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Here's another video excerpt from the upcoming Schmitt course.

Hi everyone. Here is a clip from a new course on Carl Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy, which will be available at millermanschool.com later this month. I'll post more clips as I continue editing the lectures. I thought I could add two to this message but it looks like you're allowed one at a time, so watch out for another post momentarily.

Hi everyone. As you might have heard, I'll be teaching a course on the philosophical analysis of masculinity for Jack Murphy's Liminal Order soon. I'm preparing it as we speak. The basic idea of the course is that the history of political philosophy entails several incompatible accounts of the nature of man/manliness. We stand at a certain point in that history where a war on manliness is underway. What does that mean? Why is that? How in the grand scheme of things did we get here? And what does it look like to reassert manliness against the attempt to erase or delegitimize it? The plan, for now, at least, is to consider classical, modern, and postmodern approaches to these questions, in order grasp what is at stake in each case, to trace the genesis of our current interpretation of man, and to think through the relevant alternatives. I'm excited to be preparing the course and can't wait to hear the seminar discussions.

Hi everyone, my show is now doing interviews. I've talked to Alexander Dugin (Russian philosopher) and Kenji Hayakawa (Japanese-Irish philosopher). Tomorrow, Wednesday, 11:30am EST, I'm interviewing Michael Michailidis, host of the show Ancient Greece Revisited. We'll discuss his intellectual interests and projects, as well as his thoughts on contemporary events, conspiracy theories, and much more. I highly recommend checking out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AncientGreeceRevisited/

Are there some people you'd like me to consider interviewing? If so, post your ideas here!

In other news, I'm working on lecture materials for the new course I'm doing with Jack Murphy from the Liminal Order, host of Jack Murphy Live and author of Democrat to Deplorable. The course will be a philosophical analysis of masculinity or manliness. That's a great topic with deep roots in the tradition. Without giving away too much, I can say that Plato and Aristotle definitely make an appearance in the notes...

The course is nearing completion.

Today, I recorded and edited the lecture on political anthropology and political post-anthopology. Traditionally, the idea here is the relativity of the citizen to the regime, so that you can talk about democratic man, socialist man, aristocratic man -- the ideal of man varies as a function of the regime or ideology, but also varies according to larger structures, like "premodern/traditional man" and "modern man."

Dugin's analysis extends the model to include postmodern post humanism, in order to raise this question: who today can oppose the postmodern status quo? Can we even have recourse to a political anthropology to oppose the project that aims to overcome man? Can we simply reassert a previous form or ideal of man? Or is something else necessary?

It's a strange chapter in a book that, for people who have not read it, is surprisingly indebted to Heidegger. There's Heidegger in almost every chapter, and the course/Dugin's project could well be seen ...