Shows
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaKatherine Dee (@Default_Friend) - Liberalism's Homegrown ShootersI speak with Katherine about a bizarre, relatively new outgrowth of the American psyche, the phenomenon of the school shooter. Beyond the "we need fewer/more guns" debate, there is a numb silence about the worldview that fuels the actual motivations of these young men. They are labeled and put away in the monster pile. But could it be that, in some ways, they see further than we can?
Katherine Dee is *the internet historian* bar none, and she's been doing some necessary spelunking in the neglected digital footprints of people like Adam Lanza, with startling results...2022-11-091h 00
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSam Ashworth-Hayes - The Return Of European HistoryI speak to Sam about the shifting tides in UK politics, about a new "very right wing" government implementing price fixing, about energy strategy and fumbling it on a continent-wide scale, and about the decriminalization of crime in the UK and what alternatives may look like.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a journalist who has been featured in The Spectator, The Critic, The Telegraph and many more publications. He is also the owner/operator of the Marginally Productive Substack. You can find him on Twitter at @SAshworthHayes2022-11-0253 min
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaHelen Roy - Mother After MaidenI speak with Helen about finding love, marriage, traditional gender roles, having and raising children, and doing it all under the watchful eye of gnostic rainbow millenarianism.
Helen Roy is a writer, wife, and mother. She’s a contributing editor for the American Mind and the host of the Girlboss, Interrupted podcast.
https://girlbossinterrupted.podbean.com/2022-10-261h 09
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaWilliam Wheelwright - Reactionary AgricultureWe speak about the future of industrial agriculture, food safety, regenerative agriculture, economies of scale and local specialization, the wonders of LARPing, US crime rates and the new islands of “failed states” within the country, and much more.
William Wheelwright is an anonymous Twitter poster, you can find his work @ploughmansfolly on Twitter.2022-10-191h 07
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJeremy Carl - Settlers vs. ImmigrantsI spoke with Jeremy about the history of immigration in the United States, the difference between settlers and immigrants, what the allegiance of our government class is towards citizens and non-citizens, brain gain and brain drain, immigration as apprenticeship, immigration as a fertility patch, and much more.
Jeremy Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, where his primary focus is on immigration, multiculturalism, and nationalism in America. He was formerly at the Hoover Institution and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior.2022-10-121h 09
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAleksandar Zabrosky - Progress Is A ScamI speak with Aleksandar about our age of incoherence, the strange duality between the accelerating complexity of the online narrative and essential systems breaking down in reality, and much, much more.
Aleksandar is an anonymous poster who has had many lives on Twitter, from @ajdhenry and "Turning Point Dyatlov Pass" to recently @FaucciMane, and is currently banned until the next respawn. 2022-10-051h 07
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEmmet Penney - The Looming Energy CrisisI speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more.
Emmet Penney of the Ex-haust podcast, editor in chief at Gridbrief, contributing editor at Compact, and a well-known nuclear barbarian.2022-09-281h 21
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDan Dima - Left And Right in Eastern EuropeI’ve been looking to record this episode for a while, given that Eastern Europe is both in the news and has gotten a new reputation as a bastion of “based politics.“
To enlighten me on the subject, I brought in my friend Dan Dima, one of the most well-read people I know, especially on Romanian and Eastern European history and political philosophy. We speak about what it means to be on the left or right in a place where we recently had “communist nationalism.” We also discuss revisionism, Victor Orban as a different breed of statesman, centraliza...2022-09-211h 40
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaLafayette Lee - Patriotism Among The RuinsI speak with Lee about the meaning of patriotism under the rainbow flag. We also speak about a desire for wild places and the frontier, homeschooling, family culture, being at home in your hometown, and more.
You can find Lafayette’s work on his Twitter page @Partisan_O and on his Substack https://ruins.substack.com/2022-09-141h 16
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEd West - Never Quite On The Right Side Of HistoryI speak with Ed about the current state of UK politics and the failures of its post-war conservative movements, the population collapse and why it is happening, grooming gang scandals, Eastern European fashion trends that may or may not include mullets, and much more.
Ed West is an author, journalist, blogger, owner/operator of a substack called Wrong Side Of History, and the author of many books, including The Diversity Illusion and Small Men On The Wrong Side Of History.
His recommended subversive thinker is N.S. Lyons and his substack, The Upheaval
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Subversive w/Alex KaschutaPeter Wang - The Predatory Infinite FeedI speak to Peter about our unprecedented information infrastructure and how it has captured the public discourse, and how we relate to others and ourselves. We also speak about Web 3, limbic capitalism, being powerless without common myths, and much more.
Peter Wang is CEO and Co-founder of Anaconda, a software developer and former physicist, and an advocate for data literacy and the wider Python-based data science community.
Peter's recommended subversive is Creon Levit2022-08-311h 08
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaTheodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) - Evil in a Decadent SocietyIn this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale.
We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more. This was one of my favorite conversations on this podcast, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Anthony's recommended subversive is Simon Leys, an essayist, and sinologist, one of the first intellectuals to denounce the Cultur...2022-08-241h 13
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaCurtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) - The Deep Right - A ManifestoI'm joined once again by Curtis to discuss and dissect what is closest to a declaration of the propositions of the Deep Right.
We focus primarily on the five principles as laid out in his Substack post: Principles of the Deep Right: Timelessness, Neutrality, Vitalism, Realism & Absolutism, but as always with Curtis, exciting tangents abound.
Curtis Yarvin is a writer, technologist, and dark lord of the dissident blogosphere. You can find his work at graymirror.substack.com2022-08-171h 26
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaYoram Hazony - What Is There To Conserve?speak with Yoram about what distinguishes British/American conservatism and how exportable it actually is, the liberal idea that politics can address itself to the public sphere alone, the possibility of democracy, the disenchantment of life downstream from technology, and much more.
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, a Bible scholar, and a political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation.
He is also the author of the Virtue of Nationalism and the new book Conservatism: A Rediscovery.
