The Julius Ruechel Podcast

My guest this week is Dr. Matthew Wielicki, a geochemist and Earth Sciences professor whom you might already know from his insightful posts on X . He runs a popular Substack at irrationalfear.substack.com where he challenges mainstream climate narratives by actually looking at… the published science. He also has a book called Irrational Fear: Climate Change coming out soon . I’ve invited him on th...

The Canadian economy is now officially shrinking , foreign capital flight has become a full-blown crisis , and Canadians themselves are voting to leave this country in record numbers with their money and with their feet . And it’s all 100% self-inflicted. Premier Danielle Smith recently pointed out , “ this onslaught of anti-energy, anti-agriculture, and anti-resource development policies has scar...

A recent decision by the BC Supreme Court has just set a shocking precedent by extending Aboriginal land claims beyond Crown lands to also include privately owned lands. The judgement also explicitly states that Aboriginal title is a prior and senior right to land that supersedes fee simple land titles, thus throwing the door wide open for your land title to mean nothing! This move is the conseque...

Scapegoats, however wicked they may be, are also the perfect distraction by which to avoid facing our own problems. Sometimes a simple comparison between two “things” forces us to re-evaluate our assumptions about how the world works and, by extension, confront the hard realities staring back at us when we hold a mirror up to ourselves. Kenya, in the developing world, just completed a major infras...

How do you de-program a mind that has succumbed to ideology, mass hysteria, or propaganda? And how do you fix an entire society once the “cult” goes mainstream? ~ ~ ~ Before we turn to the unpleasant business of population-scale deprogramming, I want to begin with a revealing story about a repulsive yet pitiable old man that I briefly stumbled across many years ago who had so firmly fused his iden...

There is a legal concept in international law known as odious debt , also sometimes referred to as illegitimate debt. It states that debts incurred by a despotic regime are not considered enforceable or binding on the citizens of a country or on its successor state once that despotic regime is deposed. The core idea behind this legal concept is that if a regime borrows money for personal gain or a...

Buddhists described the inner voice in our heads as the mind monkey or heart-mind monkey (named that way because of its tendency to jump from one thing to another, similar to how a monkey jumps from tree to tree, and its tendency to hyper-fixate on whatever catches its attention). That metaphor isn't exactly complementary of our inner voice and speaks to the restless, scattered, chaotic, undiscipl...

The defining legacy of Trump’s first term is that, within the first couple of weeks after it ended, President Biden’s executive pen erased virtually every mark Trump had left on America’s system. The US rejoined the Paris Climate agreement. Construction of the border wall was stopped (and construction materials were auctioned off for pennies on the dollar). The doors were once again thrown wide op...

Culture is an evolutionary process that follows many of the same patterns as biological evolution. And all too often, the path to cultural extinction is also evolutionary. In biology, an invasive species is defined as “ a non-native organism that, when introduced to a new ecosystem, proliferates rapidly, disrupts local biodiversity, and causes ecological or economic harm by outcompeting or preying...

Regardless of whether leadership is elected, appointed, inherited, or seized by a coup, all political power ultimately depends on entangled threads of patronage that grow up underneath that political power, fueled by mutual obligation and self-interest. And as it grows, it begins to warp the minds of all those who get caught up in its net. During the Roman Era, their entire political system revolv...

As the post-national multi-cultural social-engineering experiment of the past 80 years reaches its ugly but inevitable chaotic conclusion and the world begins to take stock on how to rebuild the cultural fabric of our nations before things spiral into full-blown race wars and civil unrest (or worse), the urgent question arises: what does it take to glue a fractured nation back together and rebuild...

“ I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. ” — Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. ~ ~ ~ Before I turn to Alberta and the East-West divide that is threatening to tear Canada apart, I want to begin with a brief story from another ti...

Dotting the walls of the red sandstone canyons all across the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States (where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet), high up on the vertical cliffs, you can see the ancient ruins of countless cliff dwellings and granaries, big and small, perched on seemingly impossible narrow ledges, sometimes hundreds of feet up off the valley floor where the s...

This is the audio version of my recent Deep Dive, The Dangerous End of the Post-WWII Monetary Order , which was unfortunately delayed because of some technical difficulties that I have now resolved. In other news, I’m just wrapping this week’s upcoming essay and podcast — a Deep Dive that I’m particularly proud of that relies heavily on both my farming and geology backgrounds, and my long-time pas...

This short post about Trump’s long game in Canada began as a reply to a post on X by Carl Benjamin, from the United Kingdom, where he criticized Trump’s “ beligerance towards Canada ” and the cold face Trump has shown “ towards the right-wing cause in every other country, ” which is helping to push voters into the arms of the very same Liberal Party that has caused so much destruction to Canada ov...

( If you’re reading this in your email browser, I recommend clicking on the title to switch to reading on the Substack platform (https://juliusruechel.substack.com) because most email programs truncate larger image-rich Substack posts .) This is Part Three of my Deep Dive into the psychological unravelling of Western Civilization. In Part One — Why Western Civilization Lost Its Mind — I explored t...

( If you’re reading this in your email browser, I recommend clicking on the title to switch to reading on the Substack platform (https://juliusruechel.substack.com) because most email programs truncate larger image-rich Substack posts .) This is Part Two of my Deep Dive into the psychological unravelling of Western Civilization. In Part One — Why Western Civilization Lost Its Mind — I explored the...

( If you’re reading this in your email browser, I recommend clicking on the title to switch to reading on my Substack (https://juliusruechel.substack.com) because most email programs truncate larger image-rich Substack posts .) “ Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one .” ― Charles MacKay, Ex...

Welcome to the Julius Ruechel Podcast. Quite a few of you have asked whether I could release a podcast version of my essays. So, here’s the first of hopefully many… Podcast Episode #1 is the audio version of my latest essay: The Strong Do What They Can and the Weak Suffer What They Must : A Deep Dive into the End of Post-WWII Moral Internationalism and a … This is a free preview of a paid episode....

The story of the famous Melian Dialogue was originally written over 2,500 years ago by ancient Greek historian Thucydides. I have included both the text and audio version in this Substack (and removed the paywall) for easier sharing because of how important the lessons from this ancient historic text are even today. What follows is meant to serve as both a stand-alone episode and as a supplemental...