On this week’s podcast, I had the privilege of speaking with Geoff Shullenberger. Geoff is a teacher at NYU and an accomplished author and thinker. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the work of Rene Girard. We had a far-ranging discussion covering:

• What is the new right? What does conservatism mean now?
• Ayn Rand as the intellectual ancestor of everyone on the “new right”.
• The David Pogue article in Vanity Fair – it’s a very important piece.
• JD Vance and compassionate individualism
• Christopher Rufo and his anti-CRT crusade
• Anti-partisanship
• The firing of Felicia Sonmez at the Washington Post
• Elite Overproduction – is there such a thing and is this theory credible?
• The myth of scarcity
• Rene Girard, mimicry, social contagion, and transgender kids
• And much more

I highly recommend listening to the whole thing, I learned a lot from Geoff and I think he is a great intellectual.

You can find Geoff’s writing on his blog Outsider Theory and in Compact Magazine as well as on Twitter.

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