The Auron MacIntyre Show

The Auron MacIntyre Show is a live political broadcast, streamed on YouTube and then released as a podcast, hosted by Auron MacIntyre, who also turns up on Blaze TV coverage. Several streams open with a plug for other Blaze TV programming before the topic begins. The greeting is casual and the delivery is conversational, but the show is organized around one argument that MacIntyre keeps sharpening from different angles: that liberalism makes nations fragile. Some episodes are straight news reaction. One starts from what he calls an insane weekend for the Trump administration, with Trump battling the pope and endorsing Lindsey Graham, whom MacIntyre dismisses as the swamp embodied. Another, with guest J. Burden, turns on the idea that a handful of Republicans betraying voters on immigration is enough to convince ordinary voters the party will never punish its own, while deportations get pushed below the radar and political capital goes to an unpopular war in Iran. Other episodes leave the news cycle almost immediately. 'A Liberal Guide to National Suicide' opens on Spain's plan to legalize 500,000 migrants, recalls the centuries Spain spent on the Reconquista and the decades under Franco, and then asks why, if liberalism weakens nations, it came to dominate the most powerful ones. The answer MacIntyre works toward is that civilizations accumulate low-time-preference behaviors, encode them in religion, language, song and institutions until they become invisible, and then find those same habits make cooperation with outsiders hard, so a small, tight-knit society is eventually out-competed by larger ones. That is the theoretical spine of the show, and it is why a Machiavelli reading series sits comfortably next to an episode on H-1B visas. MacIntyre is working through The Prince in order with his audience, on the grounds that it is short, familiar by reputation and rarely actually read. There is a playlist on the YouTube channel for anyone following from the start, though he says each installment carries its own self-contained lesson. 'Machiavelli: How Virtue Can Ruin a Prince' picks up after Machiavelli's discussion of mercenaries and stays on the idea that a ruler must win under his own sword and control the monopoly on violence. Guests appear on some streams. Sara Gonzales, introduced as MacIntyre's colleague at The Blaze, brings footage from her H-1B investigation: a company approved for 27 visas whose listed address is a residential home. He frames that kind of fieldwork as exposing how obvious and lazy the visa schemes are. The Tucker Carlson episode shows the method applied to someone else's interview. Rather than relitigate the Huckabee exchange on Israel, MacIntyre pulls out what he reads as Carlson's search for a universal principle, the same questions about who has a right to a land now being asked about Britishness and about what it means to be an American. The titles are combative: 'Violent Immigrants Are Terrorizing America', 'H-1B Invasion: How India Is Transforming the US', 'Con Inc. Deserves Candace Owens'. That last one makes the case that Owens is herself a creation of what MacIntyre calls conservatism incorporated. A listener gets a consistent worldview applied in real time to the news, plus a slow, guided read of a classic text. Anyone who wants the theory without the news cycle can start with the Machiavelli playlist; anyone who wants the news can start with the newest stream.