Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz
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Audio and video

On air since 2004

Audio and videoThinking out loud

Interviews, lectures, debates and panels on television, radio and podcasts, in parliaments and at universities: from Deutsche Welle and France Culture to the European Parliament, from Spain’s Cuatro and TV3 to the University of Warsaw. Over 230 recordings, arranged so that you can quickly find what you are looking for. Most are in Spanish.

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Highlights

Highlights

Six recordings that give a quick sense of my work: from an interview with a head of government to a conversation with the president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.

La Gaceta de la Iberosfera · 2025

Interview with Viktor Orbán

Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Madrid: Spain, Europe, identity and the world of Trump’s second term.

Media

Where you may see or hear me

A selection of the broadcasters, channels and institutions that have invited me.

Television and radio

  • Deutsche Welle
  • France Culture
  • Cuatro
  • TV3
  • Castilla y León Televisión
  • El Toro TV
  • esRadio
  • COPE
  • Onda Madrid
  • Radio Libertad
  • Libertad FM
  • Informa Radio
  • Radio Sierra

Press and online channels

  • The Objective
  • Libertad Digital
  • El Debate
  • La Gaceta de la Iberosfera
  • Periodista Digital
  • ViOne Media
  • Wall Street Wolverine
  • Agustín Laje
  • La ContraCrónica
  • Un Tío Blanco Hetero
  • Jano García
  • Terra Ignota
  • Jorge Benito
  • Santiago Armesilla
  • La Sacristía de La Vendée
  • Fortunata y Jacinta
  • Quorvm Podcast
  • Extremo Centro
  • Bipartidismo Stream

Parliaments, universities and institutions

  • Spanish Congress of Deputies
  • European Parliament
  • Parliament of Romania
  • Cortes de Aragón
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Belgrade
  • National University of Colombia
  • University Complutense of Madrid
  • Autonomous University of Madrid
  • University Carlos III of Madrid
  • UNED
  • University CEU San Pablo
  • Ateneo de Madrid
  • Círculo de Bellas Artes
  • Casa de América
  • Instituto Juan de Mariana
  • Edmund Burke Foundation
Most watched

Most watched

My ten most-viewed recordings on YouTube, setting aside election nights and commentary too closely tied to current events.

  1. 1

    The quite particular marriage between islamism and leftism

    Agustín Laje · 2026over 210,000 views
  2. 2

    How the new right is challenging the system

    Wall Street Wolverine · 2025over 155,000 views
  3. 3

    Woke ideology and the moral collapse of the West

    Jorge Benito · 2023over 110,000 views
  4. 4

    Why do people keep voting for Sánchez’s PSOE?

    Periodista Digital · 2023over 100,000 views
  5. 5

    Progressivism: the ideology of the West’s suicide

    CEU-CEFAS · 2022over 95,000 views
  6. 6

    The PSOE state of mind

    Un Tío Blanco Hetero · 2022over 90,000 views
  7. 7

    Café Vienés with Santiago Abascal

    The Objective · 2019over 75,000 views
  8. 8

    A conversation with Jano García

    Jano García · 2023over 75,000 views
  9. 9

    “For woke thinking, reconciliation does not exist”

    El Debate · 2022over 60,000 views
  10. 10

    You are the new enemy

    La ContraCrónica · 2022over 50,000 views

Figures as of October 2026.

Archive

All recordings

241 recordings, from newest to oldest. You may filter by format, or search for a topic, a person or a program.

202619 recordings
Oct 20

Conversation with Agustín Laje about Islamo-leftism and the threat it poses to Europe, in light of the riots experienced in France and other countries.

Oct 14

My plenary address at the NatCon Jerusalem 2026 congress, organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation, on Ceuta and the Virtue of Borders: Lessons for Us All

Oct 1

Conversation about Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints with Cristina Sol on El Termómetro on Informa Radio

Sep 29

Interview with Javi Cabello on his channel, Quorvm Podcast, about The elites' plan to ruin Spain: the harsh reality

Sep 3

Guest on A fondo, Deutsche Welle’s Spanish-language program, discussing the upcoming state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where Alternative für Deutschland is expected to do very well: Is AfD the end of the political center?

Aug 30

Conversation on the La Sacristía de la Vendée channel about Ceuta and the order of charity: should we help our own first?, with Jesús Francisco Molina, parish vicar of the Shrine of Santa María de África in Ceuta.

Jul 17

Presentation of the novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, whose epilogue I have written, together with Kiko Méndez-Monasterio, author of its prologue, at the ISSEP summer course in San Lorenzo del Escorial.

Jul 10

Interview on Álvaro Buxens’s channel Cuenta Atrás: el camino a la felicidad, titled The hard truth about Success and Happiness that 95% of people won’t accept.

Jun 30

Dialogue with Archbishop Luis Argüello of Valladolid in the round table The Valladolid Debate: spiritual commitment, legal foundation, part of the Third Conference on the Valladolid Debate: “From Isabella the Catholic to the Valladolid Debate. The Crown of Castile and the debate that changed the world: Power, Law and Justice,” held at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid.

Jun 22

Interview on Torbe’s channel Iconoclastias, titled Analyzing wokeism.

Jun 8

Panel on the program Objetivo Directo, titled The Pope lectures Congress, hosted by Marcos Ondarra, with Esperanza Aguirre, Carlos Dávila and Jasiel Paris Álvarez.

