<![CDATA[Stuart Parker's Substack: Los Altos Course Archive]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/s/los-altos-course-archivehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LOtZ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5bb3b32-395b-49c3-8946-6d93af8fd02e_1280x1280.pngStuart Parker's Substack: Los Altos Course Archivehttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/s/los-altos-course-archiveSubstackSat, 25 Apr 2026 08:44:01 GMT<![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #13: Course Conclusion]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-c33https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-c33Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:47:55 GMTIn the final episode we discuss the crisis in One BC, vanguardism and end on figural typology in historical thought.

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #12: Land, Borders, Migration and Idle Chatter]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-71bhttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-71bTue, 17 Feb 2026 13:27:39 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #11: The Bannonite Parties Part II]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-032https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-032Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:10:34 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #10: The Proto- and Early Bannonite Parties]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-15fhttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-15fMon, 16 Feb 2026 01:45:29 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #09: Bush's Huntington vs. Trump's]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-1c0https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-1c0Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:21:35 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #08: Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-e88https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-e88Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:52:38 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #07: The End of History]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-d3ehttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-d3eSat, 14 Feb 2026 22:02:26 GMTIn this episode, we discuss the intellectual environment that produced Francis Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man, setting the table for the beginning of neo-Spenglerism in Clash of Civilizations.

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #6 - The Lecture That Was Not]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-2ddhttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-2ddSat, 14 Feb 2026 11:40:34 GMTIn this episode, I scrub my plan for the lecture on a thing that did not happen.

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #05: Spengler and the Nazis]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-8e3https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-8e3Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:29:08 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #04: Decline of the West, Volume Two]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-e79https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-e79Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:11:33 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #03: Decline of the West, Volume One]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-3c0https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-3c0Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:08:18 GMTI generally do not send out course archive episodes via e-mail but this one is pretty much all new material and it helps to explain some of the key insights and ideas from original Spenglerism that are generally lost to us today.

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #02: The Political Context of Decline of the West]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-1cehttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episode-1ceMon, 19 Jan 2026 15:51:57 GMT

]]><![CDATA[The Return of Oswald Spengler - Episode #01: The Historical Context of Oswald Spengler]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episodehttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-return-of-oswald-spengler-episodeSun, 18 Jan 2026 15:49:35 GMTThis course examines the thinking of Oswald Spengler, its repression in the post-war era and its resurgence through modern conservative thinkers, Samuel Huntington and Steve Bannon.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #13: Violence monopolies, oligopolies and contracting out]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-60ehttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-60eSun, 07 Sep 2025 23:06:22 GMTThis is the final episode of Los Altos’ thirteen-episode course on the fall and rise of authoritarianism in Canada. You can now download all thirteen episodes of this an a dozen other Los Altos courses here—and only here—on Substack.

I will not be regularly updating the mailing list on new course uploads. If you want to stay on top of Los Altos content, I encourage you to join Los Altos’ mailing list.

While the episodes do work as stand-alone lectures, the courses are incremental and terms and concepts introduced in previous classes will be referenced again; so I recommend that if you want to listen to LAI course material, start with the course’s first episode.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #12: Church ladies, Pharma and paranoid societies]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-44chttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-44cSat, 06 Sep 2025 21:40:47 GMTThis class examines the importance of volunteers in running an authoritarian system and the role of paranoia and stimulant use in reinforcing authoritarian thought.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #11: Taiwan, Scotland and Neo-Ottomanism]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-cc8https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-cc8Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:03:19 GMTWe examine the role of “post-national nationalism” in leavening authoritarianism.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #10: The Third Great Awakening and the Polynesian System]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-990https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-990Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:53:34 GMTThis class covers two distinct subjects: the Third Great Awakening and Wokeness as a social movement and the undemocratic character of Canada’s land reform project.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #9: The Syndical Nature of Canadian Society]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-044https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-044Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:19:08 GMTThis is the replacement of a missing lecture revisiting and amplifying key themes from the secularization class.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #8: Global Authoritarianism and the Return of the Commissars]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-86dhttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-86dSat, 06 Sep 2025 19:10:57 GMTIn this lecture, we place Canadian authoritarianism in a global twenty-first-century context.

]]><![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of Authoritarianism in Canada - Episode #7: Harperism's omnibus bills, candidate vetting and preference falsification]]>https://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-5eahttps://stuartparkersblog.substack.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-authoritarianism-5eaSat, 06 Sep 2025 18:49:47 GMTThis section focuses on the Stephen Harper government’s attacks on democratic norms within both parties and legislatures.

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