Alex Kaschuta is a writer, cultural critic, and podcast host from Romania. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, the American Mind, Vice, and other outlets. She hosts the Subversive Podcast, which you can find here. Alex is also on Twitter.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Ineptitude
0:58 Bo demands Alex tell us who she is and what she wants
2:03 How have Alex’s views changed in the last 5 years?
4:48 What replaces liberalism?
11:42 Post-liberalism puts the cards on the table
13:54 What do we do with the true believers?
18:40 Jonny talks about Ecuador & El Salvador’s reforms
20:05 Simplifying the power dynamics
21:39 Has liberalism always been a sterilizing force?
28:13 Plato’s insights about hedonism and democracy
30:50 Aren’t we romanticizing the past?
35:05 The freedom to commit to unfreedom
45:24 The fallacy of the self-creating self
47:40 The woman question
51:27 Elites promoting unhealthy behavior
58:26 The nice school teacher fallacy
1:01:26 Benefiting from ostensible empathy
1:03:40 Religion
1:18:27 Artificial intelligence & power
1:22:10 Bonus questions preview
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What comes after liberalism? | Alex Kaschuta