Titus &amp; Steve Sailer discuss his upcoming anthology of articles, columns, speeches, &amp; essays -- the first volume of a lifetime of noticing important facts about American society that respectable institutions don't want to talk about. This time around, we talk about the Sailer Law of Female Journalism.

ACF PoMoCon #45 Steve Sailer, Noticing

Titus &amp; Peachy Keenan discuss her new book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, a funny but spirited battlecry, to rouse the moms of America, for family &amp; also for faith.

ACF PoMoCon #44 Peachy Keenan

Titus Techera &amp; Lafayette Lee discuss No Country For Old Men, the Coen Bros. movie &amp; the Cormac McCarthy novel it's based on. We talk about manliness &amp; war, confrontations with evil, &amp; the transformations of America, North &amp; South in their influence on the West, the 60s, &amp; our world now...

ACF Critic Series #54 No Country For Old Men

Titus &amp; David Polansky discuss the wonderful war-time movie The Life &amp; Death of Col. Blimp, a Powell-Pressburger combination of propaganda &amp; art, &amp; a rare opportunity to reflect on British character through the Imperial wars &amp; the World Wars, as well as on America &amp; its wars in the comparison.

ACF Critic Series #53 The Life & Death of Col. Blimp

Titus &amp; Jack Fowler talk about Battleground, the first major cinematic depiction of the Battle of the Bulge, the end of WW2, &amp; the conflict that revealed American character.  Happy Memorial Day!

ACF Middlebrow #46 Battleground

Titus &amp; Ryan Shinkel discuss David Lynch's Blue velvet, a movie about suburbia &amp; the city, a boy growing up to be a man by facing evil, &amp; the predicament of American freedom, which might mean ignoring evil or embracing it...

ACF Critic Series #52 Blue Velvet

Titus &amp; L0m3z discuss David Fincher's Fight Club &amp; its relation to right-wing Twitter anons -- the age of agonizing men looking for causes, who attack capitalism &amp; matriarchy but find it difficult to associate or be productive.

ACF Critic Series #51 Fight Club

Titus &amp; David Polansky discuss Terry Gilliam's Brazil, a dark comedy, a tale of future tyranny, also a Romantic fantasy--we talk about the ways in which it describes our troubles, &amp; more adequately than the more famous entries in dystopian science fiction.

ACF Critic Series #50 Brazil

Titus &amp; Steve Sailer discuss the unpleasant facts of political life in America &amp; the study of those facts through the use of statistics. Steve talks about how he studies patterns of behavior and what conclusions this leads him to about the two major political coalitions &amp; the ways of life they make possible, as opposed to the rhetoric &amp; the ideology peddled by pundits in the mass-media.

ACF PoMoCon #43 Steve Sailer

Titus &amp; Sohrab Ahmari discuss Mulholland Dr., David Lynch's story of Hollywood, love of the beautiful leading to murder--the glamour that sustains FantasyLand &amp; the misery that leads to corruption--dreams &amp; morality!

ACF Critic #49 Mulholland Dr

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Armond White

Titus &amp; Armond White talk about the collapse of criticism &amp; cultural journalism. The triumph of a shallow liberal ideology in several, maybe most, mass media has made both art &amp; ideology invisible in ways that cause them to deteriorate.

ACF Critic #4 Armond White

Titus &amp; Terry Teachout discuss Chinatown, a story about the origins of Los Angeles &amp; the doomed attempt to learn the ugly truth about these origins. John Huston plays the grand, corrupt aristocrat, Jack Nicholson the petty, corrupt democrat &amp; they come to fight over the future of America.

ACF Critic #35 Teachout, Chinatown

Titus &amp; Terry Teachout discuss L.A. Confidential, another story about the origins of Los Angeles &amp; the modern America of glamour. We have a reversal of the noir--the femme fatale helps redeem rather than damn protagonists who were corrupt before they came to make a serious moral decision. Curtis Hanson's movie makes for a revision a heroism away from noir's tragic destiny toward American drama, where happy ends are possible, in limited ways, for some of the people who deserve them,

ACF Critic #36 Teachout, LA Confidential

Oliver Traldi

Titus &amp; Oliver Traldi talk about the origins of the Intellectual Dark Web--online culture &amp; wokeness in academia clashing to produce a backlash of academics calling bullishit on Progressive pieties, tactics, &amp; habits.We talk about the attempt to create a new etiquette &amp; ideology for a class that defines itself by TED talks intellectualism--&amp; the reaction of the dark parts of the internet that resent &amp; mock that ideology.

Titus &amp; Oliver Traldi talk about the origins of the Intellectual Dark Web--online culture &amp; wokeness in academia clashing to produce a backlash of academics calling bullishit on Progressive pieties, tactics, &amp; habits.<br>We talk about the attempt to create a new etiquette &amp; ideology for a class that defines itself by TED talks intellectualism--&amp; the reaction of the dark parts of the internet that resent &amp; mock that ideology.

ACF Pomocon #7 Oliver Traldi, Intellectual Dark Web

Titus &amp; John Marini continue their series on John Ford's Westerns with a discussion of Liberty Valance, the story of the emergence of the rule of law from the desert. We talk about love &amp; violence, about civilization &amp; progress, about the desert &amp; the train, the free range &amp; the city, gunfights &amp; newspapers.

