Conscious Caracal

Ep. 169 - New realities are built, not demanded | Ernst Roets

I am joined by Dr Ernst Roets, the Head of Policy at the Solidarity Movement. We discuss how new realities and freedom are not created when they are demanded from the government, but rather that new realities are recognized when communities create them themselves. We also discuss Article 235 of the constitution, self-determination, and more.

Ep. 167 - The Importance of Capturing Castles | Auron MacIntyre

Auron MacIntyre joins me to elaborate on his latest column for The Blaze about the relationship(s) between power, culture, institutions and politics. We also discuss the state of the culture war in America and the broader West, strategic victories (capturing castles), accumulating power, Chris Rufo and Harvard, and more.

Ep. 166 - 2024: Perseverance and Momentum | Discussion Stream

2024 is upon us and as an introduction to the year ahead I discuss the themes that I think will define the new year, as well as some of the potential challenges that lie ahead.

Ep. 165 - Minority Politics: Geography, distribution and power | János Jeney

I speak to János Jeney, a Hungarian cartographer, whose area of research is mapping ethnic groups in the Carpathian Basin. We discuss what the situation is like for the Hungarian minorities outside of Hungary, minority-majority politics, the value of his work, states changing place names, and more.

Ep. 164 - AfriForum at the United Nations 2023 | Feedback

I provide feedback and answer questions on AfriForum's trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the 16th session of the United Nations (UN) Forum on Minority Issues where I delivered a speech on the South African government's many pieces of racialist legislation, farm murders, as well as incitement of violence against minorities like the "Kill the Boer" chant.
AfriForum also delivered a presentation at the headquarters of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). This was accompanied by a detailed report on the South African government’s 116+ pieces of racial legislation that AfriForum submitted to CERD as well. In 2023 it was the South African government’s turn to have its record regarding discrimination reviewed by CERD at its 111th session.

Ep. 163 - An American living amongst Afrikaners | David Harris

I have a conversation with David Harris, an American from Tennessee, who spend a lot of time with the Afrikaner community in South Africa. David recently published a great thread on Twitter/X, documenting his experience, as well as unpacking his impressions of Afrikaner/Boer culture as an outsider.

Ep. 162 - Live Not by Lies | Discussion Stream (10 000 Subscribers Special)

To celebrate a major milestone for my channel, 10 000 subscribers, I will be reading and analysing another one of my favourite texts: Soviet dissent writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Live Not by Lies. On the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested, February 12, 1974, he released the text “Live Not by Lies.” The next day, he was exiled from the Soviet Union.

Ep. 161 - Identity, Property and Prosperity | Wanjiru Njoya

I am joined by Wanjiru Njoya, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Law School, UK and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. We discuss private property rights, the importance of identity, what history teaches us about the keys to prosperity, expropriation without compensation, "decolonization" and more.

Ep. 160 - Reorganisation of political and economic order in southern Africa | Chris Becker

I am joined by Chris Becker, Managing Executive: Enterprise Payments at TymeBank. We talk about why he is bullish on southern Africa, how voting harder is not going to fix our problems, the phasing out of the centralised state, what the future holds for South Africa and southern Africa, opportunities in the chaos, solutions as export product, and more.

Ep. 159 - Do not kneel with the idolaters of the Act | Discussion Stream

I unpack and discuss the idea of the "idolaters of the Act", as first conceptualized by Afrikaner philosopher N.P. van Wyk Louw in his 1958 work, Liberale Nasionalisme.