The New Founding Podcast
New Founding is building the America you want to live in. On the New Founding Podcast, Santiago Pliego and Josh Clemans talk with allies and individuals who are working to do the same thing.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Ben Merkle - Is Higher Education Crumbling? | #15
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Ben Merkle, President of New Saint Andrew College talks cultivating a spine in Higher Ed, student debts, the birth dearth, the ideal education for free people, and his path from dropout marine tanker to college president.
https://nsa.edu/
https://twitter.com/PresidentNSA
https://twitter.com/NewSaintAndrews
https://www.facebook.com/newsaintandrewscollege
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Douglas Wilson - What You’re Here To Do | #14
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Doug Wilson is a pastor, writer, and prescient cultural commentator. He has founded and co-founded organizations including the Association of Classical Christian Schools, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, New Saint Andrews College, and Canon Press, among others. Doug joins us to discuss the times we live in, association with co-belligerents, and what and how to build in adverse times.
Follow Douglas Wilson: https://twitter.com/douglaswils
Read Douglas Wilson's Blog: http://dougwils.com/
Read 'The Importance of Owned Space' Article: https://www.aaronrenn.com/i/45996627/the-moscow-idaho-case-study
Watch 'Why the Apostle Paul Punched Right': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWxwpWACo4
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Raw Egg Nationalist - The Eggs Benedict Option | #13
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
@JoshuaClemans and @SantsPliego are joined by @BabyGravy9 to talk about drinking raw eggs, gay frogs, chemically-driven gender dysphoria, Russian farming, the vilification of cholesterol, links between politics and health, the productive household, and the presence of microplastics across the food industry.
Follow Raw Egg Nationalist: www.x.com/BabyGravy9"The Gay Frogs Election" Article: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-gay-frogs-election/
Buy "The Eggs Benedict Option": https://tinyurl.com/45dvts73
Buy REN's cookbook: https://tinyurl.com/5ymmkcdz
Watch "The End of Men": https://nation.foxnews.com/tucker-carlson-originals-the-end-of-men-nation/
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Lafayette Lee - Something Familiar and Real | #12
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Lafayette Lee describes why men go to war, the unseen optimism of Cormac McCarthy, stewarding the inheritance of family stories, and how to combat bleakness in a digital age.
Follow Lafayette Lee: https://twitter.com/Partisan_O
Lee's Substack: ruins.substack.com
"The Hungry Country": https://ruins.substack.com/p/the-hungry-country
IM 1776: https://im1776.com/author/lafayette-lee/
Follow Joshua Clemans: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Follow Santiago Pliego: https://twitter.com/SantsPliego
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Jon Askonas - Reality Is Just a Game Now | #11
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Josh Clemans and Santiago Pliego are joined by Jon Askonas, Assistant Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, and cover a wide range of topics: Jon's latest series about technology and reality in the New Atlantis, what facts are, what problems does Apple Vision Pro solve, and the future of AI.
Jon's series on the New Atlantis: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem
Reality is Just a Game Now: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
Jon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonAskonas
Follow Josh Clemans: www.twitter.com/JoshuaClemansFollow Santiago Pliego: www.twitter.com/SantsPliego
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Auron MacIntyre - Reign of Foxes | #10
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Josh Clemans and Santiago Pliego are joined by political and cultural commentator Auron MacIntyre to discuss The Total State, memes as truth-telling, Lions vs Foxes, the power dynamics of the Professional Managerial Class, and C.S. Lewis.
Follow Auron: twitter.com/AuronMacintyreSubscribe to his Substack: https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/
Listen to Auron's show: https://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/the-auron-macintyre-showAuron's YT: https://www.youtube.com/@AuronMacIntyre
Follow Josh Clemans: www.twitter.com/JoshuaClemansFollow Santiago Pliego: www.twitter.com/SantsPliego
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Nick Solheim - Building the Y Combinator of Politics | #9
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Josh Clemans and Santiago Pliego are joined by Nick Solheim, co-founder and COO of American Moment. We chat about building a political startup, how a piece by Senator JD Vance was the springboard for the organization, the staffing dynamics of DC, and the future class of politicians.
Show Notes:
Follow Nick Solheim: www.twitter.com/@NickSSolheimFollow American Moment: www.twitter.com/AmMomentOrg"End The Globalization Gravy Train" by JD Vance: https://tinyurl.com/7wja39tm
Follow Josh Clemans: www.twitter.com/JoshuaClemansFollow Santiago Pliego: www.twitter.com/SantsPliego
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Josh Abbotoy - Turning The Tide In An Institution | #8
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Josh Abbotoy, Executive Director of American Reformer gives a first-hand account of battles in the Southern Baptist Convention, how to reclaim institutions that have drifted leftward, the importance of alternative status hierarchies, and the importance of exercising courage.
Show Notes:
Follow Josh Abbotoy: Twitter.com/@byzness
Follow American Reformer: twitter.com/AmReformer
Read and subscribe to American Reformer: https://americanreformer.org/
Donate to AmRef: https://americanreformer.org/donate/
How Many Female Pastors are in the SBC?: https://tinyurl.com/4hvhh6c6
New York Times Article on AmRef/SBC: https://tinyurl.com/muyn9kmz
On The Rainy River by Tim O'Brien: https://tinyurl.com/42pwuu3d
Follow Josh Clemans: twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Follow Santiago Pliego: twitter.com/SantsPliego
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Eric Conn - Podcasting A City | #7
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Join Santiago Pliego and Josh Clemans with Eric Conn as he talks through the power of podcasting to rally people and build a new community in Ogden, Utah.
