Conservative Conversations with ISI

 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 17 - Marlo Safi

In this episode... 

• A listener question on the founding fathers
• A conversation with ISI’s National Director of Student Programs

Links: 

• ISI Honors Conference
• The Collegiate Network
• CN Fellowships
• The New Thinkery
• Firing Line
• The University Bookman

Books Mentioned:

• Land of Hope, Bill McClay
• True and Only Heaven, Christopher Lasch
• Eisenhower in War and Peace, Jean Edward Smith
• Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss
• Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
• Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, Roger Scruton
• The Humane Economy, Wilhelm Roepke
• Biographies of Otto Von Bismark
• Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 16 - Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread, and American Dystopia

In this episode... 

• A listener question on starting new institutions of Higher Education.
• A conversation with conservative journalist Sohrab Ahmari!

Links: 

• Apply to the ISI Honors Program

Books Mentioned:

• The Unbroken Thread, Sohrab Ahmari
• Super Can, Ballard
• Metropolis, Fritz Long
• Revolt of the Elites, Christopher Lasch
• Coming Apart, Charles Murray
• The American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter
• Political Economy in the Gilded Age: The Republican Party's Industrial Policy, Charles W. Calhoun
• The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
• The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
• Letter to the Duke of Norfolk, St. John Henry Newman
• Gulag Archipeligo, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 15 - Marco Rubio, China, and Common Good Capitalism

In this episode... 

• A listener question on whether or not you can be a conservative without being religious
• An interview with Senator Marco Rubio on China, Capitalism, and supporting families
• A chance to win two tickets to the ISI Gala for Western Civilization!
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Links: 

• The Future of America Political Economy Conference
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• Confucius Institutes: China’s Trojan Horse, Lee Edwards

Books Mentioned:

• Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
• Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss
• Modern and American Dignity, Peter Lawler

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 14 - After Nationalism, Dangerous Conclusions, and Pessimism

In this episode... 

• A panel from ISI’s Homecoming Weekend on Samuel Goldman’s book After Nationalism
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Links: 

• Samuel Goldman, The Week
• Helen Andrews, The American Conservative
• Daniel McCarthy, The Spectator
• Rachel Bovard, Conservative Partnership Institute
• Law & Liberty Symposium on After Nationalism

Books Mentioned:

• After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 13 - Frank Meyer, Fusionism, and the Enduring Tension
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on what journals to read in the conservative movement
• An interview with Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service

 Links: 

• The Fund for American Studies
• Imaginative Conservative
• The American Spectator
• Modern Age
• National Review
• The American Conservaitve
• James’ review of The Enduring Tension
• Philadelphia Society
• Acton Institute
• Episode with RJ Snell

 Books Mentioned:

• The Enduring Tension, Donald Devine
• The Question of Freedom, William Thomas
• Divided we Fall, David French
• The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
• In Defense of Freedom, Frank Meyer
• The Moulding of Communists, Frank Meyer
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
• Bureaucracy, Ludwig Von Mises
• Political Management of the Bureaucracy, Donald Devine

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Episode 12- The Tocqueville Option, Complexity, and Free Markets
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on building community while building a career
• An interview with Michael Matheson Miller of the Acton Institute

 Links: 

• Michael Matheson Miller
• The Moral Imagination Podcast
• Acton Institute
• Poverty Inc. 
• Philadelphia Society
• Is There a Future for Fusionism?, Stephanie Slade
• Does Capitalism Destroy Culture?, Michael Matheson Miller
• Awakening from Nihilism, Michael Novak
• The Use of Knowledge in Society, F.A. Hayek
• Doing Business Studies

 Books Mentioned:

• The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet
• Twilight of Authority, Robert Nisbet
• Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville
• What it Means to be Human, Carter Snead
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Fred Turner
• Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard
• Breath, James Nestor
• The Unbroken Thread, Sohrab Ahmari
• The American Republic, Orestes Brownson
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, George Nash
• The Enduring Tension, Don Devine
• The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama
• Dignity, Chris Arnade
• The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

