The Chris Buskirk Show
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Chris talked Sohrab Ahmari about his new book The Unbroken Thread. They discuss how Sohrab became a Roman Catholic, how having a son made more acutely aware of his responsibilities to his posterity, the problems of liberalism, and the kind of A
Helen Andrews new book, Boomers: The Men & Women Who Promised Freedom & Delivered Disaster is a tour de force. She joins me to discuss who they were, what they did, and how we rebuild after the madness.
Anna joins me to discuss how modernity broke civilization, denatures and degrades humanity, and how nice she is IRL. We also discuss the state of art and architecture, the desirability and necessity of religious revival, and living in a tiny ho
Malcom Kyeyune joins me to discuss the decay evident in America's political system, where class analysis is insufficient and why understanding cultural divisions as caste divisions may be more helpful. We also discuss the increasing fragility i
Blake Masters joins me to discuss the great stagnation, lessons learned since the beginning of the Trump era, and how to build a political movement focused on improving the lives of the middle and working class. Blake is the CEO of Thiel Capita
Hillbilly Elegy, the Ron Howard directed biopic based on JD Vance's best-selling memoir is out in theatres & on Netflix. JD and I talk about what he learned about family, friendship, loyalty, and faith and how that informs his view of building
Michael Anton joined me to discuss what's at stake for America. Are all politics regime level politics now? Can American as we understand it survive Blue Caesar? And why, as always, California shows the potential for a future, one-party America
Matt Towery sees the race tightening and favoring President Trump's re-election. He's polled for Politico, ABC affiliates, Fox affiliates, and candidates across the country. And he got 2016 right. Now he explains what he thinks most polls are m
Robert Cahaly thinks Trump will win the election. We talk about why and what he's seeing in polls that makes him go against the grain. We also talk about what's gone wrong with polling, what are the challenges pollsters face, how to get accurat
Alex Kachuta joins me from Transylvania to discuss what's wrong with liberalism and how she became "post-liberal". She's lived and worked all over Europe working in tech and media as quintessential high-achieving "anywhere" but she found that s
A powerlifting lawyer and an NFL agent devoted to MMA join me to talk about woke capital in sports and the strength of strength.
Description: The man once known as Mencius Moldbug has a new project called The Gray Mirror. What is it? It starts with understanding the true nature of power; what it is, how to use it, how to recognize where it lies. And of course, what to do
The Right thinks it understands the Left - it's motivations and how it thinks about itself - but Malcom and Angela explain how the Right gets it all wrong and how that misunderstanding makes the Right less effective. Having spent years on the L
AImee and I discuss the school to OnlyFans pipeline. If only I'd thought of that phrase while we were talking. Liberalism has brought us to the point where all relationships must be considered in economic terms. It's poisoned relations between
Matt & I discuss the idea of his new book One Billion Americans. Can America do that? Should we? Matt says yes, but I remain unconvinced. But if we even contemplate the idea how do we do it? Immigration? Increased birth rates? How do we rebuild
Christopher has made several award-winning documentaries. His latest, America Lost, is the story of three failing American cities and the people who live in them. He profiles the forgotten people in the forgotten cities of Youngstown, Ohio, Mem
What does a civilization's idea of beauty say about it's health? When did the project to destroy beauty & promote ugliness begin and why? We had a wide ranging discussion of Christian and Classical beauty, art, architecture, and ideal human for
Malcom Kyeyune joins me to discuss what he describes as the neoconfederate economics of technofeudalism and how the latent power of the American middle class has yet to be tapped.
Liberal institutions are failing. PEG & I discuss why and then look at the collapse of Russian in the 1990s to see if we can learn anything. Every institution of government failed leading to millions dead, rampant alcoholism, abandoned children
Julio Gonzalez is a tax expert. He explains why some tax policies, like accelerated depreciation, are not just bad policy, they're bad politics because they benefit very few people and lead to dangerous malinvestment.
Darren Beattie is a political theorist & former speechwriter for President Trump. We discuss how to understand & then defeat the neoliberal moral imperialism that is undermining the foundations of civilization and fomenting a war of all against
Professor Azerrad joins me to discuss what happened to American conservatism. Once ascendant and full of ideas, it lost it's sense of purpose. So what do people who identify with the Right actually want out of government? Does it overlap with w
"Doing the work", "being there for it", what "we're reading" these are the religiously charged phrases of woke neoliberalism. Oliver Bateman and I discuss what it means for the middle class when PMCs are "doing the work". Spoiler alert: it does
Blake Masters is the co-author with Peter Thiel of Zero to One and is COO of Thiel Capital. We discuss The Great Stagnation in technology, ideas, and governance.
Aimee Terese joins me to discuss the mercenary sociopathology of neoliberalism's striver class and much more.
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