Charles Olney - Diapers, Democracy, and Digital Delusions
A wide ranging conversation on fatherhood, politics and online life with Substack writer and political theorist, Charles Olney
The Garden of Earthly Delights
A publication about motherhood, family life, and the search for rootedness under modern conditions. I write about children, domesticity, social norms, female experience, technology, culture, and the peculiar instability of cosmopolitan life.
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Chris Lakin - The Incentives Behind Your Mind
What if your worst habits are actually your best strategies?
Jordan Call - Traditional Values, Modern Dad
My conversation with BigLaw escapee Jordan Call on role reversal, creative tradeoffs, insights on gentle‑ish parenting and becoming more than Mr. Mom.
Jeremiah Johnson - Paying the Toll of the Infinite Scroll
A journey through algorithmic rabbit‑holes.
Rewriting Work, Status, and Ambition
My conversation with writer Paul Millerd on the modern lack of life scripts and the opportunities that opens up
How much of yourself will you give?
On authority and authenticity and rarely getting to have both.
Lane Scott: Building Community in Strange Times
My conversation with the wonderful writer and actual matriarch, Lane Scott, on families, faith and building with the material you have.
Nicholas Gruen - Wish-Casting Meets Reality
My conversation with the australian economist on the art of the possible and ways to have popular will fuel politics, but with less insanity.
The vibes-BASED international order
What’s wrong with the online right
Dean Abbott - The Secret Emotional War
My conversation with writer and pastoral counselor Dean Abbott on healthy marriages, dealing with shame and loving outside of the parameters of the sex wars
Men, women, and other aliens
My conversation with writer Jacob Falkovich on becoming a man under unmaly conditions.
Stella Tsantekidou - Anti-Woke Davos Meets Techno-Pagans
An outsider's perspective on the strange alliances that form the emerging new conservative world.
The Business of Being Against
When forbidden truths become commodities: The paradox of professional contrarianism.
Ed West - Reflections on the Revolution in America
I speak to writer and UK connoisseur, Ed West, about this unique moment in time when grooming gangs meet Nazi salutes.
Steve Hsu: AI Arms Race - China & US
My conversation with Steve Hsu exploring China's rise as an AI superpower and its potential to reshape the global order.
Notes from Baby Jail
When raising children becomes a solitary act, time changes shape.
Prester John Andrews - Between Bugmen and Theorycels
A conversation on the lure of dying in the trenches and the unsexy nature of modern heroism
We Learned About Sex Differences. Then We Lost Our Minds.
From iron law to denial and back again. Is knowledge about sex differences an info hazard?
Jonathan Anomaly - Enlightened Tribalism
Jonathan's return on the podcast with a new angle on an ancient human trait.
Erika Bachiochi - Family, Faith & Feminism.
My conversation with conservative feminist scholar and mother of 7, Erika Bachiochi.