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From mailers pushing trans kids to leave their families to an AI discovery that could break the internet, this Halloween is shaping up to be a scary one. And that’s before I start thinking about the midterms on Tuesday.

Who's steering us through the chaos? A geriatric political class that can barely follow any of it, and a retiree generation that, per a new Cato poll, overwhelmingly backs higher taxes on young workers to protect its own Social Security checks. Meanwhile, the young left's preferred model is France, which is on fire.

Caught between zombies, vampires, and Jacobins, which scares you most?

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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/zombie-politicians-boomer-vampires?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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I sat down with comedian Ryan Long, who is featured in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to talk about how media and culture are changing in 2026.

Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw

We get into:

* Moving from Toronto to NYC right before COVID

* The personality differences between Americans and Canadians

* Why culture is more interesting than politics

* How wokeness ended up making comedy better

* Why male-female dynamics matters more than anything else

* How to make the most of creativity

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Ryan Long at the Bitcoin Conference: https://youtu.be/9Na1wYcED8U?is=TWYLRyQpJjtZBYje

Watch “The Boyscast” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/theboyscast

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Outline:

[0:00] The absurdity of marketing

[3:14] Cultural satire, economics, Bitcoin

[12:44] Why are so many great comedians Canadian?

[25:12] How to navigate the culture war

[29:23] Creativity is a balance of work and play

[35:41] Making “The Experts” with Kurt Metzger

[39:27] The philosophy of video editing

[43:51] Stand-up warps your personality

[47:41] Why AI can’t write comedy

[58:15] Is the manosphere over?

[1:06:02] Pop culture has decentralized

[1:10:04] The dating market is out of wack

[1:13:08] Can a libertarian society preserve social norms?

[1:20:25] Wokeness didn’t ruin comedy

[1:28:52] Can you stay friends across politics?

[1:39:34] New York is hard unless you’re young or rich

[1:46:25] America keeps expanding what’s possible

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France is still on fire. A town hall nearly 200 years old has burned to the ground, and police are now drawing the line at the Louvre. Back home, the Cornell 7 case has become a Rorschach test for what’s left of feminism. This week, I’m responding to your comments on both.

From Paris to Cornell, the West has the same disease: a culture too permissive to judge anything, institutions no one can trust, and a generation raised without shame.

Does the West still have the backbone to say “No” to our spiritual decline?

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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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I sat down with comedian Bryan Callen, who directed and stars in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to discuss why outrage pays better than nuance, how he found his way to God, and why boys need resistance to grow into men.

Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw

We get into:

* What it was like directing for the first time

* The ruthless capitalism of Hollywood

* What happens to masculinity when drones replace warriors

* Why having all the facts on our phones doesn’t help us find the truth

* The criticism of Joe Rogan over the 2024 election

* Making sense of the world in 2026

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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Follow Bryan Callen on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/bryancallen

Watch Bryan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanCallenComedy

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Outline:

[0:00] “The Experts” pilot

[2:03] Religion should mean sacrifice

[5:59] Why do some societies work and others don’t?

[11:20] Why every conspiracy theory blames the Jews

[16:30] Why is a generation going all in on communism?

[23:44] Hollywood is as capitalist as it gets

[28:37] The world went crazy

[31:57] Masculinity became a liability

[39:51] Facts are not the same thing as truth

[47:21] What losing everything taught him about faith

[58:26] Human beings need resistance

[1:09:27] Can AI write comedy?

[1:12:17] The creative valley of darkness

[1:16:48] Does suffering have meaning?

[1:20:46] You can’t outrun aging

[1:24:53] Joe Rogan’s role in Trump’s reelection

[1:32:32] Will the world ever “go back to normal’?

[1:41:20] Directing a TV show for the first time

[1:44:47] How to educate yourself outside of school

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The Cornell 7 case has reignited the campus sexual assault panic of the mid-2010s. Jane Doe's own written statements described the events as consensual, but her story later transformed into a serious criminal allegation.

Unlike the Duke lacrosse hoax, which turned out to be an outright fabrication, this case is more ambiguous in both the accusations made and the culture they emerged from. Even so, the public outcry pulls on the same debunked statistics about campus sexual assault that turned colleges into Title IX kangaroo courts in the first place.

Rather than a salacious true crime saga, the real story here is what the sexual revolution has done to our kids. The pill made sex cheap, hookup culture replaced courtship, and birthrates collapsed. Who's going to teach our kids a better way if we don't?

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/the-cornell-7-scandal-exposed-the?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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I sat down with Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the “The Counterrevolution”. Victor is a Stanford PhD who still lives on his family’s Central Valley farm that five generations of Hansons have called home, giving him a rare view of both the academic elite and the working Americans they look down on.

