Nature and the Nation
Nature and the Nation explores politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology and economics from a naturalistic, paleoconservative perspective, using the format of a book review.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 155
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Review: T. R. The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
In this episode I explore Teddy Roosevelt's relationship with Japan, as described in T. R. The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands. I pay particular attention to Roosevelt's failure to heed the concerns of…
01:00:03 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Review: Industrial Society and its Future by Ted Kaczynski
In this episode I look at the Ted Kaczynski's Industrial Society and its Future, with a special focus on his critiques of leftism and his explanation of the power process, as well as his assertions a…
01:36:30 |
Sun 20 Aug 2023
Review: Nature and Nationalism by Jonathan Olsen
In this episode I explore the Nature and Nationalism tradition of German political and ecological thought, as detailed by Jonathan Olsen in Nature and Nationalism. I look at its origins in Romanticis…
01:00:54 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
Review: The Rule of The Clan by Mark Weiner
In this episode I dig deeper into the search for the natural social arrangement of man, with a look at The Rule of the Clan by Mark Weiner. I examine the structure of clannism and look especially at …
01:05:09 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
Review: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In this episode I examine Jean-Jacques Rousseau's early work, Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality among Mankind. I look at his examination of the natural man, and his accusations aga…
01:14:10 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Review: Philosophy Before Socrates by Richard McKirahan
In this episode I look at Richard McKirahan's study of the presocratics in Philosophy Before Socrates, with a focus on Empedocles, Homer and Pindar.
01:26:40 |
Tue 23 May 2023
Review: The Failure of Technology by Friedrich Georg Junger
In this episode I look at the relentless hunger of technology, as described by Friedrich Junger in The Failure of Technology.
00:29:41 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Review: Man in the Modern Age by Karl Jaspers
In this episode, I examine Karl Jaspers presentation of the masses, and the global apparatus and technique that sustains them, as presented in Man in the Modern Age.
01:46:06 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Review: Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher
In this episode, I examine the connection between naturalism and crunchy conservatism, as described by Rd Dreher in Crunchy Cons. I especially focus on food and our relationship to it, exploring a se…
01:29:50 |
Mon 17 Apr 2023
Review: The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry
In this episode, I examine the connection between conservatism and nationalism as described in The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry, with a focus on the premises that nationalism is old, natural, a…
01:17:33 |
Fri 07 Apr 2023
Review: Billionaire at the Barricades by Laura Ingraham
In this episode I look at the long-running populist current in conservative thought, as detailed by Laura Ingrahan in Billionaire at the Barricades, later released as Busting the Barricades. I pay sp…
01:18:56 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Review: The Conscience of a Conservative by Jeff Flake
In this episode I examine Jeff Flake's Conscience of a Conservative, with a critical examination of Flake's failure to anticipate or understand the rise of Trump. I discuss how, while I share Flake's…
01:27:27 |
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Review: The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
In this episode I examine the classic text The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, drawing attention to the focus of Goldwater and others of his era on federalism and the struggle agains…
01:00:39 |
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Review: Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch
In this episode, I look at Lasch's collection of his last essays, The Revolt of the Elites. I examine his support for populism, criticism of liberal snobbery, and support the use of pragmatism to reb…
00:50:04 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Review: The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
In this episode I examine the Mass Man of Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses, with a focus on the origins of the Mass Man in liberal abundance and the abolition of limitation.
01:42:05 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Review: The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
In this episode I examine the friend/enemy distinction in Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political, including the liberal tendency to deny the political and aim toward a post-political world.
00:52:08 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Review: Rise of the Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin
In this episode I examine Alexander Dugin's statements about the division between technical and social modernity and it's relation to the West, in the Rise of the Fourth Political Theory.
00:50:51 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Review: The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
In this episode I look at the organic lifecycle of the culture and civilization as described by Spengler in the abridged version of his classic book The Decline of the West.
01:07:21 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
Review: Reconstruction in Philosophy by John Dewey
In this episode I look at the leftward direction of Pragmatism led by John Dewey, as outlined in his book Reconstruction in Philosophy, as well as his restatement of principles near the end of his li…
01:08:48 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Review: Psychology (Briefer Course) by William James
In this episode I review William James' Psychology (Briefer Course), the abridged version Principles of Psychology. I focus on the biological nature of habit and instinct.
01:15:26 |
Sat 10 Sep 2022
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