Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Vincent Muñoz joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses
• How the Founders agreed on religious liberty as a natural right in principle, but disagreed about what that means in practice
• Why the natural rights tradition offers a coherent account of the proper limits of church-state relations

Texts Mentioned:

• Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses

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In this episode: 

• Marcus Witcher, Assistant Professor of History at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama and co-author of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, defines classical liberalism
• The Philadelphia Society and the conservative icons that have marked its history
• How to address injustice of the past through the marketplace 

Texts Mentioned:

•  Getting Right with Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980-2016 by Marcus Witcher
•  Black Liberation Through the Marketplace by Marcus Witcher and Rachel Furgeson
•  Conversations on Conservatism: Speeches from the Philadelphia Society by Marcus Witcher (Author), Blake Ball (Editor), Kevin Hughes (Editor)

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In this episode:

• Phillip Blond, founder and director of ResPublica, joins the podcast to discuss "Red Toryism"
• the link between liberalism and economic and social insecurity
• the case against nationalism and the case for empire
• why visual art matters

Texts Mentioned:

• Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It by Phillip Blond
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In this episode: 

• Frank H. Buckley, the Foundation Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, discusses his newly published book, Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party
• How left-wing progressive policies on immigration, education, and burdensome regulations make America more immobile and aristocratic, and how progressive conservatives can solve this problem
• how progressive conservatism repudiates recent conservative history, and hearkens back to older parts of the American conservative tradition, such as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower

Texts Mentioned:

• Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party by F.H. Buckley
• “The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner
• The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

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 In this episode: 

• Dr. Chad Pecknold from CUA joins Marlo Slayback and Johnny Burtka to discuss post-liberalism
• how post-liberalism differentiates itself from other camps in conservatism
• how St. Augustine defines freedom

Texts Mentioned:

• The City of God, Against the Pagans, by Augustine of Hippo
• The Religious Nature of the City, by Chad Pecknold
• Where Augustine is Not Silent, by Chad Pecknold
• St. Augustine’s Journey to Easter, by Chad Pecknold

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In this episode: 

• Carmel Richardson, an editorial fellow for The American Conservative, discusses her recent article about seed oils, food regulations, and what is driving the decline in American nutrition and poor health outcomes
• crunchy conservatism and generational shifts in outlook in the conservative movement
• the bigger picture surrounding the baby formula shortage

Texts Mentioned:

• Seed Oils and Bad Science by Carmel Richardson
• Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots by Rod Dreher
• Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan, M.D. 
• Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) by Christopher Ramsden, et al.

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In this episode:

• Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses recent crime surges across the country and their potential causes
• Why police departments are facing a recruitment crisis
• How conservatives should think about criminal justice reform

Texts Mentioned:

• Fixing Drinking Problems: Evidence and Strategies for Alcohol Control as Crime Control by Charles Fain Lehman
• Rejecting Disorder by Charles Fain Lehman
• Pot and Pathology by Charles Fain Lehman
• Bloodless Moralism by Helen Andrews

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Conservative Conversations Episode 48—Ryan T. Anderson on The Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade — Here’s What’s Next for Pro-Lifers

In this episode:

• Ryan T. Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discusses what’s next for the pro-life movement after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24
• How the concept of “body self-dualism” underpins abortion and transgenderism
• Ryan’s forthcoming book on how abortion harms everything and solves nothing

Texts Mentioned:

• Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis

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In this episode:

• Dr. Samuel Gregg, Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and a Senior Research Faculty member at The American Institute for Economic Research, explains why Americans are experiencing record inflation
• What a recession today would look like
• How conservatives should approach political economy

Texts Mentioned:

• The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World by Dr. Samuel Gregg

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Conservative Conversations Episode 46—Geoff Shullenberger on Spiritual Decay, School Shootings, and René Girard’s Mimesis

In this episode:

• Geoff Shullenberger, a clinical associate professor at New York University and a columnist at Compact, discusses the phenomenon of the school shooter in America after the tragedy in Texas
• How René Girard’s mimetic theory can explain violent behavior
• The religious and social dimensions of mass shootings and human sacrifice

Texts Mentioned:

• The Faith of Mass Shooters by Geoff Shullenberger
• Human Sacrifice and the Digital Business Model by Geoff Shullenberger
• Thresholds of Violence by Malcolm Gladwell

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