René Girard and the Right (w/ John Ganz)

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory of "mimetic desire," violence, and the meaning of secular modernity has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard's former student.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome listeners to episode 87 of Know Your Enemy.
0:04.0	I'm Matt Sippman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here as always with my great friend Sam Ether Bell,
0:09.0	and not as always I'm in Rome, and so our true fans will know that means I have a horse voice.
0:14.0	Every time I go to Rome something happens to me and I have a horse voice.
0:18.0	Last time, last year it was technically after I got back from Rome for the epic Whitaker Chambers episode.
0:24.6	I had my Paul Mall voice, but here I am again.
0:27.3	I like it.
0:28.3	I think it's sexy.
0:29.3	I think it's really nice.
0:30.3	Thank you.
0:31.3	And we have another epic episode.
0:33.2	We're doing our Renee Girard episode.
0:35.8	By popular demand.
0:38.0	I mean, I don't know.
0:39.2	Some people probably want to hear about this weirdo French theologians slash Christian apologists and to
0:46.3	unearth the secret history of the universe we have returning champ John Gans
0:52.4	joining us for the episode.
0:54.0	That's right as we joke at the start of the episode we have to call on the big guns for this one and
0:58.4	we do discuss this a little bit but we'll put in the show notes John wrote a four-part series at his
1:03.8	sub-stack unpopular front on Renee Gerard that I thought was really excellent.
1:08.8	Maybe you even want to read it before you listen. Some of you if you're looking for a primer on Renee
1:13.5	Gerard I was really impressed with John's reading of Gerard it's a great intro.
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