The Auron MacIntyre Show

A young engineer was forced to resign from the Department of Government Efficiency after a Wall Street Journal reporter uncovered his controversial internet posts. In an amazing cultural shift, JD Vance stood up against the young man's cancellation, and Elon Musk reinstated the staff member. While this might seem like a small victory at first, it radically changes the way that the Right interacts...

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have uncovered a stunning amount of corruption at the U.S. Agency for International Development, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. A massive piece of the federal budget is dedicated to political patronage for the Left and ensuring that progressive propaganda is pushed through various organizations. Nate Hochman joins me to discuss what it...

Donald Trump placed a 90-day hold on foreign aid in one of his executive orders, and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has subsequently identified the U.S. Agency for International Development as a prime candidate for elimination. Democrats and their media allies hoped that by drawing attention to USAID, they could frame cuts to the program as an act by callous billionaires who do no...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been fighting to advance his own version of progressive race communism inside the country for many years. Recently, a new law was passed making it easier for the South African government to expropriate land and redistribute it along racial lines. U.S. President Donald Trump drew attention to the issue when he promised on social media that he will deny ai...

Political theorist Curtis Yarvin has been very critical about the ability of Donald Trump to effect change in the United States government. But in his latest blog post, Yarvin apologized to both Trump and conservative activist Christopher Rufo for doubting their ability to make a significant impact. We'll be discussing what Yarvin got wrong about this political moment and reviewing his newest book...

Silicon Valley tech CEOs became a key part of Donald Trump's winning coalition during the election. As part of this alliance, Trump has signed an executive order mandating that the U.S. take a leading role in the development of technology like artificial intelligence. Author Joe Allen joins me to discuss whether this commitment to AI is critical for America's future or a threat to our political an...

Donald Trump has launched his second presidential term with a “flood the zone” strategy designed to overwhelm the Left before it can mount a response. In just seven days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted nationwide raids, arresting thousands of illegal immigrants. Authorities prioritized the most dangerous offenders, ensuring gang members, drug traffickers, and child predators were sw...

With Donald Trump's executive order attempting to clarify the nature of American citizenship, now is a good time to look at the 14th Amendment. While this important addition to the Constitution insured that freed slaves were treated as citizens, the confusing language used throughout the amendment has been abused to justify all kinds of strange rulings by the Supreme Court. Ryan Turnipseed joins m...

As Trump attempts to strip the woke DEI regime out of the American government, many conservatives have celebrated the return of meritocracy as the default system for selecting and elevating people into places of authority. Merit serves a critical function in selecting for doctors and scientists, but should it be the only criteria considered? Nate Fischer, CEO of New Founding, joins me to discuss t...

Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first few days in office, with a particular focus on ending DEI, affirmative action, and other forms of anti-white racism. These actions are impressive, but lawsuits have already been filed to block them, and some executive agencies have taken action to circumvent them. Will the Trump administration have the discipline and dedication to f...

Surviving assassination attempts and prosecutions, Trump returned to office lambasting Biden, pardoning 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, ending birthright citizenship, and vowing to halt needless foreign wars. And that was just day one. If Trump maintains this rapid pace, he is poised to become one of the most influential conservative presidents in American history. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.appl...

The political thinker Gaetano Mosca is best known as one of the founders of elite theory, but a common misconception is that he believed the powerful could do whatever they want. In reality, Mosca believed that juridical defense, the guarantee that a citizen would be protected from arbitrary power, is central to a good society. We will discuss the nature of juridical defense and how it checks the...

Donald Trump has taken office after a flurry of blanket pardons issued by Joe Biden. The 47th president gave a searing rebuke of the Biden administration and made a series of important promises in his inauguration speech, including sending troops to the southern border. Blogger Dave the Distributist joins me to discuss the incoming administration and whether we are seeing a true circulation of eli...

Jean Baudrillard is a French sociologist and philosopher famous for his exploration of symbols, meaning, and communication. Despite being characterized as a postmodern thinker, his focus on media, culture, and technology contains many insights that can help to frame issues that the Right is struggling with today. Podcaster Mikeofpol joins me to discuss Baudrillard's work. Follow on: Apple: https:/...

People of every generation love to give the kids who come after them a hard time. While Generation Z, or the “Zoomers,” have an attitude that can feel alien to their predecessors, they also face a unique set of challenges that their elders have a hard time conceiving of, much less addressing. Identity, spirituality, family, and economics have shifted under the feet of the Zoomers, and it is time f...

Every civilization is shaped by its ruling elite, but what happens when those planning your society cannot understand the average person? Authors Charles Murray and Christopher Lasch have both discussed the dangers of cognitive stratification and how it could destroy social fabric. We will be discussing how that problem recently manifested itself in the debate over immigration and employment. Foll...

California wildfires are doing terrible damage in and around Los Angeles. While leftists have been blaming climate change, a long list of government failures have exacerbated the disaster. Fire hydrants have run dry, water reservoirs were left empty, and DEI policies have created a firefighter shortage. Author Peachy Keenan joins me to discuss her personal experience living in L.A. County and how...

Conservatives and libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority but rarely consider the factors that drive the growth of government. For most champions of small government, institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success, but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make expansion of the state inevitable....

Elon Musk has been raising awareness about the horrific grooming gang scandal in the United Kingdom. Islamic immigrants spent over a decade preying on young British girls, and the U.K. government turned a blind eye to the crimes in the name of multiculturalism. Carl Benjamin of the "Lotus Eaters" podcast joins me to discuss Musk's ongoing clash with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and how the public i...

Every January, I collect the best or most important books I read the previous year and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. They do not need to be books written in 2024 — in fact, many are hundreds or even thousands of years old — just books that I read or reread last year. From philosophy to political science to sociology, these are the nine books that I would recommend going into the new year...

The New Year brought unexpected tragedy in a pair of strange terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. While the attackers appeared very different in their motivations and tactics, both men served in the U.S. Army and were stationed at the same military base: Fort Bragg. Lafayette Lee, contributing editor at IM-1776, joins me to discuss. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A debate exploded across Twitter on Christmas Day between MAGA populists and the Silicon Valley tech elite. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy found themselves facing a wall of angry comments after asserting that Americans did not have the talent or the drive to meet the challenges of the 21 century. Ryan Turnipseed and The Prudentialist join me to discuss this critical showdown.  Follow on: Apple: htt...

With a massive, 1,500-page spending bill full of pork working its way through Congress right before Christmas break, Elon Musk used his social media platform to help crush the legislation and get a more trimmed-down version introduced. This sent politicians and media pundits into a tailspin as they screamed about an unelected billionaire wielding so much power. Has Musk taken unprecedented action,...

As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassination on a New York City street went public, the Left began turning the murderer into a folk hero. The justification for this disturbing behavior is the claim of “obscene profits” made by corrupt health care companies. Yet, these same progressives attacked anyone who questioned the COVID-19 vaccine while pharmaceutical...

Many people operating in the center of American and British politics identify themselves as classical liberals, but their ideology bears little resemblance to a thinker like John Locke. What is real classical liberalism, and can it return to prominence in the modern political environment? Stelios Panagiotou of "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" joins me to discuss. Follow on: Apple: https://podcast...