The US embodies the idea of choice and self-determination like no other experiment in governance. And yet, most Americans don’t appreciate the rights bestowed by our founding documents. 

In fact, the progressive elites in power today and their neo-Marxist ideology threaten the very principles America is founded upon.  

Joel Bowman is a libertarian writer and cryptocurrency enthusiast. Born and raised on the Gold Coast of Australia, Joel emigrated permanently to ‘nowhere in particular’ in 2000, and he has been traveling the world ever since.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Joel joins me to discuss his debut novel Morris, Alive, describing how it offers an outsider’s perspective on the idea of America and fights against the Marxist ideology common in contemporary arts and literary fiction.

Joel explains how President Wilson undermined the fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers and explores how far today’s neo-Wilsonian progressives have drifted from the principles of their spiritual heroes of the 1960’s.

Listen in for Joel’s insight on exactly what’s wrong with Marxism and find out what we can do to counter the current attack on our founding principles being staged by progressive elites.

Key Takeaways  

How Morris, Alive offers an outsider’s perspective on the idea of America

The themes of geographical and intellectual frontiersmanship among the giants of American letters

How the US embodies the idea of choice and self-determination like no other experiment in governance

The attack on the founding principles of America by progressive elites

Why contemporary arts and literary fiction are owned by neo-Marxists

Antonio Gramsci’s long Marxist march through academia and US political institutions 

How a Marxist worldview leads to conflict

How President Woodrow Wilson’s fundamental beliefs ran contrary to that of the Founding Fathers

How far today’s neo-Wilsonian progressives have drifted from the principles of their spiritual heroes of the 1960’s

Connect with Joel Bowman 

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Morris, Alive by Joel Bowman

‘Center Cannot Hold: The Second Coming of Progressivism’ in The Modern Flaneur

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Resources 

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Jorge Luis Borges

Henry David Thoreau

L. Mencken

Lysander Spooner

Ernest Hemingway

Gertrude Stein

Walt Whitman

Woody Guthrie

Bob Dylan

Saul Bellow

John Updike

Miguel De Cervantes

William Shakespeare

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Manifesto of the Communist Party 

Antonio Gramsci

Adam Smith on the Division of Labor

I, Pencil

The Federalist Papers

Federal Reserve Act

Revenue Act of 1913

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis by Will Bonner and Addison Wiggin

The Covenant of the League of Nations

The Sedition Act of 1918