Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Jay Richards joins the podcast to talk about the political machine that drives the transgender ideology that has captured the American public square
• how fighting gender ideology offers an opportunity for conservatives to make allies with others across the political spectrum to defend reality
• practical advice for how to become an expert in any topic

Texts Mentioned:

• Chloe Cole testimony before Congress
• Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
• Cass Report
• “gender unicorn” diagram
• Book of Joel
• Buck v. Bell
• When Harry Became Sally by Ryan Anderson
• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
• Strange New World by Carl Trueman
• Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey

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In this episode:

• Sohrab Ahmari, author and founder of Compact magazine, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Tyranny Inc. about private coercion and its role in harming the American working class

Texts Mentioned:

• “Sohrab Ahmari on the Unbroken Thread” episode of Conservative Conversations
• The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
• Tyranny, Inc. by Sohrab Ahmari
• A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
• Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
• The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers
• The Rise of American Democracy: Jackson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
• compactmag.com

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In this episode:

• Acclaimed journalist and activist Christopher Rufo joins the podcast to discuss his new book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
• why language is an essential tool in driving social and political change
• what the Right can do to reform and change the institutions that have been captured by Leftist priorities

Texts Mentioned:

• America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything by Christopher F. Rufo
• “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” by Aaron Renn
• rufo.substack.com

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In this episode:

• Brad Wilcox, the Director of the National Marriage Project, joins the podcast to talk about marriage, family formation, and children
• The important keys to successful and happy marriage, and what elites tell us that we need to reject
• why men and women are alienated from each other, and what each sex should go to recover a calling to family life

Texts Mentioned:

• Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox
• “Women Who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids are Getting Richer” by Molly Smith
• “Should Couples Merge Their Finances?” by Joe Pinsker
• “One Key to a Happy Marriage?: Joint Bank Accounts” by Jenny Olson
• “Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” by Brad Wilcox, Emma Fuentes, and Michael Krieger

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In this episode:

• Glenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Narrow Passage, about the permanent political problems that stem from reason in politics
• how the modern project rejects the humility of the classical tradition, and has ushered in the philosophic tyranny of the modern administrative state and woke ideology 
• why the Left is built upon a contradiction between postmodernism and a belief in rational post-political expertise

Texts Mentioned:

• The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy by Glenn Ellmers
• “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jonathan Haidt
• “German Nihilism” by Leo Strauss
• The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America by Glenn Ellmers
• claremont.org
• “PODCAST: Glenn Ellmers on Harry Jaffa and the Soul of Politics” by The Anchoring Truths Podcast

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In this episode:

• Joseph DeReuil, a student at Notre Dame and editor-in-chief emeritus of ND’s Irish Rover, joins the podcast to talk about being sued by a Notre Dame professor
• what life is like on a Catholic college campus like Notre Dame, and how ISI and the Collegiate Network has helped him make a difference
• what aspiring journalists should pay attention to when honing their skills

Texts Mentioned:

• “No Man Can Serve Two Masters” by Mary Frances Myler
• “Keough School Professor Offers Abortion Access to Students” by Joseph DeReuil
• “Tamara Kay Explains Herself to Notre Dame Democrats” by Luke Thompson
• “We Will Not Be Silenced” by The Irish Rover editorial staff
• irishrover.net

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In this episode:

• ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award Winner Daniel Mahoney and former attorney general and senator Jeff Sessions join the podcast for a live interview with Johnny about Dan’s book The Statesman as Thinker
• whether the Founders were too successful in setting up a system of checks and balances that ultimately undermined statesmanship of “great-souled men”
• the pathologies of American education, and the need for alternative institutions to excite the “life of the mind” and a serious commitment to the pursuit of truth

Texts Mentioned:

• The Statesman as Thinker by Daniel J. Mahoney
• The American Commonwealth by Lord James Bryce
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• The Life of George Washington by John Marshall
• On Duties by Cicero
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis
• The Logic of Liberty by Michael Polanyi
• “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
• Winston Churchill MIT Commencement Speech
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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In this episode:

• Lee Edwards joins the podcast to celebrate 100 episodes of Conservative Conversations and talk about the history of ISI
• how fusionism remains a vibrant approach to conservative politics and scholarship in bringing together seemingly disparate persuasions
• the importance of Bill Buckley not only as an intellectual or a political actor, but as an organizer in creating many of the central institutions in the conservative movement

Texts Mentioned:

• Educating for Liberty by Lee Edwards
• God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• “For Our Children’s Children: A Fifty Year Program” by Frank Chodorov
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
• The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
• The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet
• William F. Buckley, Jr.: The Maker of a Movementby Lee Edwards
• What is Conservatism? edited by Frank Meyer
• “Consistency in Politics” by Winston Churchill
• Victims of Communism

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 In this episode: 

• Claes Ryn joins the podcast to discuss his most recent book, The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken
• why the imagination of a culture is central to its political disposition, and why the Left has been successful in dominating the American imagination
• how Strauss, particularly his critique of historicism, has eroded American traditions, and ultimately been unsuccessful against left-wing attacks on American traditions

Texts Mentioned: 

• The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Takenby Claes Ryn
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945by George Nash
• Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
• Rousseau and Romanticismby Irving Babbitt
• Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas

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In this episode:

• Zak Slayback, Marlo’s husband and a partner at 1517 Fund, joins the podcast to discuss the critical distinctions and concepts regarding discussions about technology in the modern world
• what “scale” and “time-frame” considerations do on a social scale with different technological disruptions, especially in the information age
• how techno-realism charts the right course for conservatives between techno-optimism and techno-pessimism

Texts Mentioned:

• “How Tech Works” by Zak Slayback
• That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
• “Living in a Tech Age” with Jon Askonas
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• “The Optimistic Thought Experiment” by Peter Thiel
• Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
• A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.

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