Subversive is a podcast by Alex Kaschuta about ideas that may not fit neatly into the Overton window and could use a nudge, or a sledgehammer. Alex chats to thinkers across the spectrum from iconoclast philosophers, rogue scientists, *real* journalists, and our true intellectual elite, Twitter anons. If you want to support the show or my work in general, head to my Substack: www.alexkaschuta.com or Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
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Sai Pandit - The gender wars: an Indian perspective
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Stella Tsantekidou - Needy femcels in horny world
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Spencer Greenberg - How do other people think?
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John Arcto - A thousand flowers blooming outside the Overton Window
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Walt Bismarck - The boys are back in town
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Regan Arntz-Grey - How much agency do we have?
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Adam Van Buskirk (@Empty_America) - The strange 21st century
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Jeremy Carl - A Reckoning on Race: Why we need to be honest about anti-whiteness
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We speak about: The three pillars of modern anti-white civil rights laws: affirmative action, disparate impact, and the erosion of freedom of association. Criminality and different treatment under the law - the Central Park Five case. Hollywood and Madison Avenue. White flight and gentrification. Jeremy Carl is a senior fellow at Claremont Institut…
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Circe - Are we still fraternizing with the enemy?
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Trace Woodgrains - The burden and delight of carving your own path
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Richard Hanania - Leaving wokeness behind without burning it all down
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Sebastian Jensen - It's heritability all the way down
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Anatoly Karlin - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GAE
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Gurwinder Bhogal - Welcome to Game World, Resistance is Futile
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Niccolo Soldo - The Course of Empire, from Washington to Moscow
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Turboamerica - Never more united, never more powerful than it is today. AIDS - https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-early-days-of-hivaids-introduction Anatoly Karlin’s “Wokeness is the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity” as a replacement for noblesse oblige. What we can learn from the Ukraine war about current empire(s).“Fighting for a be…
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Fleur Meston: Promising Young Woman
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We speak about his circuitous path to studying philosophy and theology, maintaining virtue when you’re not allowed to define it, technology as an almost magical confirmation of the victory of reason, the importance of status in spreading ideas, and much more.Dr. James Orr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinit…
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We speak about the fact that often one study is more representative of reality than many, P hacking and the emptiness of much of social science, the many ways to lie with statistics, fertility and demographic collapse, lead exposure and the various disasters pinned on it, the midwits of Mensa, and much more. Cremieux is an anonymous poster, a man w…
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We speak about getting married young, stepping into an uncertain world, chaotic, nihilistic energy versus more rooted ways, the exhaustion of politics, especially the electoral kind, technology, modern media and much more. J Burden is the host of the J Burden Show, a podcaster and chronicler of the dissident right, he has on many up-and-coming infl…
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Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad - Liberalism, an Autopsy
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We speak about the evolution of online ideologies, the increasingly unavoidable confrontation with post-liberalism, democracy, the individual, ideology itself as a child of the Enlightenment, Christianity as a necessary but eroding substructure of Western culture, and much more. Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad is a legendary YouTuber, writer and …
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Philippe Lemoine - The Renaissance of War
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We speak about the case against Western intervention in Ukraine and Russia as a looming presence in Eastern Europe. We also speak about liberal imperialism, political pragmatism, France today, and much more. Philippe is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Cornell and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.…
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Stephen Wolfe - Is Christian Nationalism an Option?
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We speak about the theory and practice of a state organized according to Christian principles, which flavor and intensity of Christianity may apply, how to advocate for a religious solution in an era of dwindling faith, and much more. Stephen Wolfe is a country scholar at Wolfeshire in central North Carolina where he lives with his wife and four ch…
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Bennett's Phylactery - Finding our Way Back to Children
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We speak about the problem of demographic collapse, what it could look like, and how both individuals and policy can address it. We also speak about the importance of religion, secular alternatives to religious natalism culture, government policy that works and doesn’t, testosterone and sperm count decline, fertility technology like IVF and embryo …
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We speak about what the ruling class of Britain looks like today and how it has changed in the last 50 years. We also speak about what the Tory party represents, the global elite and the status that comes with membership in it, immigration to the UK and what, if anything can be done about it, right-wing politics and the class divide and much more. …
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J.D. Haltigan - Nature & Nurture in our First Years
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We speak about what matters in the early years of children’s lives: caregiving and social experiences, daycare, bullying, divorce, and sex differences in early childhood psychopathology. We also speak about long covid and its strange link with bisexuality, the difference between destigmatizing and normalizing, DEI in universities and more. JD Halti…
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John O'Sullivan - The New "New Right" and its Future
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We speak about the three eras of the “New Right”: from William F. Buckley and James Burnham to the second “New Right” under Reagan and Thatcher and now the third “New Right” that is taking shape in the wake of the populist revolutions of Trump and Brexit. We also speak about immigration, liberalism as a self-liquefying force, Thatcher’s legacy, Bre…
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Eric Kaufmann - Demographics and the Destiny of the West
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We speak about his long-standing interest in the demographic crisis, the religious inheriting the earth, expressive individualism and egalitarianism as the acid preparing the fall of Anglo-America, being a liberal National Conservative, negative vs. positive liberty under NatCon, liberals voting for diversity but living in micro-ethnostates, and mu…
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Tara Ann Thieke - Creating a Life with Children
