THE MANIFESTO PODCAST

This episode argues that the Monroe Doctrine is not history but infrastructure—the deep logic through which American power still understands the world. In dialogue with Steve McGregor as a critical interlocutor, the conversation interrogates Manifest Destiny, strategic denial, and the moral language used to mask exclusion and dominance. What emerges is a confrontation with the Monroe Doctrine as a claim of inevitability—contested, unfinished, but very much alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re living through the collapse of an order that once claimed to be the end of history.Global liberalism — the system that promised prosperity, openness, and permanent progress — is no longer governing societies. It’s managing decline.In his manifesto, Pilkington argues that liberalism didn’t fail because it was betrayed, but because it succeeded too completely. It shed its limits, abandoned politics for technocracy, and replaced democratic consent with moral administration. Markets inflated while real economies hollowed out. Elites detached. Dissent was moralized, not answered.What remains is a system that is simultaneously more coercive and less legitimate — unable to reform, yet desperate to persist.This isn’t a prediction of revolution. It’s a diagnosis of fragmentation, paralysis, and the slow return of history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Detta avsnitt handlar om samtidens stora idéförskjutningar där författaren Torbjörn Elensky åter gästar podden och diskuterar sin bok Livet efter framtiden. Vi utforskar hur teknologisk maktkoncentration, liberalismens kris och polariseringen av offentligheten formar vår tid. Med avstamp i modernitetens entré under det sena 1800-talet via mellankrigstidens reaktionära modernism – till dagens postmoderna hyperrelativsm benar vi ut hur kultur, politik och makt flätas samman i dagens samhälle. Vi gräver ner oss i Torbjörns kritik av ”åsiktskluster”, svenska mediestrukturer och bristen på genuint intellektuellt samtal, och frågar oss vad som egentligen händer när gamla idéer står kvar som tomma skal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this thought-provoking episode, the Manifesto Podcast welcomes Brazilian thinker Guilherme Freire, who takes us on a journey from the medieval Reconquista to modern São Paulo. Along the way, he challenges liberal myths of victimhood, makes the case for monarchy and spiritual renewal, and explains why Brazil might just hold the key to Europe’s future.Expect history, theology, politics, and philosophy — with detours through Tolkien, Chesterton, and even the challenges of raising a large family in today’s world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we delve into the lack of a sense of self that exists in Europe. While the European Union for decades has tried and failed (for, to us, obvious reasons) to provide an erzats-identity to the eroding national ones in (mostly) western Europe we look at the alternatives. While European elites have abandoned the project of building and caring for national identity and are trying to replace it with the more malleable “values” we look back to try and move forward.In this we provide four rather different takes on patriotism for the Europe of yore. One mystic and christian - while also strikingly french is provided by Simone Weil's The Need for Roots. This is contrasted by the materialistic yet quintessential spiritual Englishness of George Orwell’s The Lion and the Unicorn. The ultimate defence of the very hobbitness of all that is England. Then we move to the liberal-republican Swedish contrarian Vilhelm Moberg and his plea for remembering the generations of toil by the unknown and unheard commoner  whose legacy is the history of a nation in Svensk Stävan. Last we move to that prussian anarch, Ernst Jünger and his On the Marble Cliffs where honour and defiance to tyrannical authority is the last knightly virtue as well as a patriotism all of its own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Natten innan Sverigedemokraternas vitbok släpps i Almedalen under vad som måste betraktas som upptakten till valet 2026 får vi tag i vitbokens författare, idehistorikern Tony Gustafsson, som sitter i Visbys hamn och berättar om sitt arbete.Vi diskuterar vitboken och försöker sätta denna i kontext som en del i Sverigedemokraternas legitimering och normalisering. Men också som en del i svensk politisk historia som för tankarna tillbaka till det förra turbulenta tjugotalet.Vitbokens stoff är således en av de stora källorna ur vilket modern svensk politisk dramaturgi hämtas. Sverigedemokraterna som demoner eller Åkessons väntande av en marginell extremistgrupp till Folkhemmets egentliga arvtagare och garanter. När nu Socialdemokraterna nu svänger hela sin politik i en riktning man inte kan kalla annat än Sverigedemokratisk inför nästa års val undrar vi om Sverigedemokraterna kan fullborda steget från den Svenska samhällets mest effektiva kritiker till att bygga landet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Swedish absolutism to Russian empire, we unravel the chaotic laboratory of European innovation. The Great Northern War, Charles XII’s warrior-king swagger, and Peter the Great’s beard-shaving reforms reveal how small states punched above their weight through cutthroat rivalry. Europe’s soul isn’t in empires or museums—it’s in the messy, hyper-competitive patchwork of nations, where cancellation sparks reinvention. Forget globalist McDonald’s dreams; it’s time to embrace the Balkanized, history-soaked vitality that makes Europe the crucible of civilization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this gripping episode recorded on April 8, 2025, Johan Gärdebo, Alexander Bard, Ralph Schoellhammer, and Benedict Beckeld dive into the chaotic aftermath of Donald Trump’s second term and its seismic impact on a faltering Europe. With the U.S. embracing trade wars and isolationism, and Europe likened to a "retirement home run by demented senior citizens," the panel dissects a continent grappling with demographic collapse, a leadership void, and the looming end of NATO. Is a European renaissance possible, or will migration, secular decline, and resurgent national rivalries usher in anarchy—or even a new pagan revival? From Trump’s pragmatic gambles to Poland’s rise and the specter of civil unrest, this is a raw, provocative look at a West in crisis—and the radical ideas that might save it. History is back, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.