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In this episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with Rachel Haywire, an independent artist and salonnière who spent much of the Alt Right era as a fellow traveler of the movement, often describing herself as a “renegade Jew.”

These days she writes about futurism / art / philosophy at The Cultural Futurist, and is also the author of The New Art Right, which she describes as a “dark journey through the underworld towards the enlightenment of Dark Bohemia.”

Topics include:

• Walt asks Rachel how to pronounce oeuvre
• The esoteric philosophy of Leo Strauss and its influence over The National Review and the origins of the neoconservative movement
• Walt’s 2015 Disney parody about the National Review’s tendency to “purge” dissident right wing intellectuals like John Derbyshire for wrongthink
• Rachel’s admiration for Nick Fuentes as a comedian
• Are all women Straussians?
• Rachel’s disdain for the extreme spiritualism / propensity for conspiracy theories among the hippie girls who have come into the right since Covid-19.
• Rachel’s participation in the NYC hipster culture of the early 2010s
• Rachel’s decision to leave Hebrew school after not being taught what it means
• Rachel recites the Hebrew alphabet
• Rachel’s early alienation from other Jews due to her disdain for materialism
• Rachel’s desire to solve the JQ via The Jewish Answer—forming a coalition between white nationalists and Jews against third worldist student protestors
• How Rachel simultaneously thinks of herself as both White and Jewish
• Is there a connection between the words “Ashkenazi” and “Nazi?”
• Modern wignats would get the Ernst Röhm treatment
• Rachel’s affiliation with Dimes Square and the “post left” and her disdain for the clout chasing and irony poisoning of the Red Scare community
• How Walt learned the powers of mean girls from the Red Scare subreddit
• How both Walt and Rachel are able to connect different subcultures because they themselves don’t fit in anywhere
• The importance of Rachel’s friend Raven Connolly appearing on Spencer’s podcast
• How Rachel was canceled a decade ago after appearing on Spencer’s podcast
• Will liberals start pretending to be racist anons to get doxxed for clout?
• How both Rachel and Walt grew disenchanted with normie whites during Covid
• Should Walt Bismarck become a rabbi?
• High density of Jews in the old Alt Right
• How the post left gentrified the Alt Right
• The large number of Zoomer girls who imitate Dasha
• The trend of young Millennials getting an undercut in imitation of Spencer
• Richard Spencer bought Rachel a drink in 2015 and they discussed Depeche Mode
• The Hanania / Cofnas push to build “elite human capital” on the right
• John Arcto’s article criticizing the “EHC Right” which identified Walt and Rachel as the leaders of this faction—was this categorization impulse legit?
• There seems to be an impulse on the intellectual right to cross-pollinate
• To what extent does Rachel center the goal of developing elite human capital?
• The last few years in the DR have been extremely boring and Walt wants to get them talking to each other
• The neofolk music Rachel grew up with was much edgier than Alt Right content
• Walt is too autistic to understand spirituality
• Rachel’s early collaboration with Raven Connolly
• Rachel’s personal experience with neurolinguistic programming
• Was Rachel the original bridge between the Alt Right and Silicon Valley?
• Rachel’s memory of 9/11 as a college student
• The theory of Walt’s girlfriend that kids born starting in 2022 are retarded and anxious due to epigenetic impact of 9/11
• Rachel’s history getting Thielbucks for innovative startups long before the post left first emerged and stole all the valor
• Building a movement (as opposed to a scene) is a giant pain in the ass
• Pearl Davis and Andrew Tate as cultivated characters
• Integrating consulting with writing and podcasting is huge for Substack
• Rachel’s “reactionary libertinism” is similar to Walt’s “reactionary degeneracy”
• Infanticide is the way of the world
• Autism produced consensual non consent
• Zoomers are too agreeable and unable to handle conflict in the moment
• Walt and Rachel agree it should be illegal to lie your way into a girl’s pants
• Should women stab guys who pump and dump them?
• Walt’s theory that women are developing mass trauma due to early thelarche and proliferation of widespread porn
• Rachel’s memory of young girls her age getting pregnant for clout
• Rachel’s disdain for “sex cults”
• Trans ideology is inherently gender essentialist
• Walt’s hot take that trans women are good for heteronormative straight men because they make normal cisgendered women more feminine and reduce cultural influence of tomboys
• Walt’s article arguing that pro-lifers are murdering babies.
• Walt’s new ideology of Intersectional Identitarianism

Closing song is “Right Wing Progressive Re-Enchantment”—a collaborative project between Rachel and Walt!