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Liberalism, Dugin & the Failure of the State

Are government regulatory agencies deeply captured or are they simply operating to their logical conclusion? How is the World Economic Forum reacting to the masses’ growing distrust of unelected elites? What do we make of Putin’s reaction towards liberalism? Join David Gornoski and Surit Dasgupta as they decipher Alexander Dugin’s proposal of the fourth political […]

The Eruption of Illiberalism

Joining Jason Jones for this episode is John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream, and the two talk about the spreading of illiberalism on both the Right and the Left; what American liberty means and what is leading to its slow erosion; the failure to defend bodily autonomy in the pandemic era; the rise of […]

The Demon in Democracy

The state is a religious space with its own soteriology and eschatology. At the center of this quasi-religious state is the Festival of Reason in which the Goddess of Reason replaces the one true God who is revealed in Scripture and known by faith alone. Of course, what is here called reason is really unreason. […]

The Monstrous Doubling in Politics, Jeff Deist on Deflation, Liberalism

David Gornoski starts off the show by analyzing how the two parties in America, Republican and Democratic, are mirrors of each other. “The more the two parties compete for power, the more they look the same.” What can we do to escape this mirroring that happens far too often in politics? Listen to the full […]

James Lindsay on Understanding Wokeness, Critical Race Theory

In a time when liberalism has been attacked as the source of society’s ills, what can be done to redeem it? Author, mathematician, and political commentator Dr. James Lindsay joins David Gornoski to discuss what liberalism really is. Dr. Lindsay describes ‘wokeness’ as a religion running rampant at Academia and claims that critical theory, the […]