Show Notes:
Follow Eric Conn: https://twitter.com/Eric_Conn
Follow New Christendom Press: https://twitter.com/New_Christendom
Listen to the Hard Men podcast: https://twitter.com/HardMenPodcast
Listen to the Kings Hall podcast: https://twitter.com/The_Kings_Hall
Listen to the Haunted Cosmos podcast: https://twitter.com/HauntedCosmos_
Follow Santiago Pliego: https://twitter.com/SantsPliego
Follow Josh Clemans: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Josh Steinman - What Hath the White House to do with Silicon Valley? | #6
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Josh and Santiago join Joshua Steinman at Galvanick HQ as he breaks down his experience working in the Trump Administration, tools and techniques for building a successful startup, and becoming a high agency individual in a world of mediocrity.
Follow Josh Steinman: www.twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman
Follow Galvanick: www.twitter.com/galvanickco
Josh’s Substack: https://steinman.substack.com/
Resources for Starting A Company: https://tinyurl.com/2943z4hn
The Steinman Mentoring Program: https://tinyurl.com/mt8jx2rp
The Steinman Rules: https://tinyurl.com/bdhd6236
Follow Josh Clemans: www.twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Follow Santiago Pliego: www.twitter.com/santspliego
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Ron Dodson - The Most Interesting Man in the World | #5
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
"Hedge Fund Manager. Geopolitics Expert. Theologian. Described as "The Most Interesting Man in the World," Ron Dodson dives into the relationships between his interests, imposing order on chaos, Carl Schmitt, how SoundScan changed the music industry, and the Ukraine/Russia conflict."'
Show Notes:
Follow Ron Dodson: https://twitter.com/RonDodson
Read Ron's Substack: https://rondodson.substack.com/
Follow Josh Clemans: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Follow Santiago Pliego: https://twitter.com/santspliego
Follow New Founding: https://twitter.com/NewFoundingOrg
Resources
- Mikheil Saakashvili: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil_Saakashvili
- Intro to Carl Schmitt & Leo Strauss: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3637206.html
- 3-part series on Carl Schmitt on Liberalism: https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/anti-liberalism-pt-1
- Charles Haywood's review of Schmitt's Concept of the Political: https://theworthyhouse.com/2022/10/14/the-concept-of-the-political-carl-schmitt/
- Martyr Made post on Ukraine/Russia conflict: https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/can-we-talk-about-ukraine
- Martyr Made podcast on the same topic: https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/podcast-thoughts-on-ukraine#details
- How SoundScan Changed Everything We Knew About Popular Music: https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/5/25/22452539/soundscan-billboard-charts-streaming-numbers
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Michael Foster - Good Men in Stupid Times | #4
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Join Santiago and Josh as they chat with author and pastor Michael Foster about manhood, the war of the patriarchies, adversity, and brotherhood.
Follow New Founding: https://twitter.com/NewFoundingOrg
We Made People: www.wemadepeople.comBuy Michael's book: https://canonpress.com/products/its-good-to-be-a-man/Follow Michael Foster: twitter.com/thisisfosterFollow Santiago Pliego: twitter.com/santspliegoFollow Josh Clemans: twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Jon Stokes - AI: Everything Already Exists | #3
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Join Josh and Santiago as they speak with Jon Stokes about Artificial Intelligence, its inner workings, whether AI is an agent or a tool, and how LLMs will increasingly shape the world around us.
Connect with aligned people, opportunities, and investors at www.newfounding.com
Follow New Founding: https://twitter.com/NewFoundingOrg
Read Jon Stokes in RETURN: https://substack.com/@doxa
Follow Jon Stokes: https://www.jonstokes.com/
Follow Santiago Pliego: twitter.com/santspliego
Follow Josh Clemans: twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Aaron Renn - The Future of Cities | #2
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Are cities going away? Josh Clemans and Santiago Pliego sit down with Aaron Renn and dig into city life, building in the midst of decline, equpiping conservatives for action, and life in the Negative World.
Connect with aligned people, opportunities, and investors at www.newfounding.com
Follow New Founding: https://twitter.com/NewFoundingOrg
Read Aaron Renn's work: www.aaronrenn.com
Follow Aaron Renn: twitter.com/aaron_renn
Pre-order Aaron's book: https://tinyurl.com/3rzaehv5
Follow Santiago Pliego: twitter.com/santspliego
Follow Josh Clemans: twitter.com/JoshuaClemans
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Charles Haywood - Is Elon Musk the Red Caesar? | #1
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Will a new Caesar rise? Santiago Pliego and Josh Clemans converse with Charles Haywood on Tucker Carlson, Elon, the rise of a Red Caesar, masculinity and in our time, political power dynamics, and the next 10 years of the United States.
Connect with aligned people, opportunities, and investors at https://www.newfounding.com/
Follow New Founding: https://twitter.com/NewFoundingOrg
Follow Charles Haywood: https://twitter.com/TheWorthyHouse
Follow Santiago Pliego: https://twitter.com/santspliego
Follow Josh Clemans: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClemans