Conservative Conversations with ISI

Conservative Conversation with ISI: Episode 27 - James Poulos and the Cyborg Vivarium

In this episode... 

• James Poulos discusses his new book “Human, Forever,” technology, and the soul

Books Mentioned:

• Proud To Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation, Jonah Goldberg
• The Constant Gardener, John le Carré

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Conservative Conversation with ISI: Episode 26 - Yoram Hazony

In this episode... 

• Yoram Hazony discusses what National conservatism is, and highlights from the National Conservatism 2 conference in Orlando.

Books Mentioned:

• The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Christopher Caldwell
• The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony

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Conservative Conversation with ISI: Episode 25 - Dan McCarthy

In this episode... 

• The Vice President of the Collegiate Network, Dan McCarthy, discusses how the media have discredited themselves in the eyes of many Americans, the journalists who are trailblazing in a hostile media landscape, and how students can help revitalize journalistic integrity

Books Mentioned:

• Communism and Nationalism, Roman Szporluk
• Rigged, Molly Hemmingway
• Winner Take All, Christina Binkley

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Conservative Conversation with ISI: Episode 24 - Elizabeth Corey and Jeff Polet on The Woke University

In this episode... 

• ISI faculty members describe the type of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives campuses across America are coercing students and faculty to participate in

Books Mentioned:

• Straight Man, Richard Russo
• Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, William D. Hartung
• The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi
• Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last, Wright Thompson
• Reagan: The Life, H.W. Brands

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 23 - Mary Harrington & Reactionary Feminism

In this episode... 

• A listener question on the threats of progressivism on womankind
• An interview with UnHerd Contributing Editor, Mary Harrington

Links: 

• Crisis is the New Normal
• The Case for Tory Anarchism
• Reactionary Feminist Substack
• The Lamp

Books Mentioned:

• Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis
• The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 22 - Nate Hochman & Gen Z Conservatism

In this episode... 

• A listener question on the best Conservative books of 2021
• An interview with CN Fellow, Nate Hochman

Links: 

• Apply to the ISI Honors Program
• The After Nationalism Episode
• The CN Fellowships

Books Mentioned:

• Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell
• After Nationalism, Sam Goldman
• Boomers, Helen Andrews
• The Face of God, Roger Scruton
• Closing of the American Mind, Alan Bloom
• Our Thoughts Determine our Lives, Elder Thaddeus
• The Portable Chaucer
• How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 21 - C.S. Lewis and Men without Chests

In this episode... 

• A listener question on men without chests
• An interview with Fr. Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, on C.S. Lewis’ the Abolition of Man

Links: 

• Father Michael Ward
• Word on Fire Academic

Books Mentioned:

• After Humanity, Fr. Michael Ward
• The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
• The Road Not Taken, David Orr
• Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
• Land of Hope, Wilfred M. McClay
• Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy
• That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 20 - How should we teach American History?

In this episode... 

• A listener question on Edmund Burke.
• An interview with Jeffrey Sikkenga the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University.

Links: 

• Professor Sikkenga’s USA Today Op-Ed
• The Ashbrook Center
• Teaching American History Source

Books Mentioned:

• Reflections on The Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
• A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Edmund Burke
• The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
• Edmund Burke: A Genius Rediscovered, Russell Kirk
• Statecraft as Soulcraft, George Will
• On Conciliation with the Colonies, Edmund Burke
• Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes
• Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, Peter Schjeldahl
• Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
• After Humanity, Fr. Michael Ward
• Land of Hope, Wilfred McClay
• History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren
• Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, Lord Charnwood
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beacher Stowe
• The Federalist

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 19 - Michael Knowles, William F. Buckley Jr., and Political Correctness

In this episode... 

• A listener question on contemporary conservative thinkers
• An interview with Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show

Links: 

• Michael’s introduction to God and Man at Yale
• Moral Imagination Podcast
• Firing Line
• Collegiate Network Fellowships

Books Mentioned:

• God and Man at Yale with Michael’s introduction
• Speechless, Michael Knowles
• Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
• I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Rene Girard
• The Fall of the Athenian Empire, Donald Kagan
• Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism, Juan Donoso Cortes
• Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• The Republic, Plato

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 18 - Keeping Locke in the Locke Box with Richard Reinsch

In this episode... 

• A conversation with the Editor of Law & Liberty, Richard Reinsch on Peter A. Lawler
• A listener question on fatal flaws in thinker's personal lives.

Links: 

• ISI Honors Program
• He Built Better than He Knew, Richard Reinsch
• Law & Liberty

Books mentioned:

• Macbeth, Shakespeare
• Confessions of a Heretic, Roger Scruton
• Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• Speechless, Michael Knowles
• Postmodernism Rightly Understood, Peter A. Lawler
• The Restless Mind, Peter A. Lawler
• Stuck with Virtue, Peter A. Lawler
• The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy

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