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Subversive w/Alex KaschutaHelena Kerschner - Rapid Onset Gender MadnessI speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner.
Helena Kerschner is a 23-year-old girl who has believed herself to be transgender since she was a teen. She is now trying to educate people about "gender-affirming care" as an advisor for Genspect, through her Substack, her Twitter, and her many appearances on alternative and mainstream media on the subject.2022-08-0351 min
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaLouise Perry - Sex, ReimaginedThe lovely Louise is back on the show to speak about motherhood, "Cultural Deathgrip Syndrome," sexual disenchantment, sex education based on consent, the idea that sex is a skill, abortion, the inherent inequality of sex, the rough sex defense, and much, much more.
Louise Perry is a writer, campaigner, a columnist at the New Statesman, and the author of the new book The Case Against The Sexual Revolution, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century2022-07-271h 16
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaLuke Burgis - Wanting While AtomizedI speak with Luke about being an autonomous self in an overabundance of memetic and mimetic opportunity, about choosing unchosen bonds again, the positives of mimesis given that it is inescapable, metaphysical boredom, expertise, identity, and much more.
Luke Burgis is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America in Washington
He is also the author of Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire In Everyday Life
His recommended subversive thinker (besides Rene Girard, of course) is Dietrich von Hildebrand.2022-07-201h 03
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMatt Peterson - No NeutralityI speak with Matt about how living together is possible when two different religious systems clash, about voice vs exit, Elon buying Twitter as an act of statesmanship, the accelerating "Current Thing" ratchet, civil rights law, based captains of industry as modern saviors, how we find each other and how we converge on a positive vision.
Matt Peterson is the Founder and President of New Founding and Align, founder of The American Mind, and Publisher of Return.life.
His recommended subversive is A.G. Sertillanges and his book "The Intellectual Life", described as "Thomist Jordan...2022-07-131h 15
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMary Harrington - Cyborgs In The LonghouseMary joins me once again to chat about her upcoming book, cyborg theocracy, modern feminism as class war, the power of the state in relationship to women, Bronze Age Mindset, the concept of "progress", prostitution, the devouring mother as the animating force behind liberalism, and much much more.
Mary Harrington is a writer and contributing editor to UnHerd. Her work has been featured widely and she is the author of the upcoming book "Feminism Against Progress."
Her recommended subversive thinker is Ivan Illich and his book "Gender."
You can also find her work o...2022-07-061h 06
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaWalter Kirn - On Power And BullshitI speak to Walter about what makes one a dissident at the moment and what the nature of a coalition can be that unites a Romanian mom with a Hollywood chad-type, the necessity of free speech and freedom for the creative, what the true believer archetype looks like from the top and how many of them there are, what power looks like up close and much more.
Walter Kirn is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is the author of eight books, including Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, which were turned into major movies...2022-06-291h 17
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaCarlo Lancellotti - Del Noce & The Problem Of AtheismI speak to Carlo about modernity as the elimination of the supernatural, atheism as the ultimate outcome of rationalism, the role of Marxism in the developments of recent history, transgender ideology as the next step in a gnostic unraveling, the convergence of the thought of Girard and Del Noce, asking questions as the first step and much more.
Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island, a Faculty in Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and one of the world’s foremost experts in philosopher Augusto de...2022-06-2259 min
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBen Sixsmith - Navigating The Digital DecadesI speak with Ben about life as an expat in Eastern Europe as storm clouds are gathering, the Zeitgeist of the last few decades under the shadow of all-encompassing technology, the new landscape of conservative magazines, identity as a product, navigating Twitter beefs, and his book "Noughties: Eleven Echoes of a Dismal Decade"
Ben Sixsmith is a writer from the UK who currently lives in Poland, he's written for The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, The Critic, and American Conservative among many other outlets, and is the owner-operator of The Zone Substack. You can also find him on Twitter...2022-06-151h 00
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaThe Return of Gio Pennacchietti - A Map Of The Dissident EcosystemMy friend Gio is back on the podcast as we engage in a sprawling discussion across very online spaces. We discuss his new project as a documentarian of the new right sphere, its warring factions, and memetic and mimetic dynamics, we also speak about beauty, the dating marketplace, dating archetypes, bronze age liberalism, "liminal spaces" and non-spaces, anonymity, being in the avant-garde and much much more.
Gio Pennacchietti is an artist, a writer, podcaster and printmaker. You can find all his work and resources on his Linktree.2022-06-081h 52
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMichael Tracey - Our Permanent State of EmergencyI speak to Michael about his stance on Ukraine, on what it means to be contrarian under forced context collapse, on a possible escalation of the war, sanctions, the involvement of western NGOs, "do-something-ism" and much more.
Michael Tracey is a journalist, a political commentator, and owner/operator of the Michael Tracey Substack. You can also follow him via Twitter @mtracey2022-06-011h 23
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAcademic Agent - Who Rules Us?I speak with AA about his political evolution and how it mirrors mine, about Libertarianism and its discontents, about the "current thing" as it manifests itself in the conflict in Ukraine, about blackpills and whitepills, and much more.
Academic Agent is an internet renaissance man, one of the most prolific and successful content producers on the dissident right. You can find his work at the Academic Agency, where he offers courses on everything from economics to politics and research, on Twitter, on Substack, and most importantly on Youtube.
His book The Populist Delusion is also out...2022-05-251h 27
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaCovfefe Anon - The Woke Are More Correct Than The MainstreamCovfefe Anon joins me to discuss the ongoing dysfunction of the West, the 54th Clause of the Magna Carta, the woman question, history entangled with technology and the market, "do-somethingism" and much more.
Covfefe Anon is a Twitter poster offering commentary from an NRx perspective.
