Reacting to the Vanity Fair article on the new right/post-left by James Pogue and the recent speech on “disinformation” by Barack Obama. Oscar Wilde’s aristocratic radicalism as precursor to the post-left. Honor Levy, good and bad avant-gardes, and the new literary conservatism. Media and democracy. How (or whether) to curb social media’s political effects. The persistent threat of technocracy. John explodes at the intellectual left; Sam proposes a theory of masculinity. Why CIA or Peter Thiel funding of cultural vanguardism doesn’t matter; why a healthy society should be able to withstand the ironist. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com