Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Khalil Habib joins Conservative Conversations in an episode that covers a wide range of great thinkers, including Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Polybius, Livy, Lucretius, Tocqueville, and Edmund Burke
• why republics tend to become empires, and how the Founders used the history of the classical world when thinking about the Constitution
• how Napoleon fits into the story and meaning of the French Revolution

Texts Mentioned:

• Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Considerations on the Causes of Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline by Montesquieu
• The History of Rome by Livy
• The Histories by Polybius
• On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
• The Federalist Papers
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol” by Edmund Burke

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In this episode:

• Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film
• a crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral order
• how the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spirit

Texts Mentioned:

• Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad Birzer
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
• Beyond Tenebrae by Brad Birzer
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
• Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk
• The Batman Trilogy
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter Lawler
• Stranger Things
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Tenet
• Interstellar

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In this episode:

• Miles Smith joins the podcast to discuss the destruction of American statues and the political endgame that motivates it
• a lesson against civic contempt for average people and a story about the wisdom and erudition of country folk
• a listener question about good books to introduce kids to the “great tradition”

Texts Mentioned:

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• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
• The Great Tradition by Richard Gamble
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
• Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
• Blessed Charles of Austria by Charles Coulombe
• The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
• The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
• Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
• The Beginner’s Bible
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Lee: A Biography by Clifford Dowdey
• King James Bible
• Book of Common Prayer
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
• “What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University” by Michael Powell

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In this episode:

• Curt Mills joins the podcast to discuss the political dynamics surrounding the upcoming midterm elections
• how the establishment GOP is navigating the challenges and opportunities of the growing nationalist-populist movement within the party
• Why traditionally Blue states like Oregon, Rhode Island, and Maine could become Red states in the coming years

Texts Mentioned:

• What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28 - Pedro Gonzalez on the Crisis of Manhood
In this episode...

• Pedro Gonzalez, an editor at Chronicles Magazine, talks about online fitness subcultures, the left’s attack on masculinity, and the role of men in American society

Books Mentioned:

• Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
• The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness by David French
• America The Fat and Impotent by Pedro Gonzalez

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