Everyone feels as if the American Dream has slipped away…but why? Why is it that when the stock market goes up, or the talking heads tell us the economy is booming, it never feels that way? Something HAS changed. So what is it? Why has it changed? And what can we actually do about it?

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:30 - “Remember When $50K Was A Lot of Money?”

00:09:30 - How We Got Here: The Reserve Currency Trap

00:18:31 - The Triffin Dilema

00:26:31 - Jacques Rueff’s Haunting Prediction

00:36:55 - Hyperfinancialization

00:44:11 - Why The Middle Class is Vanishing

00:45:23 - The Losers From Globalization

00:54:14 - The Winners From Globalization

01:01:17 - Why The System is Breaking Now

01:06:58 - Does The Left Have a Point?

01:20:29 - What Gave Rise to the Populist Right?

01:29:20 - Can Avoid Catastrophe?

01:34:38 - What Can You as an Individual Do About it?

It seems like the entire world is going mad. We’re constantly told the most insane things imaginable, and that we’re bad guys if we don’t believe it. So how exactly did this happen? Where did it come from? What if there was one man who not only predicted most of the insanity that’s going on today, but he was actually the author of it all?

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:00 - The insanity all around us

00:08:39 - Who is Antonio Gramsci?

00:12:29 - Why did Gramsci become a Marxist?

00:18:14 - Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

00:21:30 - Why Did Lenin Succeed in Russia and Gramsci Failed in Italy?

00:23:24 - The Role of Intellectuals

00:34:00 - Cultural Hegemony and War of Position

00:48:00 - State and Civil Society

00:59:00 - The Long March Through the Institutions

01:22:21 - The Long March is Over

01:38:50 - The Left Cannot Course Correct

01:45:18 - What Comes Next?

Young men are going to revolt, but what should that revolt actually look like? Nick spoke at Live Action's annual conference to lay out what a return to real masculinity should really mean, from politics to relationships.

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00:00 - Why Moral Arguments No Longer Work With The Left

04:15 - How Society Blames Men

07:15 - Society Wants to Destroy Men

11:20 - Young Men Are Going to Revolt

15:31 - How Men Are Supposed to Lead

18:15 - What Defines a Strong Man

23:02 - The 5 Things Every Man Should Aspire To

33:08 - Q&A

34:54 - Why Every Man is Called to be Courageous

38:24 - Relationship Advice

40:48 - Winning the Culture War

41:55 - Being Pro Life and Pro 2A

44:02 - Advice to High School Conservatives

48:06 - Running for Office

50:31 - Marriage Advice