Conservative Conversations with ISI

Jon Askonas on the Technological Age, “Post-Reality", and Marxism


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In This Episode:

  • Jon Askonas joins the podcast to discuss how a technological age makes conservative and traditional values obsolete, and how to overcome this problem
  • why Karl Marx has to teach conservatives about analyzing and understanding “historical materialism,“ the fundamental material elements of society
  • what really drove the disintegration of a shared conception of reality, and how to navigate the “post-real” world

Texts Mentioned:

  • “Why Conservatism Failed” by Jon Askonas
  • The Market and Other Orders by F.A. Hayek
  • Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
  • Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri 
  • “Reality: A Post-Mortem” by Jon Askonas

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