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John returns and they finish out the show by finishing Fukuyama's book and reflecting on the experience of working on the show. Thanks to all of our listeners! It was a great run and we were overjoyed to have you with us.

Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic type, and more! Check out Matt's Stuff: Substack: https://trapzoid.substack.com https://sociolegalfictions.wordpress.com Twitter: @DJDeepThought1 Closing Song: RiFF RAFF - Double Cup 2 Cups (KEIFER GR33N Remix) https://www.keifergr33n.com/

Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's background, trouble some of his assumptions, and kick the tires of his liberal triumphalism in the opening 50 pages. Closing Song: https://godshate.bandcamp.com/album/gods-hate

Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more. Phil's piece on the sanctions: https://unherd.com/thepost/its-time-to-end-gas-sanctions-on-russia/ Phil's piece on ChatGPT: https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpt-a-morbid-symptom-of-our-declining-universities/ Phil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thephilippics Bungacast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast Closing song: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country

Mark Nelson returns to the pod to talk with Emmet about becoming an engineer. They talk about the history of the profession in America, how engineers think, what they study, and how they look at the world. Check out Mark Nelson (@energybants): https://twitter.com/energybants Closing Song: https://willkraus.bandcamp.com/album/eye-escapes

Alex Priou from the New Thinkery podcast sits down with Emmet to talk about Leo Strauss and his posthumously published lecture "The Three Waves of Modernity. They talk about the split between the ancients and the moderns, what Strauss was really after, the tasks modernity presents us with today, whether or not we can recover lessons from the ancients, and more! Check out the New Thinkery: https://thenewthinkery.com/listen/ The essay: https://archive.org/details/LeoStrauss3WavesOfModernityocr Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the rest! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Brett and Thomas from PsyOp cinema join Emmet to talk about the school shooter movie The Dirties (2013). They talk about Columbine, the role media plays in "traumatizing" its audiences, social engineering, media saturation as grand social atomizer, the figure of the "outsider," and more! Check out PsyOp cinema here! (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyop-cinema/id1584525928) Closing Song: Do Not Reply by Stuck (https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/track/do-not-reply)

Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more! To hear the rest of the episode and get 2 exlusive episodes plus bonus content every month, subscribe to our Patreon! How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science (https://compactmag.com/article/how-critical-theory-learned-to-trust-the-science) by Jacob Shell, Compact Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern (http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf) by Bruno Latour Check out Jacob's books: Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (https://www.amazon.com/Transportation-Revolt-Vanishing-Geographies-Subversive/dp/0262029332/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Monsoon-Forest-Working-Elephants/dp/0393247767/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZZ3KUSLAF66R&keywords=jacob+shell&qid=1666973760&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjk3IiwicXNhIjoiMC45OSIsInFzcCI6IjEuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=jacob%2520shell%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1)

Author Michael Lind joins Emmet to talk about his research speech on democratic pluralism in the 21st century. They discuss regime type, managerialism and technocracy, sector bargaining, the beauty of big, dumb, and simple, his forthcoming book on labor called Hell to Pay, and more. To hear the rest, subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes and bonus content every month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) You can read Michael Lind's speech here: https://compactmag.com/article/democratic-pluralism-for-the-21st-century You can pre-order Hell to Pay here: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Conspiracy-Destroying-America/dp/0593421256/ref=sr14?crid=2UXB8BXFRBDMY&keywords=michael+lind&qid=1666400635&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjU4IiwicXNhIjoiMy4wNCIsInFzcCI6IjMuMDUifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=michael%2520lind%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-4

Journalist Leighton Woodhouse (https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse) joins Emmet to talk about the New Left of the 1960s and the values of the managerial class. They talk about progressive libertarianism, the difference between the old managerial order of the immediate postwar era and the post-70s era, cultural path dependency, the Port Huron statement, and more. "The Cult of the Individual: The Origins of the Nihilistic Left (https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-individual?r=u0rd)," by Leighton Woodhouse. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes plus bonus content every month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Rollin & Tubmlin by RL Burnside (https://rlburnside.bandcamp.com/album/mr-wizard).

