ones, Biden’s […]
“Our culture’s concern for victims is relatively new and radical in human history. Where does it come from? And how does understanding mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism make sense of the world?” David Gornoski recently appeared on Isaac Morehouse’s show to answer these questions while discussing Rene Girard’s sociology, and a political philosophy of […]
Instead of highlighting the destruction of the economy by the government and the DC war machine, the media wants you to focus on what the British royals on doing. Join David Gornoski as he talks about the silence of Antifa in the face of real injustices, the censoring of Trump’s CPAC speech, the true nature […]
David Gornoski starts the show by commenting on Cuomo’s continued deflection from taking responsibility for the nursing home deaths in New York. Is Dr. Fauci really a “defender of science” as the mainstream media insist he is? How fragile are the people who spearhead what David calls the “McWoke” movement? How did the Woke movement […]
David Gornoski is joined by University of Scranton professor Duane Armitage, author of Big Ideas for Little Philosophers. David and Duane Armitage talk about the work of Rene Girard and apply Mimetic insights to the religiosity of political correctness, the growing undifferentiation in Western society, victim narratives as a pretext for starting wars, the effects […]
David Gornoski starts the episode by exposing the Democrats who had repeatedly incited violence throughout Trump’s tenure as president. Have any of Big Tech’s fact-checkers flagged a story or meme that misinformed about or disparaged conservatives or libertarians? Is cancel culture a religious movement? Is Justin Timberlake’s “apology” a religious expression? How can we avoid […]
What is mimesis and how do we understand it? How does it help us understand what’s going on in the West today? David Gornoski starts the episode by answering these questions and explaining why the best way to heal society is to imitate Jesus and concede the rivalry. Where did the western concern for animals, […]
What did Caiaphas mean when he said, “it is better that one man die than the whole nation perish?” David Gornoski sits down with writer Michael Plaisted and, together, they attempt to tackle this question for our times. Was there any semblance of socialism during the time of Christ? And if there was how did […]
David Gornoski returns with A Neighbor’s Choice and he talks about the ongoing Trump impeachment. David highlights the need to escape the establishment’s attempt to redefine reality and get back to the true reality of Jesus’ restoration of personhood. David also talks about how government-sponsored nutrition science is ruining our country’s health. “Single-payer healthcare can’t […]