The Old World with Will Tanner

In this episode, Will and Paulos discuss what lesson the myth of Medusa holds for modern men, how it relates to Greek orgins and history, and how Perseus is a model for us in his slaying of her. Further, they discuss how Paulos conceives of building great families, escaping the actuarial mindset Americans often have, and how building great networks could be the key to future success. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Paulos on X here: https://x.com/myth_pilot Find his website here: https://www.mythpilot.com/

In this episode, Will speaks with Alexander Svetski, the author of "The Bushido of Bitcoin," about how societies that place an emphasis on human excellence, namely the chivalric societies of Europe and Bushido Japan, are in a conflict with the democratic value of mediocrity. They discuss nobility, Rhodesia, hard money, and what the connection is between honest money and honest societies. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Svetski on X here: https://x.com/SvetskiWrites Find his website here: https://www.bushidoofbitcoin.com/

In this episode, Will and Kevin Dolan, the founder of EXIT and the Natalism Conference, discuss what role fraternal networks like EXIT fill in our culture, why they're important, how EXIT relates to similar networks of the past, and what the future looks like as the Westphalian state declines. They also discuss what natalism is and why it matters. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Kevin Dolan on X here: https://x.com/extradeadjc Find EXIT here: https://exitgroup.us/

In this episode, Will and J Burden discuss the history of the Cold War with a focus on Rhodesia. They discuss what the American and British decision to side with the communists shows, and how egalitarianism was a primary motivation of both sides throughout the conflict. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find J Burden on X here: https://x.com/_jburden

In this episode, Will and Rory Duncan, a man born in Rhodesia and now living in South Africa, discuss how Rhodesia fell and the parallels to South Africa. They focus on Rhodesian culture, the Bush War era, Mugabe's tyranny, and race communism in South Africa, while also commenting on many of the good aspects of Rhodesia and South African history and culture. Find Will Tanner on X here:https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here:https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Rory on X here:https://x.com/RoryDun76684897

In this episode, Will and Stormy Waters discuss the potential purpose of President Donald Trump's sovereign wealth fund, with a focus on how it could enable a domestic Industrial Golden Age of the sort seen under the McKinley presidency. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Stormy on X here: https://x.com/NormanDodd_knew

In this episode, Will and Ben Kelleran discuss the continued relevance of the sort of companies that were prominent and powerful in the pre-War World, with a focus on the trends leading to commodities making a comeback. They particularly focus on how a society changes for the better when its wealth is real rather than phantom, and what wer're seeing that could lead us back there. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find his Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Ben on X here: https://x.com/BR_Kelleran Check out his site here: https://www.kontrariankorner.com/

In this episode, Will and the guys who run Smoke River Ranch discuss how regenerative ranching works, how it combats the problems with fiat-age industrial agriculture, and what the English estate system of yesteryear teaches us about fixing agriculture today. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find their article on our Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/p/soil-and-money Find Untapped Growth on X here: https://x.com/untappedgrowth Find VeritasVital on X here: https://x.com/VeritasVital Find Smoke River Ranch here: https://www.smokeriverranch.com/

In this episode, Will and EM Burlingame discuss the difference between an organic, noble society and how externally imposed, inorganic hierarchy rots society from the inside. They discuss everything from early Christianity to fox-hunting with a focus on what periods saw the noble building of an organic whole and how mercantile calculation has financialized everything and, in the process, destroyed much of what made the Occident functional. They also discuss what is needed to bring back the good aspects of the Old World. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find EM on X here: https://x.com/EMBurlingame

This was an interview of Will originally conducted by J. Burden; given its relevance to this podcast, Mr. Burden has been gracious enough to let me republish it for The Old World. In this show, J. Burden and Will Tanner discuss how agricultural protection laws called the Corn Laws built the prosperous England that existed before the Great War. They focus on how the laws enabled legacy-minded landowners to invest in the countryside, create the conditions that led to the Industrial Revolution, and serve the empire rather than toil at work. They also discuss how the free trade ideology destroyed that social structure, and what the consequences of that destruction were. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Burden on X here: https://x.com/_jburden Find his podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@j.burden

