The Currency: a podcast about the ideas that matter.

My run for Charleston City Council is over after months of campaigning, an election, a runoff race, and a second election.

It’s the home stretch of my run for office, but I miss the mic. Here’s an update on the race and specifically how my opponents on the left have been trying to smear me. It should be illegal to have this much fun.

It’s official—I’ve entered politics. Listen in to get all the details on my decision to run for Charleston City Council. You can check out my campiagn website here: https://votemikegastin.com.

In this episode I speak with Myron Weber about his thoughts on strengths, weaknesses, and career. Check out Myron’s company, Northwood Advisors.

This is the fifth in our multipart series on Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. In this episode I talk about the move to re-divinate temporal power and representative government, the heretical ideas of Joachim of Flora, and how Gnosticism is the driving idea behind modern politics. Listen to previous episode in the series:…

Some observations of Lancaster, PA and the changes I have noticed over the six years I have been regularly visiting. Please consider supporting my work.

This is the fourth in our multipart series on Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. In this episode I talk about the soteriological society and how it took over Rome. Listen to previous episode in the series: Also, you can donate to the show if you’d like to support my work.

This is the third in our multipart series on Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. In this episode I talk about the anthropological principle, the psyche (or the soul), and how these connect society to the transcendent.

A continuation of our series on Eric Voegelin’s seminal work. The New Science of Politics. In this episode we talk about the concept of cosmological representation in societies.

This is the first in a multi-part series on Eric Voegelin’s groundbreaking work, “The New Science of Politics”. In it Mike begins with an introduction and talks about the idea of representative government.