The Auron MacIntyre Show

California wildfires are doing terrible damage in and around Los Angeles. While leftists have been blaming climate change, a long list of government failures have exacerbated the disaster. Fire hydrants have run dry, water reservoirs were left empty, and DEI policies have created a firefighter shortage. Author Peachy Keenan joins me to discuss her personal experience living in L.A. County and how...

Conservatives and libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority but rarely consider the factors that drive the growth of government. For most champions of small government, institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success, but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make expansion of the state inevitable....

Elon Musk has been raising awareness about the horrific grooming gang scandal in the United Kingdom. Islamic immigrants spent over a decade preying on young British girls, and the U.K. government turned a blind eye to the crimes in the name of multiculturalism. Carl Benjamin of the "Lotus Eaters" podcast joins me to discuss Musk's ongoing clash with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and how the public i...

Every January, I collect the best or most important books I read the previous year and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. They do not need to be books written in 2024 — in fact, many are hundreds or even thousands of years old — just books that I read or reread last year. From philosophy to political science to sociology, these are the nine books that I would recommend going into the new year...

The New Year brought unexpected tragedy in a pair of strange terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. While the attackers appeared very different in their motivations and tactics, both men served in the U.S. Army and were stationed at the same military base: Fort Bragg. Lafayette Lee, contributing editor at IM-1776, joins me to discuss. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A debate exploded across Twitter on Christmas Day between MAGA populists and the Silicon Valley tech elite. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy found themselves facing a wall of angry comments after asserting that Americans did not have the talent or the drive to meet the challenges of the 21 century. Ryan Turnipseed and The Prudentialist join me to discuss this critical showdown.  Follow on: Apple: htt...

With a massive, 1,500-page spending bill full of pork working its way through Congress right before Christmas break, Elon Musk used his social media platform to help crush the legislation and get a more trimmed-down version introduced. This sent politicians and media pundits into a tailspin as they screamed about an unelected billionaire wielding so much power. Has Musk taken unprecedented action,...

As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassination on a New York City street went public, the Left began turning the murderer into a folk hero. The justification for this disturbing behavior is the claim of “obscene profits” made by corrupt health care companies. Yet, these same progressives attacked anyone who questioned the COVID-19 vaccine while pharmaceutical...

Many people operating in the center of American and British politics identify themselves as classical liberals, but their ideology bears little resemblance to a thinker like John Locke. What is real classical liberalism, and can it return to prominence in the modern political environment? Stelios Panagiotou of "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" joins me to discuss. Follow on: Apple: https://podcast...

The philosopher Nick Land has a fascinating theory about the law of entropy and how it relates to the nature of time. We will be discussing the nature of intelligence, the way in which it battles against the forces of entropy, and the implications of this tension on the nature of time.  Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: https://o...

The Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" trilogy remains a beloved series of movies that harkens back to a time when heroic stories could still be told in Hollywood. The quality of the movies has only become more apparent due to the woke disaster that is Amazon's "Rings of Power" series. Podcaster the Middle-earth Mixer joins me to discuss why the bright light of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale continu...

Individualism versus collectivism is a false binary. Lower-order organic identities — such as family, faith, and community — have repeatedly proven to be the only effective forces against the imposition of top-down despotism. The true battle is not between individualism and collectivism but between ordered liberty and disordered tyranny. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-...

Donald Trump has promised to dismantle the Department of Education as part of his next presidential administration, but many previous Republican presidents have tried and failed. What does the DOE actually do, can it be dismantled, and what would education look like after it is gone? Connor Boyack, author and president of the Libertas Institute, joins me to discuss. Follow on: Apple: https://podca...

The push for legalized euthanasia has reached British shores, accompanied by grim subway advertisements and endorsements in the Economist. Canada’s monstrous euthanasia program should serve as a warning for other Western nations. Instead, the U.K. seems intent on diving headfirst into this moral abyss. The growing embrace of industrial-scale medical suicide is no coincidence; it reflects the natur...

In the wake of Donald Trump's major victory in the United States, Justin Trudeau of Canada and Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom have done a dramatic about-face on immigration. Both prime ministers have suddenly acknowledged the harmful effects of mass immigration and are promising to take actions to limit the influx of foreigners. Are leftist leaders really ending replacement immigration? Morgot...

Every few years, progressive "Lord of the Rings" fans rediscover that J.R.R. Tolkien was a conservative Catholic who supported Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. This clashes with their current obsession over "media literacy" and intent of the author when it comes to interpreting works of art. We'll be reading one of Tolkien's letters in which he discusses his disagreement with fellow...

In a recent appearance on the "Triggernometry" podcast, James Lindsay joined hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster in an attempt to define the term "woke Right." Their explanation seemed rather confused and left many with more questions than answers. We'll review the segment and discuss why these disgruntled liberals are so obsessed with trying to gatekeep the very conservatism they opposed fo...

Several internecine conflicts have broken out among those on the Right, and their public behavior has been appalling. We'll be diving into internet drama battles, the Antioch Declaration, and why appealing to the standards of the Left to cancel your opponents is the ultimate form of defeat.   Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: htt...

After decades of cultural and institutional domination, progressives find themselves on the losing end, desperately attempting to hold on to the the territory they have gained. For better or worse, the media have made Donald Trump the center of public life, and now they must deal with their worst nightmare, as a preference cascade is making it trendy to support the president-elect. As their final...

Of Donald Trump's initial appointments, the announcement of Matt Gaetz for attorney general was both the most controversial to his enemies and the most energizing to his supporters. Now that Gaetz has withdrawn his own name from consideration in the face of scandalous allegations, has Trump suffered the first loss of his second term? In addition, the Economist is now attempting to sell state-spons...

The only thing more embarrassing than electing a man pretending to be a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives is the clumsy and timid response by Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Nancy Mace should have had an easy time making the argument that women must be protected from this gender ideology madness in the bathroom. Instead, GOP voters got to watch their leaders go through a humili...

The newest BioWare game Dragon Age: The Veilguard is comically woke, but the company has a long history of inserting progressive themes into its products. In fact, BioWare games were so woke that they helped to fuel the initial GamerGate movement. I tell my story of discovering GamerGate while handling social media moderation for BioWare and how it led me to where I am today.   Follow on: Apple: h...

Political theorist Carl Schmitt introduced the friend/enemy distinction in his book "The Concept of the Political," but as his work has gained notoriety, the concept has been heavily misrepresented. The author and political scholar Michael Millerman joins me to clarify the friend/enemy distinction and discuss Leo Strauss' thoughts on the works of Schmitt.  Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple....

Democrats love to champion "our democracy," and Republicans love to reply "America is republic, not a democracy," but few are able to explain the difference between the two. We look into the nature of republics from the classical period to the modern day, drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to Madison. What is a republic, and how can you keep it? Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.ap...

Donald Trump has delivered an earth-shattering loss to the American Left. The reality television star did not just achieve a convincing win in the Electoral College but also secured the popular vote and maintained down-ticket momentum with Republicans capturing the Senate and possibly retaining the House as well. This kind of definitive mandate for the opposition would usually cause a political pa...