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Discussions on history, philosophy, politics, science, and civilizational questions. We're here to learn.

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  1. -2 j

    The Youth Revolution Isn't For Us

    Samo Burja and Wolf Tivy cover gerontocracy. Generational youth politics are a dead end: the "youth" will be old by the time they take power. Change can come only from empowering new classes willing to gamble on their own "nepo babies".

    1 h 7 min

  2. 17 juin

    How To Join The San Francisco Intellectual Scene

    San Francisco is the capital of the online networks where today's new ideas are born. It's an excellent place for a sensitive young man with something to say. Ben and Wolf describe how the scene works and how to break in.

    1 h 1 min

  3. 10 juin

    Napoleon Won

    Napoleon built the institutions of the modern state—especially the military. This was best analyzed by Napoleon's enemy Clausewitz, who studied war on the opposite side of the battlefield. Napoleon's armies were defeated, but his system and his spirit are still with us.

    58 min

  4. 3 juin

    Ideology Is Conspicuous Consumption

    Thorstein Veblen tells us how elites display their superiority by showing off their cultivated taste and skill, which in turn displays their economic power, and ultimately their capacity for violence. Veblen was very upset by this. But you don’t have to be. 0:00 - Intro 4:40 - The structural purpose of leisure 14:05 - The macroeconomics of respectability: Conspicuous leisure and vicarious leisure 21:38 - What are the naturally honorable leisure activities? 27:16 - How today’s leisure class was created 36:30 - The new counterculture’s opportunity 40:48 - Downward social mobility and the spurious leisure class 42:50 - The inevitability of hierarchy and the failure of egalitarian experiments 50:06 - How do we channel conspicuous leisure to prosocial purposes again?

    57 min

  5. 27 mai

    Your Life is a Hypothesis

    The Earth has become small -- and the Last Man lives the longest.In 1885, Nietzsche foresaw mankind's transformation into a being who cares only for safety and contentment -- the final step before he gives up his higher nature. Jonathan Wallis joins Wolf Tivy to help us understand the Last Man.0:00 — Intro0:32 — The greatest threat is not disorder but the Last Man3:39 — Radical potential is always recuperated, domesticated, defanged16:46 — Cults reenact the logic of modernity23:45 — You have to live the hypothesis37:20 — Civilization is the ability to pass the crown51:34 — There is no soul-atom; you are an intersection of forces

    1 h 2 min

  6. 20 mai

    Machiavelli's Virtue

    Machiavelli saw that Christianity had made Italy weak, servile, and prey to criminal men. His answer: ground politics in "what is", not imagined republics — and dare great men to act on it. The consequences founded the modern world. Duncan Umphrey joins us to discuss the Machiavelli's virtue.

    1 h 12 min

  7. 13 mai

    The Machine Gun Killed Democracy

    Ben Landau-Taylor discusses Carroll Quigley's thesis on how weapons systems shape political order—how military technology determines whether a society ends up democratic, authoritarian, or something else entirely.

    1 h 18 min

  8. 6 mai

    The War that Destroyed the Greek World

    The Peloponnesian War destroyed the Greek world and exposed the violence behind the civilized facade, much like the World Wars of the 20th century. Maxim Dmitrienko walks us through Thucydides' timeless History.

    1 h 25 min

  9. 29 avr.

    Why Study Greek Philosophy?

    Should a student of the 21st century read Plato and Aristotle? Stephen Pimentel explains how Greek philosophy helps us to see past the conceits of our own era.

    1 h 13 min

  10. 24 avr.

    How Civilizations Die

    Carroll Quigley's 1961 book The Evolution of Civilizations describes the stages a civilization goes through as it grows, expands, decays, and falls. Ben Landau-Taylor tells us how Quigley's theory works, and where our civilization sits in this process today.

    1 h 14 min

  11. 16 avr.

    Nothing Human Makes It Out of the Near Future?

    DC Posch and Wolf Tivy read Meltdown from Nick Land, the prophet of 21st century artificial intelligence and runaway capitalism.

    1 h 3 min

  12. 10 avr.

    Should I Pick My Kids' Genes?

    Rachel Wallis is using cutting-edge gene selection technology to have kids. Wolf Tivy is using traditional methods. Which is better? They debate. ----------- Reproductive Frontiers 2026 conference in Berkeley this June: reproductivefrontiers.org

    1 h 38 min
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