The Postwar Consensus Is Collapsing
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
For 80 years, Western civilization has operated under a quiet agreement that has shaped our politics, our foreign policy, our economics, and even our moral worldview. So what is the “Postwar Consensus”, why is it starting to unravel, and what could possibly come next?
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:29 - What is the Postwar Consensus For Society?
00:14:30 - What is the Postwar Consensus For Foreign Policy?
00:25:44 - Good Ranchers Ad
00:26:58 - What is the Postwar Consensus For Economics?
00:33:15 - Why Was the Postwar Consensus Set Up?
00:37:55 - Why is the Postwar Consensus Now Failing?
00:40:01 - Karl Popper’s Open Society and its Enemies
00:45:05 - The Paradox of Tolerance
00:49:10 - The Fatal Flaw of the Postwar Consensus
00:55:40 - Intro to Our Homeschooling Course Ad
00:57:59 - A Revolt Against the Postwar Consensus is Already Underway
01:02:43 - The Real Danger of Inversion
01:05:27 - How Marxism Got Smuggled into the Postwar Consensus
01:08:53 - The Open Society Cannot Sustain Itself
01:13:20 - Is There Anything We Can Keep From the Postwar Consensus?
01:33:52 - Are We Heading For Collapse?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, terms like the post-war consensus and the rules-based international order, |
| 0:05.5 | these are terms that are getting thrown around a lot more now. |
| 0:07.4 | And the reason why they're getting thrown around is because this is more or less what |
| 0:11.5 | the Western civilization is operated under. |
| 0:15.3 | This has been kind of the international order that has governed our behavior for about 80 years. |
| 0:21.4 | So when we talk about the post-war consensus, we're talking about World War II. |
| 0:25.1 | And what do we mean by that? |
| 0:26.3 | Well, essentially, it's how do we prevent another world war for taking place? |
| 0:30.6 | And there were certain rules, certain ideas that were put into place that range from |
| 0:34.4 | everything from what justified actually going to war to Carl Popper's |
| 0:39.9 | idea of an open society and its enemies and what does that mean? But a lot of it was based around |
| 0:45.2 | again, just trying to prevent certain tragedies that had taken place. And today what we're going |
| 0:49.4 | to discuss is, did it work? Was it valuable for its time? And is it suddenly outlived its usefulness? Is it something |
| 0:55.9 | that we need to hold on to and try to protect and preserve going forward? Because one thing is not |
| 1:01.3 | being questioned right now. And that is it's starting to break. The whole international order that we |
| 1:07.3 | have more or less lived under for eight decades is starting to break. And the question |
| 1:13.2 | is, what is going to replace it? All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the |
| 1:17.9 | argument. I'm your host, Nick Freitas with me in the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the |
| 1:21.1 | Bees. Hello, everyone. And then we have our resident historian political prognosticator, |
| 1:25.2 | the Oracle of Virginia Christian Hines. How are you doing? I'm doing well. Okay. So let's go ahead and jump right into it. Let's answer first and foremost, |
| 1:31.9 | like, what is the post-war consensus? And we've kind of got this broken down into what does it mean |
| 1:38.4 | for domestic politics, foreign policy, economics, like what do we mean when we talk about post-war consensus? |
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