The Sagnik Show

0:00 Intro
1:50 Why Voters Rejected MAGA
5:30 Republican infighting: Iran? Corruption? Tariffs?
12:31 What's next: Centrism? Radicalism? 
22:34 Sober policy with a populist vibe
24:19 Can Nick Fuentes or Hasan win? 
25:40 The future for Democrats 
30:10 The future for Republicans
35:48 How MAGA cracked 
40:55 Social conservatism and the case for normalcy  

Jesse Arm is an American political strategist, pollster, writer, and Vice President of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute, where he oversees communications, government relations, and public-opinion research.

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:25 Normalize shoplifting?
6:05 Defund the police is an elite idea 
10:00 Luxury Beliefs, explained 
13:25 Why the rich love absurd ideas 
15:27 Old Money vs New Money
17:20 What is cultural capital?
20:16 Is meritocracy fake?
23:52 Education vs Income: What matters more?
29:40 Class struggles are not about rich vs poor 
32:47 Zohran Mamdani and socialist hypocrisy 
39:50 Why rich college kids fall for socialism 
44:11 Guilt and resentment of nepo babies 
47:09 Status anxiety for cosmopolitan elites 

Dr. Rob and I chat about what's driving urban elites -- their culture, their resentment, and their newfound interest in turning America into the Soviet Union.

Rob Henderson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the best-selling author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. He writes about human nature, psychology, social class, culture, political and social divisions, and more. 

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

Emily Jashinsky and I chat about the backlash to Cornell 7 and how feminism burnt a generation of women. 

Emily Jashinsky is a columnist, the host of After Party, and a co-host of Breaking Points.

0:00 Intro
0:15 Who sold hookup culture? 
2:34 Did the sexual revolution fail women?
7:57 Cornell 7, Title IX, male backlash 
13:36 Channel update!
14:41 Gender wars
18:20 Pay gap myth
19:30 Double standard in Cornell?
21:50 Selective empathy 
24:10 Feminism failed Jan Doe
26:35 The war against boys
31:11 Cornell bans frat life
34:19 Women burnt by feminism 

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Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:53 The young male crisis
4:46 Identity fusion: The individual fuses with their cause 
7:20 Cultural Marxism: Oppressor vs Oppressed 
12:15 Leaving the Left
20:26 Progressivism as a gay guy
25:31 Trump derangement syndrome
28:38 Moment of clarity 
31:51 Vibe Shift
37:27 Gender Wars
41:13 Toxic Empathy and Zohran Mamdani
49:03 Progressive Bigot Binary
50:50 Liberals or Conservatives: Who is more empathetic?
56:10 How Leftists justify violence 
1:00:23 Walking away from progressivism

Anthony Rispo is a writer and independent researcher with a degree in psychology from Columbia University, where he specialized in social cognition and sociopolitical behavior. His academic work has explored narrative, perspective-taking, and autism, and he founded Columbia’s Heterodox Academy Campus Community to promote open inquiry and viewpoint diversity.

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:52 Who gets to define the conservative agenda?
9:53 Has the GOP abandoned pro-life politics?
16:55 Social conservatism in a secular America
21:51 The young male economic crisis
29:34 The men who are giving up
32:00 The black-pilled new Right
36:00 The young Right's issue with Israel
47:40 What defines MAGA
55:57 Romancizing the manufacturing era
1:05:28 The price of social conservatism in a bad economy

Bradley Devlin is the politics editor at Daily Signal and a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He and I sat down to breakdown the state of the New Right.

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:39 What is the glue of America First
5:50 How Trump forced the GOP to drop abortion
9:41 ‘Woke’ is not over 
15:18 Zohran Mamdani’s vibe shift
17:49 The collapse of moral relativism 
19:13 What comes after the Neo-Liberal era
22:24 Dissecting Populism: Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Gamer Gate
27:02 The revolt against third-wave feminism 
31:04 The war against boys
33:31 The propaganda of progressive education 
39:14 Liberal women want a blue-collar liberal guy?
44:30 Is the American dream no longer affordable? 
52:33 Why is Gen-Z shrinking away from ‘living life’
57:00 The ‘empowerment’ lie sold to millennial women 
59:18 New Media Woke or anti-establishment? 
1:02:40 The Liberal blind spot on anti-establishment sentiment
1:11:09 The rise of Zohran Mamdani in the attention economy 
 1:14:12 The populist ascent of Zohran Mamdani
1:19:02 The hypocrisy behind Zohran’s struggle cosplay 
1:22:38 Taylor Swift: Startup marriage vs Merger marriage
 1:25:57 How technology changed gender dynamics
1:28:46 Taylor Swift’s woke millennial misery 

Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party, Undercurrents, and Breaking Points, joined me to break down the rise of populist backlash as a reaction to the progressive stronghold over American culture. 

