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youtube.com/watch?v=fT2hUC… American Realism is a podcast and intellectual platform dedicated to recovering the lost moral and philosophical foundations of the American Republic. Drawing from the Scottish Enlightenment, natural law, and the classical liberalism of the Founding era, the series contrasts Classic American Liberalism with the ideologies that have emerged to challenge or replace it—Progressivism, Post-Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Woke Leftism. Hosted as a dialogue between two informed voices, the podcast explores questions of liberty, virtue, conscience, the role of the state, and the nature of moral order in both domestic and global contexts. Each episode offers deep yet accessible analysis of how different political frameworks interpret history, power, justice, and the human person. Whether you're a student of philosophy, a defender of the American Founding, or simply seeking clarity amid today's ideological confusion, American Realism provides a timely and principled guide to the moral soul of politics.

@DSterling1948 1. Deneen 2. Vermeule 3. Pappin 4. Pecknold 5. The Hungarian Institute for International Affairs...which provides a goulash train for 1-4.

Top five people who blocked me on X 1. Daryll Cooper 2. Cernovich 3. Yoram Hazoni 4. Poso 5…. Yeah I’m not that important that’s pretty much it 😂

@DSterling1948 The original thread:

As far as I know and have every reason to believe, Charlie Kirk was my friend. I cannot express in any way whatsoever, verbally or not, how much I resent seeing people use things he said or just may have said to advance agendas while standing on his coffin in its eternal silence.

Yes! I’m glad you’re acknowledging that American conservatives expelled them. They’re kicked out for: Glazing and praising holocaust deniers and Hitler supporters Lying constantly and then gaslighting everyone who points it out Displaying zero integrity Simping for our enemies while crapping on America Praising feudalism and fascism Spreading baseless lies about American Jews and then acting blameless when a synagogue is attacked the next day Simping for Islam and Andrew Tate Holding woke leftist policy views Having severe TDS and IDS Obsessing over Jews and Israel Telling their fans to f— off when we hold them accountable In short, they’re AWFUL people, good riddance to them 🥰

"Hi, I just converted to Catholicism three seconds ago. I am now the ultimate authority on who is or isn't Christian. Please subscribe to my podcast where I'm going to talk about Israel and the Joooooz all the time while complaining it's illegal to talk about them. I have no discernible skills, no intelligence, and nothing original to add, but I'm going to talk about the Jooooz all day every day. If I criticize you, I'm just asking questions. If you criticize me, you're trying to silence me. Anyway, find me on Russia Today and Iranian State TV."

@S_Coughlin_DC @JoelWBerry

@ThatF95046 @bonchieredstate Heh, Dugin is an Esoterist he can reside quite comfortably within contradictions and hypocrisy…

@bonchieredstate @ClassicLibera12 Consistent? Kent is literally saying the exact opposite regarding Iran that he was saying just last year, and in other years prior. 🙄

What an endorsement. Know the op when you see it.

Kayfabe is a core component of the political warfare operating model. It’s an affordance, such Punditry shows you just enough behind the dialectical curtain to draw you in. See they have the inside scoop as to how it “really is”…when they show you it “proves” you can trust them right?

Looks like the people who warned us about the Deep State (Tucker, Candace, et al) are the actual Deep State. This is all a soft coup, and anyone who can’t see it is part of it.

Know them by how they circle their wagons.

I don’t think the Woke Reich have any concept of morality at all, which is why their propaganda is crashing and burning so hard among American conservatives with Christian values. They remind me of the woman who went before King Solomon insisting that another woman’s baby was hers. Solomon said, “Let’s cut the baby in half” and the woman was like “YES! Let’s do that!” and unwittingly revealed to Solomon that she was a liar and a wicked person. It’s not that she wasn’t smart enough to figure out how to trick Solomon. She wasn’t MORAL enough to trick him.

Integralist Intersectionality is really a thing. Intersectionality is the gathering of different minority coalitions into an identity politics–based united front that agrees their common "oppression" overcomes their group differences. Here, a variety of minority splinters and sects come together to overthrow the "oppressive" construct of (classical) liberalism and religious freedom in the name of "faith."

@FeserEdward Its become very clear to me that we won't see much of a turnaround in world sanity and safety if we don't turn back the Ockham , Hume, Kant, ..postmodern... madness that is the subcurrent of universal idiocy.

Yup! It’s the Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 project! “Phoenix Conspiracy” as I coined it! America is the primary 🎯 target! As Bret Weinstein says: “we need to Phoenix the republic …to save the west!” open.substack.com/pub/courtenayt… open.substack.com/pub/courtenayt…

Call out the "Temu Catholics" who have helpfully outed themselves by appearing at that Mike Flynn thing "Catholics for Catholics." That's fair and necessary. Make sure you're careful to not lump regular Catholics in with them though or you risk driving a wedge between Christian voters and possibly end up helping the Democrats.

The Temu Catholics are not Catholic. They're (at best) Sedevacantists who are too cowardly to admit it.

Framing this is as an attack on Catholicism ONLY is mistaken. This is a Satanic attack against God Himself -- so it's an attack on ALL Christians. And an attack on the God of the Jews, who are also under attack. Good men like @GenFlynn need to be helped to see they are being used to bring division when we need unity. All Christians and Jews must stand together against the evil that hates God and all whom God loves.

