Alex Kaschuta is a writer, podcaster and all around brilliant voice of reason who has carved out a unique place for herself in the dissident digital space with a witty sense of humour and an incisive Eastern European skepticism. We spoke to her about many things, including Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, Jordan Peterson, iron curtains, the demise of Western institutions, the commodification of loneliness and desire, John Gray's Black Mass and imminent apocalypses.

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