FBT co-founder Michael DC Bowen describes his ideological journey from talented tenth Black Nationalist to card carrying Republican to stoic. In this discussion with host Connie Morgan, Mike makes the case that discovery, humor and reason should be your guide.
Stuff referenced in this episode:
Mike’s substack: Stoic Observations
Mike’s Twitter: @mdcbowen
Mike’s website: mdcbowen.org
Mike’s “Black Suffering,” in the Journal of Free Black Thought
Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers (Mike is contributing to Part II to be released this Fall)
Eugene O’Neill Inspiration: The Emperor Jones
Thomas Sowell Inspiration: The Economics of Politics and Race: An International Perspective and Ethnic America
Yukio Mishima Inspiration: Patriotism
Yukio Mishima biography: The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes
The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America by John Langston Gwaltney
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
Blog: Lesswrong
Blog: Astral Codex Ten
Conspiracy Mike Low-key believes is true: Panspermia
Best book Mike has read this year: The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin’s Russia by Robert Baer
Podcast Theme Music by JoDavi
Ep. 7 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Stoic (Michael DC Bowen)