EXIT Podcast

This week we had a Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, professor of economics at The Catholic University of America and author of Hannah’s Children , a study of women with six or more children — what makes them different, how they understand the decision to raise a large family, and what they can teach us about the causes of demographic decline. Topics: * What causes some people to maintain a firm connect...

Last week the EXIT guys had an open-ended Q&A with Dan Hess ( More Births ) about his quantitative research on birth rate decline. * Areas of volatility/opportunity * Potential corporate policies that could support families * Reactions to the demographic collapse “red pill” * Political consequences of differential rates of abortion * “If you could get an executive order signed, what would you writ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Recently we invited Lomez (of Office Hours with Lomez ) to a Q&A with EXIT guys to discuss his work at Passage Press and what he learned from his many years among the libtards as a lecturer in the English department at UC Irvine. [First 30 minutes are free — full hour recording available for paid subscribers] Questions...

Every time I post about demographic decline , I get about a hundred replies insisting that the cause of demographic decline is actually extremely obvious — so obvious that only an imbecile (or a subversive! ) would even wonder about it. “It’s the dating apps, retard” -- or it’s birth control, or it’s women working, or it’s women voting, or it’s mass immigration, or it’s the cost of housing, or it’...

David Kilcullen is one of the world’s foremost experts in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. He served for 25 years as an infantry officer in the Australian Army, then with the U.S. State Department, where he was chief strategist in the Counterterrorism Bureau, Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to Multi-National Force Iraq, and Senior Advisor for Counterinsurgency to the U.S. Secretary o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Just after the inauguration, we invited Bog Beef from Good Ol Boyz to our weekly EXIT full-group call to discuss a topic of mutual interest: the power of patronage. Patronage is just a word for the default state of human organization, where people are in control instead of systems, and power flows from relationships ra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us This week, @MarmotRespecter presented to the guys on how to get a tech job in the “worst tech hiring market in 25 years”. Marmot explains how AI is swamping automated systems and eliminating entry-level tech jobs, making it harder and harder to break in — and what our guys can do about it. * What employers are allowed...

This week, Natal Conference cofounder Drew Gorham and I discuss what has changed on the issue of demographic decline since last year’s conference, and what we have planned for NatalCon 2025. I introduce some ideas about what is driving demographic decline — it clearly isn’t just wealth, or housing, or feminism, or birth control, or microplastics, or the declining value of child farm labor. My theo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us I asked Tanner Guzy to talk to us about his book, The Appearance of Power , and the role of aesthetics in leadership. That conversation took me down the following rabbithole: “If your kids don’t want to grow up to look like you, you have not set the right example”. If everybody grew up wanting to be like their parents,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Last week, we heard from Alex Petkas from the Cost of Glory Podcast. Alex is a former Classics professor from Princeton who is now focused on classical education, especially for men and boys. We discuss: * How are the classics, especially the biographies of great men, are relevant to what we’re trying to accomplish? *...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last night’s full-group call, we had a members-only Q&A with Conscious Caracal (Ernst Van Zyl), discussing his work with Afriforum, what is working in Orania, and what he sees as the future of the Afrikaner people. Questions: * What has worked and what hasn’t worked in building Afrikaner solidarity and identity? * H...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last Tuesday night’s full group call, we had a members-only Q&A with Auron MacIntyre, discussing his new book The Total State . Questions: * How does Auron’s book compare with Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, and how can we synthesize their respective messages into a positive vision of the future? * Are there coheren...

The UK government appears to be successfully putting down the protests in the UK, making no concession or even acknowledgement of the protestors’ grievances. People on the Right are very smug about these things when they fail — they love to jump into the Twitter replies and register their satisfaction at being proven right once again. It’s obviously true that the UK is tyrannical and doesn’t care...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us (Note: the “free preview” of this episode is the full version, and the full recording is also available for free on Spotify. EXIT meetup invites behind the paywall.) K9 Reaper is a private security contractor and community safety activist in South Africa. As a zoomer, he has no memory of the Before Times — but he has h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us David Kilcullen is among the world’s leading experts in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. He served for 25 years as an infantry officer in the Australian Army, then with the U.S. State Department, where he was chief strategist in the Counterterrorism Bureau, Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to Multi-Nationa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us In this episode, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry discusses the rallye mondain, a network of parties and dinners that emerged among the French aristocracy in the 1950s, to confront the collapse of arranged marriage. It’s relatively simple: mothers and other relatives monitor their children’s social circles, determine which boys a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Here’s the recording of this week’s members-only Q&A with Johann Kurtz, author of Becoming Noble . We asked him to come on the weekly EXIT full-group call to discuss his thesis that dissidents should use captured elite institutions as a springboard for their ambitions , even if it is impossible to steer or “subvert” th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Here’s the recording of last night’s private Q&A with Clay Martin, former Green Beret and author of Concrete Jungle and Prairie Fire. We cover the following topics: * How to meet and vet the people you want on your A-team * How to control space without triggering hostility from the state * What skills and materials to...

This week we're talking about: * The “entrepreneurial temperament” and whether it's real (answer: kind of) * Why our guys aren't preparing even though we all expect the world to go to hell * Why the boomer doomer prepper model no longer makes sense * Acceleration and deterritorialization — the increasing impossibility of preparing against one particular future * Looking for meta-adaptations - adap...

This week, Stormy came to the EXIT group call for a little Q&A on venture capital — what his fund looks for in a founder, what they look for in a project, and how to work the network to get your pitch in the right hands. He also presented an interesting model of the various players in the global financial system — that the DNC is (for Epstein reasons) in thrall to the European banks, who need the...

In this episode I give my take on this year’s Natal Conference, why we started it, what we learned from producing it, and what’s coming next. Meetups In preparation for NatalCon 2024, we are hosting EXIT/NatalCon meetups every month, in locations all over the country. EXIT members, NatalCon ticketholders, and paid newsletter subscribers get in free, with your plus-one. Day One Video Download The d...

BAP’s dissertation argues an ostensibly narrow point: that Socrates had it coming. The execution of Socrates is usually characterized as the persecution of an innocent free-thinker, but BAP says that Socrates (and the teaching of philosophy as such) had radicalized the Athenian youth toward antinomian tyranny — the throwing-off of all law and custom in favor of “the justice of nature”, that might...

Oppenheimer is an intimate portrait of a sensitive young man who did nothing wrong. I could smell that something was off about this movie, so I went home and did some digging, and it turns out Oppenheimer was very obviously a Soviet spy. The problem is that half the academic and political establishment of the United States was in the tank for the Soviets at the time, so the question of what it mea...

Johann Kurtz, author of the Becoming Noble substack, relates his experience in Big Tech, and why he believes dissidents underestimate these companies as a launching point for their ambitions. We discuss: * What megacorporations know that online dissidents don’t * Getting into a top tech company without a STEM degree * Preparing for a highly competitive interview * Finding friends and allies withou...

In this episode, Drew Gorham and I announce the first annual Natal Conference , December 1-2, 2023 in Austin, TX. Declining fertility is the most important issue of our generation — we discuss the economic, political, and cultural consequences of this decline, what may be causing it, what can be done about it, and what we hope to learn from the conference. You can get your tickets now at natalism....