Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

I speak to Michael about how trans went from a niche sexual fetish to the next rights revolution, about the common misunderstandings in the field, the differences between male and female sexual orientation, compassion for sexual minorities, and the thorny conversations around pedophilia. Michael Bailey is a psychologist, behavioral geneticist, a professor at Northwestern University, and the author...

We speak about what is so unsavory about the classics in our current time, about culture, education, and entertainment as an embedded experience in a way it has never been before, about Twitter spaces as an incredible new forum, and much, much more. Athenian Stranger is a famed Twitter Space host @Athens_Stranger , a philosophical maximalist, and the grey eminence behind Underground University

I speak with Soso about the main fault lines on the online right, between a focus on religion vs. a focus on immigration and the simmering conflict between family and vitalism. We also speak about aesthetics as a superior way of relating to reality - and much more. You can find Soso's writing on Twitter at @chernayakoshka

I speak with Steve about the people's republic of California, Liberalism under total honesty about hate-facts, applying Moneyball-style analysis to base reality, the possibility of meritocracy, the conflation between IQ and human worth, the strange relationship between Asians and affirmative action, the legacy of Barack Obama, Abortion’s effect on crime, coining "HBD" and the career of the concept...

I speak with REN about being in your body as an act of defiance against a regime that wants to enslave you through disembodiment. We also speak about the virtues of slonking, weight lifting, women in "the movement," medical malpractice, frankenfood, covid amnesty, and much more. Raw Egg Nationalist is an author and the editor of Man’s World magazine. You can find his books everywhere fine books ar...

I speak with Amy about all manner of unspeakable subjects - from racial achievement gaps to the question of IQ, to the possibility of liberalism under a de facto caste system, to Jewish overrepresentation in the upper echelons of almost every field, to reading Jared Taylor and much much more. We leave no stone unturned.   Amy Wax is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is t...

I speak to Morgoth about the current state of the dissident right, Liberalism in a tailspin with the progressive view of history a mirage propped up on vulnerable infrastructure, blackpills, assisted and non-assisted suicide, therapy culture, and the world reserved for us after liberalism as a post-human landscape. Morgoth is a veteran YouTuber and Substack author https://morgoth.substack.com/

I speak with Katherine about a bizarre, relatively new outgrowth of the American psyche, the phenomenon of the school shooter. Beyond the "we need fewer/more guns" debate, there is a numb silence about the worldview that fuels the actual motivations of these young men. They are labeled and put away in the monster pile. But could it be that, in some ways, they see further than we can? Katherine Dee...

I speak to Sam about the shifting tides in UK politics, about a new "very right wing" government implementing price fixing, about energy strategy and fumbling it on a continent-wide scale, and about the decriminalization of crime in the UK and what alternatives may look like. Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a journalist who has been featured in The Spectator, The Critic, The Telegraph and many more publicat...

I speak with Helen about finding love, marriage, traditional gender roles, having and raising children, and doing it all under the watchful eye of gnostic rainbow millenarianism. Helen Roy is a writer, wife, and mother. She’s a contributing editor for the American Mind and the host of the Girlboss, Interrupted podcast. https://girlbossinterrupted.podbean.com/

We speak about the future of industrial agriculture, food safety, regenerative agriculture, economies of scale and local specialization, the wonders of LARPing, US crime rates and the new islands of “failed states” within the country, and much more. William Wheelwright is an anonymous Twitter poster, you can find his work @ploughmansfolly on Twitter.

I spoke with Jeremy about the history of immigration in the United States, the difference between settlers and immigrants, what the allegiance of our government class is towards citizens and non-citizens, brain gain and brain drain, immigration as apprenticeship, immigration as a fertility patch, and much more. Jeremy Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, where his primary focus is o...

I speak with Aleksandar about our age of incoherence, the strange duality between the accelerating complexity of the online narrative and essential systems breaking down in reality, and much, much more. Aleksandar is an anonymous poster who has had many lives on Twitter, from @ajdhenry and "Turning Point Dyatlov Pass" to recently @FaucciMane, and is currently banned until the next respawn. 

I speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more. Emmet Penney of the Ex-haust podcast, editor in chief at Gridbrief , contributing editor at Compact, and a well-know...

I’ve been looking to record this episode for a while, given that Eastern Europe is both in the news and has gotten a new reputation as a bastion of “based politics.“ To enlighten me on the subject, I brought in my friend Dan Dima, one of the most well-read people I know, especially on Romanian and Eastern European history and political philosophy. We speak about what it means to be on the left or...

I speak with Lee about the meaning of patriotism under the rainbow flag. We also speak about a desire for wild places and the frontier, homeschooling, family culture, being at home in your hometown, and more. You can find Lafayette’s work on his Twitter page @Partisan_O and on his Substack https://ruins.substack.com/

I speak with Ed about the current state of UK politics and the failures of its post-war conservative movements, the population collapse and why it is happening, grooming gang scandals, Eastern European fashion trends that may or may not include mullets, and much more. Ed West is an author, journalist, blogger, owner/operator of a substack called Wrong Side Of Histo ry, and the author of many books...

I speak to Peter about our unprecedented information infrastructure and how it has captured the public discourse, and how we relate to others and ourselves. We also speak about Web 3, limbic capitalism, being powerless without common myths, and much more. Peter Wang is CEO and Co-founder of Anaconda, a software developer and former physicist, and an advocate for data literacy and the wider Python-...

In this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale.    We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more.   This was one of my favorite co...

I'm joined once again by Curtis to discuss and dissect what is closest to a declaration of the propositions of the Deep Right. We focus primarily on the five principles as laid out in his Substack post: Principles of the Deep Right : Timelessness, Neutrality, Vitalism, Realism & Absolutism, but as always with  Curtis, exciting tangents abound. Curtis Yarvin is a writer, technologist, and...

speak with Yoram about what distinguishes British/American conservatism and how exportable it actually is, the liberal idea that politics can address itself to the public sphere alone, the possibility of democracy, the disenchantment of life downstream from technology, and much more. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, a Bible scholar, and a political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Ins...

I speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner. Helena Kerschner is a 23-year-old girl who has believed herself to be transgender since she was a teen. She is now trying to educate people about "gender-affirming...

The lovely Louise is back on the show to speak about motherhood,  "Cultural Deathgrip Syndrome," sexual disenchantment, sex education based on consent, the idea that sex is a skill, abortion, the inherent inequality of sex, the rough sex defense, and much, much more. Louise Perry is a writer, campaigner, a columnist at the New Statesman, and the author of the new book The Case Against The Sex...

I speak with Luke about being an autonomous self in an overabundance of memetic and mimetic opportunity, about choosing unchosen bonds again, the positives of mimesis given that it is inescapable, metaphysical boredom, expertise, identity, and much more. Luke Burgis is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University...

I speak with Matt about how living together is possible when two different religious systems clash, about voice vs exit, Elon buying Twitter as an act of statesmanship, the accelerating "Current Thing" ratchet, civil rights law, based captains of industry as modern saviors, how we find each other and how we converge on a positive vision. Matt Peterson is the Founder and President of New Founding a...