Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2025-08-18
Books mentioned on Auron MacIntyre: The American Empire Is Racing Towards Collapse. Here’s How to Prevent It.
Go to war in some faraway country for no obvious reason, slaughter a bunch of peasants, and then import their relatives into your cities and put them on welfare. That’s been the US government’s main occupation for 60 years.
Auron MacIntyre discussed Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, Who are We? by Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington and others, and The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Leviathan
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is a foundational political treatise arguing that in the absence of a powerful central authority, human life would exist in a state of perpetual and violent conflict.
Discussed“If you go back and read Hobbes Leviathan, even though he's making an argument for secular government, 9/10 of it is couched in biblical language.”
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Who are We?
Who are We? by Samuel P.
Discussed“He wrote the. The Clash of Civilizations. exactly who are We? and I think won his debate with Francis Fukuyama pretty decisively... But he said in who are We? His book about American identity, the core of American identity is the Anglo Protestant spirit”
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P.
Discussed“Samuel Huntington is a guy who I really like. He wrote the. The Clash of Civilizations. exactly who are We?”
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The Conservative Mind
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is an influential intellectual history that traces the development of conservative thought in Anglo-American politics from Edmund Burke onward.
Discussed“I mean, you even think of a guy like Russell Kirk, right, wrote the Conservative Mind, one of the intellectual giants defining the movement”
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