Curt Mills on the Midterm Elections, America’s Political Realignment, and the Future of the GOP
11/01/22 • 35 min
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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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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Joseph Stuart on Christopher Dawson, The Primacy of Religion, and Cultural Appreciation
In this episode:
- Joseph Stuart, professor of history at the University of Mary and a former ISI Weaver fellow, joins the podcast to discuss the work of 20th century historian of culture, Christopher Dawson
- why religion is at the heart of cultural identity, and how cultures that abandon their religion inevitably become captured by ideological “political religions”
- how to appreciate different cultures and have a rich, complex view of other civilizations without becoming a relativist
Texts Mentioned:
- Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph Stuart
- Gifford Lectures by Christopher Dawson
- Leisure, The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
- Primitive Culture by Edward Tylor
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Religion and Culture by Christopher Dawson
- The Dynamics of World History by Christopher Dawson
- The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington
- “Christopher Dawson and Ayatollah Khatami and ‘The Dialogue of Civilizations’ A Christian-Muslim Conversation” by Stephen G. Carter
- The Mission movie
- “Conservatism” by Christopher Dawson (introduction by Joseph Stuart)
- Religion and the Modern State by Christopher Dawson
- Joseph Stuart Faculty Page
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Dan McCarthy on Willmoore Kendall, Public Orthodoxy and Majoritarianism, and Nationalist Populism
In This Episode:
- Dan McCarthy returns to the podcast to discuss Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation
- what majoritarianism and “the social contract” in the American tradition really means for today’s politics
- how Kendall interpreted John Locke and its relation to the American Founding
Texts Mentioned:
- The Conservative Affirmation by Willmoore Kendall
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash
- The Dilemmas of American Conservatism, edited by Kenneth Deutsch
- What is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
- Heaven Can Indeed Fall by Christopher Owen
- John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority Rule by Willmoore Kendall
- Tucker Carlson interview clip
- The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition by Willmoore Kendall
- The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
- Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Government of Poland by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Modern Age
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