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We speak about how to view children, what they are, and what they can ideally be. We also speak about why parents matter, exposing kids to the world, how to think about peers, the strained relationship between men and women, the new horizon of surrogacy, and the importance of rituals in the lives of children and everyone else, and more. Tara Ann Th…
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Henry George - Getting Unstuck from Theory
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We speak about how politics, ideas, and culture are connected, if individuals and ideas shape social change more than institutional networks and social structures, the ideal of the neutral institution. We also speak about libertarianism, the problem of empathy, disability, gratitude, immigration, and much more. Henry George is a freelance writer li…
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Chris Arnade - A Student of Life at the Bottom
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We speak about being a class traitor, the journey between these two worlds, the concept of dignity, the tension between personal responsibility and paternalism, the patterns of addiction and sexual abuse in people living on the street, justified and unjustified fears when it comes to dealing with people at the end of their tether, the problem of no…
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Going Godward - The Kids Are Not Alright
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We speak about how ubiquitous internet access is warping the school experience, including how kids socialize, the rise of trans and other social contagions, the importance and effects of parenting, No intellectual life in students, TikTok beefs, raising sons, men and women coexisting in harmony and much more. You can find Going Godward’s posts on T…
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Datepsych - Bringing Data to the Sex Wars
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We speak about “sexual market value” and the distribution of attractiveness across men and women, incels, divorce statistics, divorce likelihood, hybristophilia or the female attraction to violent men, the dual mating hypothesis, the reliability of self-reported data, and much more. Alexander is a graduate student in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuros…
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Auron MacIntyre - Another Day in the Total State
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We speak about online themes trickling into the mainstream, changes, and schisms on the Dissident Right, the ripening of the Manosphere, his elevator pitch for the total state, patronage, and how it can work for the Right, and much more. Auron MacIntyre is a writer, Youtuber, and prolific Twitter poster. He is also the star of the Auron MacIntyre s…
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Nate Fischer - Tech and Finance in the Service of the Right
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We speak about the virtues and vices of finance, how tech can help the Right organize and reach policy goals, AI diminishing the possibility of costly signaling, low-trust societies, and much more. Nate Fischer is the founder and CEO of New Founding. New Founding is a venture firm and talent network focused on building parallel economic institution…
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Charlie Peters: Hopeless Decades for the UK's Lost Girls
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We speak about the decades-long fight of a handful of dedicated public servants to blow the cover off a scandal of epic proportions. Associated with places like Rotherham, Telford, and wider Oxfordshire, the mass rape of young girls by grooming gangs of mostly Pakistani origin has been covered up by every institution that existed to protect women a…
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Simone & Malcolm Collins - Breeding To Save The World
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We speak about the fertility decline across the West and beyond, the limited perspective of almost everyone on this issue, prosperity-induced fertility collapse, the real dangers of an inverted population pyramid, South Koreans as an endangered species, having and raising children in alternative ways, and much more. Simone & Malcolm Collins are par…
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Heather Mac Donald - Destroying a Whole Civilization in a Few Easy Steps
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We speak about the standard of “disparate impact” and its legacy, life and politics after accepting difference, Broken Windows policing, the great abdication of the police, the cost of violent crime to the victims, the role of NGOs in all this, family formation and fatherhood, and much more. Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute…
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Catgirl Kulak - The Media Is Not Your Friend
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We speak about the death of regime media, the beauty of the niche, the cosmos of Kitsch and why it’s better than mainstream art, the death of progress in the world of atoms, China as an overblown nemesis, and much more. Catgirl Kulak is a Twitter poster @FromKulak, Substack owner/operator, and occasional guest on the Bailey Podcast.…
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Jacob Phillips - Do we still have a duty to each other?
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We speak about Jacob’s journey to his current worldview, the question of ‘obedience to what?”, safetyism, the Anglo spirit, what happened to London, the Catholic church and its failings, and much more. Jacob Phillips is an academic, a writer, and the author of “Obedience is Freedom.” You can find him on Twitter at @counteredlogos.…
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I speak with Jon about one of the most important yet subtle phenomena happening right now: the absolute warping of our culture and politics to fit the incentive structure of internet platforms. We speak about the mechanics and flow of information on the internet, rumors, fake news, mob violence, short video as the ultimate format, mimetic desire, t…
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David Azerrad - Stop Worshiping Your Enemy's Idols
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We speak about Ethnonarcissism and revisionist histories, MLK as a modern saint, reparations, statistical parity, identity politics threatening the republican form of self-government, and the logical endpoint of social justice. David Azerrad is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government…
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Katy Faust - Our Children's Forgotten Rights
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My conversation with writer, activist, and overall powerhouse Katy Faust on what we owe our children and the future. I speak with Katy about her upbringing in a lesbian household, the problems with same-sex marriage and how redefining marriage has redefined parenthood, the implications of surrogacy on the child, IVF, divorce and step-parents, the i…
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Nightmare Vision & Future Moldovan Citizen: May You Live In Interesting Times
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An exciting and rare double feature with two of anon Twitter's most fascinating denizens, the Night Owls. We speak about ethnicity, the delight of going to NatCon, Rosedale Texas, Elena Ceausescu as a woman in STEM, the real issue with urbanism and anti-car culture, tightening anarcho-tyranny, and much much more - a true potpourri of subjects and w…
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Carl Trueman - A Hidden Revolution of the Self
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We speak about the concept of the Self, the different visions it embodies across the ages, and how this perspective managed to infiltrate the popular imagination. We also speak about Expressive Individualism, authenticity, technology, romanticism, and much more. Carl R. Trueman is a theologian and ecclesiastical historian, a professor of Biblical a…
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Elon Bachman - Minds Evolving Online
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We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more. Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter.…
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