Kat Dee joins Emmet to talk about movies they couldn't stop texting each other about which they think define, in part, the millennial vibe. They talk about movies that give a shit that you're watching them, what happened to music as part of identity formation, the sexual weirdness of all three movies, being awkward as an early millennial meme, what millennials did to language, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Emmet and Josh wrap up their series on the Shock of the New. They discuss the modern art museum, Hughes's sick burns on everyone and everything, Superbowl Commericals as art appreciation ritual, Don Draper, and mourning the death of painting. Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more! Check out some of Michael's Work: How Culture War Trumped Class War (https://compactmag.com/article/how-culture-war-trumped-class-war), Compact Magazine America's New Post-Literate Epistemology (https://www.palladiummag.com//2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/), Palladium "Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/#notes), American Affairs Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

Josh and Emmet talk over episodes 6 and 7 of Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New. They get into Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Rothko, and the dawn of the Weak Universal Forms. They discuss art as a window into the past and the schizo-world of television. And if painting can't matter in the way it used to, why did Hughes bother with the series? Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the rest and get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

King of The Work and co-host of What's Left, Oliver Bateman (https://twitter.com/MoustacheClubUS) joins Emmet to talk about the illustrious career of pro-wrestling mogul Vince McMahon after he stepped down from WWE. They talk about the hustler and con man as American architects, the intimacy of kayfabe, what people get wrong about their stale "politics as pro wrestling" takes, and more! "Exit Vince McMahon, World Builder (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/exit-vince-mcmahon-world-builder)," Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner. What's Left? (https://www.patreon.com/whatsleft) Oliver's website. (https://www.oliverbateman.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month! Closing Song: Moth-Eaten Deer Head by The Locust

Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic type, and more! To hear the rest, subscribe to our Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Matt's Stuff: Substack: https://trapzoid.substack.com https://sociolegalfictions.wordpress.com Twitter: @DJDeepThought1

Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's background, trouble some of his assumptions, and kick the tires of his liberal triumphalism in the opening 50 pages. To hear the rest of this episode, subscribe to our Patreon and get 2 exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more! "California's Energy War on the Poor (https://quillette.com/2022/07/11/californias-energy-war-on-the-poor/)" by Robert Bryce (Quillette) The Power Hungry Podcast (https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/) Juice: How Electricity Explains the World (http://juicethemovie.com/) A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (https://www.amazon.com/Question-Power-Electricity-Wealth-Nations/dp/1610397495) by Robert Bryce Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys

We're back! This one opens with some housekeeping, then we move on to talk about the energy crisis, regionalism, localism, PMC intermediation, American political tradition, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the rest. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Special Guest: Mike.

Emmet sits Geoff Shullenberger (https://twitter.com/daily_barbarian) and Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend) to talk about their respective articles on the Uvalde shooting, school shootings in general, "zeitgeist killers," the spiritual hole in our society, and more! "The Faith of Mass Shooters (https://compactmag.com/article/the-faith-of-mass-shooters)" by Geoff Shullenberger, Compact Magazine. "Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made (https://contra.substack.com/p/mass-shootings-and-the-world-liberalism)," by Katherine Dee, Contra Closing Song: Lowered by Greg Puciato ft. Reba Meyers. (https://gregpuciato.bandcamp.com/album/mirrorcell)

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. We're going on hiatus until July. Geoff's piece for Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/04/disney-has-always-spread-propaganda/

Will Tavlin (https://twitter.com/wtavlin) joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more! Digital Rocks: How Hollywood Killed Celluloid (https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/essays/digital-rocks/) by Will Tavlin, n+1 Closing Song: Storyteller by Broadside (https://broadsideva.bandcamp.com/track/storyteller).

DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions. Here's the lecture (https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf). Subscribe to Default Wisdom. (https://defaultfriend.substack.com/) Subscribe to our patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones x Xavier Wulf - Fort Woe (KEIFFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music)

Recording times got bungled to do travel constraints, but here's an hour-long preview of Emmet's appearance on the Ryan Research podcast (the whole thing runs two hours). Peter Ryan (https://twitter.com/_PeterRyan) invited him on to talk about nuclear energy, why nothing feels possible, what happened to the left, financial brain poisoning, and more! Follow the Ryan Research podcast to hear the rest when it comes out! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRArvBl7O7AuQFtTTKaUCw) Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Monia Ali (https://twitter.com/momovolution) of the Exiled Fan Substack sits down with Emmet to talk about the cultic aspects of fandom, how marketers think about hijacking our need for love, attention, and community, what the world of fandom means for our future and much, much more. Love Beyond Reason: the consecration of fandom by Monia Ali (https://exiledfan.substack.com/p/love-beyond-reason-the-consecration?r=iqrwx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=url&s=r), The Exiled Fan. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Jiggalate by Dro Man (KEIFER GR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/)

Emmet and John began their reading of Koselleck's Futures Past. They situate his context, layout his questions and method, and then open the first essay. They discuss the transition into modernity, the nature of historical time, the waning of eschaton, the secularization of the political and thus the future, and medieval eschatological tradition, and way more. This is a teaser. To hear the rest and get the rest of our exclusive episodes, become a Patron! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Scholar John Constable joins Emmet to discuss his recent lecture given at the Mont Pelerin Society last year entitled, "Misconceptions of the 'Industrial Revolution': Prospects for Individual Liberty in the Post-Pandemic Era." They discuss the discursive fiction of the "industrial revolution" and its uses, the green energy transition's misguidedness, economics' backwardness, why energy is the key to societal wealth and freedom, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Closing song: Migos - Walk It Talk It (KEIFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/)

