Millerman Talks
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Millerman Talks
Politics and philosophy.
Atal Berriak
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Three Books That Made Me Feel Alive
Sometimes I stop reading "philosophy books" and turn to "literature" to help me connect with life in a new way. In this episode, I discuss the three b...
Why You Should Study Right-Wing Anti-Liberalism
"Fascism vs. Anti-Fascism" just doesn't cut it as a way of understanding the world.
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Music, madness, and mysticism.
Are visionary artists mentally ill? Reading and commenting on an article by Ted Gioia that discusses that issue. You can find his article here: https:...
What is the Millerman School?
In this episode, I discuss why I started the Millerman School, what I teach, how I teach it, why it matters, and so on. Even if you have no intention...
Is this Plato's greatest dialogue?
The Republic, The Symposium, The Apology...there's no shortage of outstanding Platonic dialogues. But what do you know about Plato's longest work, the...
Heidegger’s Dasein: The Philosophy Everyone Should Know
Confused about Heidegger's word DASEIN? I've got you covered. This episode is designed to make the notion slightly easier to understand. You'll get th...
Can LLMs Clarify the Concept of God?
"God as law, awe and fortune...
LLM analysis reveals that the concept of God is well-defined in semantic space by this three-word combina...
My three pillars of sense-making
In this episode, I explain why I use philosophy, politics, and mysticism to make sense of the world.
What are they and how do they diffe...
Why is everything normal called fascist?
What's up with the "everyone I don't like is Hitler" phenomenon? It's strange but not incomprehensible. Post-war liberal zealotry (combined with lefti...
Whatever Works? A Musing on Film, Philosophy, and Life.
In this spontaneous musing, I dive into the surprising connections between two films: Whatever Works and Another Round. Both movies explore the comple...
Was Plato a Communist or Fascist?
He's been called a proto-communist and a proto-fascist. Why? And can both be true? Let's take a closer look...By the way, my comments are deliberately...
Did Derrida's Postmodernism Ruin the West?
This article by Quillette got me thinking that it's important to defend Derrida against his liberal detractors. https://quillette.com/2024/05/07/how-f...
Tucker Carlson interviewed Alexander Dugin
Listen to my Tucker-Dugin afterparty, where I go deeper into "Putin's Brain." For more Millerman School materials on Dugin, visit DuginBook.com and Mi...
How to Re-Enchant Your World
Discussing two ways to re-enchant the world, and why I prefer one over the other. Brought to you by MillermanSchool.com
Ratzinger's Political Philosophy
What was Ratzinger's political philosophy? What role does Christianity play on the modern left? What about on the Radical Right? Those are the topics...
Julius Evola Against the Modern World
In this episode, we take a look at Orientations: 11 Points by Julius Evola, written in 1950. Brought to you by MillermanSchool.com
Nvidia Open AI, and the Purpose of Life
What was the philosophy behind the success of NVIDIA and the original Open AI, back when Elon Musk was still involved? We explore this question by pur...
The Machine Apocalypse? Iain McGilchrist on AI
Livestream article reading about the risk of AI, written by Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary, and The Matter With Things.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp On Political Philosophy
Reading and commenting on Alex Karp's recent time article about Silicon Valley and political philosophy.
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Giorgio Agamben on Derrida and Paradise
Reading and commenting on Agamben's Pardes essay from Potentialities, which discusses the story of the four rabbis in Paradise, Derrida's trace, the p...
Peter Thiel on The Straussian Moment
Reading and commenting on Peter Thiel's essay "The Straussian Moment," available here: https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf
Will AI Save The World?
Reading and commenting on the article by Marc Andreessen that argues in favour of AI's world-saving capabilities. Apologies if the audio is slightly r...
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
The most scandalous philosophy book of 2023? Let's see! In this episode, I walk you through Costin Alamariu's Selective Breeding and the Birth of Phil...
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Bodily Noesis
Reading an essay originally published athttps://im1776.com/2023/01/20/bodily-noesis/ on my brief experience training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jean-Paul Sartre: "Existentialism is a Humanism"
What did Sartre think of existentialism? How did he object to the criticisms of communists and Christians that existentialists are moody, godless nihi...
Martin Heidegger: Basic Concepts (First Division)
A presentation of Heidegger's book: Basic Concepts.
"Why China Loves Conservatives"
Reading a nice article by Eric Hendriks-Kim on Chinese interest in Western conservatives.
Heidegger's Introduction to Philosophy
Reading and commenting on the first part of Heidegger's book/lecture called: Introduction to Philosophy (Thinking and Poetizing).
Fukuyama's Straussianism
Reading the article in Foreign Policy by Blake Smith about Fukuyama, Strauss, and liberal democracy.
Alexander Dugin vs. The Great Reset
Alexander Dugin wrote a book against the Great Reset. Here's my review of it. Originally published at europeanconservative.com/reviews/the-great-awake...
Tarot of Political Philosophy
“In our tarot deck of political philosophy we cannot rest content with any one card, whether fool, magician, or emperor. Only the entire deck permuted...
Nietzsche's Zarathustra on Eternal Return
This is about "On the Riddle and the Vision" from Part III of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Get my whole course on Nietzsche's great book at https://millerm...
Nietzsche's Zarathustra on the Secret of Life
Letting you in on a secret. NietzscheCourse.com
Millerman School - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1.2)
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