A 20-year-old George Washington crashed a party he wasn't invited to — and walked out with a poem. Judy Hodgkiss on how Alexander Pope's Essay on Man carried Leibniz's ideas from a fugitive English lord into the Declaration of Independence.
Barbara Boyd cuts through the warmonger lie: Trump is pursuing peace while crushing Iran's leverage — and the real war is between Trump's American System and the dying London-centered petrodollar order that wants him dead.
A funeral pause answered with burning tankers — and a summit where Europe learned who runs the alliance now. Barbara and Susan on the empire's enforcement arm, the Golden Dome, and the midterm machine. Your questions, answered live.
Can Western civilization be rebuilt? Mike explores America's industrial revival, Vernadsky's vision of human progress, and why rebuilding requires more than economic growth.
America is experiencing a transformation that goes far beyond politics or economic headlines. While jobs, energy production, manufacturing, and infrastructure investment are accelerating, a deeper question remains: can Western civilization itself be rebuilt?
In this episode, Mike examines the difference between financial growth and real productivity, explores America's renewed industrial expansion, and looks at the ideas that once drove great national projects. From steel mills and nuclear power to Vernadsky's concept of mankind as a creative force, this discussion asks what it would take for America to reclaim its civilizational mission.
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00:00 Intro
01:38 The State of the West
03:05 Jobs, Energy & Industrial Growth
05:10 Why GDP Isn't Enough
06:50 Measuring Real Productivity
08:20 How America Stopped Building
10:00 The Bering Strait Tunnel Vision
11:10 Vladimir Vernadsky & The Noosphere
13:00 America's Civilizational Mission
14:15 NAWAPA and Thinking Big Again
15:15 Truth, Logos & Western Civilization
16:05 Rebuilding America
16:35 Final Thoughts
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