Xander (https://twitter.com/xandeaux) sits down with Emmet to talk about what's going on with American cities. What happened to them? Why won't congestion die? Do we have to get in the pod and eat the bugs? What makes a city beautiful? Why is it so hard to figure out what's going on in your city? Emmet harasses Xander with these questions and more. Become a patron to get two exclusive episodes a month and our entire paywalled back catalog, including our After Virtues and Christopher Lasch reading series. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: God's Bathroom Floor by Atmosphere. (https://atmosphere.bandcamp.com/album/gods-bathroom-floor)

Emmet and John finish Lasch's book and reflect on it as a whole. They considered some Roman historians at the top, summarize this final chapter, and weigh Lasch's contribution. What does it mean for us? What has he left us to endeavor that he did or could not? Become a patron to hear the rest and get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

James Lynch (https://twitter.com/jameslynch32), a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more! The Mainstream Media Is Attacking Joe Rogan Instead of Admitting Its Own Failures (https://www.newsweek.com/mainstream-media-attacking-joe-rogan-instead-admitting-its-own-failures-opinion-1674670) by James Lynch, Newsweek The Working Class Is Up For Grabs. Which Party Will Claim It? (https://www.newsweek.com/working-class-grabs-which-party-will-claim-it-opinion-1673941) by James Lynch, Newsweek How Progressive Theatrics Benefit the Elites (https://www.newsweek.com/how-progressive-theatrics-benefit-elites-opinion-1650559) by James Lynch, Newsweek Subscribe to Grid Brief! (https://www.gridbrief.com/subscribe) Become a Patron to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Suicide Design by Hope Conspiracy (https://thehopeconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/death-knows-your-name-deluxe-2)

Canada Mike joins Emmet to talk about the second to last chapter of Lasch's book. They talk about how liberalism went from a political position to an alleged psychological framework and culture. And how HL Mencken was a pioneer of lectureporn. Special Guest: Mike.

DF and Emmet had such a good time talking about early internet history they decided to do it again. This time, they're looking at humdog's seminal but half-forgotten essay "pandora's vox." DF and Emmet try to work through the internet as a form, it's incredible liquidity, how physical space has transubstantiated into the internet, things like the Slaves of Gor fandom as a substructure of the internet, what it means that humdog seems to have committed suicide over exactly the kind of relationship she warned about and more! "pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace (https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643)" by humdog. "A Virtual Life. An Actual Death. (https://hplusmagazine.com/2009/09/02/virtual-life-actual-death/)" by Mark Meadows and Peter Ludlow

Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend) returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace (http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html), which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: The End of Love by Wimeanancas Cambodian Band. (https://littleaxerecords.bandcamp.com/album/wimeanacas-cambodian-band)

Emmet and John begin their new series on Robert Hughes's documentary series The Shock of the New. This first installment takes on early modernism. The lads contemplate the impact of WWI, think on what really separates the modern experience from previous eras, and what makes our era different from early modernism. Shock of the New (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ne7Udaetg). Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Nuclear Barbarians. (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/) Closing Song: Chlorine by Buffalo Buffalo. (https://buffalobuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/ad-astra-per-aspera)

Anton Jaegar (https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm) sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics (https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics) by Anton Jaegar, Tribune. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians. (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/) Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FE0fQB7K_k)

Emmet and John take on the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and his impact on neocons and MLK. Then they look at Lasch's interpretation of MLK's intellectual life and political career. They compare the Southern and Northern Civil Rights campaigns and contemplate the deadlock, in part created by King himself, left in his wake. They close by discussing resentment and its politics. This is a teaser, subscribe to the Patreon to hear the rest! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Luke Thompson (https://twitter.com/ltthompso) returns to talk with Emmet about Joan Didion, who recently passed. They focus on her essay "Insider Baseball," her coverage of the 1988 presidential primary season, and discuss the nature of American presidential campaigns, the campaign press, the nature of Didion's insights, what made 2016 so weird, and more! Insider Baseball by Joan Didion (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/10/27/insider-baseball/). Closing Song: "Journey to the Darkened Empires" by Forlorn Kingdom (https://forlornkingdom.bandcamp.com/album/walking-the-paths-of-old).

