In this episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with Rachel Haywire, an independent artist and salonnière who spent much of the Alt Right era as a fellow traveler of the movement, often describing herself as a “renegade Jew.”
These days she writes about futurism / art / philosophy at The Cultural Futurist, and is also the author of The New Art Right, which she describes as a “dark journey through the underworld towards the enlightenment of Dark Bohemia.”
Topics include:
- Walt asks Rachel how to pronounce oeuvre
- The esoteric philosophy of Leo Strauss and its influence over The National Review and the origins of the neoconservative movement
- Walt’s 2015 Disney parody about the National Review’s tendency to “purge” dissident right wing intellectuals like John Derbyshire for wrongthink
- Rachel’s admiration for Nick Fuentes as a comedian
- Are all women Straussians?
- Rachel’s disdain for the extreme spiritualism / propensity for conspiracy theories among the hippie girls who have come into the right since Covid-19.
- Rachel’s participation in the NYC hipster culture of the early 2010s
- Rachel’s decision to leave Hebrew school after not being taught what it means
- Rachel recites the Hebrew alphabet
- Rachel’s early alienation from other Jews due to her disdain for materialism
- Rachel’s desire to solve the JQ via The Jewish Answer—forming a coalition between white nationalists and Jews against third worldist student protestors
- How Rachel simultaneously thinks of herself as both White and Jewish
- Is there a connection between the words “Ashkenazi” and “Nazi?”
- Modern wignats would get the Ernst Röhm treatment
- Rachel’s affiliation with Dimes Square and the “post left” and her disdain for the clout chasing and irony poisoning of the Red Scare community
- How Walt learned the powers of mean girls from the Red Scare subreddit
- How both Walt and Rachel are able to connect different subcultures because they themselves don’t fit in anywhere
- The importance of Rachel’s friend Raven Connolly appearing on Spencer’s podcast
- How Rachel was canceled a decade ago after appearing on Spencer’s podcast
- Will liberals start pretending to be racist anons to get doxxed for clout?
- How both Rachel and Walt grew disenchanted with normie whites during Covid
- Should Walt Bismarck become a rabbi?
- High density of Jews in the old Alt Right
- How the post left gentrified the Alt Right
- The large number of Zoomer girls who imitate Dasha
- The trend of young Millennials getting an undercut in imitation of Spencer
- Richard Spencer bought Rachel a drink in 2015 and they discussed Depeche Mode
- The Hanania / Cofnas push to build “elite human capital” on the right
- John Arcto’s article criticizing the “EHC Right” which identified Walt and Rachel as the leaders of this faction—was this categorization impulse legit?
- There seems to be an impulse on the intellectual right to cross-pollinate
- To what extent does Rachel center the goal of developing elite human capital?
- The last few years in the DR have been extremely boring and Walt wants to get them talking to each other
- The neofolk music Rachel grew up with was much edgier than Alt Right content
- Walt is too autistic to understand spirituality
- Rachel’s early collaboration with Raven Connolly
- Rachel’s personal experience with neurolinguistic programming
- Was Rachel the original bridge between the Alt Right and Silicon Valley?
- Rachel’s memory of 9/11 as a college student
- The theory of Walt’s girlfriend that kids born starting in 2022 are retarded and anxious due to epigenetic impact of 9/11
- Rachel’s history getting Thielbucks for innovative startups long before the post left first emerged and stole all the valor
- Building a movement (as opposed to a scene) is a giant pain in the ass
- Pearl Davis and Andrew Tate as cultivated characters
- Integrating consulting with writing and podcasting is huge for Substack
- Rachel’s “reactionary libertinism” is similar to Walt’s “reactionary degeneracy”
- Infanticide is the way of the world
- Autism produced consensual non consent
- Zoomers are too agreeable and unable to handle conflict in the moment
- Walt and Rachel agree it should be illegal to lie your way into a girl’s pants
- Should women stab guys who pump and dump them?
- Walt’s theory that women are developing mass trauma due to early thelarche and proliferation of widespread porn
- Rachel’s memory of young girls her age getting pregnant for clout
- Rachel’s disdain for “sex cults”
- Trans ideology is inherently gender essentialist
- Walt’s hot take that trans women are good for heteronormative straight men because they make normal cisgendered women more feminine and reduce cultural influence of tomboys
- Walt’s article arguing that pro-lifers are murdering babies.
- Walt’s new ideology of Intersectional Identitarianism
Closing song is “Right Wing Progressive Re-Enchantment”—a collaborative project between Rachel and Walt!