Jun 7

Panel in the Contrapoder episode The Pope in Spain, hosted by Carlos Padilla, with Pablo Mariñoso, José Miguel Beldad and León Gómez Rivas, on ViOne Media.

May 12

Interview on the Razones Podcast channel, titled Why are so many young people believing in God again?, on religion, artificial intelligence and other philosophical and theological matters.

May 8

Interview on Oceanosophia, Alberto de Zunzunegui Balbín’s program on Radio Libertad, titled On the inner journey.

Apr 23

Lecture on my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante, at the invitation of the Pompaelo Association, at the Colegio Mayor Larraona in Pamplona.

Mar 5

Interview on the La Sacristía de La Vendée channel about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Feb 24

Interview with Alfonso Rojo on Periodista Digital about current political affairs.

Jan 25

Interview on the Sentido Común Podcast channel on religion, politics and philosophy.

Jan 23

Conversation with Professor José María Ortega Sánchez about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante, as part of the fifth edition of the Utraque Unum series at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Mexico).

202529 recordings
Dec 5

Conversation with Javi Marenas on his channel about Why the Council of Nicaea matters.

Dec 4

Public dialogue with Kiko Méndez-Monasterio at the third edition of Conversations on Europe, organized by MEP Juan Carlos Girauta, on Woke victimhood and intersectionality.

Nov 21

Public dialogue with Eduardo Infante on Loneliness amid political rancor, at the Eighth Philosophy Festival, “Self-imposed solitude,” held at the La Malagueta Cultural Center in Málaga.

Nov 19

Discussion with Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante on The Gaza war and the Church’s stance on today’s conflicts, organized by CEU-CEFAS.

Nov 9

Conversation with Pedro Herrero Mestre on his channel Extremo Centro about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante and the themes it keeps returning to: philosophy, politics and religion.

Sep 14

Address for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, delivered in the Chapel of the Vera Cruz in Salamanca before the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of the Redeemer and of the Immaculate Conception, His Mother.

Aug 10

Conversation on the Wall Street Wolverine channel (Víctor Domínguez), titled How the new right is challenging the system.

Jul 31

Interview with Santiago Armesilla on his program Entrevistas en el sofá: “In post-PSOE Spain, patriotism will be the foundation.”

Jul 12

Interview with Sergio Fidalgo in elCatalán about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Jul 6

Interview on the Terra Ignota channel, titled Learning from interesting people, focused mainly on my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Jul 2

Interview on Mario Noya’s program ELE ¡Será por libros! on Bipartidismo Stream about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Jun 27

Interview with Rafael Nieto on En clave nacional, on Bipartidismo Stream, about ISSEP: an education for today’s world.

Jun 15

Interview with Álvaro Bernad on his program Cara a cara on ViOne Media, titled The road to faith.

Jun 14

Interview with Josué Cárdenas on his program Cancelados on Periodista Digital about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Jun 10

Interview with Cake Minuesa on his channel about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

Jun 6

Interview with José Papparelli on his program Una hora en libertad, on Informa Radio (Estado de Alarma TV), about my book Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante.

May 8

The philosophy behind the 2030 Agenda, an interview published on the Terra Ignota channel.

May 2

Interview with the Argentine journalist Darío Mizrahi, titled The West turned victims into gods.

Apr 24Congreso de los Diputadoscongreso.es

Talk titled Why does freedom of expression matter? on the legal and political panel of the Conference on Freedom of Expression, organized by the Vox Parliamentary Group in the Clara Campoamor Room of Spain’s Congress of Deputies (my talk starts 37 minutes in).

Apr 11

Lecture on The PSOE state of mind, given at the Zigia28 Civic Center in Madrid and organized by Vanguardia Española.

Apr 3

Lecture on The twilight of the West at the Free Market Road Show, held at the Casa de la Contratación in Seville.

Mar 7

Opening lecture at the 27th International Pro-Life Congress, “From the womb,” held in the Great Hall of Universidad San Pablo CEU and organized by the Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations.

Feb 28

Interview with Agustín Laje analyzing Germany’s Bundestag election of February 23, 2025, and the coalition deals announced afterward: What happened to the right in Germany?

Feb 22

Interview with José Papparelli on his program Una hora en libertad, on Informa Radio (Estado de Alarma TV), about A change of era and the challenges facing conservatism.

Feb 14Congreso de los Diputadoscongreso.es

Round table Guarding the gates of Europe: the Hungarian migration model, organized by the Center for Fundamental Rights in the Ernest Lluch Room of Spain’s Congress of Deputies (my contribution starts at 42:07). Owing to some “error,” the video cannot be played on the Congress website, but it can be downloaded from there.

Feb 14

My interview in Madrid with Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, for La Gaceta de la Iberosfera: his view of Spain, of the world in Donald Trump’s second term as US president, of Europe, of identity and of Javier Milei.

Feb 12

Lecture at the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, originally titled “The challenge facing the Catholic student in today’s world.”

Jan 29

My contribution to the Second MEGA Congress (Make Europe Great Again), held at the European Parliament in Brussels by the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group and Romania’s AUR party. My panel: “United we Stand, Divided we Fall – the Future of European Nations.”

Jan 16

My talk on the ¡Menuda inventada! channel with Fran Carrillo and Miguel Serrano: The PSOE has brainwashed people.

202424 recordings
Dec 15

Episode 246 of the Terra Ignota channel, Laughing with Quintana Paz, on humor: what do we laugh at? Where are its limits? What is the essence of “the comic”?

Dec 2

Talk ahead of the Thinkglao organized by It’s Time To Think in Salamanca, on what forgiveness really means and the substitutes often passed off as it.

Nov 25

Conversation with Javi Marenas on his channel about a Spain losing its backbone, and the linguistic devices used to condition our thinking (YouTube, fittingly, attached a climate-change notice to the video, lest you think what you shouldn’t).

Oct 27

Talk on the El rincón de Aquiles channel about philosophy, politics and the fight for truth in the 21st century.

Sep 19

Debate with Francisco José Contreras on the question Are we still living in the ideological battle of the Cold War?, held at Universidad Francisco Marroquín and organized by the Centro Diego de Covarrubias.

Sep 19

Interview on the Minuto CientoZero channel on Christianity, the rationality of God’s existence, multiculturalism, Islam, religion and politics, technocracy and more.

Sep 5

Panelist on A fondo, on Germany’s Deutsche Welle (Spanish-language service), in a discussion titled AfD’s victory spells hard times for Olaf Scholz’s government.

Jul 22

A short dialogue, as author of the foreword, with Jorge Escohotado, editor of the new edition of Antonio Escohotado’s De physis a polis.

Jul 15

Interview on Carlos Padilla’s El Purgatorio, in The Objective, on religion, politics and more.

Jul 13

Interview on La Voz de Karina Mariani: Can Europe’s decline be halted? We discuss the recent European, British and French elections and what they mean for the course of our civilization.

Jun 10

Live broadcast with Agustín Laje analyzing the European Parliament elections of June 9, 2024: The new right sweeps Europe.

May 30

Talk at Casamata with the Herqles channel on The challenges facing young people at this moment in European civilization.

May 26

Round table on La posmodernidad en jaque, by Julio Borges and Javier Ormazabal, with the authors.

Apr 28

My address at the First MEGA Meeting (Make Europe Great Again), organized by Romania’s AUR party at the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest.

Apr 24

Thinkglao 82, with 200 young people in Seville, organized by It’s time to think, on The three pillars of our civilization and why they are in danger.

Apr 23

Conversation on Religious cinema on José Antonio García López’s channel, discussing The Last Temptation of Christ (M. Scorsese), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (P. P. Pasolini), The Passion of the Christ (M. Gibson), Ben-Hur (W. Wyler) and the series The Chosen (D. Jenkins).

Apr 18

PieEnPared talk with Juan Carlos Girauta.

Apr 13

Conversation on The Church and illegal immigration on the Quaerere Veritatem channel, with Rubén Pulido and the priests Juan Manuel Góngora and Francisco José Delgado.

Apr 12

Debate Libertarians, liberals and conservatives: allies or enemies?, organized by the Austrian Libertarian Association at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, with Hermenegildo Altozano and Almudena Negro.

Mar 10

Conversation with Gabriela Camuñas, Adrián Zapatera and the hosts of Terra Ignota on Political leadership, and in particular on how ISSEP Madrid sets out to train political leaders.

Feb 24

Discussion on La Orden Podcast about The Catholic Church, its Lutheranization and other run-of-the-mill matters.

Jan 24

Conversation with the priest Javier Vicens, in which we try to explain each part of the Christian Creed: I believe in God the Father; in Jesus Christ; in the Holy Spirit; and in the Church.

Jan 13

Lecture on National November: toward a philosophical theory of the Spanish revolt, at the Fundación Santiago Pérez Gago in Salamanca.

Jan 12

Conversation on Javi Marenas’s channel: Thinking differently, on the culture war, spiritual warfare, the Church, Spain and much more.

202336 recordings
Nov 24

Conversation with Jorge Benito: The sudden awakening of a sleeping Spain, on the protests against the PSOE’s coalition pact, also known as National November or the “Ferraz protests.”

Nov 8

Talk on the YouTube channel Ahonda, titled The salt of the earth, not the sugar, on consensus and dissent in Christendom.

Nov 6

Round table Conservatism against the progressive hegemony of the mass media, with Albino-Mario Fantini and Ferenc Almássy, at the Congress “Conservatism today: defending freedoms, traditions and culture,” organized by CEFAS-CEU and The European Conservative.

Oct 24

Interview on El Rincón de Aquiles about Christianity and its relationship with Stoicism and science, among other things.

Oct 20

Closing lecture of the Seventh International Congress “Authors in Search of an Author,” at the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: God after God. Or literary warnings about the impossibility of a Christianity without Christ.

Sep 10

My contribution to Soft Power, Frédéric Martel’s program on French public radio France Culture, in the episode devoted to Spain, second part (from 49:11; my own contribution starts at 1:17:20). Other guests: Federico Jiménez Losantos, Pío Moa, Juan Carlos Monedero, Arancha González Laya, Marc Bassets and Jordi Gracia. More on the episode at Radio France.

Aug 13

Interview in Vidas cruzadas, David Mejía’s series in The Objective, about my life and intellectual path, and more topical matters.

Aug 8

Making sense of the July 23 election: an interview with the Argentine journalist Karina Mariani, which also covers the parallels between Argentina and Spain and the loss of what we used to call “common sense.”

Jul 22

On La Biblioteca, Fernando Bonete’s program on El Toro TV, discussing Roger Scruton’s Green Philosophy.

Jun 22

Beyond consensus, my paper at the Third Congress of the Foro de Profesores, held at Universidad CEU San Pablo, on why it no longer makes sense in Spain to appeal to a supposed “political consensus”… that is in fact already broken.

Jun 11

Interview with Antonio Valdez for the channel El Mercurio Ahora o Nunca: “Imposing a single universal religion: a religion without God.”

Jun 8

Round table The concept of postmodernity, with Mario Domínguez (UCM), Commander Federico Aznar López-Montesinos and Lieutenant Colonel Andrés González Martín, chaired by Major General Alfredo Sanz y Calabria, in the series Postmodernity and its risks, organized by the Fundación Valsaín and the Academy of Military Arts and Sciences at the Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce, Segovia.

May 29

Special broadcast Snap election: what is Pedro Sánchez up to? on Jano García’s channel, with Fernando Díaz Villanueva and Juan Ramón Rallo.

May 28

Live broadcast on Jano García’s channel on the night of the municipal and regional elections, with Dani de Fernando, Javier Martínez-Fresneda and Ramón Vega.

May 21

Talk with Jorge Benito on his channel about Woke ideology and the moral collapse of the West.

May 11

My interview with the Italian philosopher Diego Fusaro (in Italian, with Spanish subtitles) about his book El fin del cristianismo. La muerte de Dios en tiempos del mercado global y del papa Francisco, for The Objective.

May 9

Talk with Gonzalo Rodríguez on his YouTube channel El aullido del lobo about Thinking against woke culture.

May 8

The Future of Europe, a documentary produced by New Direction and presented by the Fundación Disenso, on the EU bureaucracy’s hostility to the sovereignty of its member nations. Also featuring many MEPs from the ECR group, such as Jorge Buxadé, Hermann Tertsch, Martin Helme, Aurelian Pavalescu and Rob Roos.

Apr 27

Opening paper, Communicating the legacy of Christendom today, at the 17th Catholics and Public Life Conference, “We propose the faith. We hand on a legacy,” organized by the Catholic Association of Propagandists in Jerez.

Apr 25

Lecture The end of Christendom. A dialogue at a turning point in history, at the Ibercaja Cultural Center in Logroño, organized by La Bitácora XXI.

Apr 23

Talk with Jano García on his YouTube channel: are multicultural societies viable? Is it a sign of special intelligence to notice that flags are “mere rags”? Plus the “happy Spain” before the March 11 attacks, and ISSEP Madrid.

Apr 21

Dialogue with Jesús Bengoechea, Jesús Vega and Jorge Escohotado at Madrid’s Night of Books, during the tribute to Fernando Sánchez Dragó and Antonio Escohotado, titled Books and Freedom.

Apr 21

Dialogue with Fernando Díaz Villanueva and Jorge Escohotado at Madrid’s Night of Books, during the tribute to Fernando Sánchez Dragó and Antonio Escohotado, titled Books and Freedom.

Apr 21

Dialogue with Daniel Lacalle and Jorge Escohotado at Madrid’s Night of Books, during the tribute to Fernando Sánchez Dragó and Antonio Escohotado, titled Books and Freedom.

Apr 13

Interview on the A la de Tres channel: When victims become oppressors.

Apr 13

With Santiago Armesilla on his YouTube channel: What is the PSOE state of mind?

Apr 10

Interview with La Antorcha: Ten keys to understanding why animal-rights ideology is a problem.

Mar 26

Round table Young people and today’s world: Spain and Hungary, with Zsofia Racz and Jorge Buxadé, at the ECR Campus in Zaragoza.

Mar 25

Lecture How to be Catholic (even if you don’t believe in God) at the First Fortunata y Jacinta Conference, “Spain and Catholicism,” held at the Hotel Ilunión Alcalá in Madrid.

Mar 17

Interview on La segunda dosis, Rebeca Crespo’s program on Periodista Digital: why people keep voting for Sánchez’s PSOE, what ISSEP Madrid offers, and more.

Mar 1

Interview on Pablo Franco’s channel: Postmodernity, wokeism, regenerationists and… National Catholicism?

Feb 20

Conversation with Vanessa Kaiser on her channel Esfera Pública: Globalism: you are the enemy, or how the old Cold War rivals, state power and economic power, have now joined forces against the people.

Jan 30

Cake Minuesa’s report Climate dictatorship, which includes several contributions of mine.

Jan 16

Interview with Víctor Lenore on his podcast Truco o trato, on Podimo, about the betrayal of our elites, the new taboos and the progressive monopoly on goodness.

Jan 12

Talk at one of the thinkglaos run by It’s time to think: 2023: where are we heading? Three philosophical concepts useful for our times: the easily offended, neo-violence and moralistic capitalism.

Jan 12

Interview with Karina Mariani on her YouTube channel about the submissiveness of a liberalism living in its own bubble, science and the state, and a certain defense of the “eccentric” right.

202230 recordings
Dec 1

Debate with Ernesto Castro: Animal rights: a zoo-ethics for the 21st century?, organized by the Bailando con Gigantes project at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Nov 3

Interview on the YouTube channel La Sacristía de la Vendée on the debate about Catholics in the culture war, two years after it began.

Oct 28

Speaker at the Conference on Education organized by the Vox parliamentary group in the Cortes de Aragón, Aragon’s regional parliament, together with MP Joaquín Robles.

Oct 25

Conversation with Rebeca Argudo on the podcast Faq-Maq about free speech, the threats it faces today, the reasons to defend it, and more politics and other (in)correctnesses.

Oct 11

Round table Thirty years after the collapse of Europe’s communist dictatorships: the renewed attempt to curtail freedoms on both sides of the Atlantic, with Jorge González-Gallarza, María Herrera and Juan Ángel Soto, at the Second Iberosphere Summit, organized in Madrid by the European Parliament’s ECR-Eurolat Political Action Group.

Oct 2

Lecture Catholicity against fragmentation at the Second Forjados Meetings, held in Salamanca and organized by the YouTube channel Fortunata y Jacinta.

Sep 20

Interview in the Ágora of Hacer nación on Sovereignty and the “woke” world; we also discuss whether the term “working class” still applies, and a philosophically serious idea of freedom.

Sep 15

Interview with the Argentine journalist Karina Mariani on her YouTube channel: What went wrong after the 1990s?

Aug 23

Interview with Xavier Rius for E-notícies on how the Rushdie affair has exposed the three civilizations now competing for hegemony in our society: the Western heritage, Islam and wokeism.

Jul 17

Interview at the S’ha acabat! summer campus on woke ideology, how a certain liberalism has hollowed out the public sphere, and why patriotism is needed to recover freedoms in Spain.

Jun 28

Launch of Liberofobia, by Antonini de Jiménez, with the author and his publisher at Sr Scott Libros: the hatred of freedom we lived through during the COVID-19 pandemic, good and bad liberals, heroes and much more.

Jun 8

Interview with Jordi Llátzer on his podcast Espurna: right and left, feminism, postmodernism, whether we grasp reality directly or through interpretations, and other political and philosophical questions.

May 19

My interview with Massimo Borghesi, author of El desafío Francisco: del neoconservadurismo al hospital de campaña (Ediciones Encuentro), about the book and the figure of the Pope.

May 12

Guest on Nuria Richart and Domingo Soriano’s podcast Economía para quedarte sin amigos, on the new alliance between Big Tech and the state that threatens our freedom.

May 5

Interview with Dionisio Gutiérrez for his program Razón de Estado on the present state of the West and Latin America.

Apr 29

Round table with Elizabeth Duval and Ayme Roman on Wokeism, hypertrophied emotivism and new abolitionisms, at the Fourth Interdisciplinary Thought Congress, Utopias, Dystopias and Other Nostalgias, organized by students of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree of the 4 Universities Alliance (Autónoma de Madrid, Carlos III de Madrid, Pompeu Fabra and Autònoma de Barcelona) at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

Apr 26

Interview with the Argentine journalist Karina Mariani on her YouTube channel: is there a “Kirchnerist state of mind” in Argentina to match Spain’s PSOE state of mind? Liberalism versus conservatism, the easily offended and much more.

Apr 22

Discussion with Eduardo Fernández Luiña about Ben Shapiro’s The Right Side of History, recorded at Universidad Francisco Marroquín and published on the Instituto Juan de Mariana channel.

Apr 20

Panel discussion on The Metaverse and the Black Legend, organized by the Fundación Denaes at the University of Seville’s Faculty of Tourism and Finance, with Ismael Santiago, Macario Valpuesta and José María Marco, chaired by Iván Vélez.

Apr 20

Conversation with Fernando Díaz Villanueva on La ContraCrónica: “You are the new enemy,” on how big business and the state have recently joined forces to impose new kinds of oppression on the people.

Apr 7

Interview on En el bote with Chema de la Cierva: philosophy, recovering the ethical virtues, technology, and whether our civilization can change course.

Mar 27

Talk at the Second ECR Campus (European Conservatives and Reformists) with Alfonso Carreto, an ISSEP student, about the programs of the Instituto Superior de Sociología, Economía y Política in Madrid and how they seek to make up for what today’s Western universities lack.

Mar 26

Talk on the podcast of the journal La razón histórica about the present state of Christianity in the West.

Mar 4

Round table Progressivism: the ideology of the West’s suicide, with Higinio Marín and Marcelo López Cambronero, at the International Congress “Toward a Christian renewal of Europe,” held by CEFAS at Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid.

Mar 2

Interview on the PSOE state of mind with Un Tío Blanco Hetero on his YouTube channel.

Feb 20

Talk with Jano García on his YouTube channel: The truth about the Partido Popular’s implosion.

Feb 16

Interview with José María Galera for the newspaper El Debate on the humanities, woke ideology and how it distorts the Christian message.

Feb 14

Interview on Cuestión de prioridades, on Castilla y León Televisión, about the region’s election results the day before.

Feb 8

Dialogue on the podcast El micro de la taberna: what does it mean for a culture to be Catholic, or for Spain to be understood as a Catholic country? And some controversies (such as C. Tangana in Toledo Cathedral) where today’s pop culture and religion meet.

Jan 2

Conversation with Juan Carlos Girauta and the Terra Ignota team on their channel: “In the (center?) of the trench.”

202144 recordings
Dec 29

Interview (in Spanish, with English subtitles) How to Transmit the Christian Legacy Today, episode 13 of the series Rediscovering Conservatism, broadcast by Revista Centinela and New Direction.

Dec 15

Interview on La última idea, on Baraka Televisión, on philosophy, politics and current affairs.

