My friend Peachy Keenan, famous on Twitter as the spirited voice of the American mom, is headed for celebrity with her just published tract for the times, Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide To Winning The Culture War (Regnery), in the cause of helping strengthen the confidence & embellishing the humor of middle-class America in face of the left-wing institutional attack on children, the family, & America’s past.
So I interviewed her about her book, her own transformation from a liberal atheist, educated in elite schools & working elite corporate jobs, to falling in love, marrying, having kids, homeschooling them, & converting to Catholicism. We also talked about the disadvantages conservatives face in the culture—partly because of abandonment, partly because there’s little organizing & less money—& how to deal with those disadvantages. Peachy’s success on social media & as an author is inspiring, but also something of a blueprint for how to achieve something if you want to stand up for America.
We also took advantage of the podcast format to think at length about the character of the moral & psychological problems we’re facing & tried out some ideas about how to understand & to fix some aspects of American life.
You can also see Peachy interviewed by Megyn Kelly, as well as on FOX & other rightwing channels.
This is just one more reason why the homeschool curriculum that I'm helping to create is the long-term solution to all of this madness: https://fathomthegood.com/
Great podcast, although minor point, I think Peachy is wrong about unicorns. Whatever weirdo message about the symbolic meaning of unicorns is out there for teens and young adults, I can report from my subbing experience that virtually every other little girl K-to-2nd is a fan of unicorns and it's entirely innocent. There's no awareness of whatever weirdo message awaits later. Nor do I think that a 14 or 15 year old girl who remembers liking unicorns is made more open to the weirdo stuff when it comes in "unicorn's clothing." Not quite equivalent to the rainbow thing--and it is hilarious and sad to hear Peachy relate her necessary lessons about "that's the bad kind of rainbow," and this is the "good kind."
On another point, Peachy might like my stuff on Pieper's festivity book from last summer. The proggies really are becoming the party of no-fun, slovenly-not-cool, miserableness.