ACF Masters #2 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Paul Cantor

Titus &amp; Paul Cantor, America's eminent Shakespearian, talk movies, TV shows, &amp; tragedy. From Godfather to Breaking Bad, from Aristotle to Mark Twain, we talk about how to understand pop culture &amp; how to understand America's great love affair with tragic heroes (now called anti-heroes).

ACF Critic #17 Paul Cantor

Titus &amp; Oliver Traldi talk about Progress, liberalism, the IDW, the transformation of the internet, generational politics, &amp; also Aristotle's treatise on the soul!

ACF PoMoCon #11 Oliver Traldi, Three Waves Of Liberalism

Titus &amp; Eric Cook discuss The birds as a companion piece to Psycho--what is it about modern women leaving town in a hurry? What is it about remote houses from a bygone America that inspires tragedy? What does the scare in a horror movie conceal? Why did Hitchcock talk about his movies as comedies? Listen &amp; share!

ACF #5 The birds

Titus &amp; Armond White discuss the great movies of 1968, especially the Godard pictures then first brought to America, Les Carabiniers ('63), Weekend, &amp; La Chinoise ('67), which form a sort of trilogy of the past, present, &amp; future of Europe--from war to revolution. (We also talk about his latest, The Image Book.) We focus on Godard's ironic documentary style &amp; prophecies about modern society, his criticism of left-wing terrorism &amp; right-wing consumerism--both versions of materialism. We also point to one of his signs of the alternative: Goethe.

ACF Critic #22 Armond White, Godard

Titus &amp; John Presnall discuss another 70s movie about political crisis--Martin Scorsese &amp; Paul Schrader's Taxi Driver. We talk about Travis Bickle's self-destruction &amp; his insight into the corruption of the times, &amp; how madness becomes the way to see clearly in a society where respectability means denying there is evil.

ACF #13 Taxi Driver

Titus &amp; John Marini talk about John Ford's The Searchers--the best Western for the discussion of the sacred law of the family &amp; the fundamental questions that emerge when law is as yet to be installed. We also talk about the Western &amp; its place in American life, how Ford turned it into an art, &amp; what Jorge Luis Borges called "our epic duties".

ACF Masters #1 The Searchers

James Poulos

Titus &amp; James Poulos, author of The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us From Ourselves &amp; Executive Editor of American Mind, discuss the collapse of elite liberalism &amp; the challenge we face as we transition to digital technology through the destruction of all forms of celebrity. We talk about political transformations in America &amp; around the globe, the world after history restarts, &amp; the possible revival of nations &amp; peoples...

ACF PoMoCon #4 James Poulos, Digital vs. Elites

Sonny Bunch

Titus &amp; Sonny Bunch discuss Watchmen, the super-hero movie most dedicated to super-heroes, their tragic &amp; all-American character. We also talk about Zack Snyder as auteur--a man who has managed to bring a cinematic style to blockbuster production.

ACF Critic #21 Sonny Bunch, Watchmen

Titus &amp; Spotted Toad talk about education, the experience of the teacher, the crisis in public education &amp; how to rethink it in the present circumstances. We talk about his book--13 Ways Of Going On A Field Trip--about his ten years teaching science in New York &amp; the place of nature in our attempt to become rational.

ACF PoMoCon #5 Education

Titus &amp; John Presnall discuss Steven Spielberg's career-making turn directing Jaws. We look at the New England township in light of Tocqueville, with all its failures of deliberation &amp; association. We talk about the social crises of the 70s. We also then talk about the Western half of the movie, men trying their hand at heroism &amp; the strange brotherhood that creates. We also talk about the ways in which Progress obviates the need for manliness, with good &amp; bad effects...

ACF Middlebrow #17 Jaws

Titus &amp; Terry Teachout celebrate the ACF podcast's first anniversary! The celebrated critic, playwright, musician, joins Titus to discuss Vertigo, Hitchcock's most daring artistic endeavor. We talk about actors, studios, performances, music, the character of the tragedy &amp; the darkness in Hitchcock himself.

ACF Critic #12 Teachout, Vertigo

Titus &amp; Pete Spiliakos talk about politics in the age of the plague--what's so insane about supply-side economics, what it means to think politically &amp; prudentially, what the common good requires, &amp; how to understand our weaknesses &amp; what we may do to deal with them.

ACF PoMoCon #12 Plague Politics

Matt Zoller Seitz

Titus &amp; Matt Zoller Seitz, famed critic, discuss Alex Garland's Annihilation. We go through the beautiful &amp; the weird things en route to MZS's theory of the sci-fi as a cinema of ideas. I add a parallel theory of the horror movie. We talk Kubrick, Malick, Lynch, &amp; Spielberg--on whom more in a future episode--to get at the grandeur of the director-poets who confront the crisis of our time.

ACF Critic #9 Matt Zoller Seitz, Annihilation

Titus &amp; Chris Wolfe talk about our generation's Christmas movie--Die Hard, a story of an unlikely redeemer come in the thick of winter. Seriously, we're talking about the redemption of Sgt. Al Powell, the importance of his friendship with John McClane, &amp; the redemption of America, faced with an elitist temptation.

ACF Middlebrow #34 Die Hard Christmas

Henry Olsen

Titus &amp; Henry Olsen discuss the angry democracy of our times--very high turnout in elections, parties &amp; politicians that cannot get a hold of their electorates, much less represent them, increasing distrust in elections that seem to not even lead to the formation of stable governments, much less sound policy, &amp; the possible path, by way of crisis, to a new majority coalition, &amp; tranquility.

ACF PoMoCon #9 Henry Olsen, Elections!

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