The Jim Rutt Show

Recent Episodes

EP 296 Ashley Hodgson on Economic Mythology and System Change

Posted April 15, 2025 •

Jim talks with Ashley Hodgson about her YouTube series "The New Enlightenment" and its heterodox perspectives on economics and social systems. They...

EP 295 John Robb on How a Networked Organization Blitzed D.C.

Posted March 31, 2025 • 00:58:08

Jim talks with John Robb about the ideas in his recent essay "Blitzing DC," about how a networked organization took over Washington. They discuss the...

EP 294 Timothy Clancy on an AI Cold War

Posted March 28, 2025 • 01:15:31

Jim talks with Timothy Clancy about wicked mess problems & the potential for a new Cold War centered on AI. They discuss the evolution from chat-based...

EP 293 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Cosmic Teleology and Emergence Vectors

Posted March 25, 2025 • 01:15:50

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey, picking up on a disagreement they had on Facebook about the teleology of the universe. They discuss Aristotle's...

EP 292 Emil Ejner Friis on Building a Listening Society

Posted March 18, 2025 •

Jim talks with Emil Ejner Friis about political metamodernism and what comes after postmodernism. They discuss the "woke vacuum" & its failure to...