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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.
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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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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 children. He recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Wolfe is co-host of the Ars Politica podcast and has written for Mere Orthodoxy, First Things, Chronicles Magazine, and History of Political Thought. He is also the author of “The Case for Christian Nationalism”.
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 selection, surrogacy, exo wombs, and more.
Kevin is the organizer of the Natalism conference held in Austin Texas, in December 2023 and the Founder of Exit Group - a fraternal organization dedicated to ending our reliance on corporate employment, so that you can’t be threatened by a politicized HR department or an “employer mandate”.
1We 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.
Matt Goodwin is a Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and the author of many fine books including his latest, “Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics”. You can find his latest work on his excellent Substack.
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 Haltigan studies Developmental & Evolutionary Psychopathology and specializes in Early Experience & Life History. You can find him on Twitter at @JDHaltigan
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, Brexit, Orban, and much more.
John O’Sullivan is a political commentator and journalist. He was the senior policy writer and speechwriter in 10 Downing Street for Margaret Thatcher when she was British prime minister. He is also the former editor of National Review in the years 1988-1997 and is now an editor at large. Since 2017, he has been president of the Danube Institute in Budapest.
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 much more.
Eric Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London. His topics of research include nationalism and political and religious demography. He is also the author of Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities, among many other fine books.
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 Thieke is a homemaker and writer. She’s on Twitter at @taraannthieke.
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 living in the UK. He holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. He is also on Twitter at @intothefuture45.
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 nonjudgmentalism, helping and not helping, and much more.
Chris Arnade went from Wall Street to street photography and wrote an excellent book called Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He is also the owner/operator of a great Substack.
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 Twitter and Substack at
Going Godward
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 Neuroscience and he blogs at datepsychology.com and in outlets like Aporia magazine.
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 show on The Blaze and the owner/operator of The Total State.
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 institutions that enable meaningful cultural change.
Nate also co-founded American Reformer, which works to revitalize contemporary Protestant thought and institutions. Nate previously co-founded a real estate investment firm that grew to more than $1 billion of assets, and has a variety of other entrepreneurial and investment experience. He is a Claremont Lincoln Fellow, and lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife and four children.
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 and children. This seemed like the price to pay for social cohesion.
I speak with Charlie about the following and more:
How big the scale of this scandal is
The motivations of the perpetrators
The police in the UK - an anarcho-tyrannical superpower
Using new tech to intimidate victims
Administration insiders covering for perpetrators
Girls as young as 12 were judged for making “lifestyle choices”
Charlie Peters is a writer and broadcaster from London who works for GBNews.
His most recent documentary is Grooming Gangs: Britain's Shame. It is available for free and is very much worth your time.
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 parents, passionate about education, avid pro-natalists, authors of the Pragmatist's Guide series of books, and famously the first people to publicly have “Gattaca babies.” They are also founders of the Collins Institute for the Gifted.
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, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book is “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.”
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.
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.
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, the move from surfing the web to feed-based viewing, how Jon Stewart led to Tucker Carlson, and much more.
Jon Askonas is an assistant professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America and a non-resident senior fellow at the Lincoln Network. His series in the New Atlantis is well worth your attention.
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 in Washington and has written very insightful pieces for every good outlet under the sun.
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