Devon Eriksen

Science fiction author of Theft of Fire

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In their own words

“The role of an intellectual isn't to prove things and to end conversations. It's to come up with a possibility and start conversations.”October 2025, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“Trump isn't the right's last chance. He's the left's last chance... He is the soft option.”October 2025, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“You can convert the price of everything into hours. And when the price of certain things like housing becomes like, okay, this little maneuver is gonna cost you 20 years of your life, well then a 20-year-old can't have that thing.”October 2025, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

If you valued this conversation

• Malcolm Collins — on institutional capture and generational conflict, a similar civilizational-decline lens to Eriksen's
• Michael Vassar — on political philosophy, worldview conflict, and institutional decay
• Rob Henderson — on elite versus working-class divergence in beliefs and its social consequences

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