Auron MacIntyre on Odysee

The debate over what constitutes a nation continues to rage across the West. In moments like this, it is often useful to return to the wisdom of the past so that we can navigate our future successfully. In the "Politics," Aristotle laid out his vision of what constitutes a nation. A nation is more than an economic zone or a military alliance for mutual protection. We'll dive into th...

During a recent TPUSA event, a college student mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk with a poem. The host seemed to have no answer except to reply with shock. Many conservatives seem to believe that exposing the bloodthirsty nature of the progressives will make the mass reject their ideology. In reality, young people see one side able to say and do whatever it wants while the other sits helple...

Flavio Bolsonaro has fled to America after losing his bid for the presidency of Brazil in a stunning upset. Bolsonaro led in the first round of elections and was expected to secure victory until his opponent, Lula da Silva, received a surprising surge of votes from unlikely sections of the country. Flavio’s father, Jair Bolsonaro, is currently serving a 27-year jail sentence after his loss to Lula...

The GOP is facing a critical midterm, but the conservative coalition is a mess. Several factions are now vying for the future of the movement and seem to have irreconcilable differences. When the Trump administration was dominating with clear momentum, those differences were pushed to the side, but critical missteps by the administration and the simple fact that Trump will leave office in 2028 hav...

Modern people see the nation and state as inseparable, but this was not the case for most of history. The nation-state is a relatively new concept that was imposed across the globe after World War I. While many are pushing for a renewed understanding of nationalism, the fact may be that the nation-state has run its course. We'll dig into the history and political theory behind the nation-stat...

U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told an audience at the University of Chicago that she wants future investigations of Trump administration officials to send a deterrent message. Young people considering jobs in a Republican administration, she said, should wonder whether joining it might buy them “a ton of problems.” Slotkin describes her proposal as accountability for corruption. But listen...

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) has been threatening to persecute Trump administration members so severely that no young conservative will ever want to work in a Republican presidential administration again. At the same time, Jennica Pounds, better known as DataRepublican, has uncovered a Democrat plot to seize power in the aftermath of a contested election. News Fist joins me to discuss the c...

Bo French, the GOP candidate for Texas railroad commissioner, started a social media storm when he shared a picture of a football game where he noted the transformation of the state's population. The post started a nationwide debate about the nature of American identity that continues to rage. French is running for a pivotal position managing the Texas oil industry during a time when gas pric...

The Trump administration is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over claims of immigration fraud and financial misconduct. There is a distinct possibility that Omar could face deportation. Jack Posobiec, author of "Unhumans: Socialist Revolution — Tactics for Patriots to Survive a Communist Uprising," joins me to discuss why it is so critical to the future of the United States to be...

Americans are being told that restricting legal immigration would rig the competition for jobs and college seats. Apparently, allowing citizens to compete with the entire planet is “meritocracy,” while giving them preference in their own country is “discrimination.” The argument has gained force as scrutiny moves from illegal crossings to work visas and foreign student admissions. Employers use H-...

Immigration has become the central topic for the American Right, triggering a debate over the nature of American identity. Topics like religion, heritage, culture, and tradition are surging back into mainstream discussion. Many establishment conservatives are scrambling to silence the debate and return to the status quo, but those efforts are failing. R.R. Reno, author of "Return of the Stron...

The recent National Conservatism conference in Israel generated a lot of controversy by featuring a panel of Americans delivering some tough love on the political realities of U.S.-Israel realizations. Friends of the show Matthew Peterson, Jonathan Keeperman, and William Wolfe all gave provocative speeches, with Keeperman being attacked directly by figures like Ted Cruz. Wolfe joins me to discuss...

For decades, progressives have used the sexual revolution to erode all standards except that of consent. But in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations at Cornell University, the question of whether consent is a sufficient moral condition for sexual relationships has come to the forefront. Progressives are now trying to reconstruct a more complex understanding of sexual standards after they dest...

In the wake of sexual assault allegations at Cornell University, the victimization of women on college campuses has returned to the public conversation. The Left describes campuses as sexual assault factories. The Right describes them as camps for progressive indoctrination. Still, liberal and conservative parents drill their daughters for the SAT, pack their schedules with extracurriculars, hire...

J. Burden joins me to discuss a recent survey that found 89% of Boomers on Social Security would raise taxes on young people to keep their benefits. Why are older conservatives crying about the rise of socialism while they extract government benefits from younger generations? We also look at a bizarre crashout from Dinesh D'Souza and the fact that multiple Democrats are openly announcing thei...

Christian metal acts are more common today, but when Skillet began playing, the idea of these two worlds colliding was relatively new. The band gained more notoriety in the secular music scene than the Christian world, but the members always kept their mission front and center. Lead singer John Cooper joins me to discuss the many challenges and victories he and his bandmates experience on the road...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) recently ran a political advertisement about welfare reform. The plan she described was great, but the advertisement featured a lazy white guy as the stereotypical representation of a welfare recipient, even though that is the group least likely to receive aid. J. Burden joins me to discuss why the GOP is attacking young white men right before a critical el...

Things are not looking great for Vivek Ramaswamy. Two polls released this week put Democrat Amy Acton ahead in the Ohio governor’s race. Marist has Acton leading 50% to 44% among registered voters, while a Suffolk poll has her ahead 50% to 41% among likely voters. Another survey has Ramaswamy narrowly ahead, so the race is hardly settled. But Ohio, a state Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024,...

News Fist returns as we wrap up our reading of "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change" by Charles Tilly. In this episode, we address Tilly's assertion that warfare is the main catalyst of growth of state and the most effective method of centralizing its power. Does the state exist primarily to extract money to wage war? We will evaluate the purely materialist...

The center-left academic Robert Putnam is well known for his research on social cohesion, but his research led to a discovery that he suppressed for years. When Putnam finally came forward with his data, he revealed that diversity has negative impact across almost all domains of social cohesion. People in diverse societies trust the government less, have fewer friends, participate less in civic or...

Over the last few decades, many industries discovered they could grow their customer base and profits by selling a cheaper, inferior version of their product while degrading the experience for everyone. Air travel and theme parks are obvious examples. Both learned that the advantages of scale could outweigh the obligation to deliver a high-quality experience. That philosophy did not remain in the...

A battle has broken out inside the conservative movement over the nature of American identity. Many establishment conservatives insist that America is a propositional nation where you only need to love freedom and wear a football jersey to belong. But identities that are so transactional do not inspire people to sacrifice and die on behalf of a nation. Christian Heiens, cohost of "Making the...

Every functioning government provides physical protection while demanding money in the form of taxes. The state will send armed men to lock you up if you do not pay. Does that mean that governments are nothing but a glorified protection racket? News Fist joins me as we continue our series reading "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change" by Charles Tilly. Find more N...

As Republicans head toward what looks like a perilous midterm election, affordability is on everyone’s lips. The Biden administration never convinced voters that it had brought food and housing costs under control. Some Republicans have tried to pretend the problem does not exist; others have acknowledged it without making meaningful progress. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump made choices that wors...

Many Americans have heard the "melting pot" analogy used to explain the nature of our country's identity, but they don't know that term is relatively new. For most of the nation's history, the "Anglo-assimilation model" was considered the standard. Immigrants could come from all over Europe, but they were expected to conform to a predominantly British culture. We...