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!
Episode 28 : Subcultural Dynamics and the Art Right with Rachel Haywire