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The irrational makes sense.

Hello dear Conspirituality Podcast listeners. After that big Aubrey Marcus episode,

I have something quieter and a little more reflective in the bonus department this week.

Also, not so damn long. I recently had the great pleasure of listening to a fascinating guest

on one of my favorite podcasts. This is called Know Your Enemy. That's a pod hosted by two

extremely smart young and empathetic former conservatives who now grapple with where they come from,

with why some of it made sense, and with how people on the left can understand what they're

up against. So this is the podcast that introduced me to people like Daniel Charel and also

conservative movement historian Sam Tannenhaus, who's the biographer of William F. Buckley.

Now this time, Know Your Enemy has hooked me with a writer named Patrick Blanchfield.

He's a journalist who mainly focuses on gun culture, but also he is a trained psychoanalyst.

And in a recent episode, one of the hosts, Sam Adler Bell, interviewed him about psychoanalysis

and politics, and it was really beautiful and instructive for me. And also it was kind of a

return to an earlier way of looking at the world that once lit me up and I think could serve me again.

When I was in university, psychoanalysis was in the water of the literary theory that I was

swimming through. All of my favorite theorists of language and meaning,

...