Against Everyone with Conner Habib

I talk with intellectual historian, A.J.A. WOODS , author of the excellent and very readable The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West on to the show to discuss all this. In their book, A.J.A. traces the great movement of blaming everything good and bad - from trans liberation to sexual abuse, from religious plurality to totalizing Satan...

Friends, “The hour is late. It is time for unwanted guests to leave.” That's a line from this episode's guest, MITCH HOROWITZ , in his latest book, Esoterika: Formulas Against the False Self . The book as I see it, is a book of ethics. And its central question is: how do you navigate who you are and what your ethics are when you touch the continuously transformative fires of spiritual purs...

On this episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, I talk with esoteric author and scholar MARK BOOTH (AKA Jonathan Black), whose excellent new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW ANCIENT WISDOM MADE THE WORLD , traces the occult influences found in modern science, especially the science of physics. Mark’s book is not just an outline of confluences. In other words, it’s not one of ma...

Using AEWCH 317-320 as a starting point, I talk with JOSHUA RIVERS , poet and host of the excellent BUSY BEING BLACK podcast + frequent AEWCH guest, SHULI BRANSON (host of the podcast THE BREAKUP THEORY podcast , and translator of Guy Hocquenghem's Gay Liberation After May '68 .) about the small task of remaking the world. At the center of the episode is a thought that's something like: We have to...

Like many people, I often feel that I don’t understand economics, but, like everyone, I have my own role to play in the economy. So do you. So does everyone. We are all in economy, so we all have something to offer in understanding it. AEWCH 24 guest Erin Ryan once joked that  “Economics is astrology for dudes”  Economics feels intentionally mystified, filled with untruths and abstractions, and ho...

Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. This episode is part of my series on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about POL...

Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. Welcome to my new series of episodes on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about...

Friends, We might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . No one who has ever lived, even briefly, has not altered the earth by contributing their own destiny to it, and the way in which that destiny radiated out to affect everyone. Shaping the world is part of being alive. We all contribute. This is often broken...

In an episode that is at once political, spiritual, and intensely personal, I talk about why we need to see the Epstein files in the right light to understand what's at stake: for survivors, for abusers, and for the world at large. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib

I talk with author, teacher, and cohost of Weird Studies, J.F. Martel about how art is the only way out of our predicament. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib Buy J.F.'s book . Listen to Weird Studies .

Asad Haider, the political theorist and philosopher, whose book critiquing identity politics from a (non-class-reductive) leftist perspective, Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology remains a powerful contribution and who was on AEWCH 26, died suddenly in December of last year. I’ve reproduced that episode as AEWCH 314*, with a new introduction. To plant a tree in Asad's memory,...

In conversation with Pilar Lesko about change, Christianity, the dead, and more. Happy New Year! support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib

Friends, Happy New Year! And welcome to the New Year’s Resolution episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, featuring my conversation with esoteric scholar and writer, MITCH HOROWITZ . But this show is filled with special guests, including: Philosopher and writer FEDERICO CAMPAGNA Esoteric teacher ALAN CHAPMAN Bestselling author and death expert CAITLIN DOUGHTY Mystery and horror novelist SAR...

In this double-length and in-depth episode, I look at the social-political project of the late 19th early 20th century occultist, philosopher, and social reformer Rudolf Steiner with scholars and academics Aaron French and Henry Holland, who are writing Steiner's biography for SUNY Press, and have just offered the keynote at Harvard University's conference on Rudolf Steiner's life and...

Friends, This is the fourth episode* in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. This time, we’re moving closer and closer to our present age, away from the Spirit-Era and into its aftermaths, tracking th...

This is the third episode in a series called The Spirit-Era & Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. The Spirit-Era is marked by occultists, paranormal investigators, and magicians... But it is also marked by performances of all kind...

This is the second episode in a series called THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today. In the second installment in the series, I talk with ALLAN JOHNSON Professor of English Literature at University of Surrey, meditation coach, and author of the excellent book...

This is first episode in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths. Across the next few installments of AEWCH, I’ll be investigating the way the spiritual, technological, and occult flourishing at the turn of the 19th/20th century is affecting our lives to this day. The Spirit-Era was a time marked by spirits, of course. But also miracles, hucksters, paranormal investigators, and genuine s...

Friends, When I was on my book tour for Hawk Mountain , I did an event with Andrea Lawlor where we spoke, at length, about horror. In the Q&A, someone raised a hand and asked: WHAT IS HORROR? Andrea and I both laughed. We found ourselves at a loss. Horror : Once you consider it, it’s not clear. There’s the assumption that horror is scary. Sometimes that’s true. But obviously what’s scary for y...

Friends, Is there any ghost lore in your town or where you grew up? Have you ever seen a ghost? What are ghosts, anyway? Three questions, three different ways to approach (or be approached by ghosts). Ghosts are at the heart of our folktales, our fears, and our fiction. And belief in them is almost universal. Unlike aliens, UFOs, cryptids, and other strange entities, belief in ghosts cuts across a...

On the second of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with my sister, LAURA SCAPPATICCI , host of the podcast THAT GOOD MAY BECOME . We ask each other three questions about how christianity came into our lives, even though we were raised with no religion... and how that christianity is sometimes at odds with our communities and even, absurdly enough, at odds with th...

On the first of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with writer LAMORNA ASH whose latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion chronicles her conversations with christian  converts and the newly faithful in the still-secular UK. In the process of writing the book, Lamorna has her own reevaluations of christianity...

I'm so excited to welcome philosopher and author Federico Campagna back to the show! Together, we find the magic in defeat and the strength that it offers, using his new book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History as a springboard for our wide-ranging and empowering discussion. Federico gives many potent examples of the hidden strength in defeat. Whether it’s through Egyptian...

Friends: We need ideas which are not just radical or "revolutionary." We need ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels; that are systemic; that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of articulation that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to witness themselves. And what better place to start then the ground beneath your feet: where you live? Afte...

Friends, When I started Against Everyone With Conner Habib, there were a few guests I wanted to have on more than just about anyone. Happy to say, now, on episode 300, one of those central figures to my imagination has arrived for the conversation. GRANT MORRISON doesn't need much introduction. He's* a rebel artist, spiritual visionary, comic book writer, magician, novelist, and nonfiction...