The threads and resources referenced in our chat:
1-2% execution per generation: https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-wrong-place-at-wrong-time.html
Rosedale thread: https://twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/1414619671056297984
Ethnic cleansing in the Bronx: http://bronxhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/M.Roby_.pdf2022-05-181h 34
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaThe Return of James Poulos - Remaining Human In The Cyborg TheocracyI'm joined for a second time by James as we discuss what it means to be human and why this is worth holding on to as the tide of technology threatens to sweep us away. We also speak about technology as both tool and master, the future of one religion or many, the religious wars of the future, the old gods and the new, anarchoprimitivism, the power of images, permanent hysteria, and much more.
James Poulos is a writer, the founder, and editor of the American Mind, founder and publisher of Return.life, the author of The...2022-05-111h 11
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAnatoly Karlin - The View From RussiaI speak to Anatoly about the view from inside Russia, why he returned after decades in the West, what Putin's intentions and aspirations are, the mood in Russia, the outline of the nationalist forces that have emerged in the last decade, his correct and false predictions about the war. We also speak about fertility decline, murder rates and Scientism.
Anatoly Karlin is a blogger, an intelligence researcher, a man with Powerful Takes, and a Russian repatriate.2022-05-041h 06
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSpencer Klavan - The Freedom To ConstrainI speak to Spencer about being a classicist in a post-modern world, hysteria as the baseline feeling, the longing for order and guidance, and how it manifests under a system where order is seen as fundamentally oppressive. We also speak about being gay and adjacent to the dissident right and BAP's perspective on the origin of homosexuality.
Spencer Klavan is a classicist, writer and podcast host, he is also Associate Editor at the Claremont Review of Books @ClaremontIns, Features Editor at the American Mind @theammind, and Host of the Young Heretics Show @ynghereticsshow2022-04-271h 37
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBenjamin Braddock - Alternative Truth SupremacyI chat with Ben about the escalating situation in Ukraine, the waning US empire, and the Covid truth regime, from origins to medications to side effects, animal reservoirs of the virus, and what you can do to strengthen yourself against its likely effects as Omicron comes for us all.
Ben Braddock is an anonymous Twitter poster @GraduatedBen, a writer for various publications and on Substack, a beauty appreciator, raw egg slonker, environmentalist, and a human and animal rights activist.2022-04-211h 24
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaThomas777 - No Escape From HistoryThe audio is a bit choppy as we had some connection issues, but it's mostly intelligible.
I chat with Thomas about Ukraine and historical precedents, Chinese dominance vs. Western hegemony, technology as a motor of history, Liberalism, Religion as a vacuum that needs to be filled, scale, localism, having children and the global fertility decline, going mainstream, making the transition from obscure forums to Substack, his advice for young'uns, and much more.
Thomas777 is a LEGENDARY POSTER, revisionist history connoisseur, cultured thug, capitalization aficionado, and author of Steelstorm. You can find his work on his...2022-04-131h 17
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaThe Return of Zero HP Lovecraft - Peer Into The Liberal MindZero returns to discuss fracturing factions on the dissident right, publishing a book through crypto sorcery, the 1000 pod stories submitted to the Passage prize, the war with rationalists, human rights, veganism, Covid as a guiding light to lost souls, and the things that make the liberal mind and much more.
Zero HP Lovecraft is a writer, anonymous poster, and unofficial king of Twitter. He is the author of "They Had No Deepness Of Earth", published on canonic.xyz, you can find his spine-tingling and sleep-disrupting stories on his blog and you can find him @0x49fa98 on...2022-04-061h 08
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAnacreon - Post-Liberal InspirationI speak to Anacreon about confluent online spheres, about reaching the same conclusions about liberalism via different redpill flavors, about high trust societies, social capital and how hard this is to build and how easy to burn, believing in progress, talking to your neighbors, Liberal democracy, the nuclear family, hard work and equality of opportunity.
Anacreon is a guest with a unique origin story and one of the few non-Twitter-derived guests on this podcast. I found his great account on Instagram @totallynotanacreon and it is well worth a visit. He specializes in post-liberal infographics and if you're...2022-03-311h 09
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaPedro Gonzalez - Neoconservatism Has to GoI speak to Pedro about his merciless attacks on neocons, being faced with accusations of antisemitism and surviving them, the "new right" candidates and political recalibration, the slow death of fusionism, "Trans" as a profound distortion of reality, Trump as necessary but not sufficient, castizo futurism and much more.
Pedro Gonzalez is an associate editor at Chronicles Magazine, a Lincoln Fellow alum at the Claremont Institute, a Substack owner/operator, and a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson.
You can also find Pedro's work on Twitter
His recommended subversives are James Burnham and Sam...2022-03-231h 20
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBlake Masters - A New Kind Of PoliticsI speak with Blake about limbic capitalism, regulating technology, the dream of a one-income family, libertarianism and its discontents, the problems of scale, "CRT is anti-white", ultra-woke/uber-based Silicon Valley, Immigration and H1B visas, the rights of citizens, pointing out the elephant in the room, the GAE egregores, demons, and mind viruses, uncle Ted's genius and much more.
Blake Masters is a venture capitalist, author, president of the Thiel Foundation, and co-author of probably the most famous and to-the-point book about startups, “Zero to One”, together with Peter Thiel. He is currently running for U.S. Sena...2022-03-161h 17
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAmanda Milius - Based Queens Are In ControlI speak to Amanda about the role of women on the dissident right, making subversive art, difficult family life, growing up in Hollywood, therapy culture, trying to make right-wing movies, can republicans create change in the administrative state, the new threats on Ukraine, John McAfee and the archetype of the heroic outcast, masculinity and making documentaries.
Amanda Milius is the founder of AMDC Films, Producer & Director of the documentary "The Plot Against The President", a former State Department official and adviser in the Trump administration. You can find her @AmandaMilius on Twitter.
Her recommended subversive...2022-03-091h 16
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaOwen Cyclops - A Rebirth Of The TimelessI speak to illustrator Owen Cyclops @owenbroadcast about the meaning of creating "right-wing art", leaving the framing of the left and building our own perspective on reality, his evolution from psychedelic hermit to Christian family man, conspiracy theories, psychedelics as a portal to enlightenment or a trap, worldviews and cosmologies as a necessary frame, forbidden literature, rediscovering western mysticism, Mormonism as a religion of the family, growing a family, being a father and much more.
