We discuss: Can the American ruling elite survive the civilizational crisis that the West is engulfed in?

We discuss what the capacities of the ruling elite are. Are they weaker than they've been in close to 100 years?

We discuss the election 10 days out. We also speak about the BRICS conference in Russia.

We discuss chaos and nihilism in the final days of Biden administration.

We discuss the Lucien Blackwell Library reading group for the Year of Baldwin, including a discussion on Baldwin's essay "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood." Then we discuss the political system crisis of disintegration and what are the possible ways forward.

We discuss the US state in the throes of the ideological crisis of the state. We examine some theories including John Rawls's theory of justice.

We discuss the US state and its ideology in a time of mass discontent and the overturning of the liberal consensus. We explore the FDR redistributive/progressive state and Trump's retribution/revenge state.

We discuss liberalism and the history of modernity.

We sum up the 2024 election and the activist future for the U.S. people and working class. We also discuss reading James Baldwin in these times.

We analyze the Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry and economics and what they say about knowledge and science. We also discuss W.E.B. DuBois's "The Souls of Black Folk" in the Year of James Baldwin, the presidential election, and wars.