Emmet and Mike discuss medieval techniques of memory and forgetting. They discuss Cornelius Agrippa's assault on those techniques as an assault on the corrupted scholastic world. In Agrippa's thought we see the germs of modernity. The discuss opens up into a contemplation of ancient science and tech, the propaganda of the Enlightenment, the disciplining of the mind and the gaze, recovering tradition, and more. Feel free to email or DM us for pdfs of the sources we used for this episode. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/60648716) Closing song: Habit Necessity by TAD.

Emmet and John work through questions of the democratization of work and culture in the era of mass production and mass culture. They also trace the relationship between cultural bohemians and elites with the workers' movement, including the forgotten legacy of Mabel Dodge Luhan. The close by talking about national loyalty, the repeat of debates from 100 years ago, another look at property as a political concern, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the rest and get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future. Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun. (https://nakedraygun.bandcamp.com/album/jettison)

Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more. Subscribe to the Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Emmet's new podcast and newsletter, Nuclear Barbarians (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/). Closing Song: Leprosy - Death. (https://death.bandcamp.com/album/leprosy-reissue)

This is a teaser! Subscribe to our Patreon to get the rest, plus two exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) We return to our Lasch series and talk about Georges Sorel and the syndicalist moment in the late 19th and early 20th century. Property, proprietorship, and centralization are the major themes of the chapter. We brought some of these issues into the present by discussing control over one's data, discretion as empowerment, and selective quietude as rebellion.

Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virtue-hoarders), Catherine Liu (https://twitter.com/bureaucatliu) joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more! The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu (https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/the-apotheosis-of-the-professional-class), Catalyst. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner. (https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/impressive-almanac-2)

Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington (https://twitter.com/moveincircles) joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more! Read Mary Harrington's work at Unherd. (https://unherd.com/author/mary-harrington/) Mary's website. (https://reactionaryfeminist.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Emmet and Mike hash out MacIntyre's provocative lecture at Notre Dame's conference on the idea of human dignity in the secular age last month. They go through the essentials of MacIntyre's argumentation, reflect on its implications, then consider Abrahamic Law more broadly. Mike brings a Muslim perspective to bear and they both ask how we are to live with fidelity in a world where nothing feels possible. This is a teaser. To listen to the rest subscribe to our Patreon and get two exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Special Guest: Mike.

River Page (https://twitter.com/river_is_nice) joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism. The Standpoint Bureaucracy (https://twinkrev.com/2021/02/the-standpoint-bureaucracy/) by River Page, Twink Revolution The CIA and the New Dialect of Power (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-power/) by River Page, American Affairs River's Substack. (https://riverpage.substack.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Canada Mike and Emmet take a look at three pieces to consider different lenses for human development. The first is an essay on Engels by Wolfgang Streeck (https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3239575/component/file_3329111/content), the second is a lecture on thermoeconomics by John Constable (http://www.libellus.co.uk/uploads/jc_energy_entropy_wealth_2016.pdf), and the third is an overview of arguments for human evolution by Michael E. Mann (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24717534). Emmet and Mike touch on the Meiji restoration, why we should read old thinkers, British coal, why Steven Pinker sucks, what kind of revolution was the Industrial Revolution, civilizational skillsets, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Kids See Ghost - Feel the Love (KEIFERGR33N) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music) Special Guest: Mike.

Emmet and John forge ahead through the longest and most difficult chapter in Lasch's The True And Only Heaven. They question his use of Thomas Carlyle, delve into the Calvinism in both Carlyle and Emerson, what it means for America to have an anti-progressive tradition, Boethius's Wheel of Fortune, appreciating fate, and more! Subscribe to the Patreon to here the rest! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

Emmet sat down with Joseph Keegin (https://twitter.com/fxxfy) to talk about his pice for Tablet, The High Church of Wokeism, which traces certain elements of woke ideology back to Unitarian Universalism. They talk about the unacknowledged power of divinity schools in shaping American progressivism, repairing the "broken middle," identity talk as soul talk, and much more. The High Church of Wokeism (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/beacon-unitarians-joseph-keegin) by Joseph Keegin, Tablet. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Memorial by Moss Icon. (https://mossicon.bandcamp.com/album/complete-discography)

Emmet sits down with Percy Menzies of Assisted Recovery Centers of America (https://www.arcamidwest.com/) to talk about the opioid epidemic in America. Percy walks through the history of opioids, how OxyContin changed everything, and how fentanyl has changed everything again. He and Emmet discuss misunderstandings about addiction, the forces aligned against solving the crisis--including the methadone lobby--treating the whole person, and more. If you'd like to get in touch with Percy with questions, comments, or support, you can reach him here: pmenzies [at] arcamidwest.com. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Ugly Truth (Concrete Foundations Forum, Hollywood, Ca. September 23, 1989) by Soundgarden.

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. This is a teaser. Subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode and get two exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)