Welcome back to the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Joy Pullman, the executive editor over here at The Federalist.

Joining me today is Paul Kings North. He is both a fiction and nonfiction author with a substack following of some 73,000.

He's a father and husband and a anti-globalist activist. His latest book, Against the Machine, is out this month.

Paul, welcome.

Thank you.

Now, Paul, let's do a couple of preliminary questions

before we get into a discussion based on your book.

So we'll start with your relatively recent conversion to Christianity.

Apparently, the Supreme Press said you converted from some blend of Wicca and Buddhism to Christianity. Apparently, the pre-press said you converted from some blend of Wicca and Buddhism

to Christianity, and it was a very public sort of thing post-COVID. A lot of people watching

on your substack, including me. And I believe if I read your bio sources accurately, you

are baptized Eastern Orthodox in 2021. Could you just kind of tell our listeners

how that thing happened for you? Yeah, well, it was a very long journey. I mean, I think this is

fairly common for people who are brought up without any religion, which I was. I grew up in

England in the 80s, born in the 70s, grew up in the 80s and 90s. And if you grow up in England in the 80s, I was born in the 70s, grew up in the 80s and 90s.

And if you grow up in England, it's a very irreligious society. It's not anti-religious.

It's just very secular. So my family wasn't Christian or anything else particularly.

But when I was young, I was, I think I used to, I had a lot of experiences in the

natural world, which were very spiritually powerful to me. I used to go on long walks with my dad

in the mountains and I had a lot of experiences which I later discovered through reading, say,

William Wordsworth were actually kind of spiritual experiences, but I didn't really know what to do

with them. But I always had a sense that there was more to the world than the materialist story was telling

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