It’s been about a year since I recorded this, but let’s just say I was waiting for the right time to put this out. I often feel like people aren’t ready for the things I’m thinking about right when I’m thinking about them. This is one such topic. I daresay most people are not thinking about Christian Socialism, but now that the election is over, maybe we’ll be a little more primed for… interesting ideas.
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01:44 The (Neo) Academic lifestyle
04:35 Conservatives in academia
07:32 Conservative public intellectuals vs left-wing academics
10:48 The life of the intellectual
13:42 The origins and cost of left vs right political framing
16:00 Why you should read what you’re opposed to
19:15 What is a conservative?
25:34 How we deal with inequality
30:11 The place between Meritocracy and Absolute Determinism
32:04 The aesthetics and the unwashed masses
35:16 Donald Trump’s sublime aesthetic
40:36 The ideal aesthetics of the left
42:07 The regression of leftist countercultural aesthetics
44:58 The conservative Hegelian
49:09 12 Things You Could Do Besides Read Hegel
52:22 Why you should read Tolstoy (and Dostoyevsky)
01:00:08 Tolstoy’s Struggles and Rich Boi Socialism
01:06:41 Patrick Deneen’s Assessment of the failure of Classic Liberalism
01:12:15 A Divine Intervention for the Left
01:19:41 Christian Socialism
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