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David Gornoski on Liberty Lockdown Podcast: Freedom Through Sacrifice

Liberty Lockdown Podcast · Ep 64 David Gornoski David Gornoski recently appeared on the Liberty Lockdown podcast. “With all due respect to the unbelievable guests I’ve had on this is hands down the most revelatory, beautiful, spiritually uplifting episode I’ve ever done. For your own sake, don’t miss it” –Liberty Lockdown Follow Liberty Lockdown podcast […]

Choosing the Right Role Models

David Gornoski starts off the episode with a passionate plea to break the mythmaking of DC that is keeping us mired in cycles of envy and violence. David also comments on the news of the Atlanta killings which claimed the lives of eight people. What is the reason behind such killings? How can we avoid […]

Politics Is Religion

“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 […]

Rene Girard on Victims & Culture – Conversation with Isaac Morehouse

“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 […]

The Tragedy of Donald Trump (A Literary Analysis of The Trump Presidency)

INTRODUCTION This past week Donald Trump made history by being the first president to be, not only impeached twice, but also to be acquitted of impeachable offenses twice. These recent events that have unfolded have made a lot of Americans upset who feel that President Trump should come to justice for inciting an “insurrection” against […]

Exorcizing the Spirit of Empire

David Gornoski continues his critique of the ridiculous popularity contests that are politics. One of our biggest mistakes, David says, is how we have let the political establishment influence and shape things like science, medicine, and nutrition. Are we letting ourselves revert to the ancient practice of witch hunt? How can we exorcise the spirit […]

David Gornoski Returns from CPAC

David Gornoski starts the episode by recounting and reviewing his visit to this year’s CPAC over the weekend. Did Trump present anything new at CPAC? Who were the breakaway speakers, according to David? Did the future of conservatism make itself known? Join David Gornoski as he talks about the landmark conservative event of the year […]

Blame Games Sap the Power From America

Is America’s electrical infrastructure on the downslide as the Texas power outage seems to be indicating? What is the reason behind these increasing power outages across the country? “When all you’re focused on is the lunchroom drama, nobody knows how to keep the lights on the lunchroom itself.” Is capitalism to blame for unjust outcomes? […]

Understanding Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory

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, […]

THINGS HIDDEN 25: The Christ-Haunted Faith of Socialism

David Gornoski sits down with Dr. Andrei Znamenski, a professor of history with an interest in anthropology. Znamenski starts the discussion by breaking down the evolution of human society from the Marxist perspective and makes the case that Marxism is fundamentally a religious philosophy. Like all religions, Marxism is based on the scapegoat mechanism. How […]