We also discuss Owen's new collection of comics, Channel One, a beautiful book that I very much recommend.
His recommended...2022-03-021h 27
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEmil Kirkegaard - Science Outside The Overton WindowI chat to rogue researcher Emil Kirkegaard about the fraught intersection between intelligence research and genetics. Which knowledge is allowed, which knowledge is ignored, and which knowledge is simply unacceptable.
You can find Emil's work on his Substack https://kirkegaard.substack.com/ and he is on Twitter @kirkegaardemi2022-02-231h 33
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSimon Webb - How The UK Got Its New HistoryI speak to Simon about how the United Kingdom changed since he was growing up, what prompted him to speak about the changes he was witnessing, Immigration, Rotherham, Colonialism and slavery (of all colors), polish concentration camps, black history month, homeschooling and much more.
Simon Webb is a historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He’s penned over forty westerns and over twenty non-fiction books, specializing in the area of social history and journalist. He is also the host of the popular History Debunked youtube channel, where he covers spicy topics on the continuous wo...2022-02-161h 07
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBennett's Phylactery - New Possibilities Outside Of The System@extradeadjcb is back to speak with me about his new project, Exit, helping others like himself find community and educational and financial resources beyond the system. We also speak about doxxing, the possibilities of voting, being blackpilled, remote work and. the options it opens up, emigrating as an option for dissidents, the energy on the Right, the possibility of collapse, and a lot more.
You can find JCB on Twitter @extradeadjcb and Exit, including their new podcast at https://www.exitgroup.us/2022-02-091h 14
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDarryl Cooper aka MartyrMade - Learning From History While Living ItI loved recording this episode with Darryl, where we chat about everything from civil rights redpills, to the (im)possibility of conservatism without God, bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, liberal entropy, learning from history (fast), and much, much more.
Darryl Cooper is the host of ‘The Martyr Made‘ podcast and co-host of ‘The Unraveling with Jocko Willink‘, a breakout Twitter star @martyrmade and a new conservative voice to watch.2022-02-021h 20
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaRyszard Legutko - Are We Free?You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I talk to Prof. Legutko about not being liberal under liberal hegemony, the straight line from communism to liberal democracy, the meaning of freedom, the importance of technology to the enduring power of liberalism, the future of Europe and the EU, and inhabiting the profile of the perpetual outcast.
Ryszard Legutko is a Polish philosopher and politician, a current mem...2022-01-261h 25
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAuron MacIntyre - No Such Thing As A Secular SocietyYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat to Auron about the IDW model of reality and why it is broken, Christianity and its role in the west, "no friends to the right", postmodernism and a right-wing critique of positivism, moral relativism vs. facts, NRx in the mainstream, anarchotyranny, class and the culture war and much more.
Auron MacIntyre is a youtube and Twitter personality...2022-01-191h 20
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJosiah Lippincott - Military Incompetence And Rainbow WarsYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat to Josiah about his background in the Marine Corps, his effective but scary energy, the disgraceful present situation in the US military, exporting rainbow foreign policy, nation-building, the purpose of generals, women in the military, breastfeeding tents, being a facelord and the highest-ranking dissident in the. armed forces, his increasing power level, the loss in Afghanistan, the Covid military regime, NGOs, and policy without po...2022-01-121h 15
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEugyppius - The Covid Truth RegimeI speak to Eugyppius about the last two years of warped existence under the Covid truth regime. We speak about its likely origins, the measures imposed through a sudden global burst of autocracy, the insanity of "Covid 0", the ever-shifting narrative around the virus and how it maps politically, the vaccine and its potential effects (and non-effects), "an epidemic of the unvaccinated!", mRNA vaccines in general, mandates and Covid as ersatz religion.
Eugyppius is an anonymous Twitter poster @eugyppius1 who now runs a successful Substack and his own podcast at https://eugyppius.substack.com.
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Subversive w/Alex KaschutaPaul Kingsnorth - Is There A Retvrn From The Edge? You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to Paul about freedom under liberalism, his conversion to Romanian Orthodoxy, the possibility of a truly secular society, transhumanism, the English people and their right to self-determination, the hedonic treadmill, London as the new Babel, what is Hell, scientism and the race for the preservation of bare life under Covid, materialism, localism, AI, technocapital and more.
Paul K...2021-12-291h 18
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaNina Power - Men & Women At The End of HistoryYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to Nina about feminism and femininity, men and masculinity, a right-wing critique of capitalism, postliberalism, the relational nature of humans, Technological slavery, Addiction in the context of liberalism, our hidden but infinite responsibility, sex-negativity, aging as a woman, ingroup Scapegoating & Rene Girard, marriage and "living with the enemy".
Nina Power is a writer and philosopher, the author of...2021-12-221h 24
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaWolf Tivy - Building The Best BetterI chat to Wolf about Democracy, what it's missing, what it's hiding and what it can still do, we also talk about elite theory and our elites, what's wrong with them and how to create skin in the game beyond (or after) noblesse oblige. We chat about Wolf's "luxury political theory" project and building a cult to build a culture. We also speak about religion, gnosticism and transhumanism and Wolf's vision of the Bisonsphere™️
Wolf Tivy is editor in chief & founder of Palladium magazine. You can follow him on Twitter @wolftivy2021-12-151h 03
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaRichard Hanania - Civil Rights HegemonyYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases of Subversive on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat with Richard about his hypotheses on the origin and permanence of "wokeness", how liberalism became the hegemony, about expertise, his theory of power, taking the vaccine (or not), eugenics, the feminization of politics and society, demographic collapse and more.
Richard Hanania is the President and Founder of The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), which supports and funds research on...2021-12-081h 18
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaIndian Bronson 2 - The Return : Nuke The Sexual RevolutionIndian Bronson is back as the first repeat guest on the show to talk with me at length about the sexual revolution, the fallout in the present, and potential scenarios for the future of love and marriage.