We get into:

* Trump’s counterrevolution against 50 years of progressive rule

* Why America still dominates the world economy

* The 2016 dinner where Peter Thiel predicted Trump’s win

* Why the fall of Iran’s regime could be another Berlin Wall moment

* How the DSA took over the Democratic Party

* The battle between the credentialed class and middle America

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Follow Victor Davis Hanson on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/VDHanson?s=20

Watch Victor’s show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273

Purchase a copy of “The Counterrevolution”: https://a.co/d/0aP3kpUP

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Outline:

[0:00] What is Trump’s counterrevolution?

[9:18] Obama created a new Marxist racial binary

[15:44] Trump is a nationalist, not an ideologue

[24:12] The tragedy of Canada

[30:04] Mexican-Americans pay the price for illegal immigration

[36:51] Is AI the new Manhattan Project?

[43:07] Silicon Valley thought we were all yokels

[52:12] Middle class solidarity vs racial politics

[55:57] Why did Trump go to war with Iran?

[1:05:15] The Middle East is being remade

[1:12:15] Mossadegh, the Shah, and the Iranian Revolution

[1:20:08] The Democratic Party’s Jacobin takeover

[1:32:08] Has college failed the rising generation?

[1:43:32] Never be intimidated by credentials

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For the past three weeks, riots have spread across France. The corporate press is calling them mostly peaceful protests over school funding. Meanwhile, student rioters are singing jihadi rap.

Second and third generation Muslim immigrants are radicalizing against the very country that raised them. At the same time, 800,000 French Catholics gathered in Paris for Pope Leo’s recent visit. Two Frances are fighting over the same country.

A West that has forgotten its Christian roots no longer knows how to love its neighbor without surrendering to him. If Christians won't defend the civilization their faith built, who will?

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/frances-mostly-peaceful-jihad-threatens?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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I sat down with Shelby Steele, an author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and his son Eli Steele, the filmmaker behind “What Killed Michael Brown?” Together, they’ve produced a new documentary, “White Guilt,” that brings Shelby’s 2006 book into the present political climate. Shelby has lived the whole story, from segregation to Black Power militancy to now decades as a fearless dissenter on race.

We get into:

* What white guilt really is, and why it became a source of black power

* How the left used collective guilt to claim moral innocence

* Shelby’s journey from black radicalism to conservatism

* How American racial politics were grafted onto the Israel-Palestine conflict

* Eldridge Cleaver’s transformation from Black Panther to Reagan voter

* Why BLM denies the racial progress of the past 60 years

* Why courage is the only way past racial identity politics

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Follow Eli Steele on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Hebro_Steele?s=20

Watch the trailer for “White Guilt”: https://youtu.be/5Pg_bJJMsAU?si=IEGFrMQgE-eZsKPv

Check out Shelby Steele’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APMQK2?ingress=0&visitId=79e14454-f6e3-4082-8099-6ced90b8df71&ref_=aufs_ap_ahdr_dsk_ab&ccs_id=6508d6f9-e2e2-438f-a4d0-2a7a00b62cde

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Outline:

[0:00] What is white guilt?

[12:59] The symbiosis of black power and white guilt

[16:53] How the third world coopted black activism

[25:59] Race isn’t a black-and-white issue

[33:25] Black radicalism and the breakdown of the family

[48:30] Western man vs anti-Western man

[55:26] Why are black Americans so politically unified?

[1:03:46] BLM pretends there’s been no progress since 1965

[1:11:04] Eldridge Cleaver’s path from Black Panther to conservative

[1;27:13] How YouTube is spreading black conservatism

[1:33:58] Black America vs African perspectives on race

[1:40:06] How do we move past white guilt?

[1:49:18] We need to learn to laugh things off

[1:55:38] Children need a father to wrestle with

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On Tuesday, the CEOs of Nvidia, Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and more joined President Trump to discuss the development of AI, or, as the President has rebranded it, Super Intelligence. While they’ve signed a voluntary pledge to police AI safety, Democrats want Washington to step in instead, as if government standards do anything other than destroy innovation.

Americans invented this technology, but we're among the most pessimistic people on Earth about it. Only 36% of Americans expect AI to mostly help the country, compared to 93% in China. Trump is backing data centers anyway, just weeks before the midterms.

The same day, the administration launched America.gov, an AI-powered front page for federal government services. Big government gave us the HealthCare.gov disaster. AI might finally give us a government that works, and a bureaucracy whose days are numbered.

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444. to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Check my sources over on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/dadsavesamerica/p/trumps-going-all-in-on-ai-will-his?r=24ayxm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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I sat down with Andrew Hartz, a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. His organization is working to filter out the political bias that has become endemic in mental health care and connect patients with therapists they can trust.

We get into:

* The woke insanity inside the American Psychological Association

* How to find a therapist who will actually help you

* Why disability benefits prove the role of agency in mental health

* What the Lindsay Clancy case revealed about the legal system

* Mass formation psychosis and social media addiction

* Why our culture overlooks male strengths, and what that’s doing to boys

* The rush to affirm gender dysphoria without evidence

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For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial 971-571-6444 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/dad - *Paid partnership

*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.

