# Aristocrats of Dune Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho seek to uncover the mysteries of Old Terra Page: Feed: --- ## [The Will to Change - Feminism Deconstructed](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/the-will-to-change-feminism-deconstructed) _2025-06-21 · Gurney Halleck_ Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck review Bell Hooks' The Will to Change. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166432130/80cb15a31228f805bb2aba8a81af972f.mp3) ## [What it Means to Outsource Truth](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/what-it-means-to-outsource-truth) _2025-05-28 · Gurney Halleck_ Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho deep dive Designing The Ministry of Truth by Curtis Yarvin. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/164646797/4ecbf0881bcf92022e98532bc48cf8b9.mp3) ## [Our Analysis of What is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals?](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/our-analysis-of-what-is-the-meaning-1bf) _2024-08-27 · Gurney Halleck_ Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho review and analyze essay 3 of The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192825/f4730a8ac3e53bb48e45e184bf064361.mp3) ## [The Price of Pity](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/the-price-of-pity) _2024-07-31 · Gurney Halleck_ Nietzsche believed guilt was a psyop. Was he wrong? ## [Guilt, Bad Conscience, and the Like](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/guilt-bad-conscience-and-the-like-512) _2024-06-03 · Gurney Halleck_ In this episode, Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho discuss Essay II from the Geneology of Morals by Fredrich Nietzche. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192826/f2e0e3242b5f73e4f8c5f6adadfb358b.mp3) ## [Are You Moral or Are You Just Prey?](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/are-you-moral-or-are-you-just-prey) _2024-05-30 · Gurney Halleck_ Weakness begets Evil. ## [The Genealogy of Morals Pt. 1 - Good and Evil, Good and Bad](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/the-genealogy-of-morals-pt-1-good-e2d) _2024-05-20 · Gurney Halleck_ Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho set out to understand Old Terra's strange system of morality and how it originated. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192827/d722e2e68724241b6cb97422f251bf4b.mp3) ## [Coming soon](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/coming-soon) _2024-04-25 · Gurney Halleck_ This is Aristocrats of Dune. ## [Dune: Part Two Review](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/dune-part-two-review-c93) _2024-04-09 · Gurney Halleck_ Listen to Gurnee Halleck and Duncan Idaho review Dune: Part Two! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192828/3467c38ed90822d5db0608f32bf3f53d.mp3) ## [Hobbes and Rousseau in Dune](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/hobbes-and-rousseau-in-dune-8a5) _2024-03-12 · Gurney Halleck_ One could argue that Frank Herbert's Dune is an attempt to wrestle with the ideas of Hobbes and Rousseau when it comes to governing. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192829/133e7094a4c27aa1b20d5c3d9a37640d.mp3) ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jg8G9EXzjFaE) _2024-03-12 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Dune Part 2 Trailer Reaction!](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/dune-part-2-trailer-reaction-fed) _2024-02-29 · Gurney Halleck_ Join us as Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck react to Dune Part 2 Trailers! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192830/a5eece058a000db9779925aac368234b.mp3) ## [Shooting Niagara: And After? by Thomas Carlyle](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/shooting-niagara-and-after-by-thomas-c48) _2024-02-23 · Gurney Halleck_ In this episode, Gurnee and Idaho wrap up their Carlyle homework with a discussion on Shooting Niagara: And After?. This essay remarks on England's Reform Act of 1867 which further extended voting right to male urban working men: "This delirious 'new Reform measure'...pushes us at once into the Niagara rapids: irresistibly propelled, with ever-increasing velocity, we shall now arrive". [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192831/73dabf9669efb4d46e3b52888c08731e.mp3) ## [Occasional Discourse by Thomas Carlyle](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/occasional-discourse-by-thomas-carlyle-e22) _2024-01-20 · Gurney Halleck_ In this episode, we discuss Occasional Discourse by Thomas Carlyle. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192832/46c22dc1766fa63afbb0bc6b220961ec.mp3) ## [Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 4 and Conclusion](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/latter-day-pamphlets-by-thomas-carlyle-d6a) _2023-12-21 · Gurney Halleck_ In this episode, we cover the last two chapters of Latter Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192833/ec358f67f249c69dfe5f3999436769de.mp3) ## [Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 3](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/latter-day-pamphlets-by-thomas-carlyle-ea4) _2023-11-27 · Gurney Halleck_ The Aristocrats discuss chapters 5-6 of Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle. Latter Day Pamphlets were published in 1850 in the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of 1948. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192834/14a1b9c4bee8fb57837c0ee06470fb00.mp3) ## [Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 2](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/latter-day-pamphlets-by-thomas-carlyle-2a4) _2023-10-26 · Gurney Halleck_ The Aristocrats discuss chapters 3-4 of Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle. Latter Day Pamphlets were published in 1850 in the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of 1948. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192835/1179059ddd3932d00f49497f4564094d.mp3) ## [Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 1](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/latter-day-pamphlets-by-thomas-carlyle-044) _2023-10-02 · Gurney Halleck_ The Aristocrats discuss chapters 1-2 of Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192836/4bc48a370b61e76a64d8095254af0b44.mp3) ## [Chartism by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 2](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/chartism-by-thomas-carlyle-pt-2-989) _2023-09-03 · Gurney Halleck_ Listen to part 2 of the Aristocrat's of Dune's discussion on Chartism, an essay by Thomas Carlyle. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192837/68a2d878f06d80c7e89a6e6d77d97db7.mp3) ## [Chartism by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 1](https://aristocratsofdune.substack.com/p/chartism-by-thomas-carlyle-pt-1-b5c) _2023-08-24 · Gurney Halleck_ Gurney and Idaho discuss Chartism, an essay by Thomas Carlyle. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/148192838/39adffe0b6971f99a119b106d9c0ce34.mp3)