A powerlifting lawyer and an NFL agent devoted to MMA join me to talk about woke capital in sports and the strength of strength.

Description: The man once known as Mencius Moldbug has a new project called The Gray Mirror. What is it? It starts with understanding the true nature of power; what it is, how to use it, how to recognize where it lies. And of course, what to do with it. But the question is where are we now and what comes next?

Books mentioned in this episode:
The Machiavellians - James Burnham - https://amzn.to/3n9Gi4T
Suicide of the West - James Burnham - https://amzn.to/33ejCIy
On Power - Bertrand de Jouvanl - https://amzn.to/349LjkV

The Right thinks it understands the Left - it's motivations and how it thinks about itself - but Malcom and Angela explain how the Right gets it all wrong and how that misunderstanding makes the Right less effective. Having spent years on the Left before being thrown out for unapproved thoughts, Malcom and Angela offer an insider's perspective full of fascinating insights. Pay special attention to the discussion of the Left's essential union with corporate power, it's implicit sadism, it's ritual desecration of relationships, and it's war on beauty.

AImee and I discuss the school to OnlyFans pipeline. If only I'd thought of that phrase while we were talking. Liberalism has brought us to the point where all relationships must be considered in economic terms. It's poisoned relations between men and women and no one is happy. Is this essential to liberalism? Aimee also describes what happened to Bernie and I wonder about a new political coalition.

Matt & I discuss the idea of his new book One Billion Americans. Can America do that? Should we? Matt says yes, but I remain unconvinced. But if we even contemplate the idea how do we do it? Immigration? Increased birth rates? How do we rebuild families and increase middle class wages to support a trebling of our population? And the big question: Why do it?

Christopher has made several award-winning documentaries. His latest, America Lost, is the story of three failing American cities and the people who live in them. He profiles the forgotten people in the forgotten cities of Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. Jobs are gone, families are stretched to the breaking point, and people are often trapped in machinery of a system that's supposed to help but too often tears people down. The film took Rufo 5 years. We discuss why he made it and what he learned.

What does a civilization's idea of beauty say about it's health? When did the project to destroy beauty & promote ugliness begin and why? We had a wide ranging discussion of Christian and Classical beauty, art, architecture, and ideal human forms.

Malcom Kyeyune joins me to discuss what he describes as the neoconfederate economics of technofeudalism and how the latent power of the American middle class has yet to be tapped.

Liberal institutions are failing. PEG & I discuss why and then look at the collapse of Russian in the 1990s to see if we can learn anything. Every institution of government failed leading to millions dead, rampant alcoholism, abandoned children, and rampant crime.

Julio Gonzalez is a tax expert. He explains why some tax policies, like accelerated depreciation, are not just bad policy, they're bad politics because they benefit very few people and lead to dangerous malinvestment.