This podcast episode explores the shifting landscape of academia, the challenges faced by history professors, the rise of conservative muckrakers, and the power dynamics within progressive institutions. It delves into the tensions between addressing racial disparities and individual fairness, the influence of figures like Mike Solana in shaping the tech industry, the need for intellectual conservatives, the factions within the left, and the complexities of class problems and wokeness institutionalization. The episode concludes with a discussion on the perception of the working class among conservatives and the quest for a new term that encompasses conservatives and embraces the future.