{"podcast":{"title":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","slug":"kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","podcast_index_feed_id":160680,"rss_url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://kunstler.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/9/d/dd9d3eb65b730270/KC-iTunes.jpg","author":"James Howard Kunstler","episode_count":452,"summary":"James Howard Kunstler, author of \"The Geography of Nowhere\" and \"The Long Emergency,\" takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T20:20:09.235437+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680"},"episode":{"title":"KunstlerCast 432 — Jeffrey Tucker of The Brownstone Institute on his new book, The Spirits of America","slug":"kunstlercast-432-jeffrey-tucker-of-the-brownstone-institute-on-his-new-book-the-spirits-of-america","published_at":"2025-10-28T22:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-432-jeffrey-tucker-of-the-brownstone-institute-on-his-new-book-the-spirits-of-america","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-432-jeffrey-tucker-of-the-brownstone-institute-on-his-new-book-the-spirits-of-america","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_432.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute, Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times , and author of 15 books. His newest book, The Spirits of America , is a reflection on American values – cultivated deep in US history dating back to the founding. The book is meant to inspire us to a restoration of our once-sturdy common culture in this period of great political turbulence. Please take the time to visit the Brownstone Institute's excellent website and its stable of fine writers. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger","meta_description":"Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute, Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times , and author of 15 books. His newest book, The…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3912,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/episodes/kunstlercast-432-jeffrey-tucker-of-the-brownstone-institute-on-his-new-book-the-spirits-of-america/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-432-jeffrey-tucker-of-the-brownstone-institute-on-his-new-book-the-spirits-of-america.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}