You might have to afford me some grace here as I’m not an apologist and this only comes from my observations as to in particular the Founders/Scottish moral realists brand (Witherspoon and Reid) of Presbyterianism perhaps viewed ontological liberty. So one will have to explain via scripture I suppose, that Man’s very ontological being itself, Imago Dei is >inherently< depraved. Think about the consequences of this claim. An ontological being —Imago Dei created inherently as depraved. Consider the properties of Man. Each individual soul is constituted of the exact same unique, finite, limited, irrevocable, unalienable properties. If transgressed upon such a unique being will never return. Why? For what purpose are we ordered in this way? Why individually unique? Why finite? Why irrevocable? Why unalienable? When you consider the ramifications of removing such a being from existence it sets the objective moral baseline. The unique individual human being is dignified, sacred, and good based primarily on the properties of its mere ontological existence. It need not take any actions to be so…because God’s being is good…Man’s being create in his image is also inherently good. It could be argued that all ontological being be it inert material or living in the created universe is also good. And so too can it be argued that the purpose or providence of the universe, nature and Man is also good. What is the argument via scripture that any of the properties of Man’s ontological being itself sans any rational acts is depraved? If so which specific ontological properties are depraved? That we need procreation, food, water and resources to survive? That we use tools to hunt, gather and defend our resources? Man’s ontological being appears at least to my limited understanding to be objectively good. Imago Dei The depravity of Man’s >rational acts< (starting with The Fall) on the other hand objectively bear themselves out over the entire course of human history… Perhaps you could argue Man’s spiritual heart along with his rational acts makes him inherently depraved? The matter of Man’s spirit or soul I cannot answer, its properties elude me to argue one way or another.

Do you mean how man was created before the fall? I think these things are extremely important to clarify - if the view is not supported by Scripture then it's coming from somewhere else. So my goal is just to present what Scripture actually says about sin and the image of God (also I know you're not a Christian so I recognize in that sense our beliefs will differ and that's ok, but hopefully this is helpful and you can understand why I felt the need to clarify these things - if we're ever talking about the Image of God, what is contradicted by Scripture necessarily is in reference to the image of a different god and thus not aligned with what the God of scripture says about himself and about us - anyway please take this as friendly disagreement 🙏 I first want to emphasize that the image of God is inherently tied to telos - we were created for a purpose, to be God's representatives on earth. To bear fruit and multiply and have dominion over the earth as described in the early chapters of Genesis is directly tied to that purpose, our rational and moral faculties are also tied to that. But all of this highlights why sin is so serious. We are God's representatives on earth and yet we have all sinned against Him - when we lie we call God himself a liar. When we murder we are calling God a murderer. If the image of God is true, sin must be getting at something deeper than our acts. Fallen man ofc still retains the image, which means he has unique value and dignity as God’s creature, and he still has rational and moral faculties (common sense, etc) such that he can still recognize certain truths about reality. This is also why Scripture says in Romans 1 that all are without excuse and are thus all morally guilty before God, because we still have that moral sense and all still experience God's attributes in general revelation in creation while we still are made in his image - e.g., we can recognize that we are not our own creator, through our conscience we can recognize to a some extent that we have done things that are morally wrong. But the fact that we have unique value as imagers of God, are rational and moral beings, can recognize truths about reality, and can perform good deeds (good in a creaturely sense), doesn't mean man is morally sound/good by nature after the fall or that his faculties have not become corrupted, Scripture very explicitly teaches against that. Again, that doesn't mean man's faculties are not generally reliable to do the things he aims to do or that man is as bad as he could be, which would not be accurate (as described a couple sentences above. There are ofc other reasons why man is not as bad as he could be [Scripture describes God actively restraining man's sin, e.g., Genesis 20: 6 is just one example] but image of God/common grace is an important reason). But Scripture very explicitly and consistently teaches that our problem runs deeper than bad rational acts, e.g., the human heart is deceitful above all else and desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9), we are by nature children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), we are in Adam and are considered enemies of God if we are not in Christ (Romans 5) and slaves to sin before we are regenerated (Romans 6, John 8: 34). The mind set on the flesh is hostile to God (Romans 8). Man is described in Scripture as suppressing the truth in unrighteousness, no one is righteous or good before God (Romans 1-3), and none are good but God alone (Mark 10: 18) - of course this is all based on God's standard of what is good and not our own, which must necessarily be the case because God is the very source of good. This is really getting at the deeper moral state of man. I can provide many more examples, but Scripture teaches that sin flows from our fallen nature in Adam so it's not biblically correct to describe it as merely misuse of faculties while man is still inherently good after the fall. The core message of Christ's sermon on the mount gets at the true depth of the requirements of the moral law. This inevitably gets at the reality that sin is a deeper heart issue, because no one could ever meet those requirements (e.g., "you have heard it said do not murder, but I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment"), this is why we are all in need of a Savior to truly be reconciled to God because we all have fallen short of God's standard - even on something that seems trivial, it doesn't matter ("whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." - James 2: 10). These issues are ultimately getting at the heart of the Gospel, which is why I think this is so important to clarify for those in this conversation but also for anyone else who reads it. Sin is much deeper than man's acts.

1/ I still can't reconcile the “infiltration” narrative with Thomistic & Catholic doctrine. It seems to imply, at least in practice, that some humans are fundamentally aligned with the good and others with evil. But this seems to contradict the Church’s teaching on human nature.