Jonathan Kieperman (Lomez)

Re-establish a kind of continuity, sort of a literary, intellectual, cultural continuity with the past. So the book I would choose for this is Moby Dick. And it's a very obvious cliche choice, but it's a thing that kind of everybody from all ages, if you're an American, this is a book you just should know.

Re-establish a kind of continuity, sort of a literary, intellectual, cultural continuity with the past. So the book I would choose for this is Moby Dick. And it's a very obvious cliche choice, but it's a thing that kind of everybody from all ages, if you're an American, this is a book you just should know.

I think Moby Dick is sort of essentially American and in particular represents a kind of East Coast American founding. And it's this, you know, man against nature and God. And there's also the sort of chaos of. the plurality of the, you know, the cast, okay? And it's very American in that way. It's sort of this industrious, pluralistic, you know, almost democracy on the boat.

I think Moby Dick is sort of essentially American and in particular represents a kind of East Coast American founding. And it's this, you know, man against nature and God. And there's also the sort of chaos of. the plurality of the, you know, the cast, okay? And it's very American in that way. It's sort of this industrious, pluralistic, you know, almost democracy on the boat.

So it's also transcendence through conquest, okay, which is a very American idea. And then my counterpoint to that, which I think is a nice coda, is No Country for Old Men would be the movie. Moby Dick is conquest, and it's the Atlantic,

So it's also transcendence through conquest, okay, which is a very American idea. And then my counterpoint to that, which I think is a nice coda, is No Country for Old Men would be the movie. Moby Dick is conquest, and it's the Atlantic,

And now Cormac McCarthy and No Country for Old Men, the film in particular, the Coen brothers film is the border, the terminus of the West, the border with Mexico, the sort of it's also late epic. It's it's the exhaustion of American conquest. And there's this force at the center of the book, this inscrutable, mysterious, supernatural force It's not in Moby Dick. It's the thing they're chasing.

And now Cormac McCarthy and No Country for Old Men, the film in particular, the Coen brothers film is the border, the terminus of the West, the border with Mexico, the sort of it's also late epic. It's it's the exhaustion of American conquest. And there's this force at the center of the book, this inscrutable, mysterious, supernatural force It's not in Moby Dick. It's the thing they're chasing.

It's the whale in No Country for Old Men. It's evil. It's chasing them. That has come right to now fate is coming to exact its payback for what America has become. So it's America at the end, at this moment of civilizational exhaustion. And it's precisely this. this point that we need to escape out of.

It's the whale in No Country for Old Men. It's evil. It's chasing them. That has come right to now fate is coming to exact its payback for what America has become. So it's America at the end, at this moment of civilizational exhaustion. And it's precisely this. this point that we need to escape out of.

And this is my hope for the future is how do we take the sort of metaphysics of no country for old men and create some kind of rebirth to our national identity, our national character, our sort of inner primordial being and find that life force that it can once again extend beyond these borders.

And this is my hope for the future is how do we take the sort of metaphysics of no country for old men and create some kind of rebirth to our national identity, our national character, our sort of inner primordial being and find that life force that it can once again extend beyond these borders.

Charlie, the easy answer there is no, at least not in its current form. It's great to be here, by the way. But this question of USAID and what we've seen over the last week since Marco Rubio at the State Department has taken control and tried to make transparent some of the funding schemes going on there has really got me and I think a lot of people really heated because it's very clear that

Charlie, the easy answer there is no, at least not in its current form. It's great to be here, by the way. But this question of USAID and what we've seen over the last week since Marco Rubio at the State Department has taken control and tried to make transparent some of the funding schemes going on there has really got me and I think a lot of people really heated because it's very clear that

that what USAID is doing is the exact opposite of what is in the interest of the United States and the American people. And USAID really is a kind of perfect microcosm of both the stupidity and the malice

that what USAID is doing is the exact opposite of what is in the interest of the United States and the American people. And USAID really is a kind of perfect microcosm of both the stupidity and the malice

of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who run our State Department and use our tax dollars, the money that we make and that should be helping our people and supporting our interests, instead goes to spreading this international ideology

of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who run our State Department and use our tax dollars, the money that we make and that should be helping our people and supporting our interests, instead goes to spreading this international ideology

What we might just call international wokeism for the benefit of their own pockets and of their own interests, which again are entirely divorced from the interests of the American people. So, you know, I'm really glad that this is now out there, that this is a discussion we're having and what was previously so opaque. about some of this funding and this waste is now open for everyone to see.

What we might just call international wokeism for the benefit of their own pockets and of their own interests, which again are entirely divorced from the interests of the American people. So, you know, I'm really glad that this is now out there, that this is a discussion we're having and what was previously so opaque. about some of this funding and this waste is now open for everyone to see.