[teaser] Don't Say Disney ft. Geoff Shullenberger

April 30th, 2022  |  11 mins 49 secs

chris rufo, disney, don't say gay, family, florida, ideology, lasch

Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, Lasch, the family, ideology, political anemia, and more.

This will also be our last Patreon episode until July. Don't worry, we've paused your payments. You won't be getting charged.

We're going to come back in the summer with gusto.

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 5: The Populist Campaign Against "Improvement"

November 7th, 2021  |  15 mins 14 secs

american history, lasch, liberal, liberalism, politics, populism, progressive

Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism.

[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 3: Nostalgia ft. Canada Mike

October 4th, 2021  |  7 mins 46 secs

cormac mccarthy, lasch, nostalgia, progress, progressivism

Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more.

Episode 12: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. IV: Black Bloc Patrick Bateman Ft. Geoff Shullenberger

November 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

2020 riots, history, lasch, new left, politics, riots, weather underground

To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's Correspondence Society.

Episode 11: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. III: Democratic Discourse in Crisis

November 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

common core, democracy, higher ed, lasch

The lads dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book and talk about education, the press, and how "third places" helped them cultivate identities as a sense of civic virtue.