We also talk about Uncle Yarv, "conservatism isn't real" and the IDW vs CRT debate.
Indian Bronson is a prolific anonymous poster, alleged Miami tech bro, and friend.
You can find him on Twitter at @lndian_Bronson and on Substack at https://indianbronson.substack.com/ Also check out his new project, Keeper Dating https://www.keeper.dating2021-12-011h 53
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaConscious Caracal (Ernst van Zyl) & Rob Duigan - A Vision From The Dark ContinentYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
In this first double feature of the Subversive podcast, we dive deep into the topic of South Africa. I chat to Ernst and Rob about the events currently unfolding in SA, the historical build-up to this situation, the lessons we can learn from this (and the wrong lessons to learn), and what the ultimate whitepill is, even when times get tough...2021-11-242h 10
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaLomez - Loyalty, Friendship & Intuitive PoliticsYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to anonymous Twitter poster Lomez @L0m3z about this unique moment in dissident right politics.
We also speak about Thielbuxx, the attraction of the dissident right and anon Twitter as a social project, libertarianism as a gateway, rationalism vs. intuition, “the society of peasants”, Richard Weaver & Nominalism, quietism in Neoreaction vs. localism, banning CRT, and failure in A...2021-11-171h 13
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSeasonal Clickfarm Worker - Medical Tyranny & The IndividualYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat to anonymous Twitter personality, Seasonal Clickfarm Worker @ClickingSeason about Medical Tyranny, our perspective being locked on the Individual, parenting, birth, having children, and much more.2021-11-101h 14
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaThe Distributist - A New Era On The Dissident RightI chat to Dave aka The Distributist about the current moment in the ever-shifting movement that is the Dissident Right.
We chat about the perils of social media, Twitter, Youtube, his break with liberalism, the evolution of the dissident right on the internet, the sexual revolution, and much more.
The audio comes in two parts (slight tech failure) but both are very worthwhile.
Dave has an excellent youtube channel that covers political philosophy and cultural commentary from a Catholic and often neo-reactionary perspective.2021-11-031h 37
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAnna Khachiyan - Motherhood in the Current YearI chat with Anna Khachiyan about motherhood and family. She recently became a mother and I was just about to give birth when this was recorded. You'll also hear a bit of baby in the background, a bit of pregnancy brain in the host, and an all-around atmosphere of doomer optimism concerning having and raising babies.
Anna is co-host of the brilliant Red Scare podcast and can be found @annakhachiyan on Twitter. 2021-10-2750 min
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaHelen Joyce - The Trans TakeoverI speak to Helen about the fast-developing topic of Transgenderism. About self-identification, trans medicine from John Money to the tragic case of David Reimer, how the UK ended up as TERF island, Trans Widows, Autogynephilia & the work of Ray Blanchard, gender as performance and *essential quality of the soul*, the huge difference between mtf and ftm transgender, and how liberal individualism & transhumanism play into this new booming field of identity.
Helen Joyce is a journalist and writer, the is executive editor for the events business of The Economist, and the author of the newly released "Trans: When...2021-10-201h 22
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaRazib Khan - Saying The UnsayableYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat to Razib about multiracial whiteness, the importance of genetics, the role of IQ in life outcomes and why it's a thorny subject, meritocracy, free love, and its discontents, dating and the relief of not dating (anymore), brown privilege, ultra woke brahmin ladies and why he volunteers to say the unsayable.
Razib is a population geneticist, a writer, a...2021-10-131h 25
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJack Murphy - Love, Exile & ExitI chat to Jack about finding love in troubled times, marriage, having children, his adventures in polyamory, finding religion, his past as a libertarian, and opportunities for exit.
His recommended subversive is Jordan Hall.
Jack is a writer, podcaster, and host of the Jack Murphy Live show, founder of the Liminal Order, and author of “Democrat to Deplorable.”
You can find his work via his Twitter @jackmurphylive2021-10-061h 26
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaApex - Autonomy is not enoughI chat to anonymous poster (by night) and Wall Street analyst (by day), Apex, about the values and assumptions that are at the base of our current order.
We talk about: liberalism's love affair with autonomy, oversocialization as a useful lens borrowed from uncle Ted himself, "the marketplace of ideas" and the expert class, libertarianism and its discontents, and much more.
His recommended subversive is John Safranek with his book "The myth of Liberalism"
You can find Apex's latest work on his prolific Substack: apexsnotes.substack.com and on Twitter @apex_simmaps2021-09-291h 30
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaCharles Haywood - Post-Liberal Doomer OptimismI talk to Charles about finding ourselves at a very generative intersection of political ideas, in what feels to be a pivotal moment & in great company - post-liberalism is here and it is up to us to feel out the contours of the future, to at least not let it surprise us, and at best have a part in creating it.
We speak about:
The three strands of post-liberal thought - what does the territory look like?
Gatekeeping on our side: "no friends to the right"
The Enlightenment and its discontents2021-09-221h 42
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMichael Millerman - Post-Liberalism as a RealityYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I chat to rogue scholar Michael Millerman about what political philosophy can teach us in a post-liberal age.
We also talk about:
Having roots in Eastern Europe as a motivation for learning political philosophy
Post-liberalism as a reality beyond liberalism, communism, and fascism
What does Alexander Dugin add to the conversation?
Questioning the Individual and...2021-09-151h 19
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBo Winegard - Human Diversity & The End of HistoryI chat to exiled academic Bo Winegard about how what we've learned about human diversity affects how we can live together under liberalism and beyond.
We also speak about:
His love for Western Civilization and what that means
Controlling for genetics and the fate of social explanations for disparity across both the Left & Right
What the Post-Liberals miss about diversity
His Trump regrets
The Enlightenment and its aftermath
Science as the model for "continual progress" in every domain
His recommended subversive thinker is J. Phillippe Rushton.
