
Conservative Conversations with ISI
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Conservative ideas are no longer welcome on most college campuses—or anywhere else. If you are a conservative student or professor, or just interested in the conservative intellectual tradition, this podcast is for you! Join Johnny Burtka, Marlo Slayback, and Tom Sarrouf for in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on the most important issues facing conservatism.
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Episodes (425)
David Whalen on Wonder, Literature as Political, and Books that Inspire
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CC Live! Victor Davis Hanson on The Dying Citizen
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Josh Craddock on SCOTUS, Overturning Roe, and Building a Culture of Life
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Michael Gibson on Musk’s Twitter Takeover, and the Paper Belt on Fire
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The Question That Rattled The Elites and the Future of Campus Journalism
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Matthew Schmitz on Compact Magazine, Right Liberalism and Left Libertinism
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Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex
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Kevin Roberts on The Future of the Heritage Foundation
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Steven F. Hayward on Reagan, M. Stanton Evans, and Lessons for Today
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Matthew Continetti on Neoconservatism
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David Goldman on American Innovation & Great Power Competition
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 35—Elbridge Colby on Creating a Con...
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 34—Michael Brendan Dougherty on Pop...
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 33—Tom Woods on Folk Libertarianism...
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 32—Oren Cass on Breaking the Colleg...
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David Reaboi on National Divorce
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Erica Bachiochi on The Rights of Women
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Helen Andrews on the Boomers
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Josh Hammer on The Conservative Legal Movement
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Pedro Gonzalez on the Crisis of Manhood
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James Poulos and the Cyborg Vivarium
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Yoram Hazony Defines National Conservatism
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Dan McCarthy on the Media, Fake News, and Student Journalism
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Elizabeth Corey and Jeff Polet on The Woke University
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Mary Harrington & Reactionary Feminism
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The Conservative Case for Nate Hochman
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C.S. Lewis and Men without Chests
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How should we teach American History?
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Michael Knowles, William F. Buckley Jr., and Political Correctness
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Keeping Locke in the Locke Box with Richard Reinsch
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Marlo Safi, Aesthetics, and Conservative Culture
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Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread, and American Dystopia
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Marco Rubio, China, and Common Good Capitalism
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After Nationalism, Dangerous Conclusions, and Pessimism
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Frank Meyer, Fusionism, and the Enduring Tension
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The Tocqueville Option, Complexity, and Free Markets
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Roger Scruton, Civilization, Conservatism Abroad, and Impossible Dialogue
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R. J. Snell, Fiction, Conservatism, and Conspiracy
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Gracy Olmstead, Farming, Localism, and Rootedness
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Richard Weaver, C.S. Lewis, and the Conservative Response to Relativism
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Allen Guelzo, Rewriting History, Grad School, and Lincolnian Conservatism
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Ross Douthat, Decadence, Neoliberalism, and Conservative Discourse
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Yuval Levin, Formation, Freedom, and the University
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Jeff Polet, Localism, Kirk, and the “Founding”
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William F. Buckley Jr. and Academic Freedom
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R. R. Reno and Tim Carney
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John A. Burtka IV and Conservatism of the Heart
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