Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• a Modern Age panel on the release of Patrick Deneen’s newest book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future,featuring Patrick Deneen, Senator JD Vance, Kevin Roberts, and Christine Emba
• how the classical tradition of mixing “the many” and “the few” in a regime gave way to the modern liberal project of unending progress, to the detriment of the common good
• what regime change would actually look like in terms of the American economic, political, and social order

Texts Mentioned:

• Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen
• Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
• Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
• Rethinking Sex by Christine Emba
• The Kevin Roberts Show
• “Liberalism is Loneliness” by Christine Emba
• Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI
• “The Sun Has Set on Global Europe” speech by Kevin Roberts

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In this episode:

• McKay Stangler, ISI’s Director of Foundation Relations, joins the podcast to discuss Richard Weaver, one of the luminary figures of the early conservative movement
• a crash course in the themes of the southern agrarian tradition: practice, place, and solidarity
• how to recover a sense of the shared use of language, and the social solidarity that accompanies it

Texts Mentioned:

• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
• Visions of Order by Richard Weaver
• Boomers by Helen Andrews
• After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
• “Up from Liberalism” by Richard Weaver
• “House Divided Speech” by Abraham Lincoln

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 In this episode:

• Alexander Salter, professor of economics at Texas Tech University, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Political Economy of Distributism
• how capitalism does or does not support the common good of society, and how the re-emergence of discourse about the common good in politics can be bolstered by returning to the distributist writers
• what Wilhelm Röpke contributed to both economic science and towards creating a “humane economy,” and why we need to read him today

Texts Mentioned:

• The Political Economy of Distributism by Alexander Salter
• “Catholic Social Doctrine and the Dignity of Work” by Sen. Marco Rubio
• The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
• The Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton
• A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpke
• awsalter.com

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In this episode:

• Archduke Eduard Habsburg joins the podcast to discuss his new book, “The Habsburg Way,” about his family, their values, and character
• how marriage and family were both central to the Habsburg’s personal and political success and longevity
• why nationalism and imperialism are not necessarily opposing political philosophies, and how there can be an integration of nations within “supranational organizations”

Texts Mentioned:

• The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times by Archduke Eduard Habsburg
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
• On Kingship by Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Utopia by Saint Thomas More
• The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
• “The Nationalist Mistake” by Phillip Blond

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In this episode:

• Hadley Arkes, founder and director of the James Wilson Institute, joins the podcast to discuss his newest book, Mere Natural Law
•  how the Dobbs ruling dodged the essential moral questions at the heart of abortion, and why conservative jurisprudence has failed to do so
• how principles of natural law are so suffused into America’s law and the American regime that they are inseparable from any judgments about law in the judiciary

Texts Mentioned:

• Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution by Hadley Arkes
• First Things  by Hadley Arkes
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
• Roe v. Wade
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
• The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
• Lectures on Law by James Wilson
• Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths by Hadley Arkes
• Natural Rights and the Right to Choose by Hadley Arkes
• ISI Homecoming, June 2-3, 2023

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In this episode:

• Enrique Pallares joins the podcast to discuss conservatism and liberalism in the Spanish tradition, and how it is influenced by and departs from other European political traditions
• a deep dive into the life and thought of Miguel de Unamuno, a Spanish thinker who opposed ideology and stressed the centrality of the person
• how ideology subjugates the human person and closes us off to living a truly human life

Texts Mentioned:

• The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
• Intelligible Spain by Julian Marias
• Cadiz Constitution of 1812
• Unam Sanctam by Pope Boniface VIII
• En Torno al Casticismo by Miguel de Unamuno (in English and Spanish)
• “What is Ideology?” by Mark Shiffman
• Gorgias by Plato
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• casacarmenwines.com

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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:

• The Hon. Paul J. Ray, former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), joins the podcast to give a primer on the administrative state and how it works
• how the administrative state cuts against the American tradition of self-government and each citizen’s ability to exercise practical reason
• how the federal system of American government serves as an application of subsidiarity in our political regime

Texts Mentioned:

• Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
• Rerum Novarum  by Pope Leo XIII
• Nicomachean Ethics  by Aristotle
• Bureaucracy by James Q. Wilson

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In this episode:

• Julius Krein, founder and editor of American Affairs journal, joins the podcast to talk about problems in America’s advanced post-industrial economy, and how we can address issues like family policy, debt, innovation, taxation, and labor markets
• how Americans should really think about capitalism as “private wealth accumulation,” and break out of the “textbook economics” bookish view of  market systems, important as they might be
• what listeners need to know about the landscape of the political and social realignment in recent American history, and where the Right needs to continue moving to create a new “inside consensus” on various policy fronts

Texts Mentioned:

• “America Pulls Back from Values that Once Defined It” by Aaron Zitner
• “The Last Gasp of an Ideology” by Julius Krein
• The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle
• “The Digital Age Produces Binary Outcomes” by David Goldman
• America, Inc.? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State by Linda Weiss
• “The Long, Slow Death of Global Development” by David Oks and Henry Williams
• Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen

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In This Episode:

• Joseph T. Salerno, Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute, joins the podcast to talk about Murray Rothbard’s political and economic thought
• why a demagogue is necessary for the masses to re-establish control over their government in the age of social democracy
• a primer on the economic theory of the Austrian economists, as well as their underlying anthropology and praxeology

Texts Mentioned:

• “Education in Economic Liberty” by Wilhelm Röpke in What is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer
• “Why I am Not a Conservative” by F.A. Hayek
• “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by F.A. Hayek
• America’s Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• “Murray Rothbard versus the Progressives” by Joseph T. Salerno
• “In Defense of Demagogues” by Murray Rothbard
• Rothbard versus the Philosophers edited by Roberta Modugno
• “Why a Socialist Economy is Impossible” by Joseph T. Salerno
• “The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited” by Murray Rothbard
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek
• “Joe Salerno on His Career as an Heir to Rothbard” by Joseph T. Salerno
• “A Radical Right-wing Alternative” in the New York Times, 1971
• Dan McCarthy “Conservative Conversations” special lecture
• Mises Institute
• Money: Sound and Unsound  by Joseph T. Salerno

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