Hacking State

-- SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON FOR FULL EPISODE -- In Western philosophy, we have yet to move beyond the life and death of Socrates. Though his time has long since passed, we would be remiss to think there’s nothing to be gained, or to be remembered, by returning to accounts of this legendary figure. Socrates, the gadfly of Athens. A man, held in such high esteem that he is revered even to this day, desp...

Political scientist Michael Millerman joins me to discuss the philosophy of Leo Strauss, esoteric writing, and Alexandr Dugin's 4th Political Theory. We talk about Leo Strauss, the tension between the philosopher and the city, why some of the best intellectual work is happening outside academia, the crisis of rationalism, the value of returning to the great works, esoteric writing, the necessity o...

Geoff Shullenberger is creator of the Outsider Theory blog and newly launched Outsider Theory podcast, as well as Senior Lecturer at New York University’s Expository Writing Program. We talk about his Outsider Theory project, conspiracy & elite paranoia, our schizophrenizing media complex, Boudrillard and Hyperreality, scapegoating, Marcuse’s concept of Repressive Tolerance, and touching third rai...

Raven Connolly hosts Socratic Speed-dating and sensemaking sessions at The Stoa. You can find out more about Raven’s work at TheStoa.ca and follow Raven on Twitter @spiral_virus. We talk about the acceleration of trends in online dating and romance due to the pandemic, the institution of marriage and non-monogomy, influencer culture, mimesis, and sexual inequality, declining fertility in the West...

Jason Snyder is faculty in the department of sustainable development at Appalachian State University. We talk homesteading, localism, permaculture, population decentralization, and possibilities for alternative, sustainable, human-centered communities. You can find Jason @cognazor on Twitter. Agora Politics is a podcast about the future of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora...

A Color Revolution is a term coined by Russian military strategists for the preferred way the United States enacts regime change. The goal of staging a color revolution is to create conditions suitable to have a pretext for military intervention on behalf of the people, either internally or externally, to get rid of the current regime. So named because the protesting forces involved usually coales...

Will Buckner is a research assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Evolutionary anthropologists trace the origins and development of human nature and culture in societies around the world. Join Will Buckner (@evolving_moloch) and I as we delve deep on secret societies, initiation rituals, tribalism, the Hobbesian-Rou...

Eric Kaufmann is professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of "Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities". Eric’s research interests focus on demography, ethnicity, nationalism, and the study of white ethnic majorities in Western countries, We talk about what Eric lays out as the 2 whiteshifts that are coming, Why support for right-wing...

On Samuel Francis' Anarcho-tyranny, the managerial state, the McCloskey affair, and the right-left convergence on corrupt governance. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agorapolitics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLK...

Razib Khan is a geneticist, writer, and public intellectual. He hosts a show on genetics and evolution “The Insight”, and “Browncast”. He has written for The New York Times, National Review, India Today, Slate, City Journal, and a number of other publications. We talk consumer genomics, heritability of political preferences, demographic shifts, Ashkenazi ancestry, cultural evolution, India vs. Chi...

Cody Moser is an evolutionary anthropologist and Cognitive and Information Sciences grad student at University of California Merced. We cover: How much has the world has changed since Coronavirus? Peter Turchin’s 2020 prediction, Intra-Elite competition, Cliodynamics, Ideological herd immunity, Are we in a civil war?, Reorganizing society after the Great Reset, Return to Localism, Microcredentiali...

A reading of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula La Guin. Last night, I was on twitter seeing updates on the Democratic National Convention, and I was thinking about the choices in front of us and how we, as individuals, might avoid becoming deranged by our complicity in a system that leaves us but few actionable choices from which to decide our future. For some reason, I was reminded o...

Bo Winegard is an independent scholar and former assistant professor at Marietta College, with research in areas of evolutionary and social psychology. We covered: - Cancel Culture: is it real? - human variation - academic freedom - being cancelled - cultural displays and male status hierarchies - all male coalitions - masculinity - what can be done Follow Bo on Twitter: @EPoe187 Agora Politics is...

From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics? Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVE Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Apple https://podcasts : po...

From Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody Moser Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pm Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Ap...

From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason Crawford Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawford Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patr...

From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics? Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVE Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Apple https://podcasts : po...

I sit down with Oliver Traldi, philosophy PhD candidate at Notre Dame, essayist, and columnist for Arch Digital, to discuss the absolute state of the Intellectual Dark Web. We talked about the origins of the IDW, who’s in it, whether it’s still a thing, points of failure in having an open discussion, the paradox of anti tribalism, the regressive left, platform wars, the symbiosis of polarization,...

From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason Crawford Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawford Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patr...

From Episode 3: What is Agora Politics? Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/3-what-is-agora-politics/s-LYzreIjJQVE Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Apple https://podcasts : po...

From Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody Moser Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/cody-moser-master-track-2120-1202-pm Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Ap...

From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason Crawford Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawford Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patr...

Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University. We talked about his work outlining the history of Postmodernism in his book "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault", Postmodern epistemology, power, multiculturalism, the Paradox of Tolerance, the objective-subjective split, Me...

Per Bylund is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He is also a fellow at the Mises Institute and associate fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. His research focuses on issues in entrepreneurship, strategic management, and organizational economics. We talked about the school...

Roy Barzilai is an independent scholar and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization and Sex Wars: How Hormones Drive Gender, Race, & Culture Conflicts. We talked about his hypothesis of how hormones regulate the life cycles of civilization, how the sun effects growth cycles, chronobiology, and individualistic vs. collectivist societies. As always...