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 […]
Why isn’t the FBI considering Antifa as a terrorist group? Why are Dr. Seuss’s books the latest to fall victim to cancel culture? Do humans know what they are doing when they get caught up in the spirit of the crowd? Listen to the full episode as David Gornoski gets to the bottom of these […]
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 […]
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 […]
“There’s this desire in our society to change reality with words,” David Gornoski says as he highlights the attempt to make actual violence passé while justifying violence against nonviolent persons. How ridiculous is Disney’s labeling of their own products as offensive? How religious is woke culture? Join David as he takes on Big Tech censorship, […]
David Gornoski sits down with Andrew McLuhan, director of the McLuhan Institute and grandson of Marshall McLuhan. The two discuss the overlaps between Marshall McLuhan and Rene Girard; how Marshall McLuhan rose to fame; the relation between technology and language; pandemic mask-wearing as a theatrical gesture; how changes in technology impact desire; and more. How […]
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? […]
“Imagine the stupidity of adults,” David Gornoski says as he looks at the news of children surrounded by plexiglass in schools. Join David Gornoski as he talks about the prison-like pandemic measures, transmuting anger into positive change, the irrelevance of statists and corporatists in Jesus’ grand scheme of things, the retardation of knowledge in using […]
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 […]