Conservative Conversations with ISI

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 36—David Goldman on American Innovation & Great Power Competition

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• David P. Goldman is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. He writes frequently for Asia Times, Law & Liberty, Claremont Review of Books, and First Things on political economy, foreign policy, and religion.

Texts Mentioned:
You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World by David P. Goldman


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Elbridge Colby on Creating a Conservative Foreign Policy

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• Elbridge Colby, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development at the Department of Defense, discusses foreign policy fault lines on the right, America’s biggest adversaries today, and his thoughts on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Texts Mentioned:
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby

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Michael Brendan Dougherty on Populist Chaos, the Parental Principle And What Ireland Taught Him About Tradition.

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• Michael Brendan Dougherty, senior writer at National Review, discusses the implications of what he witnessed at his child’s school board meeting, his evolution as a conservative, and the parentless generation that was orphaned by history

Texts Mentioned:
My Father Left Me Ireland, by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Mind of the New Majority, by Michael Brendan Dougherty
What I Saw at the School-Board Meeting, by Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Tom Woods on Folk Libertarianism, the Biomedical Security State and the Anti-War Movement

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• Tom Woods, host of the Tom Woods Show, discusses libertarianism, its drift away from Ron Paul’s values, and institutional libertarianism’s approach to government overreach during COVID-19

Texts Mentioned:
Tom Woods’ Reading List
The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul

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Oren Cass on Breaking the College-for-All Model

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• Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America discusses his recent findings about the high-school-to-college pipeline, and potential solutions that could allow Americans on other paths to prosper

Texts Mentioned:

• Coming Apart by Charles Murray
• Our Kids Robert Putnam
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 31—David Reaboi on National Divorce

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• David Reaboi, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, discusses why he believes a national divorce is inevitable in the U.S. due to the fundamental disagreements between the left and moderates and conservatives.

Texts Mentioned:
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
The Stakes by Michael Anton
The Michael Anton Tapes by Mark Granza

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 30—Erica Bachiochi on The Rights of Women

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• Erica Bachiochi, legal scholar and author of the book “The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision,” discusses the feminist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and how far recent feminist activists have shifted on issues such as abortion when compared to the movement’s progenitors
  
  
• Texts Mentioned:
  • Rights Talk by Mary Ann Glendon
  • The Rights of Women by Erica Bachiochi
  • The Feminist Case Against Abortion by Marry Harrington
  • The Children of Pornhub by Nicholas Kristof

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 29— Helen Andrews on the Boomers

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• Helen Andrews, a senior editor at The American Conservative, discusses her book about the Boomer Generation -- one which promised freedom and delivered disaster

Texts Mentioned:

• "The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire" by Bruce Gilley
• "In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir" by Emile Draitser
• "Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster" by Helen Andrews
• "Port Huron Statement"

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28—Josh Hammer, op-ed editor at Newsweek, discusses the conservative legal movement, a recent abortion case that places two foundational modern abortion precedents in the crosshairs, and Hamiltonian jurisprudence.

In this episode...

• “Common Good Originalism” is defined
• Josh walks us through the conservative legal movement’s history
• Josh answers the question about whether conservatives should be cautiously optimistic about the abortion case in front of the Supreme Court

Texts Mentioned:

• “Common Good Originalism” by Josh Hammer
• “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” by Alex MacGillis
• “Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone
• “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s" by William I Hitchcock
• “The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell
• “The Crimean War” by Orlando Figes
• “Beyond Originalism” by Adrian Vermeule
• “The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal Personhood” by Josh Craddock

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 28 - Pedro Gonzalez on the Crisis of Manhood

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• 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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