Boreas Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Dr. E Michael Jones is back, this time to discuss the historical influence of philosophy and science on culture. How modern science has been used to justify modern forms of political oppression. The conversation references Dr. Jones' book Logos Rising , and is relevant to the serial theme I've been running lately on the history of metaphysics.

Send us Fan Mail The fifth and final part of the "Metaphysics Scandal" series asks what happened after Scholasticism broke. The answer is two roads — empiricism and rationalism — that look like opposites but in the extreme arrive at the same destination: a world scrubbed of God and person, leaving only function. What drove both roads is older than either. It is the Promethean spirit — th...

Send us Fan Mail Parts I through III traced mimesis in Ancient Greek philosophy, René Girard's mimetic theory, the Scripture and the Church Fathers. Here in Part IV, we arrive at Medieval Scholasticism. It is said to have baptized Aristotle. With that, it also built a great intellectual edifice that set off the modern Western academia. But Aristotelian demonstratio and scientia is based on na...

Send us Fan Mail Parts I and II covered the role of imitation in philosophy: essential, but incomplete. In this Part III we compare the account of imitation in René Girard's mimetic theory to the scriptural narrative of the Fall. We are made to imitate: Scripture says man is created in the image and likeness of God. The trouble in Eden starts not because Adam and Eve decided to imitate God. I...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 after René Girard and the Philosophers . Girard argued that Plato and the philosophers who followed him sidelined imitation — neglecting the rivalrous, appropriative mimesis that drives human conflict. Plato did quiet over the dangerous side of imitation. But imitation is everywhere in classical metaphysics. It's the engine of Plato's cosmos and Aristotle's t...

Send us Fan Mail While Plato was teaching his students to contemplate the eternal forms, the theatre portrayed women of Thebes tearing a king apart with their bare hands. I talk about how the founding gesture of philosophy was walking away in silence from archaic scapegoating, blood sacrifice, etc., and that René Girard, twenty-five centuries later, gets us to turn around and take a close, analyti...

Send us Fan Mail In Part I we saw Newton's anti-Trinitarianism and his science as a single revolution, opposed to the idea that divine form can enter matter and restructure it from within. This week, the counter-argument. We turn to the man in the opposing corner: Athanasius of Alexandria. We introduce his magnum opus, On the Incarnation. First, the metaphysics — form, matter, ousia, the Imag...

Send us Fan Mail Most people know Isaac Newton as the father of modern science. Fewer know that two thirds of his written output was on alchemy and theology — and that he kept it secret because it would have gotten him hanged. This week I read my essay Newton Contra Athanasius, tracing the strange inner life of the man behind the mechanical universe: the abandoned child who reimagined God as a dis...

Send us Fan Mail William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and René Girard walk into a bar...  And share a secret: the price of literary genius is the torment of mimetic cuckoldry, resolved through a type of repentance. I talk about how Girard found this secret in Shakespeare, and how Joyce had already encoded it in a single chapter of Ulysses , where Stephen Dedalus, presenting his Shakespeare theory to...

Send us Fan Mail My French-Canadian friend Martin joins me to discuss the history of Quebec. Discover how this province, once the stronghold of French Catholic conservatism, underwent a rapid secular revolution in the 1960s. What role did the Catholic Church and later secular nationalism play in preserving Quebec's unique identity against Anglo dominance? We explore the demographic strategy o...

Send us Fan Mail Why did Bill Clinton survive the Lewinsky scandal? Not because of legal technicalities or partisan loyalty. Because he understood something about power that most people still don't: a nation addicted to sexual liberation cannot condemn its president for doing what it has been taught to celebrate. In this essay I follow E. Michael Jones's Libido Dominandi from the Illumin...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to discuss the history of sexual revolution. We explore its connection to personal vice and political control. We go over influential figures like Adam Weishaupt, Sigmund Freud, Wilhem Reich, Claude McKay, Bill Clinton, and Jeffrey Epstein. Dr. Jones also explores the role of sexual liberation on mass entertainment, the feminist movement, Black music,...

