Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Louis de Bonald to discuss Progressivism and Millenarian movements. In part 2, they learn how the Unitarians took over Harvard, why the left secretly wants Trump to win, and Bonald goes Out of Left Field for the next pope.
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Notes:
00:50 Unitarianism as the next big Progressive leap “forward”
10:12 Ultracalvinists strove to be holier than Christ – abolition as example
26:20 The common themes of Prog Millenarianism
29:53 The uniqueness of Prog moral condemnation
38:11 Out of left field – Who should be the next Pope?
51:55 Predictions of the Pope and Trump tearing it all down
1:04:27 Zombie apocalypse wishcasting and the refugee crisis
1:18:57 Christ and power, “servant leadership” and becoming great
Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music: “Vial (Reprise) – The Cassini Projekt (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1318055/vial-reprise
Closing Music: “Fiore d’Inchiostro” – Mattia Vlad Morleo
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1305561/fiore-d-inchiostro
Throne and Altar, Bonald’s long-running site
https://bonald.wordpress.com/
Moldbug’s ultracalvinist hypothesis
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/06/ultracalvinist-hypothesis-in.html
The First Harvard Coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School#Harvard_Divinity_School_and_Unitarianism
Unitarians and Abolition: a Unitarian Perspective
http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/adults/river/workshop12/178742.shtml
Kant, Emerson, and Thomas Carlyle
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/transcendentalism/emerson/idealism_kant.html
LBJ’s “Girl with the Daisy” attack ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
Bonald on American Conservatism
https://bonald.wordpress.com/can-there-be-an-american-conservatism/
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