Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this podcast, I interview Nate Fischer, founder of venture firm New Founding and American Reformer, an opinion journal.
Many of the institutions that structure American life–education, healthcare, energy, the courts, governance, media–are still animated with a moral lens that is unrecognizable. Supporters of this value system even criticize it today, saying this morality was institutionalized during the last administration. Notwithstanding the sweeping changes in government, decisions continue to be made through a deeply value-laden lens, one shaped by a particular vision of the good, even when it presents itself as neutral.
What is at stake, then, is not merely policy or change in management, but moral orientation, and as it pertains to my interview with Nate - it is a moral orientation that undergirds the products we build.
Nate and his firms are seeking to engage this moment with vision and intentionality. His venture firm seeks to harness the cultural realignment underway to “build an alternative vision for America.” A vision that consciously retreats from the assumptions of progressive liberalism that have long defined so many of our institutions.
In our conversation, we talk about Nate’s faith, his “through-line” moment in 2016 when he lived in San Francisco; his journey that led to his outward political expression to how New Founding puts its principles to practice to the mission of American Reformer and today’s biggest cultural challenges.
In this podcast, I interview Nate Fischer, founder of venture firm New Founding and American Reformer, an opinion journal.
Many of the institutions that structure American life–education, healthcare, energy, the courts, governance, media–are still animated with a moral lens that is unrecognizable. Supporters of this value system even criticize it today, saying this morality was institutionalized during the last administration. Notwithstanding the sweeping changes in government, decisions continue to be made through a deeply value-laden lens, one shaped by a particular vision of the good, even when it presents itself as neutral.
What is at stake, then, is not merely policy or change in management, but moral orientation, and as it pertains to my interview with Nate - it is a moral orientation that undergirds the products we build.
Nate and his firms are seeking to engage this moment with vision and intentionality. His venture firm seeks to harness the cultural realignment underway to “build an alternative vision for America.” A vision that consciously retreats from the assumptions of progressive liberalism that have long defined so many of our institutions.
In our conversation, we talk about Nate’s faith, his “through-line” moment in 2016 when he lived in San Francisco; his journey that led to his outward political expression to how New Founding puts its principles to practice to the mission of American Reformer and today’s biggest cultural challenges.
