The Auron MacIntyre Show

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 Argum...

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 New Fist he...

Texas GOP candidate Bo French ignited a furious debate on the nature of American identity after posting a photo of a University of Texas game that showed one section of the stands dominated by foreigners. The mass migration of Indians into Texas has created a cultural shift that many residents find unsettling. Democrats rushed to accuse the candidate of racism, and they were joined by many Texas R...

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 will be looking at Samuel Huntingt...

A drop in fertility rates across the world are impacting almost every society, but no one seems to have any good solutions. Attempts to reward motherhood or support it financially have largely failed. Kevin Dolan of the EXIT Group joins me to discuss why an attack on the core structures of managerial liberalism is necessary if our civilization is going make it to the other side.  Follow on: A...

The latest jobs report showed that 98% of new jobs in the month of August went to women, along with most of the raises and promotions. President Trump and other GOP politicians praised the news as a victory for women, but the implications for marriage in the U.S. are staggering. Women do not marry unemployed men, and they do not marry men who make less than they do. Lauren Chen joins me to explain...

The Trump administration recently revealed it is drafting a proposal, championed by Vice President JD Vance, to change how the government distributes money already earmarked for child care. The plan would tap the roughly $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund and make some of that money available to married couples with a stay-at-home parent. No new appropriation is involved. After months of...

Americans are very proud of their intuitions, but over time, those organizations have become bloated and corrupt, exploiting those they were meant to serve. Older generations have sought a way to preserve the intuitions through reform, but young people are seeking more radical solutions. Pollster Rich Baris joins us to discuss his new book, "Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really...

The Iran war was supposed to be a limited military operation with a clear path to achievable victories, but things have not gone as planned. Six months after it began, Iran and America continue to trade fire with no end in sight. Firas Modad or the Lotuseaters joins me to discuss the geopolitical situation and its domestic consequences as the U.S. midterms approach. Follow on: Apple: https://podca...

For decades, American hiring and admissions have been distorted by a legal and bureaucratic regime that promised equal treatment while repeatedly rewarding institutions for sorting people by race and sex. The Civil Rights Act itself does not exclude white men; Title VII protects employees from discrimination because of race and sex regardless of which race or sex they are. But affirmative action r...

Everyone is talking about how the implementation of artificial intelligence will revolutionize employment or education, but very few are talking about how it will change politics. The managerial revolution changed how societies were organized, placing large amounts of power into mass bureaucracies and mass media. Now the AI will replace much of the population management that was achieved thorough...

Josh Daws worked inside Disney for years watching it destroy its own brand by joining the woke revolution. The ideology increased, the budgets got out of control, and the art suffered. Now, Josh is using his talents to produce "The Continuing Adventures of Mary Sue," an AI-driven series with a very different message. Josh joins me to discuss his time at Disney and how AI changes everything. ...

There has been a lot of debate over the American economy and the reality of the affordability crisis for average families. While people debate charts and graphs, the real losses are harder to quantify. Author Johann Kurtz joins me to discuss the hidden social currency that has been drained out of the system, making life harder for everyone.  Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a devastating blow to conservatives, but almost as shocking was the response from parts of the left. Major figures issued the expected denunciations, yet plenty of ordinary progressives celebrated the violent death of a father and husband or mocked his memory online. Conservatives learned that some of their neighbors were perfectly willing to cheer the murder...

The Trump administration secured a flurry of big wins recently across several different categories. On immigration we have seen the deportation of Hattians who lost their Temporary Protected Status, a $100,000 fee for H-1Bs, and a pause on immigrant visas. The administration also secured big victories in the courts that will allow ICE to continue deportations and will also allow restrictions on ma...

Every government has to use force, but is that what defines the state? Is the government a servant of the people or just an organized crime family with better public relations? News Fist joins me as we read Charles Tilly's "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" to better grasp the origins of government and the realities of power. Find more New Fist here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCZST1WE...

British political commentator Melanie Phillips recently made a social media post claiming that the British are not allowed to have a national identity but Israelis are required to have one. The arguments stemmed from her belief that the British were not a real ethnic group with a right to a collective self-determination, while the Israelis do share a real ethnic bond, so their claims are valid. Un...

When I first entered the public arena, the focus of my work was almost entirely on why the Right needed to take power seriously. Conservatives had suffered a devastating string of political and cultural losses because they focused on argument and ideology while paying little attention to the way power actually worked. That criticism drew plenty of hostility from defenders of the status quo who did...

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the horrific crime of allegedly murdering her three children after sending her husband out to do errands. Even the defense in the case is not bothering to argue that Clancy is innocent, only that she may have been temporarily insane due to postpartum depression. Despite this admission, women online have raised a massive amount of money while creating a conspiracy the...

Jason Arday was the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge University and a man with a very bright future until it was revealed that sections of his work had been plagiarized. Arday was found dead after the fraud had been uncovered, and the Left have turned him into their latest martyr. J. Burden joins me to discuss why Arday was  a villain, not a victim. We will also discuss Je...

Everyone knows that America allied with the Soviet Union to win World War II, but the relationship quickly soured. A large number of Soviet spies were discovered in the U.S., and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) began his famous crusade against communist infiltration in 1950. McCarthy died in 1957 with most conservatives admitting that his mission was not successful, but what are the implications of...

Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, a lesbian who claims to be Catholic, signed legislation this week liberalizing abortion while surrounded by progressive women celebrating the right to murder their healthy babies up till birth. To conservatives who rightly regard late-term abortion as the killing of a viable child, the scene was grotesque. It also illustrated a political asymmetry conserva...

It is now well known that the Biden administration flooded the United States with illegal immigrants utilizing an open-borders policy, but few people discuss the legal mechanisms the Democrats were also using to import foreigners. Brian Chau of Effort News joins me to discuss his latest investigation into the role that religious charities played in importing foreign population, with some groups re...