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David Storey (Part 2): Alpha Energy Plus Economic Populism Plus Christianity Equals?
Season 3 · Episode 10

David Storey (Part 2): Alpha Energy Plus Economic Populism Plus Christianity Equals?

How My View Grew · Amiel Handelsman

July 16, 202526m 47s

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Show Notes

Part two of a provocative conversation with David Storey, associate professor of philosophy at Boston College.

**Key takeaways**

  • 0:45 The right has coded expertise as feminine
  • 2:45 How ironic: the manosphere exists in disembodied cyberspace
  • 6:00 What Fight Club was all about
  • 11:00 The retro-romantic part of MAGA
  • 13:00 The war on terror was a weak halfway house between the Cold War and MAGA
  • 17:00 The tech right as Nietzschean supermen
  • 19:00 Funneling alpha energy into a mass movement against Big Tech
  • 21:00 Can Democrats become more fluent in Christianity as they embrace economic populism?

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