Dec 15

Lecture Neo-violence in an age of identity politics, for Chile’s Fundación para el Progreso.

Dec 8

Episode of the podcast Extremo Centro, hosted as usual by Pedro Herrero: a debate with Professor Roberto Villa on Being liberal in a post-liberal world.

Nov 18

Round table with Santiago Armesilla at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid on Post-COVID-19 Spain.

Nov 18

Dialogue with Paco Prian on the channel La bitácora de Paco about the culture war and why it must be fought.

Nov 16

Lecture at the Getafe campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, at the invitation of the Totus Tuus Association: The role of Christian intellectuals.

Nov 6

Dialogue with MEP Jorge Buxadé on The Western left’s complicity with Islam, at the Frontera Sur meeting held at the AC Hotel Gran Canaria in Las Palmas.

Sep 16

My interview with the American journalist Rod Dreher about his latest book, Live Not by Lies, and its predecessor, The Benedict Option, both published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, at whose Madrid offices the conversation took place.

Sep 6

With Toni Cantó on the podcast El Viejo Café: The culture war against the woke left.

Aug 24

Guest on El Barril de Diógenes, El Líbero’s podcast hosted by Manfred Svensson, in the episode on Roger Scruton’s Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet.

Jul 18

Documentary (in Catalan) Anatomia de Vox, made and broadcast by the Catalan public broadcaster TV3, featuring several contributions of mine.

Jul 16

On Espacio Libre, the YouTube channel run through Twitter Spaces, with regulars @rimbaudarth, @JavierErausquin, @pabloharour, @3porciento_3, @_esthersanz, @eltivipata, @SofiaaAller and @NicoBolivariano: why we need Plato today, and the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling on the state of emergency.

Jun 23

With Fernando Díaz Villanueva on the podcast La ContraCrónica, about the pardons Pedro Sánchez’s government granted to those convicted over the Catalan independence bid, the “procès.”

Jun 23

Interview with Pedro Guillermo Mas Arellano on the channel Pura Virtud: Cine y Literatura: “Ethics and philosophy between the sacred and the worldly.”

Jun 22

Interview with Roberto Granda on the El Club del Viernes channel about the main threats to freedom today.

Jun 18

Conversation with Nicolás Redondo Terreros in episode 7 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Jun 13

Dialogue on the podcast Terra Ignota about philosophy, education, pragmatism and the knotty question “What is the main philosophical problem that explains where we are today?”

May 31

Online round table with Inger Enkvist and Gregorio Luri (introduced by Ignasi Grau and chaired by Álvaro José Cifuentes): Education as a cultural right: the place of culture, identity and meaning in education policy, under the auspices of OIDEL and CEU.

May 20

Dialogue with Domingo González, host of the podcast La Caverna de Platón, on neo-violence, a concept I have been developing, part two.

May 18

Round table with Jon Juaristi, Alberto Royo and Alicia Delibes at the Fundación Villacisneros: Debating the LOMLOE education law. When ideology invades every field of knowledge.

May 13

Conversation with Paco Prian on his channel La Bitácora de Paco, taking stock after six months of debate on the question Where are the Christian intellectuals?

May 13

Dialogue with Domingo González, host of the podcast La Caverna de Platón, on neo-violence, a concept I have been developing, part one.

May 11

Conversation with Pedro Herrero and Paco Beltrán on Beltrán’s podcast Pianista en un burdel: why consensus in Spain is usually a sham, the book La España de Abel, the Church’s difficulties in joining the culture war, and more.

May 4

Live Madrid Election Special with Álvaro Bernad, Fernando Díaz Villanueva, Un Tío Blanco Hetero and Jano García, on García’s YouTube channel.

Apr 26

Dialogue with Gregorio Luri and Irune Ariño on Ariño’s channel about what conservatism is as political thought, part two.

Apr 25

Conversation on El Garabato Podcast, hosted by Álvaro Guzguti with Alicia López Latorre, on the state of contemporary culture. The audio comes in two parts.

Apr 23

Conversation on Christians and the new cultural challenges, part of the Sixth Christians and Politics Day organized by the Polis group of the Lay Apostolate Delegation of the Archdiocese of Toledo.

Apr 22

Dialogue with Juan Milián and Luis Gaspar in the Young Tocqueville series of the Club Tocqueville, about some of the essays that have marked me most over the years.

Apr 16

Conversation with Félix de Azúa in episode 6 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Mar 29

Dialogue with Gregorio Luri and Irune Ariño on Ariño’s channel about what conservatism is as political thought, part one.

Mar 24

Interview with Sascha Hannig and Rafael Rincón-Urdaneta on their podcast En el fin del mundo, from Chile’s Fundación para el Progreso: democracy, neo-violence, the university as a threatened space for plural debate, technology and work, ideologies, culture and religion. Also available on the podcast’s own page.

Mar 18

Interview with Alfredo Urdaci on the Ludiana channel about several themes of my written work. A summary can be read on Fanfan (in Spanish).

Mar 16

Round table on ¿El último papa de Occidente? (organized by Editorial Encuentro), with Professor José Francisco Serrano Oceja and the author, Giulio Meotti, chaired by Manuel Oriol.

Mar 15

Interview on the podcast Recto a la derecha about Madrid, moral emotivism and the monarchy, among other things.

Mar 15

Talk with Álvaro Bernad, Fernando Díaz Villanueva and Jano García on García’s YouTube channel: The elections that will shape Spain’s future.

