Conservative Conversations with ISI
Conservative ideas are no longer welcome on most college campuses—or anywhere else. If you are a conservative student or professor, or just interested in the conservative intellectual tradition, this podcast is for you! Join Johnny Burtka, Marlo Slayback, and Tom Sarrouf for in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on the most important issues facing conservatism.
Conservative Conversations with ISI
Jon Askonas on the Technological Age, “Post-Reality", and Marxism
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
In This Episode:
- Jon Askonas joins the podcast to discuss how a technological age makes conservative and traditional values obsolete, and how to overcome this problem
- why Karl Marx has to teach conservatives about analyzing and understanding “historical materialism,“ the fundamental material elements of society
- what really drove the disintegration of a shared conception of reality, and how to navigate the “post-real” world
Texts Mentioned:
- “Why Conservatism Failed” by Jon Askonas
- The Market and Other Orders by F.A. Hayek
- Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
- Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri
- “Reality: A Post-Mortem” by Jon Askonas
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