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Reflections on the ISI Honors Conference
Spengler, conservatism, and my debate with an executive at OpenAI.
A summary of my talk, an explanation on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honors conference, and a preview of the debate I did with Dean Ball at OpenAI (creators of Cha...
What is the West? Oswald Spengler, AI, and the Future of Civilization
This is the lecture I gave at the ISI Honors Conference in 2026. To me, the elephant in the room when trying to talk about conservatism and Western culture is the problem of defining what we mean by “Western Civilization” in the first place...
Decline of the West Ep.5: Are We Already Dead?
How cultures rise and fall and what signs to look for
Every culture has its own world-feeling but also has its own natural lifecyle: the new world-feeling is born, comes into its power and establishes a culture, that culture grows, matures...
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Decline of the West Ep.4: Magian Man
Does Orthodoxy belong to the Classical “world-feeling” or to the Western? Neither! Orthodoxy inspired a new culture that rose out of the ashes of Classical antiquity and which also gave birth to its rivals: Islam, Judaism, Nestorianism, and...
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