Episodes

  • Review: History of Political Philosophy (Aristotle) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

    Review: History of Political Philosophy (Aristotle) edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
    Mar 7 2025
    In this episode I review Aristotle's political and ethical premises with a focus on eudaimonia, arete, and the mixed regime, as described by Carnes Lord in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey's essay collection, History of Political Philosophy.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Review: Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

    Review: Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall
    Mar 1 2025
    In this episode I examine various forms of happiness, the difference between happiness and eudaimonia, and the basics of Aristotelian virtue ethics as described by Edith Hall in Aristotle's Way.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Review: Industrial Policy for the United States by Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher

    Review: Industrial Policy for the United States by Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher
    Feb 23 2025
    In this episode I cover Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher's new, massive, authoritative tome on industrial policy, Industrial Policy for the United States. I look particularly at the qualities of advantageous industries, England's initiation of industrial policy under Henry VII, and Sematech's creation and development.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Review: The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan

    Review: The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan
    Feb 20 2025
    In this episode I look at how birthrates and population prompt replacement migration, and how it all ties to feminism as described in another Pat Buchanan masterpiece, The Death of the West.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Review: Men Among the Ruins by Julius Evola

    Review: Men Among the Ruins by Julius Evola
    Feb 8 2025
    In this episode I examine Evola's impression of the nation and it's constrast to the state, as well as his discussion of population and birth rates, as described in his primary political work, Men Among the Ruins.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Review: Immigration and the American Identity edited by Thomas Fleming

    Review: Immigration and the American Identity edited by Thomas Fleming
    Feb 1 2025
    In this episode I look at the immigration crisis is terms of population control and the environment, as well as the long failure of politicians to respond to the overwhelming opposition of the American public to the ongoing flood of both legal and illegal immigration, as detailed in Immigration and the American Identity from Chronicles Magazine and Thomas Fleming.
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Review: The Conservative Movement by Paul Gottfried

    Review: The Conservative Movement by Paul Gottfried
    Jan 26 2025
    In this episode I look at the Goldwater campaign, the battle over human nature in academia, and the revival of antiestablishment fusionism among the paleocons and paleolibertarians, as described by Paul Gottfried in The Conservative Movement.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Review: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George Nash

    Review: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George Nash
    Jan 11 2025
    In this episode I look at the birth of National Review, its controversies, and the resolution provided by Fusionism, all described in George Nash's expansive Conservative Intellectual Movement in America SInce 1945.
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    1 hr and 7 mins