We discuss Dugin and the critique of liberalism,  Steelmanning Dugin and misconceptions on classical liberalism, liberalism is built on something deeper, holding polarities and extremes, enculturation and Bildung, essentialism vs anti essentialism, Whitehead’s needle threading middle way, ontological divides in the culture wars, R.R Reno’s critique of Popper’s liberalism, Steiner’s social three folding theory, Verumelue’s common good constitutionalism, the dominance of the economic sphere in America,  the government can’t fix everything (including racism),  can government do something good? diaphanous anti-racism and fallacies of misplaced concreteness, the problems with “whiteness”, universal vs specific programs (reparations debate),  A viable path forward for the left/Democrats??, who are the Dems gonna run in 2024??, various nightmare scenarios, designing a perfect political leader, can we have an “us” without a “them?”, hate players instead of games, should government regulate social media?