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The Declaration of Independence contains a number of words and phrases that have been tortured by modern scholars. What does it mean that some truths are “self-evident,” and what are “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God?” Were the founders appealing to human reason or biblical truths?

Join Zach as he explains the history and meaning of these words and why they are so important to understand correctly.

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“Talking a little treason.” Veteran political operative Zach Lautenschlager and retired MLB pitcher Dennis Sarfate bring breaking news and inside commentary on American culture, politics and business. 

The Green Dragon Tavern is where Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty gathered in Boston during the American Revolution. “Let us go to the Green Dragon and talk a little treason,” Founding Father Samuel Adams would say, tongue in cheek, according to legend. 

Today, the Green Dragon Tavern Show is where free men and women gather in defense of freedom.

Welcome back to part 3 of our series on Western Law. The concept of natural law, that governed justice for some 2000 years, is put under duress during the period known as the enlightenment.
Many changes and new concepts emerge, including some that are directly embedded in the U.S. declaration of independence and its Constitution. The plot definitely thickens.

John and Kathy, the Ride Home, talk with Joe Loconte, of The King’s College, about the battle of political philosophies as seen in the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien playing out on the world stage today.

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Finally out of lockdown, Karl and Andrew hit the streets, the bars, and the hair salons, but still find time to read (Matrix by Lauren Groff), watch TV (Succession), mourn (Bert Newton) and even go to the cinema (The Last Duel) - all so you don't have to. You're welcome. 

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Vegas Film Critic (Jeffrey K Howard) speaks with the cast of Locke & Key, Season 2 - streaming on Netflix. 

 Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 18 - Keeping Locke in the Locke Box with Richard Reinsch

In this episode... 

• A conversation with the Editor of Law & Liberty, Richard Reinsch on Peter A. Lawler
• A listener question on fatal flaws in thinker's personal lives.

Links: 

• ISI Honors Program
• He Built Better than He Knew, Richard Reinsch
• Law & Liberty

Books mentioned:

• Macbeth, Shakespeare
• Confessions of a Heretic, Roger Scruton
• Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• Speechless, Michael Knowles
• Postmodernism Rightly Understood, Peter A. Lawler
• The Restless Mind, Peter A. Lawler
• Stuck with Virtue, Peter A. Lawler
• The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy

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• Upcoming ISI Events

On this week’s episode we are IN THE HEIGHTS! We tackle the new Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned film. We also chat about what makes a good movie musical. Plus, we answer a call from the hotline about the movies that truly surprised us. And, to finish things off, we’ve got ‘Staff Picks.’

In news, Tyrese does not seem to grasp what is in the MCU, Vin Diesel cannot keep a secret, and Todd Solondz has a new Oedipal movie coming out.

Staff Picks:
Ify – Annihilation
Drea – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Alonso – Luca

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What is the role of government? Should it exist to provide safety and security for its citizens or to maintain order because humans are fundamentally selfish? Is an equitable society possible? What would such a society look like? Episode 73 is the first of a mini-series on social justice in which we consider the social contract that exists between a state and its people according to the divergent views of four political philosophers.

We Explore
The United States Declaration of Independence
The natural state and natural law
Social Contract Theory according to Hobbes and Leviathan
Locke's second treatise of government
The Social Contract according to Rousseau
A theory of justice by Rawls

Show Notes

Episode 45 - Moral relativism
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
Two Treatises of Government – John Locke
The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rosseau and Locke on Property and the State – Matt Schrage
A Theory of Justice – John Rawls

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What are the qualities of a righteous government? Is it complete governance by the people? Complete authority from the government? A mix of both? In this episode, Mark and Adam look at the answers to these questions provided by philosophers from the Early Modern era. They delve into Machiavelli's practical, yet cynical and brutal approach to how to lead a group of people. They look at the complete impracticality of a Utopian society and discuss the supremely influential ideals of John Locke. Also influential but destructive are the beliefs of Rousseau and Hegel, who herald the abilities of the majority or the state to always determine what is best. All these philosophers and more (including various political rants) are discussed in this episode of Unlimited Opinions!  Follow as on Twitter! @UlmtdOpinions

This isn't a podcast episode! This is just your collection of ideas about a podcast episode! You can't perceive us, no matter how hard you try! On this episode of Unlimited Opinions, Mark and Adam look at the Early Modern perspectives on mind and soul. They look at whether or not souls exist, how they relate to our bodies, and what exactly our identity is. They cover philosophers like Descartes, John Locke, Berkeley, Spinoza, and many more!  Follow us on Twitter to get updates on when the next episode is live! @UlmtdOpinions

Many things in modern life make us fearful. The Fear Inoculant series  will explore ways to be less fearful and live a more authentic life. In this, the first of three episodes, we cover a host of philosophical concepts aimed at demystifying reality in order to lay the groundwork for examining social movements in the next episode. We start with exploring how certain Events can seem to change the past and present, Reality itself and a couple ways to quantify it, how Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek can never seem to agree, Dialectics and the limits of reason, Metaphysics and how to separate yourself from the universe, Freedom and how to measure it, Existentialism and other curses from the gods, Sociology and how to build a society, how school brainwashes you, plus Economics, The State, Violence, Alienation, Structural Ideology, Neurotypicality, Revolution, and somehow even more! 