You can find Bo's latest work via...2021-09-081h 42
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAimee Terese - The Regime Of Compulsory LoveYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to the bête noire of Marxist commentary & nemesis of the dirtbag left, Aimee Terese about:
Leaving the Left.
Being "post-left" & the tyranny of political labels.
Love for the little guy & the genius of small accounts.
Being honest under weaponized dishonesty.
Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker & liberal "progress porn."
"There are no more nazis or communists."
Covert authoritarianism and t...2021-09-011h 52
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaBennett's Phylactery - Based Mormonism And Rebuilding The FaithYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to brilliant Twitter anon @extradeadjcb about Mormonism, Family, and Faith.
We also speak about:
- The elevator pitch for Mormonism
- Missionary religions and how they work
- Can you resurrect faith "because we need it"?
- Teenage rebellion is not a human universal
...2021-08-251h 25
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMalcom Kyeyune - Good Riddance To The LeftYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to Malcom about the future of the left and cutting ties with it.
We also talk about:
- Who is the working class in the contemporary West?
- Elite overproduction and the real class project of the current left: Saving the Professional Middle Class from their own uselessness.
...2021-08-181h 02
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJoe Norman - The Dangers Of Civilization At ScaleYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to Joe Norman about the perils of running a civilization at scale, localism, and how small is not only beautiful, it's the only scale at which humanity works.
We also chat about:
- Being Luddites
- The cheapening of "Lindy" and timelessness as a better concept
- Jordan Peterson and his adventures with GMOs
- Co...2021-08-111h 21
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSohrab Ahmari - Wisdom at the Twilight of LiberalismYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing and the early releases on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I speak to Sohrab Ahmari about being an outsider to the Western Tradition, loving the West without needing to love liberalism, about "facts don't care about your feelings" and other wishful thinking, about Progress with a capital P, about the emerging coalition of (actually) diverse thinkers and the cross-pollination happening outside the traditional parameters of left and right, about Twitter friends...2021-08-0441 min
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaInez Stepman - Forgetting Nature On The Way To UtopiaI speak to Inez Stepman about our rejection of nature in the search for Utopia.
We also speak about:
- What it means to be an anti-feminist woman.
- Demographic collapse, the fertility crisis, and anti-natalism
- Politics on a simple axis: humanity is fallen or changeable?
- Abundance as a double-edged sword.
- Technology as a way to forget about nature.
- Transhumanism and rationalism
- The desexing of sex and the death of sexual tension
- Rape, consent, and...2021-07-281h 21
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSergiu Klainerman - Seeing The Future In The PastYou can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
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Sergiu Klainerman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, where he’s been teaching since 1987.
He's also a fellow Romanian, an anti-communist dissident, someone who successfully fled the regime, and, recently, a fearless voice in what he sees as a rise in the US of the same forces he left behind in 1980s Romania.
We spea...2021-07-211h 22
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEigenrobot - After RationalismYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
This week I chat to Eigenrobot, prolific poster, podcaster, and unofficial king of post-rationalism (whatever we finally decided that is).
We chat about:
- Having babies, making families and community work
- What leads to low trust societies and the drifting away from high trust in the west
- "The conservation of suffering"...2021-07-141h 23
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAaron Sibarium - Liberalism: Time To Sober UpYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I chat with Aaron Sibarium about our post-liberal moment.
About how we can’t make sense of history and politics without understanding technology.
The challenges of Online Localism vs Real Life Localism
Is our future in competitive city-states?
Identity and signaling in the “Marketplace of Ideas”
The self-fulfilling prophecy of diversity programs
The marr...2021-07-071h 29
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDryden Brown - TradHumanism and Building the FutureYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to Bluebook Cities & Praxis Society co-founder and CEO, Dryden Brown, about a positive vision for the future, about foundational values, what it takes to build and maintain a community, frontier thinking, his concept of TradHumanism, cults, and what we can learn from them, sequester states and the magic of the internet and meeting your heroes.
You can find Dryden and his latest projects on...2021-06-301h 07
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDarren Beattie - Empire, Moral Fervor and ModernityYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to Darren Beattie about quaint Transylvanian towns and who has power in the politics of Eastern European backwaters, the Globalist American Empire and how narrative warps reality, color revolutions, who has the moral high ground and why it matters, the origins of our present derangements - philosophy, material emergence, or both, the question of "does voting even matter?", the impact of technology on how the game...2021-06-231h 19
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaEd Dutton - Genetics & Civilizational CollapseYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to Prof. Ed Dutton, aka the Jolly Heretic about how genetics can impact the social fabric, coordination, culture, and of course, politics. We speak about his new thesis on how feminism's interplay with genetics has shredded the fundamental building blocks of western societies.
We also speak about the differences between liberals and conservatives, the great testosterone collapse, our adaptation to rape and rape fan...2021-06-161h 20
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAngela Nagle - Politics Beyond Left & RightYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to Angela about rootlessness as the price of empire, woke NGOs as the enforcers of global capital, hyperreal online spaces and the people that populate them, boring local politics vs. the dopamine rush of the 24/7 kaleidoscope of U.S. politics, having skin in the game of politics and what happens if you don't, the machinations of power at a global level, and the fertility crisis.2021-06-091h 52
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaAlex Gutentag - The Great COVID ResetYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I chat to writer and California public school teacher, Alex Gutentag, about the world we inhabit in the wake of over one year of continuous COVID restrictions. We talk about the greatest wealth transfer from the lower-middle class to the rarefied strata at the top, and about the impact social isolation is having on vulnerable people, especially children.
Alex brings her perspective as a teacher thr...2021-06-021h 10
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJustin Murphy - Get Married & Exit The InstitutionsYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I talk to Justin Murphy about building a platform and a career on the internet, Gen Z shitposters, academic defectors, getting married already, aging and attractiveness, fertility and pronatalism, cheating, casual sex culture, minors fornicating, Urbit, a *different kind of internet*, private communities.