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Episode 11 - Roger Scruton, Civilization, Conservatism Abroad, and Impossible Dialogue
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on conservatism outside the U.S.
• An interview with Dan Mahoney about Roger Scruton
• Words of wisdom from Roger Scruton on Civilization

 Links: 

• Roger Scruton: A Thing Called Civilization
• Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation
• Dan Mahoney at Law & Liberty
• The Critic
• Valeurs Actuelles
• Incorrect

 Books Mentioned:

• The Solzhenitsyn Reader, ed. Edward Ericson jr. & Daniel J. Mahoney
• Bertrand De Jouvenel, Daniel J. Mahoney
• Maverick: A biography of Thomas Sowell, Jason Riley
• Minds Wide Shut, Morton Schapiro & Gary Saul Morson
• The American Republic, Orestes Brownson
• Red, White, and Black, ed. Robert Woodson
• How to Think Seriously about the Planet, Roger Scruton
• Gentle Regrets, Roger Scruton
• Our Church, Roger Scruton
• The Soul of the World, Roger Scruton
• Conversations with Roger Scruton, Mark Dooley
• Confessions of a Heretic, Roger Scruton
• Eccentric Culture, Remi Brague
• American Awakening, Joshua Mitchell
• The Meaning of Conservatism, Roger Scruton
• Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, Roger Scruton
• How to be a Conservative, Roger Scruton
• The Idol of Our Age, Daniel J. Mahoney

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 10 - R. J. Snell, Fiction, Conservatism, and Conspiracy
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on the role of fiction in conservatism.
• An interview with R. J. Snell, editor of the Public Discourse

 Links: 

• Register for ISI’s inaugural Homecoming Weekend 
• Witherspoon Institute
• Public Discourse
• Toward a New Consensus: An Invitation
• The Moral Imagination, Russell Kirk
• Barry Scholarship
• Antonio Gramsci

 Books mentioned:

• Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver
• Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransom
• The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence, Balthasar Gracian
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
• Robert Nisbet, Brad Lowell Stone
• The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet
• Twilight of Authority, Robert Nisbet
• We Hold These Truths, John Courtney Murray
• Rationalism in Politics, Michael Oakeshott
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 9 - Gracy Olmstead, Agriculture, Localism, and Rootedness
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on the authors that influenced the hosts the most
• Gracy Olmstead, a Top 20 Under 30 ISI Alumna, on localism and agriculture

 Links: 

• Register for the ISI Inaugural Homecoming Weekend 
• Front Porch Republic
• Conservative Conversations episode with Tim Carney and Rusty Reno
• Small-Town Natives Are Moving Back Home, Gracy Olmstead

 Books Mentioned:

• Uprooted, Gracy Olmstead
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• House Keeping, Marilynne Robinson
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Landmarks, Robert McFarland
• Pastoral Song, James Rebanks
• The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkein
• Up to Heaven and Down to Hell, Colin Jerolmack
• Remembering, Wendell Berry
• Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Wallace Stegner
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
• Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry
• The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher
• Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
• Heartland, Sarah Smarsh
• Hollowing out the Middle, Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas

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 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 8 - Richard Weaver, C.S. Lewis, and the Conservative Response to Relativism
 
 In this episode... 

• A member question on working towards an intellectual career and life 
• A conversation on Weaver, Lewis, & relativism with Rob Koons
• From the vault: a rare lecture from Richard Weaver himself 

 Links: 

• Richard Weaver
• Rob Koons

 Books Mentioned:

• Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver
• The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard Weaver
• Visions of Order, Richard Weaver
• Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (Not In A Series), A. G. Sertillanges
• In Defense of Freedom, Frank Meyer
• Andrew Jackson Southerner, Mark Cheathem
• Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini
• Lincoln: A life of purpose and power, Richard Carwardine
• The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
• The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek
• Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution, Peter Stanlis
• The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis

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