web02.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:17:10 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Conservatism” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/conservatism Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 59: Political Ossification ft. Luke Thompson https://exhaust.fireside.fm/59 92e4c146-0432-4123-84b0-db9a6f62d1a0 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson joins Emmet to talk through different conceptions of political ossification. They talk through realignment theory, conceptions of political time, and, of course, why nothing feels possible. 1:15:40 yes Political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson (https://twitter.com/ltthompso) joins Emmet to talk through the problem of political ossification. They talk through realignment theory, conceptions of political time, how party coalitions have changed over time, the shifting nature of American political institutions, and, of course, why nothing feels possible. Check out Luke's podcast with Jay Cost, Constitutionally Speaking (https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/constitutionally-speaking/). Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! Closing Song: "Talk Anyway" by Found Footage (https://foundfootageokc.bandcamp.com/). politics, conservatism, liberalism, history, america, american history Political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson joins Emmet to talk through the problem of political ossification. They talk through realignment theory, conceptions of political time, how party coalitions have changed over time, the shifting nature of American political institutions, and, of course, why nothing feels possible.

Check out Luke's podcast with Jay Cost, Constitutionally Speaking.

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Closing Song: "Talk Anyway" by Found Footage.

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Check out Luke's podcast with Jay Cost, Constitutionally Speaking.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: "Talk Anyway" by Found Footage.

]]> Episode 48: What We Talk About When We Talk About Conservatism ft. Micah Meadowcroft https://exhaust.fireside.fm/48 6ce11ed2-2059-4145-ae87-24e0339efd9c Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, and much more! 56:36 yes Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft (https://twitter.com/Micaheadowcroft), an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, ending America's imperial posture, and much more. "We Are Going to Win (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/we-are-going-to-win/)" by Micah Meadowcroft "Roman Rhetoric And Florentine Politics: A Reply To Yarvin (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/roman-rhetoric-and-florentine-politics-a-reply-to-yarvin/)" by Micah Meadowcroft The piece of Emmet's mentioned: "Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nuclear-power-plants-our-industrial-cathedrals/)" by Emmet Penney Join our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/episode-48-bibliography). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Hips Swingin (https://nakedraygun.bandcamp.com/album/understand)" by Naked Raygun conservatism, empire, plutarch, aristotle, christianity, aquinas, america, american history, politics, cs lewis Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, ending America's imperial posture, and much more.

"We Are Going to Win" by Micah Meadowcroft
"Roman Rhetoric And Florentine Politics: A Reply To Yarvin" by Micah Meadowcroft

The piece of Emmet's mentioned:
"Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals" by Emmet Penney

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Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Hips Swingin" by Naked Raygun

]]> Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, ending America's imperial posture, and much more.

"We Are Going to Win" by Micah Meadowcroft
"Roman Rhetoric And Florentine Politics: A Reply To Yarvin" by Micah Meadowcroft

The piece of Emmet's mentioned:
"Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals" by Emmet Penney

Join our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month!

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Hips Swingin" by Naked Raygun

]]> Episode 15: The Jesus Campening of American Politics https://exhaust.fireside.fm/15 d29d5d00-9c17-4a96-974e-b3177c430d4b Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. 51:06 yes We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics. Bibliography. Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. george bush, christianity, jesus, jesus camp, politics, culture, liberalism, conservatism, narcissism We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics.

Bibliography.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

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Bibliography.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

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