You can find Justin's work at @jmrphy on Twitter, at https://otherlife.co/ and https://www.indiethinkers.org/2021-05-261h 28
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaGeoffrey Miller - Mating in the 21st CenturyYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I talk to Geoffrey Miller about the problems of dating in the 21st century, how casual sex culture is a race to the bottom, about marriage, polyamory, the fertility crisis, incels, algorithmic dating, and other runaway algorithms, and about other existential risks to our survival as a species.
Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Intelligence (2008), Spent (2009), and Mate (2015...2021-05-191h 31
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDelicious Tacos - The Finest Smut Peddler On The WebYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I talk to Delicious Tacos about women writers and the XO Jane confessional essay, the changing face of the pick-up artist community, dealing with feds, prostitutes, the demon of alcoholism, masochism, and God.
Definitely the most raunchy, no-filter episode I've done, also the funniest.
Subversive is generally not for small kids, but - this one - is radioactive for anyone under 16.
Delicious Taco...2021-05-121h 10
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJason Snyder - LARPing Cosmopolitan Localists, Unite!You can support this podcast and get early releases and bonus content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or access my writing as on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I talk to Jason Snyder about the problems of scale, urbanization, the complexity of the modern condition, and how you can still build an expansive life when everything contracts.
We talk about homesteading, cosmopolitan localism, being LARPers and liking it, permaculture, and the option of homeschooling or the fight to reform public schooling.
Jason is on the faculty of Appalachian Stat...2021-05-051h 21
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaCurtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) - Letter to a Young DissidentYou can support this podcast, get early releases and exclusive content at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
Papa Moldbug is imparting his hard-won knowledge about our moment in history - about how to be a dissident without getting your head chopped off and why it seems darkest before the dawn.
We talk about the energies behind a counter-elite, rule-by-Basilisk/AI, the fertility crisis, religion, Martian colonies, toothpaste, and his biggest whitepill (i.e. reason for hope).
Also...2021-04-282h 10
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaJames Poulos - Tech Doomerism & SuperhumanismYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I speak to James Poulos, author, scholar, and master of the esoteric tweet about the promise, limits, and the sheer body horror of tech. We chat about the Silicon Valley counter-elite, technological slavery (the reality, not the book), the religious nature of man, the manly nature of religion and try to answer the question: "Does it sting more if your tyrant is a machine?"
James is a delight t...2021-04-211h 18
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaRob Henderson - Sex & Mating During The End TimesYou can support this podcast and get early releases at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I've talked to student of human nature and the mac daddy of "luxury beliefs", Rob Henderson about the state of dating today.
We chat about the role of evolutionary psychology - interesting factoids or unbreakable iron destiny? - about the cascading to hell effects of app dating algorithms, about polyamory as a luxury belief, about the probability that we'll see an incel-led insurgency, and a lot more.2021-04-141h 21
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaSamo Burja - The Power & Limits Of The RegimeYou can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
Samo Burja has an encyclopedic mind, is an extremely broad thinker, and was a delight to speak to.
We talk about how great founders are at the core of societal evolution, about bureaucracy, managerialism, the iron law of oligarchy, about building elites and aspirational societies, about both of us being "children of transition" out of communism, about truth and prestige, the future of anonymity and the fertility crisis.
Sa...2021-04-071h 36
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaLouise Perry - The Sexual Revolution And Its DiscontentsYou can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
In this episode, we talk about frigid bitches, why Generation Z is definitely not "sex-positive," porn culture, ambiguous sexual norms, #metoo, the rise of BDSM as standard, sex trafficking, the "Aziz Ansari Paradox", the new polygyny in universities and cities and why "consent" is a necessary but not sufficient part of the dating landscape.
Louise Perry is a writer, campaigner, and columnist for the New Statesman.
You can fi...2021-03-311h 13
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaZero HP Lovecraft - Women & Men in the Age of AccelerationYou can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://www.alexkaschuta.substack.com
I talk to Zero HP Lovecraft about women, men, and the future of dating in the age of acceleration.
We also talk about toxic masculinity, bullying, how he has seen the dark heart of man, signaling, status, pick up artists, his righteous war with the Oatly intern, what "radicalized" him, and why incels won't get to have a Marxist class revolution.
Zero is a science fiction writer, a horror...2021-03-241h 24
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaPatrick Deneen - Liberalism & The Meaning of FreedomYou can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Or check out my writing on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/
I talk with Patrick Deneen about why Liberalism failed, about the frictionless society, being alone, technology and supernormal stimuli, why Libertarianism failed and keeps failing, the problems of scale, the West strip-mining the world for intelligence, fertility traps, and much more.
We also cover what could come next, which will be the topic of Prof. Deneen's next book.
Patrick Deneen is a Professor of Political Science at Notre Da...2021-03-171h 37
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDavid Reaboi - Narrative Warfare & The Need For ExitI talk with national security and political warfare expert David Reaboi about the way the media shapes narratives, the wrong lessons learned from the cold war, the fact that universal values are a spook, about credentialism, and building new institutions.
You can find David's work at https://www.davereaboi.com/ and on Twitter at @davereaboi.
David's new book, "Qatar's Shadow War" will be out soon as well.
You can also support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
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Subversive w/Alex KaschutaYeerk.P - Freedom, Facts & ReeducationI've talked to the extremely erudite and prolific Twitter poster, Yeerk.P
We talk about reeducation with "facts", the nature of truth, freedom, individuality as a consumption pattern, sex as a social construct, family bonds, the problem with scale, expressing emotions, and using inner states as political tools.
You can find his work at @PYeerk on Twitter.
Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
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2021-03-031h 35
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaGRITCULT - What is our future?I speak with cultsultant, prolific poster, and esoteric Twitter personality GRITCULT about our future - we talk about tech, stonks, dating, traditionalism & returning to nature.
You can find GRIT's sprawling empire here https://link.snipfeed.co/cult
Or on Twitter at @GRITCULT
You can support this podcast and my work at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
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2021-02-241h 37
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaDefault Friend - Tech Optimism under Pod Conditions, Sex Work, Wine Aunts and Incels.Default Friend is a writer, cultural commentator, tech familiar, and, coincidentally, a friend.