Send us Fan Mail Wilhelm Reich, the pupil of Sigmund Freud and the founding father of sexual liberation, argued that sexual repression produces fascism. So why were the top ranks of the Nazi party crawling with homosexuals? In this episode, I refer to E. Michael Jones' book Libido Dominandi and René Girard's mimetic theory to show that Reich had it exactly backwards—it's not sexual...

Send us Fan Mail What if modernity's original sin isn't colonialism or slavery, but something earlier and deeper—the looting of the Catholic Church? In this episode, I explore E. Michael Jones's claim that the Dissolution of Monasteries was a "looting operation" that financed the birth of capitalism, and I read it through René Girard's theory of the founding sacrifice...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. E. Michael Jones discusses how usury transforms economy and culture: conflict of usury and labor, the historical transition from feudalism to capitalism, sexual liberation and usury, and the psychology of usury. We discuss the denial of limit in the sexual and economic realms. Transition from feudalism to capitalism in the British Isles: dissolution of monasteries and the capi...

Send us Fan Mail Marx promised workers had nothing to lose but their chains. But what if the real chains aren't economic—they're mimetic? In this final installment of The Anti-Manifesto, I lay out what revolution could never accomplish: a genuine escape from the tyranny of capital. Not by seizing the means of production, but by understanding that capital itself is generated by our conver...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. E Michael Jones returns to Boreas Podcast to recount his personal history investigating and writing on the Medjugorje apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a history summarized in his 1998 book "The Medjugorje Deception: Queen of Peace, Ethnic Cleansing, and Ruined Lives." Dr. Jones communicated with highest-level representatives of US goverment and the Catholic Ch...

Send us Fan Mail Marx titled his magnum opus Das Kapital , yet he completely botched what capital actually is. Here's the real definition: capital is the power to influence the behavior of others—and it's generated not by factories or machinery but by converging desires. The moment two people want the same fish, that fish becomes capital. If Elon Musk survives nuclear apocalypse alone in...

Send us Fan Mail Marx got feudalism wrong. Medieval knights weren't cunning exploiters hoarding the means of production—they were sacrificial figures whose privilege was justified by their willingness to die in battle. In this episode, I trace the strange transition from sacred warfare to sacred shopping, revealing how European aristocrats literally traded away their power for diamond buckles...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. E. Michael Jones and discuss themes from his book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit , including the role of Christianity in shaping revolutionary movements. We explore points of the historical context of modern revolutionary rebellion. Dr. Jones contrasts righteous rebellion with sedition, critiques the impact of usury in modern society, and addresses the s...

Send us Fan Mail Karl Marx wrote how the bourgoisie feishized commodities—but what if he was blind to his own deeper fetish? In this episode, I argue that Marx only went halfway: he scorned capitalist markets while remaining utterly entranced by the altar of production itself. His enchantment was of the archaic or violent-sacred kind, and so it lead to archaic mobilization, persecution, and aesthe...

Send us Fan Mail Communism was an archaic way of dealing with and worshipping materialism, a chief ideology of 19th century and modern times. In this episode, I look at the text of The Communist Manifesto, the famous originary pamphlet of communist revolutions, and explain why it contains the elements of a hypnotic spell. If communism is an archaic religion, texts like the Communist Manifesto are...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing on the previous episode with the review of Stephen C. Meyer's book Return of God Hypothesis . This one goes over the impossible odds of assembling proteins or DNA to either begin or evolve life. Then, it goes over the digital or symbolic nature of information that encodes life and explains why natural laws in their ontological essence cannot produce such informatio...

Send us Fan Mail A reading of my essay with the same title that reviews Stephen C Meyer's book Return of God Hypothesis . I go over the arguments of the book that debunk the materialist narrative around the Big Bang, or the beginning of the universe: 1) what's called the Fine Tuning Problem, with the the mathematical and physical impossibilities it exposes, and 2) the metaphysical absurd...

Send us Fan Mail Modernity with its humanism and secularism rose out of Christian culture but seems to be at odds with it. I explain this paradox in accordance with René Girard's anthropology: how the recession of the violent sacred wrought by Christianity over the centuries created the cultural space that distances itself from all sacred and thus becomes transferrable to the whole world, pro...