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Table of contents: 

Intro: 4:06.729, Corrections: 4:46.498, The Setup: 10:09.070, Events: 12:13.001, Critical Theory Summary: 19:35.657, Materialism: 21:00.876, Idealism: 24:06.432, Chomsky vs Zizek: 28:00.512, Dialectics: 31:06.255, Dialectical Materialism: 36:49.128, Ontological Case Study: 42:55.002, Events Continued: 46:25.000, The Particular and the Universal: 48:36.065, Freedom: 54:04.679, Morality: 1:00:34.962, Existentialism: 1:03:40.028, Sociology: 1:16:07.278, Socialism: 1:20:41.226, The "C" Word: 1:24:02.290, Commodification: 1:27:41.976, Some Folks You Might Meet: 1:31:41.562, The State: 1:39:32.853, Violence: 1:48:32.395, Ideology: 1:52:19.431, The State Continued: 1:56:12.565, Alienation: 1:59:09.955, Structural Ideology: 2:01:53.580, Anti-Oedipus: 2:04:16.992, Neurotypicality: 2:06:19.322, Revolution: 2:09:35.000, Class: 2:13:33.919, Proto-Synthesis: 2:16:40.012, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: 2:19:46.433, The Wrap Up: 2:24:56.266, Surprise: 2:26:08.991

Works Cited: 

Egalitarian Societies: https://www.solidarity.net.au/marxist-theory/the-original-egalitarian-societies-what-human-history-tells-us-about-human-nature/

Reexamining Zizek and Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3uZSQmXzc

Yale's Social Theory Course: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foundations-of-modern-social-theory-audio/id430657557 

Spinoza and Knowledge: http://www.geocities.ws/bignum/spinoza.html 

Critical Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/ 

Historical Materialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

Sartre on Freedom: https://www.e-ir.info/2013/01/23/jean-paul-sartre-existential-freedom-and-the-political/ 

Radical Freedom: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/existentialism-is-a-humanism/themes/radical-freedom-choice-and-responsibility

Chomsky on Human Nature: https://chomsky.info/199808__-2/ 

Comparing Rousseau and Mill on Liberty: https://www.ukessays.com/essays/philosophy/comparing-rousseau-and-mill-on-liberty-philosophy-essay.php

Positive and Negative Liberty: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/

Forms of Feudalism: https://turbulentpriests.group.shef.ac.uk/the-forms-of-feudalism/#_ftnref2

Power and Authority:  https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/14-1-power-and-authority/

Hegel's Excess: http://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/download/30/38/

Negation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negation/

Zizek on 'Absolute Knowing': https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/zizek-on-hegels-absolute-knowing-2/

Hegel's Dialectics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

What can we know? How much can we know? Who cares? All these questions and more are answered in this episode of Unlimited Opinions! Mark and Adam break down the various Early Modern philosophical perspectives on what we can and cannot know. Adam's least favorite philosophy, scepticism, rears its ugly head in full force, and the pair looks at realism, idealism, empiricism, nominalism, and the various other approaches to knowledge. Follow us on Twitter! @UlmtdOpinions

We can't prove if anything exists or not, and that's either really scary or does not matter at all! On this episode of Unlimited Opinions, Mark and Adam break down more of the Early Modern Philosophers from Descartes to Berkeley, as the name would suggest. They discuss Descartes' massive influence on all of modern philosophy, John Locke's brilliant political ideas, Baruch Spinoza's examination of Scripture, and George Berkeley's perception of non-existence. 

Also, please forgive the two moments in the podcast where the audio drops out! We would fix it, but we truthfully have very little idea how to work recording equipment, as is probably evident by this point. 

This week, Dodge finally dons the headband of shadows and comes for the gang. After three or four minutes with it, the Locke kids find a passed out Dodge who doesn't have the crown. They immediately determine the best solution is to call all their friends, drag this passed out person into the sea caves and throw them into the black door. Honestly, that sentence makes no sense even if you have been watching the show all season. 

We are winding down on Locke and Key as Echo/Dodge/Well-lady/Lucas gets closer to the headband of shadows. 

This week, we spend very little time talking about the episode. That is ok, thought we had a really good time. The episode is all about Nina drinking gin out of a novelty mug so you can forgive us this time

There is so much happening this week! We have kidnappings, sex with Dodge, fetal pigs, and death! What could we possibly add to make the episode more exciting?!

Nina takes up gin drinking - but only in classy mugs. Kinsey tricks a killer into fighting her fear. Tyler sleeps with the gang's mortal enemy who he definitely has seen at least once but somehow doesn't recognize her until he sees her haphazardly abandoned key.