Vital Dissent with Patrick MacFarlane

About Vital Dissent with Patrick MacFarlane

Vital Dissent seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. Topics include: an antiwar foreign policy, historical revisionism, technocracy, eugenics, government & private corruption, & the use & development of propaganda. Host Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. He is a practicing attorney. His work has appeared on Antiwar.com and Zerohedge.

Publisher

Patrick MacFarlane

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 May 2017

Latest episode

6 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 390 episodes have a transcript.

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   6 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Terrence McKenna Warned Us About This Ep. 288

   Things are getting weirder. Vital Dissent website (https://vitaldissent.com/) Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show notes: Terence McKenna 's Final Interview http://www.vitaldissent.com/email

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   11 Aug 2025

   'Gang Weed Conservatism' ft. Marcel Dumas Ep. 287

   Talking with Marcel Dumas about his ‘Gang Weed Conservatism’ series concerning the intertwining of modern conservatism with psychedelics. Vital Dissent website (https://vitaldissent.com/) Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show notes: Marcel Dumas, PhD, IWSB 🇩🇴🇭🇹 (@anarchyinblack) / X (https://x.com/anarchyinblack) Another Notch in the Spine - Vital Dissent Gang Weed Conservatism series (https://mgautreau.substack.com/t/gwc) https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/status/1950980649487044843 Marcel on Kyle Matovcik's show The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline Ep. 271 Pat's StoryGraph account Patrick MacFarlane (@patmacfarlane_) / X (https://x.com/patmacfarlane_) The Libertarian Institute (https://libertarianinstitute.org/)

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   31 Jul 2025

   The Savagery of Man: 'Tender is the Flesh' and 'The Unworthy' Ep. 286

   Sharing my thoughts on Agustina Bazterrica’s ‘Tender is the Flesh,’ and ‘The Unworthy’ Vital Dissent website (https://vitaldissent.com/) Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show notes: Tender is the Flesh (https://amzn.to/4kZVzlr) The Unworthy (https://amzn.to/3J81Ais) Pat's StoryGraph account Patrick MacFarlane (@patmacfarlane_) / X (https://x.com/patmacfarlane_) The Libertarian Institute (https://libertarianinstitute.org/)

Inside a recent episode

Terrence McKenna Warned Us About This Ep. 288

Published 6 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So that was one of my insights. Coming out of that insight was the further understanding that this process of complexification through time is not proceeding at a steady rate. It actually follows a kind of asymptotic curve. In other words, it's happening faster and faster. And this was a revelation to me because it allowed me philosophically to contextualize the human world and to understand that human technologies, languages, migrations, art movements, ideologies are not something different from nature. They're the same download of process that we see in the movement of continents, the evolution of new species of animals, except that these human novel emergent situations are happening much more quickly. […]

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YouTube views

89,753

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

57 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100

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93

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

92

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