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:23 Escaping communist Venezuela 
7:13 Moving to America
10:22 Zohran Mamdani's socialism
11:39 'Man of the people' 
15:15 Is protesting patriotic? 
18:00 Flagburning 
20:31 Is Socialism the future of Dems 
23:00 Protectionism, Socialism, and Nativism
28:10 The woes of Gen Z
29:50 America, immigration, assimilation
34:54 Illegal immigration and deportations
39:14 Javier Milei and transforming South America
41:03 Are the kids being taught to hate America?
43:44 Toxic Empathy
46:38 The legal immigration chaos
49:56 Daniel's American dream
52:22 Is the American dream still alive?

Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His work centers on immigration—how people are selected, how they assimilate, and the role of highly skilled migrants.  

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 INTRO
0:57 Trump's deportation promise
4:20 Leftist reporters at immigration hearings
6:50 CONTROVERSY: Should ICE Agents Wear Masks?
13:22 Legal Immigration, H-1B Visas, Vivek Ramaswamy
20:24 600,000 Chinese Students in US universities? 
25:30 Nativism in the New Right
28:46 Assimilation for new immigrants 
34:20 Zohram Mamdani's cultural Marxism 
37:10 How MAGA united under Trump
39:20 Social Conservatism, LGBTQ in MAGA, Abortion
43:33 Tech Right, Elon Musk, MAGA grift
47:00 How Trump abandoned the Pro-Life movement
49:01 No more gatekeepers in news?
53:15 Money doesn't matter in politics anymore?
54:34 Why Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of NYC
59:00 Growing anti-Israel sentiment within the Right

Elaad Eliahu is the White House Correspondent for TIMCAST IRL. We sat down to discuss mass deportations, MAGA civil war on immigration, and the growing nativism among the New Right. 

#immigration #visa #politics #maga #trump

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

0:00 Intro
0:55 Will Zohran 'Defund The Police'? 
5:39 Why the boomers do not 'get' Zohran
9:21 The sympathy for Luigi Mangione
13:18 Establishment Democrats vs Populist Progressives 
15:19 Horseshoe Theory
18:20 How the Right and the Left tackle America's populist angst 
19:40 Similarity between Zohran, Bernie, and Trump
22:26 How should New York Jews feel about Zohran
26:48 Why are the New Right and the New Left anti-Israel
29:10 American Dream, economic anxiety, and predictable progress 
32:39 The cultural vibes of Zohran and the progressive Left
37:46 Is Zohran playing it safe?
41:11 Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa
44:37 Will Zohran run NYC? 

Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She spent the last few months covering Zohran Mamdani and his rise to run New York City.

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews. 

Will Zohran Mamdani's anti-cop past derail his rise to run New York City?

0:00 Intro
0:28 Zohran might become NYC's Mayor
6:24 What the boomers do not understand about populism 
11:18 Have older Americans rigged the system?
13:05 Economic populism on the Right and Left
15:38 Immigration vs Native-Employment
19:15 The failure of rent control 
23:00 Zohran Mamdani's sugarcoated progressivism 
25:52 The Far Right fallout from the Jubille debate 
29:25 Israel vs Palestine and the Horseshoe Theory
38:04 Stephen Colbert's cope after getting cancelled
41:59 Robby is engaged! Social Conservatism, LGBTQ, State Rights
45:35 Donald Trump and the fate of MAGA
50:00 Are podcast bros regretting the Trump endorsements? 
52:28 Did Trump betray MAGA on Epstein? 

Robby Soave hosts the Rising on The Hill and is a senior editor at Reason TV.

Welcome to The Sagnik Show, the show where I surf in the soup of culture. We will untangle the chaos in the culture with monologues and interviews.