Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
A new collection of crucial writings from the fantastic Paul Gottfried. And of the future of Left and Right.
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Monday Aug 18, 2025
On the United Kingdom, and 1989 Eastern Europe as Harbinger
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
A complete analysis of the turbulent near future of the regime which, for a short while longer, rules the United Kingdom, through the lens of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Stoner (John Williams)
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
A semi-famous work of fiction about a failed life, with lessons about how you, too, can be a failure if you don't act like a man.
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
A competent brief history of medieval English peasantry, unfortunately distorted and largely ruined by rancid feminist bias.
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Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
An interesting study of the life of seamen in the age of sail, and of why Churchill was partially wrong about "rum, sodomy, and the lash."
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Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Of empire, democracy, and mixed government, through the prism of one of the greatest Fathers of the Church.
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Friday Apr 11, 2025
Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
An exhaustive study of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, written by my father.
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Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Of Sam Colt, who made all men equal, yet found little happiness, it seems, in doing so.
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Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
A competent history of the Kurdish warlord Saladin, and his battles against Christians in the Holy Land. And of modern distorted and false views of his works.
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.
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