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17: The Populist Right’s War for Eternity with Benjamin Teitelbaum
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As thinkers on the populist right like Steve Bannon (U.S.), Aleksandr Dugin (Russia) and Olavo de Carvalho (Brazil) rose to prominence across the globe, Benjamin Teitelbaum, Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, picked out an obscure philosophical thread that united them: Traditionalism.
Traditionalism isn’t about traditional family values or doing things in an old fashioned way; it relates to a belief in the existence of primordial, universal truths and a perennial wisdom that lies at the heart of all major world religions, drawing heavily from eastern influences.
As a result of his timely (and relentless) exploration of the Traditionalist connections between Bannon, Dugin and Carvalho, Teitelbaum wrote ‘War for Eternity’, which, as one reviewer put it, “reads like a Dan Brown novel”.
This episode of the Real Clear Values Podcast is certainly no less interesting.
We talk about building trust with members of far-right groups in Sweden, meta-politics and the influence of music on cultural ‘common sense’, Steve Bannon’s spiritual journey, the future of politics in the west and much more in between.
(Episode recorded on 9th July 2021.)
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