Mar 14

Talk with Daniel Fenoll in the Conversations with Veterans series of his podcast Teoría de la guerra: Wittgenstein, good and evil, Spain’s Transition, BAP and more.

Mar 8

Round table, second session of the series Should we fight the culture war? (organized by the Fundación Ángel Herrera Oria), with the historian Fernando García de Cortázar and PP MP Mario Garcés, chaired by Professor José Francisco Serrano Oceja.

Mar 8

Interview on Conversaciones a media tarde with the journalist Nati Cabezas: education, what travel teaches us, and Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Feb 23

Lecture at Universidad San Dámaso in Madrid: On the role of Christian intellectuals in today’s Spain.

Feb 15

Conversation on the podcast Extremo Centro, hosted by Pedro Herrero, with Juan Carlos Girauta and Chapu Apaolaza: Catalonia, from passion to boredom.

Feb 15

With Fernando Díaz Villanueva on the podcast La ContraCrónica, on the Catalan regional election results of February 14, 2021, and the “PSOE state of mind.”

Feb 1

Discussion with Miguel García-Baró, Armando Zerolo and Isidro Catela, at the invitation of the Instituto Razón Abierta of Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid: “How can the university put forward a Christian reason?”

Jan 28

Interview on Libros con Marco, hosted by José María Marco and Nuria Richart on LDCultura, Libertad Digital, about some recurring ideas in my opinion columns.

202030 recordings
Dec 14

Dialogue with Armando Zerolo for Madrid’s Fundación Conversación: “Culture wars: the relationship between faith and culture.”

Nov 27

Conversation on the podcast Extremo Centro, hosted by Pedro Herrero, with Juan Sánchez Torrón and Javier Prieto, on faith, religion, God and Catholicism.

Nov 17

Lecture for the Circle of Hermeneutics and Social Studies in Lima, Peru: “Pandemic and environmentalism: the conservative view.”

Nov 3

Live interview with Ignasi Boltó on the YouTube channel Spanish Libertarian about what moral and political philosophy can do for us today.

Oct 24

Lecture for the Instituto Juan de Mariana on the chapter I co-wrote with José María Marco, The age of identities, for the book La hora de España.

Oct 19

With Fernando Díaz Villanueva on the podcast La ContraCrónica, on moralistic capitalism.

Oct 4

Debate on which form of government suits Spain better today, monarchy or republic, with Professor José Luis Martí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), sponsored by Revista Libertalia.

Oct 1

Discussion sponsored by Revista Centinela, with Ferran Caballero and Cristian Campos, chaired by Gonzalo Altozano, on the culture war: how to fight it and what it takes to win.

Sep 30

Interview with José Luis Fernández Fernández on the radio program Gaudeamus, on Libertad FM, about what universities mean today.

Sep 25

Dialogue at the Ateneo de Madrid with Joaquín Campos, María Teresa Pedraza Guzmán de Lázaro and Belén Rico García about Campos’s writing: “Joaquín Campos: a writer at the psychologist’s door.”

Aug 21

Interview with Lope Morales on Radio Sierra about popular bullfighting traditions.

Jul 24

Dialogue on the Voces de Libertad channel with María Blanco, Gloria Álvarez, Cuca Casado and Jacqueline L’Hoist, chaired by Eduardo Fernández Luiña (Instituto Juan de Mariana), on domestic violence during the pandemic and the threats to our freedoms in that context.

Jul 23

Conversation with Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo in episode 5 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Jul 19

Conversation on the Joven Europeo channel with Miguel Rovira about free speech today, especially on campus, and the notion of “moralistic capitalism.”

Jun 25

Interview with Marta Bermejo on COPE Valladolid about media ethics during the pandemic.

Jun 19

Interview with Ely del Valle on Onda Madrid about today’s political rancor, ethical relativism and emotivism in the media.

Jun 11

Conversation on the Ortodoxia channel with Fabián Bayo: an introduction to the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, with an eye on its historical context.

Jun 7

Conversation on the podcast El Viejo Café, with Víctor Lapuente and the regular hosts, about political polarization in general and in Spain in particular.

Jun 7

Conversation on the podcast Extremo Centro with Axel Kaiser and Pedro Herrero about Kaiser’s book La neoinquisición: Persecución, censura y decadencia cultural en el siglo XXI.

May 28

Talk for the Fundación Ecuador Libre: Post-liberalism: a new era in political thought?

May 27

Dialogue with Andreu Jaume, director of Barcelona’s Centro Libre. Arte y Cultura, for its video series “Thought in the face of adversity”: Populisms and nationalisms in a time of pandemic.

Apr 26

My contribution to the Club Tocqueville series Perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis, a reflection on the philosophy being written about it: Has philosophy gone mad over the coronavirus? The paranoid, the obsessive and the hallucinating.

Apr 17

A short interview on Risto Mejide’s program Todo es mentira, on the Cuatro television channel, about what the coronavirus pandemic means from a philosophical point of view.

Mar 30

Short video with a reading recommendation for the Books for the lockdown series of Libertad Digital.

Feb 23

Conversation on the podcast Extremo Centro, with Mariona Villaró and the Twitter user @ClerkJacobson, hosted by Pedro Herrero, about the new punk right and the culture wars.

Feb 21

Conversation with Juan Carlos Girauta in episode 4 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Feb 8

Conversation on El Viejo Café, a podcast devoted to debates in contemporary culture: “The postmodern transformation of our society,” part two.

