Alex Kaschuta is a writer, cultural critic, and podcast host from Romania. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, the American Mind, Vice, and other outlets. She is the host of the Subversive Podcast, which you can find here: https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ —-

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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:33 Ineptitude 0:58 Who is Alex? 2:03 How have Alex’s views changed in the last 5 years? 4:48 What replaces liberalism? 11:42 Post-liberalism puts the cards on the table 13:54 What do we do with the true believers? 18:40 Jonny talks about Ecuador & El Salvador’s reforms 20:05 Simplifying the power dynamics 21:39 Has liberalism always been a sterilizing force? 28:13 Plato’s insights about hedonism and democracy 30:50 Aren’t we romanticizing the past? 35:05 The freedom to commit to unfreedom 45:24 The fallacy of the self-creating self 47:40 The woman question 51:27 Elites promoting unhealthy behavior 58:26 The nice school teacher fallacy 1:01:26 Benefiting from ostensible empathy 1:03:40 Religion 1:18:27 Artificial intelligence & power 1:22:10 Bonus questions preview