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S4E82 E Michael Jones: Science and Politics
Send us Fan MailDr. E Michael Jones is back, this time to discuss the historical influence of philosophy and science on culture. How modern science has been used to justify modern forms of political…
S4E81 Explaining Everything and Nothing (Part V)
Send us Fan MailThe fifth and final part of the "Metaphysics Scandal" series asks what happened after Scholasticism broke. The answer is two roads — empiricism and rationalism — that look like…
S4E80 Mimesis and Scholasticism (Part IV)
Send us Fan MailParts I through III traced mimesis in Ancient Greek philosophy, René Girard's mimetic theory, the Scripture and the Church Fathers. Here in Part IV, we arrive at Medieval…
S4E79 Eden and the Mimetic Crisis (Part III)
Send us Fan MailParts I and II covered the role of imitation in philosophy: essential, but incomplete. In this Part III we compare the account of imitation in René Girard's mimetic theory to the…
S4E78 Role Models and Philosophers (Part II)
Send us Fan MailPart 2 after René Girard and the Philosophers. Girard argued that Plato and the philosophers who followed him sidelined imitation — neglecting the rivalrous, appropriative mimesis…
S4E77 René Girard and the Philosophers (Part I)
Send us Fan MailWhile Plato was teaching his students to contemplate the eternal forms, the theatre portrayed women of Thebes tearing a king apart with their bare hands. I talk about how the founding…
S4E76 Newton vs Athanasius Part II: Athanasius
Send us Fan MailIn Part I we saw Newton's anti-Trinitarianism and his science as a single revolution, opposed to the idea that divine form can enter matter and restructure it from within. This week,…
S4E75 Newton vs Athanasius Part I: Newton
Send us Fan MailMost people know Isaac Newton as the father of modern science. Fewer know that two thirds of his written output was on alchemy and theology — and that he kept it secret because it…
S4E74 Hidden Grammar: Shakespeare, Joyce, and Girard
Send us Fan MailWilliam Shakespeare, James Joyce, and René Girard walk into a bar... And share a secret: the price of literary genius is the torment of mimetic cuckoldry, resolved through a type of…
S4E73 Quebec: The Original White Minority
Send us Fan MailMy French-Canadian friend Martin joins me to discuss the history of Quebec. Discover how this province, once the stronghold of French Catholic conservatism, underwent a rapid secular…
S4E72 Sex, Power, and Bill Clinton
Send us Fan MailWhy did Bill Clinton survive the Lewinsky scandal? Not because of legal technicalities or partisan loyalty. Because he understood something about power that most people still don't: a…
S4E71 E Michael Jones: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
Send us Fan MailDr. E. Michael Jones returns to discuss the history of sexual revolution. We explore its connection to personal vice and political control. We go over influential figures like Adam…
S4E70 Sexual Repression
Send us Fan MailWilhelm Reich, the pupil of Sigmund Freud and the founding father of sexual liberation, argued that sexual repression produces fascism. So why were the top ranks of the Nazi party…
S4E69 The Church as Founding Sacrifice of Modernity
Send us Fan MailWhat if modernity's original sin isn't colonialism or slavery, but something earlier and deeper—the looting of the Catholic Church? In this episode, I explore E. Michael Jones's claim…
S4E68 E Michael Jones: Usury
Send us Fan MailDr. E. Michael Jones discusses how usury transforms economy and culture: conflict of usury and labor, the historical transition from feudalism to capitalism, sexual liberation and…
S4E67 The Anti-Manifesto
Send us Fan MailMarx promised workers had nothing to lose but their chains. But what if the real chains aren't economic—they're mimetic? In this final installment of The Anti-Manifesto, I lay out…
S4E66 E Michael Jones: Medjugorje
Send us Fan MailDr. E Michael Jones returns to Boreas Podcast to recount his personal history investigating and writing on the Medjugorje apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a history summarized…
S4E65 Das Kapital Mistake
Send us Fan MailMarx titled his magnum opus Das Kapital, yet he completely botched what capital actually is. Here's the real definition: capital is the power to influence the behavior of others—and…
S4E64 Knights and Kapitalists
Send us Fan MailMarx got feudalism wrong. Medieval knights weren't cunning exploiters hoarding the means of production—they were sacrificial figures whose privilege was justified by their willingness…
S4E63 E Michael Jones: Interview
Send us Fan MailIn this conversation, Dr. E. Michael Jones and discuss themes from his book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, including the role of Christianity in shaping revolutionary movements. We…
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