THE MANIFESTO PODCAST

This episode argues that the Monroe Doctrine is not history but infrastructure—the deep logic through which American power still understands the world. In dialogue with Steve McGregor as a critical interlocutor, the conversation interrogates Manifest Destiny, strategic denial, and the moral language used to mask exclusion and dominance. What emerges is a confrontation with the Monroe Doctrine as a...

We’re living through the collapse of an order that once claimed to be the end of history. Global liberalism — the system that promised prosperity, openness, and permanent progress — is no longer governing societies. It’s managing decline. In his manifesto, Pilkington argues that liberalism didn’t fail because it was betrayed, but because it succeeded too completely. It shed its limits, abandoned p...

Detta avsnitt handlar om samtidens stora idéförskjutningar där författaren Torbjörn Elensky åter gästar podden och diskuterar sin bok Livet efter framtiden . Vi utforskar hur teknologisk maktkoncentration, liberalismens kris och polariseringen av offentligheten formar vår tid. Med avstamp i modernitetens entré under det sena 1800-talet via mellankrigstidens reaktionära modernism – till dagens post...

In this thought-provoking episode, the Manifesto Podcast welcomes Brazilian thinker Guilherme Freire , who takes us on a journey from the medieval Reconquista to modern São Paulo. Along the way, he challenges liberal myths of victimhood, makes the case for monarchy and spiritual renewal, and explains why Brazil might just hold the key to Europe’s future. Expect history, theology, politics, and phi...

In this episode we delve into the lack of a sense of self that exists in Europe. While the European Union for decades has tried and failed (for, to us, obvious reasons) to provide an erzats-identity to the eroding national ones in (mostly) western Europe we look at the alternatives. While European elites have abandoned the project of building and caring for national identity and are trying to repl...

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Natten innan Sverigedemokraternas vitbok släpps i Almedalen under vad som måste betraktas som upptakten till valet 2026 får vi tag i vitbokens författare, idehistorikern Tony Gustafsson, som sitter i Visbys hamn och berättar om sitt arbete. Vi diskuterar vitboken och försöker sätta denna i kontext som en del i Sverigedemokraternas legitimering och normalisering. Men också som en del i svensk polit...

From Swedish absolutism to Russian empire, we unravel the chaotic laboratory of European innovation. The Great Northern War, Charles XII’s warrior-king swagger, and Peter the Great’s beard-shaving reforms reveal how small states punched above their weight through cutthroat rivalry. Europe’s soul isn’t in empires or museums—it’s in the messy, hyper-competitive patchwork of nations, where cancellati...

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In this gripping episode recorded on April 8, 2025, Johan Gärdebo, Alexander Bard, Ralph Schoellhammer, and Benedict Beckeld dive into the chaotic aftermath of Donald Trump’s second term and its seismic impact on a faltering Europe. With the U.S. embracing trade wars and isolationism, and Europe likened to a "retirement home run by demented senior citizens," the panel dissects a continent grapplin...

Blending elements of culinary theory and history with political analysis, the boys forge ahead with reading the tea leaves of our times. With the Middle East collapsing upon itself once again, Europe reeling and regime change in the US of A we try and shine new light on our current circunstances. However excentric a theory we know our job is to again forge ahead to try and break out of the restrai...

Luigi Magione's assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is the most interesting political rorschach test we've seen in quite some time. Armed with a 3D printed gun, good looks and an Ivy League background, Magione officially launches us into the Neo-Gilded Age that is the Trump Era. We talk about propaganda of the deed, nihilism and how we love being back in the 1890s. Johan, in usual for...

The episode centers on a discussion among political commentators about contemporary geopolitical shifts, cultural dynamics, and the role of leadership in shaping the modern West. It positions the 2024 U.S. presidential election as a pivotal event, highlighting Donald Trump’s victory as emblematic of larger ideological and cultural battles. The participants explore the implications of this election...

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Rod Dreher is a crunchy conservative from Louisiana, an editor for The American Conservative and a prolific a writer – notably of The Benedict Option which reframed the discussion about Christianity in the West in general and America in particular after the advent of Trumpism. Far from the stereotypical mold of an American conservative Dreher's erudite Europhilia runs through his work though as he...

Michael Gibson is the philosophy PhD who traded an Oxbridge career for tech journalism and when introduced to Peter Thiel, the venture capital and setting out to prove the Universities are not even close to the best incubators for curiosity, intellect and tallent. We discuss his journey and his intellectual memoir and spirited screed against the current institutions of learning, governance and dis...

As conservatives and leftists get their asses kicked in the West and liberalism, while not particularly popular at the ballot box is as dominant as ever as the culture becomes increasingly totalitarian, are we at a kind of Jacobite moment? In today's episode this is what we argue. That the protracted line of revolutions since 1517 - 1688, 1789 etc has left a significant part us in internal exile....

We are here to save the West. We see that politics and the political systems have failed or reached a dead end. But how does one save a moribund system from the grasp of an elite, of institutions and to be frank - a significant part of the electorate that benefits from it? Since 2016 the very word for change is the dread and promise that is Populism . In its promise is a belief that our democracy...

Patrick Deneen is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Deneen rose to prominence with his 2018 book Why Liberalism Failed . It drew a readership from the entire spectrum of American politics; from Cornel West, Jacobin Magazine and President Obama to the likes of Jonah Goldberg and George Will. The book drew praise and criticism alike as well as throwing a&nbs...

Why is modern architecture so ugly? Since at least 1950 the world has gotten immensely less attractive. Under the banner of poverty alleviating and social housing beauty in urban spaces became an outdated concept. Progress demanded that the bourgeoisie notion of function be discarded which is why your local library and Opera house now looks something designed by a wicked totalitarian regime totall...

Since the collapse of Western centrism in the last decade, one thing is now very clear – the future is nationalist. The excesses of globalism and universalist thinking that deeply fractured The West has led to an upsurge of popularity for the concepts of 'national sovereignty' and ‘identity' that will dominate the 2020s and 30s. But still, tectonic shifts have made the ground under our feet sway a...

Jan Emanuel ger gammelmedia långfingret och gästar Manifestpodden för det första längre samtalet efter lanseringen av Folklistan tillsammans med Sara Skyttedal. De populistiska vindarna i Folklistans segel är snålblåst från ett svenskt politiskt landskap i kaos. År av vanskötsel och naivitet gör att den enda frågan nu är vem som bäst kan anklaga den andre för att vara orsaken till allt som gått fe...

The farmers are revolting. No, literary. Always have been. Since what they do always accompanies them with that certain smell. Europeans are quite used to see farmers revolting. It’s a part of our long and troublesome history. The French have always been revolting, driving their tractors up and down the Champs-Élysées, spraying fertilizer on government buildings and keeping the baguette prices hig...

I have been told, ever since I was young, that if the world is coming to an end it's going to end in fire. Too many people, too few resources and as all the charts tracking human progress point upwards we're going to either exhaust our planet, or nuke each other in the process.  But lately both malthusian and liberal optimist narratives have come under fire from a quite unexpected corner. Elo...

As the fossilized shell of the old consensus of values in Western democracies falls apart and slides into the ocean, it's time to get some priorities straight. “It's Not The Economy, Stupid”  If there is a story to be told about the last thirty years, and the story that will be told about the coming thirty years that is not one of economics, then it is about social, cultural and spiritual dec...