FBT co-founder Michael DC Bowen describes his ideological journey from talented tenth Black Nationalist to card carrying Republican to stoic. In this discussion with host Connie Morgan, Mike makes the case that discovery, humor and reason should be your guide.

Stuff referenced in this episode:

• Mike’s substack: Stoic Observations
• Mike’s Twitter: @mdcbowen
• Mike’s website: mdcbowen.org
• Mike's “Black Suffering,” in the Journal of Free Black Thought
• Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers (Mike is contributing to Part II to be released this Fall)
• Kwaku,: A Boy of Ghana
• Eugene O’Neill Inspiration: The Emperor Jones
• Thomas Sowell Inspiration: The Economics of Politics and Race: An International Perspective and Ethnic America
• Yukio Mishima Inspiration: Patriotism
• Yukio Mishima biography: The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes
• The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
• Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America by John Langston Gwaltney
• The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
• Blog: Lesswrong
• Blog: Astral Codex Ten
• Conspiracy Mike Low-key believes is true: Panspermia
• Best book Mike has read this year: The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin’s Russia by Robert Baer

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