We talk about the future of tech and tech optimism under the dark cloud of a year of skepticism about technocratic forces at work in our world. We also chat about dating, sex work, Mormons, wine aunts, simps & incels.
A fun conversation with a very smart lady.
You can find her work at defaultwisdom.substack.com and on her Twitter @default_friend.
You can support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Music: Discovery...2021-02-171h 22
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaKwamurai - Making Sense, Being Right & The Rise of a Counter-EliteThis is a cozy podcast in the wake of the Capitol riots, featuring the formidable poaster also known as Kashiwagi @kwamurai.
We talk about the Capitol riots as a reason for optimism and/or sheer terror, marketing memes, the influence of the fringes, face-posting vs. being anonymous & how things could shift with the rise of a new counter-elite.
I'm being interviewed just as much in this one - I tell the story of my time at Vice, the monoculture of Tech, ethnic tensions in Romania, and how we stumbled onto the darkness of fringe politics.2021-02-102h 00
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaMary Harrington - Reactionary Feminism, Motherhood, LARP & Good Riddance to PornMary is one of my favorite writers, but I've learned the most from her in matters of feminism, sexuality, and motherhood.
We chat about Mary's concept of reactionary feminism - she almost had me applying for my membership card - about LARP-ing and our fractured, multipolar reality; about porn & censorship and the fact that it's high time to reckon with ubiquitous and often abusive forms; about not being sex-positive, and about the ravages of hyper-liberalism.
Mary writes primarily for Unherd, and her Twitter feed is an excellent place to find her latest projects @moveincircles.
2021-02-031h 04
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaPascal Emmanuel Gobry - Catholicism, Weak Men & Being Internet WeirdosPascal joins me from his lead-lined wine cellar via Ham Radio (Radio Jambon in French), so excuse the wild audió. It's partly his incessant smoking and partly my incompetent amplification.
We talk about the consulting farms masquerading as College that we both attended, Catholicism, Neoliberalism (as always), weak men, and our love of, and pretty much existence as, Internet Weirdos.
Pascal is a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and writes for all the big name brands in journalism and is NOT the France whisperer, so get that out of your head.
Y...2021-01-271h 25
Subversive w/Alex KaschutaGeoff Shullenberger - The Spectre of Postmodernism, the return of Lasch and COVID Flexing of PowerGeoff Shullenberger is a senior lecturer at NYU, a self-described marginal academic, and one of the most incisive analysts of the current moment that I've yet to chat to. We discuss his analysis of Postmodernism in the context of the now-famous release of "Cynical Theories" by Lindsay/Pluckrose, the rediscovery of Christopher Lasch & Rene Girard, and how power is flexing its beefy managerial apparatus in this time of *emergency*.
We also cover the recent Mark Crispin Miller thought crime scandal at NYU, where Geoff lectures as well.
Audio isn't ideal but workable. If you want t...2021-01-201h 33Subversive w/Alex KaschutaIndian Bronson - Good Riddance to the GOP, Exit as a Service & Dating AccelerationismRecently unpersoned Twitter great, Indian Bronson, joins me in a conversation about the realities of being someone with a conservative temperament in a world with no guard rails.
We talk about the dying gasps of the Republican Party, Voice vs. Exit, his work facilitating remote work and other exit opportunities, and the state of love & dating in the era of hyper-liberalism. IB is both extremely eloquent and dark-redpilled on the practical matters of navigating life, so definitely worth a listen.
You can find IB's latest work on his substack: https://indianbronson.substack.com/ where his latest piece on Exit is...2021-01-131h 19Subversive w/Alex KaschutaGio Pennacchietti - Art, the Right, Postmodernism and the Neoliberal aestheticIn this episode of the Subversive Podcast, I talk to Gio Pennacchietti, a writer, impressionist painter, and Jungian Traditionalist. He gracefully explains art to me without laughing at my ignorance once and delivers a searing analysis of why we're in the equivalent of aesthetic end times - and why it's not all bad. It's a longer podcast, just because it was incredibly fun.
You can support Subversive at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
Any donation is greatly appreciated and makes the podcast possible. Thank you!
You can find Gio's latest work on his blo...2021-01-091h 50Subversive w/Alex KaschutaRoko Mijic - Tradhumanism, Personal AI and Optimization Functions that are Eating the WorldOn the first episode of the Subversive podcast, I talk to philosopher and rationalist Roko Mijic about where we're heading and how to get there in one piece (maybe). Roko is more of a tech optimist than I am, but he gives me hope.
You can find Roko's latest work on his substack: https://hereticalupdate.substack.com/
And follow Roko on Twitter for continuous doses of subversion: https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK
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The Just Checking In PodcastJCIP #62 - Alexandra KaschutaIn the sixty-second episode of the Just Checking In Podcast, we spoke to Alexandra Kaschuta.
Alex is a writer, commentator and the founder of her own writing platform 'Sort Alex Out'.
In this episode we discussed Alex's love of writing and topics she has written about including the dating economy, feminism, politics and the mental health implications around each of those.
We also discussed Alex's ADHD diagnosis, ex-pat culture and social integration.
As always, #itsokaytovent
You can follow Alex on social media below:
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The Vance Crowe PodcastAlexandra Kaschuta; Twitter phenom, Austrian Economics and writer at SortAlexOut.comAlexandra Kaschuta is a Twitter phenom, economist and philosopher who shares edge of chaos ideas that didn't used to be that way. Maybe it's renaissance thinking, or maybe it's her brand of paleoconservatism. Vance and Alex's conversation ranged from our new age of tolerance, how culture is changing for women in society and the current prevalence of incels.Subscribe to the podcast for email notifications on new episodes, invites to events and other exclusive content — http://eepurl.com/gSTfk5About the Vance Crowe Podcast — Vance Crowe interviews people with an expertise that you would want...2020-12-0555 min