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Geoff Shullenberger is creator of the Outsider Theory blog and newly launched Outsider Theory podcast, as well as Senior Lecturer at New York University’s Expository Writing Program. We talk about his Outsider Theory project, conspiracy & elite paranoia, our schizophrenizing media complex, Boudrillard and Hyperreality, scapegoating, Marcuse’s concept of Repressive Tolerance, and touching third rails of American politics. You can learn more about the Outsider Theory project on Geoff's blog at: https://outsidertheory.com/ Follow Geoff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/daily_barbarian — If you liked this interview and want to hear more, support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/agorapolitics Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts.

Raven Connolly hosts Socratic Speed-dating and sensemaking sessions at The Stoa. You can find out more about Raven’s work at TheStoa.ca and follow Raven on Twitter @spiral_virus. We talk about the acceleration of trends in online dating and romance due to the pandemic, the institution of marriage and non-monogomy, influencer culture, mimesis, and sexual inequality, declining fertility in the West and technological substitutes for intimacy, the value of organized religion, the Bible in Western Culture, life around a common calendar, and the decision to choose to love. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts

Jason Snyder is faculty in the department of sustainable development at Appalachian State University. We talk homesteading, localism, permaculture, population decentralization, and possibilities for alternative, sustainable, human-centered communities. You can find Jason @cognazor on Twitter. Agora Politics is a podcast about the future of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts

A Color Revolution is a term coined by Russian military strategists for the preferred way the United States enacts regime change. The goal of staging a color revolution is to create conditions suitable to have a pretext for military intervention on behalf of the people, either internally or externally, to get rid of the current regime. So named because the protesting forces involved usually coalesce around a symbolic color of resistance, such as the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2012, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2014,or the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan in 2005, it is a specific playbook for regime change designed for a world in which the prospect of infinitely escalating mimetic violence must be off the table. The question then becomes how does one facilitate a people’s revolution, with minimal violence and cost. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Agora Politics: https://agorapolitics.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts

Will Buckner is a research assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Evolutionary anthropologists trace the origins and development of human nature and culture in societies around the world. Join Will Buckner (@evolving_moloch) and I as we delve deep on secret societies, initiation rituals, tribalism, the Hobbesian-Rousseauian split in the Western mind, technological complexity and the incentives surrounding human violence, belief systems, sexual violence, and a number of other topics. Will also writes on cultural traditions and conflict patterns on his blog, TraditionsofConflict.com; and for such popular outlets as Quillette, Nautilus, Areo, and a number of other publications. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhs Or wherever you get your podcasts If you like the work I'm doing at Agora Politics, and want to hear more interviews like this one, consider becoming a supporter on Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics

Eric Kaufmann is professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of "Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities". Eric’s research interests focus on demography, ethnicity, nationalism, and the study of white ethnic majorities in Western countries, We talk about what Eric lays out as the 2 whiteshifts that are coming, Why support for right-wing populism in Western nations is driven by demographics, identity, and attachment, not economics, the causes of the dearth of scholarship on ethnic majorities, left modernism, the mutability of white ethnic identity, we touch briefly on critiques of critical race theory, intersectionality, and some of the responses to these lines of inquiry, we deal with the myth of conspiratorial white genocide, and learn why Professor Kaufmann sees the embrace of a symmetric multiculturalism as the only rational, humane path forward. Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agorapolitics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58? Wherever you find your podcasts!

Cody Moser is an evolutionary anthropologist and Cognitive and Information Sciences grad student at University of California Merced. We cover: How much has the world has changed since Coronavirus? Peter Turchin’s 2020 prediction, Intra-Elite competition, Cliodynamics, Ideological herd immunity, Are we in a civil war?, Reorganizing society after the Great Reset, Return to Localism, Microcredentialing and the future of online education, The end of universities as the gatekeepers of knowledge, Will this be the end of cities?, Elite overproduction, Declining birthrates in the West, Anthropology as a Science, The Intellectual Dark Web, and more...

A reading of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula La Guin. Last night, I was on twitter seeing updates on the Democratic National Convention, and I was thinking about the choices in front of us and how we, as individuals, might avoid becoming deranged by our complicity in a system that leaves us but few actionable choices from which to decide our future. For some reason, I was reminded of this short story by Ursula La Guin, which I had read years ago and since forgotten; called “The Ones who walk away from Omelas.” It is the story of a decadent, wonderful, mystical place where everything is perfect and beautiful, but inside all understand that their opulence is sustained by a dark secret. And all who know this and choose to stay are complicit in this darkness. Given the comparison my mind drew between the struggle to live nobly inside of imperfect systems, I thought it would be useful to consider this parable as we reflect on the choices ahead of us. Original Text: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d317/ba42f5716881c691d652672f66de87b4d677.pdf

Bo Winegard is an independent scholar and former assistant professor at Marietta College, with research in areas of evolutionary and social psychology. We covered: - Cancel Culture: is it real? - human variation - academic freedom - being cancelled - cultural displays and male status hierarchies - all male coalitions - masculinity - what can be done Follow Bo on Twitter: @EPoe187 Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Patreon: https://patreon.com/agorapolitics Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agorapolitics