In this episode, Will and OW Root discuss what a gentleman ought to wear, with a focus on the history of men's clothing and how what was worn in our heyday relates to what men should wear now. They also discuss some common faux pas and pitfalls for those getting into the subject, and comment on what can be done to get people to dress better Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find OW on X here: https://x.com/NecktieSalvage Find his website here: https://linktr.ee/necktiesalvage

In this episode, Will and South African community security specialist K9 Reaper discuss how South Africa went from bad to worse over the past decade, with a focus on how politicians and community apathy have enabled crime and decay. They also discuss what Americans learn from the situation and what you can do to prepare for South Africanization. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find K9 on X here: https://x.com/k9_reaper

n this episode, Will and Dmitry discuss the societal upheaval that was the shift from a focus on income generated by capital, namely land, to a focus on capital asset appreciation. They discuss how this potentially leads to societal instability, impermanence in fortunes, and what effect it has on human flourishing. They also question if Elon's Mars project is multi-generational. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Dimitry on X here: https://x.com/BackTheBunny Find Dimitry on Substack here: https://thedosagemakesitso.substack.com/

In this episode, Will and Raw Egg Nationalist discuss what the English countryside is like, and how the toxic mixture of death taxes and mass migration have eroded its former power, wealth, and beauty. To illustrate these changes, they discuss everything from the fox-hunting aristocracy to the obliterated village economies that now cater to tourists. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find REN on X here: https://x.com/Babygravy9 Check out his website here: https://www.raweggstack.com/

In this episode, Will and EM Burlingame discuss the history of the American "mob state" and its parallels to the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire, with a focus on how a new aristocracy will rise in the fight to demolish that mob state. They also discuss the capital assets of importance to that new aristocracy, how trusts and legal fictions diminish real world power, and historical parallels to this situation Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find EM Burlingame on X here: https://x.com/EMBurlingame Check out his website here: https://emburlingame.substack.com/

In this episode, Will and Space Age Maximalist discuss what social structures and colonization methods of the past would be relevant when our civilization colonizes the solar system, with a particular focus on the East India Company and Anglo-American methods of settlement. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Space Age Maximalist on X here: https://x.com/SpaceAgeHerr Find Space Age Maximalist on his website here: https://spaceagemaximalist.substack.com/

In this episode, Will and Alex Petkas, host of The Cost of Glory Podcast, discuss the Roman Aristocracy in the Late Republic period influenced America's Founding Fathers, with a particular focus on the great men about whom Plutarch wrote. They cover everything from the landed basis of Rome's cursus honorum-chasing politicians to the disdain for the commercial side of things present in Rome and the Tidewater. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Alex on X here: https://x.com/costofglory Find Alex on his website here: https://www.costofglory.com/

In this episode, Will and Rowdy Yates discuss the history of Rhodesia, with a particular focus on its war against the world, communist and "free," during the 1965-79 Bush War. Additionally, they discuss its roots, its culture, and its Old World nature. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Rowdy Yates on X here: https://x.com/RowdyHODL

In this episode, Will and John discuss the corrosive roots of liberalism and how natural hierarchy serves as an antitode to a force that otherwise turns into various forms of Leninism. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find John Carter on X here: https://x.com/martianwyrdlord Find Johann on Substack here: https://barsoom.substack.com/

In this episode, Will and Pine Baron discuss whether the virtues and values of the old aristocracies are relevant to the modern world, with a focus on the duties and attachment to a community that come from holding real estate in an area. They also discuss self-made success and being agentic. Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Pine Baron on X here: https://x.com/SpiritofPines

In this episode, Will Tanner and Stormy Waters discuss the concept of the American aristocracy, with an eye toward the socially beneficial effects of such a group, to whom the term refers, given America's lack of a peerage, and if any modern members of the wealth elite qualify. Links Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Stormy on X here: https://x.com/NormanDodd_knew

In this episode, Will Tanner and Johann Kurtz discuss the moral and practical support for inheritance, with an eye toward how building dynasties and dynastic wealth builds civilization. LINKS Find Will Tanner on X here: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1 Find Will on Substack here: https://www.theamericantribune.news/ Find Johann on X here: https://x.com/JohannKurtz Find Johann on Substack here: https://becomingnoble.substack.com/