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Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast about history, culture, civilisation, and the moral and political challenges facing Britain and the West. Expect depth and clarity over headlines and hot-takes.
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You Can Win Every Election In The West. If The Whole Of Culture Is Against You Nothing Will Change. (opens the original)
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Dr Lola Salem is a musicologist, cultural critic, and Catholic convert. She is the author of the forthcoming Artless (Polity Press) and writes for The Critic and the Catholic Herald.In this conversation we think out loud about:• The boycott crisis in the arts and how it works in the shadows • Why the right keeps winning elections and losing the civilisation • The left as high-functioning alcoholics of culture • The post-cultural state — institutions remain, the spirit has left • The collapse of
They Were Trained To Perform The Greatest Works In Western Civilisation. Now They Say The Whole Thing Has Been Captured By Cowards And Liars - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins | Thinking Class #145 (opens the original)
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Oliver Bennett and Morgan Watkins are the co-founders of The Base and RADA-trained actors with nearly twenty years of experience in British film, television, and theatre.In this conversation, we think out loud about:What The Base is and why it existsThe campification of British theatre and the shame around the Western canonThe Edinburgh Fringe as a monument to progressive capture and why the RSC is rehearsing a lesbian Othello set against the climate crisisMeeting Shakespeare on his own terms (t
Britain Has Become An Island Of Strangers And You’re Not Allowed To Say So - Ben Jones | Thinking Class #144 (opens the original)
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Dr Ben Jones is the Director of Case Management at the Free Speech Union and author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline & Free Speech In CrisisIn this conversation, we think out loud about:When saying “it’s a free country” died in Britain and what replaced it6,000 people punished for speaking in five years, and what the Free Speech Union’s caseload reveals about modern BritainHow hyperdiversity and the decline of Christianity have destroyed the shared moral
The West Has Already Become A Total State And Most People Inside It Have No Idea - Auron MacIntyre | Thinking Class #143 (opens the original)
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is the host of The Auron MacIntyre Show on Blaze TV and the author of . Auron previously taught high school before leaving education to build his media platform, writes the Substack The Total State, and appears across conservative and heterodox media.In this conversation, we think out loud about:Why every Western state is becoming total and why the HR department is the new political commissarHow bureaucracies automatically recogni
France Sacrificed Free Speech To Keep The Peace. Britain Did The Same. Now Neither Has Either - Nathan Pinkoski | Thinking Class #142 (opens the original)
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Nathan Pinkoski is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, the translator of Eric Zemmour’s The Suicide of France, and author of the forthcoming Silent Revolution: The End of the Liberal West. He writes for First Things and Compact and publishes the . In this conversation, we think out loud about:— Why Zemmour’s Suicide of France sold half a million copies and what it tells the English-speaking world — How the 1968 revolution conquered society rather than the state — and nobody noticed the d
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