Mary Harrington, contributing editor at
Unherd, writer and self-professed "Reactionary Feminist", joins Rod
and Kale today to discuss both her speech at NatCon 2 as well
as her "conservatives in the mist" reportage of the scene in
Orlando. Mary has coined several terms that are useful in the
discussion of what is going on and where are we going: meat-lego
memeplex, bio-libertarianism, and reactionary-feminism. She
describes three basic approaches to the death of modernism:
Trads, Cads, & RadFems.
The wide-ranging conversation covers
plenty of ground. In the second half, they discuss the return of
the grooming gangs nightmare in the U.K., and the unwillingness of
so many to look at the actual costs of our system built upon
consent and sexual liberalism.
They end up with an exchange on the
purpose and direction of conservatism: is it enough to be
"anti-woke", or is there something else necessary.
Topics discussed: NatCon 2; Atheism of
Progress; economic transitions and the ongoing sex wars; the limits
of neoliberal transactionalism; satanism as self help; satanism and
the puritans, bio-libertarianism; sex differences; sexual
liberalism; consent; grooming gangs, bio-surveillance and meat
avatars.
You can find her at Unherd.com and
on twitter.com @moveincircles
About the Podcast
A new podcast from The American Conservative, presented by Kale Zelden and bestselling author Rod Dreher, exploring faith, culture, and public affairs.