Feb 8

Conversation on El Viejo Café, a podcast devoted to debates in contemporary culture, on postmodernity: “The philosophy eroding our society,” part one.

Feb 7

Paper Gianni Vattimo and postmodernity at the Second Tocqueville Seminar, The 20th century and political thought, organized by the Club Tocqueville at the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Law.

Jan 21

Conversation with Jorge Bustos in episode 3 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

20198 recordings
Dec 18

Discussion on How to be a Stoic in the 21st century, with Luis Alberto Iglesias, at the Value School in Madrid.

Dec 10

Conversation with Santiago Abascal in episode 2 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Nov 14

The crisis in education, a dialogue with Inger Enkvist, chaired by Alicia Delibes, at the First Education Forum of Madrid’s Fundación Villacisneros.

Nov 12

Conversation with Albert Boadella in episode 1 of Café Vienés, the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

Jun 20

Short video The strange Europe of the “euroliebers,” for The Objective.

Jun 14

Lecture A response to identity politics, chaired by Alexànder Golovín, at the Ateneu Barcelonès in Barcelona.

May 7

Discussion between the philosopher Pedro Insua and myself on Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, chaired by Luis Alberto Iglesias Gómez at the Value School in Madrid.

Feb 5

Round table at the Fundación Villacisneros on the new left’s culture wars: Ideological laws, with Francisco José Contreras and Alicia Delibes, chaired by Hermann Tertsch.

20188 recordings
Dec 28

Short video Must we be intolerant of the tolerant?, on Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” in one minute, for The Objective.

Dec 7

Short video A change of era after the Andalusian election?, for The Objective.

Oct 14

Interview with Mario Noya on esRadio about The ten main threats to the Enlightenment ideal today. On this Libertad Digital page you will find the ten books I recommend to counter each of them.

Sep 12

Inaugural lecture of the 2018-19 academic year, which I gave in the main hall of the Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes.

Jul 4

Short video Heidegger and Pedro Sánchez’s hands in tweets, for The Objective.

Jun 14

Paper Post-truth as a Feature of Hypermodern Times, at the international conference Around Hypermodernism, held at the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Apr 12

Round table The false free lunch of public services, at the Free Market Road Show The loss of values in European society, held in Seville by the Círculo Bastiat.

Feb 7

Short video Tears, on how our politicians use emotion, for The Objective.

20172 recordings
Sep 29

Short video The Spain where Podemos turned pro-police, for The Objective.

Sep 26

Round table Direct democracy? Referendums and populism in Latin America and Spain, at the Casa de América in Madrid, in partnership with The Objective.

20151 recording
Jul 3

Invited lecture Is It Possible to Teach Freedom? Paradoxes in the Education about Civic Values. A Spanish Case Study at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

20142 recordings
Apr 7

Lecture “Are patriotism and nationalism the same thing?” at the Ateneo de Valladolid.

Apr 4

Round table “Human dignity, the foundation of the system of civil rights” at the Second Congress “Spain and the Catholic Church: economic crisis and Christian humanism,” Faculty of Law, University of Valladolid.

20132 recordings
Dec 12

Interview with Fernando Savater, in the “Encounters with” series at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.

Dec 2

Paper Asking forgiveness, granting forgiveness, at the Second International Seminar “Paul Ricoeur Centenary: Time, Pain, Justice,” organized by the Chair of Critical Hermeneutics (UNED, University of La Laguna, University of Turin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CEILAM) and held at UNED’s Escuelas Pías in Madrid, December 2–5, 2013.

20121 recording
Apr 27

Debate at the National University of Colombia: An analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein, broadcast as a program on the university’s radio station, with several of its professors taking part.

20091 recording
Jan 29

First part of the lecture How to understand Baudrillard (better) with the help of the MTV Music Video Awards (see parts two, three and four), at the Instituto Superior de Filosofía de Valladolid, during the conference “Art, Literature and Contingency: Thinking Education Differently,” organized by the Contemporary Society and Culture Seminar (Semsocu) of the Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes and the Institute on January 29–30, 2009.

20083 recordings
May 26

Round table with Antonio Escohotado and Fernando Savater in the series May 1968–2008: The revolution revisited, at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid.

May 19

Round table with Mario Muchnik and José Luis Pardo in the series May 1968–2008: The revolution revisited, at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid.

May 12

Round table with Arcadi Espada and Jorge Verstrynge in the series May 1968–2008: The revolution revisited, at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid.

20041 recording
2004-05

Science and society: what kind of social activity is science?, a lesson taught with Professor Quintín Racionero in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid specialist diploma “Historical Materialism and Critical Theory,” Fin-de-Siècle Europe, 2004-05.

Café Vienés

Café Vienés

Seven conversations, with a dash of philosophy, from the LivePodcast I hosted at The Objective from 2019 to 2021.

  • No. 7

    Nicolás Redondo Terreros

    Jun 18, 2021
  • No. 6

    Félix de Azúa

    Apr 16, 2021
  • No. 5

    Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo

    Jul 23, 2020
  • No. 4

    Juan Carlos Girauta

    Feb 21, 2020
  • No. 3

    Jorge Bustos

    Jan 21, 2020
  • No. 2

    Santiago Abascal

    Dec 10, 2019
  • No. 1

    Albert Boadella

    Nov 12, 2019