Rocinante

This week, Angela and Sean read The Anatomy of Power By John Kenneth Galbraith. Are we moving backwards into a more brutal age of pure coercion? Does Galbraith's framework make sense three decades after the end of Cold War? Should we find and post the names and home addresses of twitter users who have the incorrect interpretation of Errico Malatesta's Between Peasants: A Dialogue on Anarchy ? ---...

Sean and Angela answer questions asked by our beloved Patreon and Substack subscribers. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation! --- To hear the rest of this episode and recieve an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod Angela Nagle:  https://angelanagle.substack.com/ Sean...

Fellas, is it gay to expose the monstrous crimes of the Belgians? Sean and Angela are joined by Donal Fallon to discuss the life of Roger Casement: the Casement Report, cruising diaries, his participation in the republican struggle for a free Ireland, and more. Donal Fallon: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-castles-burning/id1488547315 --- To hear an additional episode of Rocinante ever...

This week, Angela is joined by Louis (/ˈluː.i/) Elton to discuss fashion slop, the decline of craft in modern aesthetics, the effects of machine generated content on the human spirit, and a retvrn to artisanal tradition.   Louis Elton: https://nationofartisans.substack.com   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_(TV_series) https://www.thomasdenny.co.uk/gallery --- To hear an additional episode of R...

Sean and Angela continue the conversation: Free Speech on the continent, slop mongers imagine EU heads of state hitting the afters on rails, Sir Keir on the shoulders of Irish-American giants, and the hope that the US/Israel relationship can be reshaped by a 747 (with fewer dancing Israelis this time).   --- To hear the rest of this episode and receive an additional episode of Rocinante every week...

This week Angela and Sean ponder freedom of speech: is it an inalienable human right, a bourgeois mental illness, a relic of Pax Americana, thin veneer over the color revolution machine, or is a measured approach required for the present age of near-peer competition?   --- To hear an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon:  https://patreon.com/RocinantePod Angela Nagl...

Sean and Angela continue the discussion of Isabella M. Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy”, CCP's responsiveness to public pressure, the virtues of a little bit of corruption, and an American Revolution of the Carnations. How China Escaped Shock Therapy: https://www.powells.com/book/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-the-market-reform-debate-9781032008493 --- To hear the rest of this episode an...

Sean and Angela discuss Isabella M. Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy”, Dengist Reforms, the importance of heavy industry, price controls, and more in a two part episode. 你介意白人男孩说一点中文吗？ How China Escaped Shock Therapy: https://www.powells.com/book/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-the-market-reform-debate-9781032008493 Godfather of the Kremlin: https://www.powells.com/book/godfa...

Sean and Angela answer questions submitted by our treasured Patreon and Substack subscribers. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation! --- To hear the rest of this episode and recieve an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod Angela Nagle:  https://angelanagle.substack.com/...

Angela and Sean consider the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, Tucker’s induction into Grand Lodge of Ireland, audience capture, the parasocial impulse to milk the lolcow dry, and the rise of center right globe emoji drillers. --- To hear the rest of this episode and recieve an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod Angela Nagle: ...

Sean and Angela discuss Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, if art can survive the universal solvent of the internet, the dull managers of hard power guiding the antisocial artisan/conduits of soft power, and the rewards (getting paid by the Knights of Malta) and risks (dying of malaria in Tuscany) of Doing the Race. Caravaggio ~ Robert Hughes Full Documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

Behind the paywall the conversation with Peter continues: the agony and the ecstasy of controlling the global reserve currency, Chinese economics and Carey thought, state development, economic protectionism, cryptocurrency, Il Duce on the small screen, and more. https://x.com/_PeterRyan https://www.ryanresearch.co/ https://substack.com/@ryanresearch Read John Hely Hutchinson's The Commercial Restr...

Sean and Angela are joined by Peter Ryan of Ryan Research to discuss industrialization and manufacturing as a tool of national liberation and colonial domination, anarchocapitalist elite enclosure past and present, the tariff situation (as it existed at time of recording), Matthew and Henry Carey, and walking the shining path of Hibernian Excellence.   https://x.com/_PeterRyan https://www.ryanrese...

*PREVIEW* In our first bonus episode Sean and Angela try to make sense of the ever-changing tariff situation, consider reproductive technology as the next frontier in the new Cold War, and review this weeks atrocities from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. --- To hear the rest of this episode and recieve an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/Rocin...

Sean and Angela debut Rocinante with a discussion of Gore Vidal's Inventing a Nation. Inventing a Nation:  https://www.powells.com/book/inventing-a-nation-washington-adams-jefferson-9780300101713 --- For an additional episode of Rocinante every week, subscribe to the Patreon:  https://patreon.com/RocinantePod We would love to hear your feedback. Send any comments and questions to: rocinantepod@gma...

  This episode was recorded last month before we ironed out all of the details of the show, the first post-christening episodes will release this week. There are several other episodes you can find on Sean and Angela's substacks, linked below. We get Malcom's take on what is really going on with DOGE, discuss his trip to Washington and compare US versus Chinese military capacities. You can read hi...