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Follow Andrew Hartz on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Hartz_PhD?s=20

Learn more about the Open Therapy Institute:

https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/

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Outline:

[0:00] Therapy went insanely woke

[14:14] Psychology vs psychiatry vs therapy

[15:48] How to get the most out of therapy

[25:45] Can we trust the data behind therapy?

[34:14] What does trauma really mean?

[40:31] Mortality and existential anxiety

[45:24] Agency is central to mental health

[57:56] We’re accommodating bad behavior

[59:44] Unconscious bias and microaggressions

[1:03:06] Did women ruin psychology?

[1:08:58] Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense

[1:19:32] Has psychosis become a legal loophole?

[1:31:38] Is neuroscience useful for psychology?

[1:33:12] Mass formation psychosis and social media

[1:44:15] Should women worry about postpartum psychosis?

[1:46:03] We’ve lost the ability to talk about men positively

[1:58:23] Why young men turn to Andrew Tate

[2:08:53] The rise in narcissism throughout our culture

[2:11:43] What does it mean to be “mentally healthy”?

[2:15:29] The psychology of homosexuality and gender dysphoria

[2:33:17] Conservatives can’t give up on institutions

[2:47:04] America needs the best of psychology right now

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1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a dysfunctional public school as a political statement, and is now paying the price. For years, socialists like Hasan Piker have flirted with banning private schools altogether under the theory that enrolling rich kids in failing schools can magically fix them. Universal public schooling, once a safety net for those who couldn’t afford a private school, has transformed into educational prison.

None of this is unique to education. In Canada, “universal” healthcare has become a death-panel hellscape, with sick patients being offered assisted suicide as if it were a legitimate medical treatment. The same people who want to control what your child is taught in school want to decide when you’re “too sick” to deserve care.

While disturbing, none of this should come as a surprise. In a free market, competition expands supply and brings costs down. In a government monopoly, competition is outlawed. Once they lock in their monopoly, you have no other choice.

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I sat down with Ben Slivka, an early Microsoft executive who led the team that built Internet Explorer, served 20 years on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees, and has spent decades since as an angel investor across biotech, space, and software startups.

We get into:

* How cowardice became the norm in university leadership

* Why the public school model fails so many students

* His 1995 Microsoft memo that correctly predicted the internet revolution

* The truth about the Microsoft antitrust case and why “monopoly” is a misleading term

* Why he believes that we’re in a massive AI bubble

* His investment in Stoke Space, SpaceX’s real competitor for reusable rockets

* What he calls the “four horsemen of the woke apocalypse”

* America’s historically unprecedented capacity for innovation

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Outline:

[0:00] What’s going on with universities?

[15:40] Cowards are running the show

[29:27] Flexible vs. rigid approaches to schooling

[39:15] Teachers’ unions want to destroy good schools

[42:52] The “expert class” is anti-human and anti-reality

[58:05] Building Internet Explorer

[1:06:49] The reality of anti-trust law and “monopolies”

[1:13:21] Is AI a miracle, a bubble, or a real threat?

[1:31:18] Space travel is about to get a lot cheaper

[1:39:42] We’ve lost historical perspective in our lives

[1:55:30] Can we afford to have sympathy for the other side?

[2:04:49] Universities have abandoned their purpose

[2:11:47] We know less about biology than we think

[2:14:03] Can Western civilization work without religion?

[2:20:45] Expose your kids to the real world

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AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week and became a whistleblower, warning that the race toward superintelligent AI is "gambling with our lives." Another Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, backed him up, putting the odds of AI apocalypse within a decade at over 10%. Then, Anthropic published a 154-page AI safety report on all sorts of alarming ways the technology is evolving.

Anthropic was founded as an AI-safety-conscious competitor to OpenAI. It’s company culture is heavily influenced by effective altruism, a utilitarian philosophy that attempts to optimize the wellbeing of the entire planet and every future person yet to be born.

So, should these dark predictions be taken seriously, or are they the ravings of paranoid ideologues? And our the panicked response, will we end up running head-first into a government regulation disaster?

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I sat down with historian of early Christianity Matthew Larsen, Ph.D., fresh off his shoot in the Middle East tracing the life of Paul the Apostle, to dig into the evidence for Jesus, the biblical canon, and the Catholic Church.

We get into:

* How historians actually know what’s true about the ancient past

* Why the “Jesus never existed” theory keeps resurfacing online

* Where Wes Huff’s viral apologetics differ from real historical scholarship

* Why the idea that “Paul invented Christianity” is a 19th century German myth

* How the Apostolic Fathers reveal a strikingly Catholic early church

* What actually happened at the Council of Nicaea

* Matt’s personal journey from evangelicalism to the Catholic Church

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Outline:

[0:00] How do historians know what’s real?

[12:40] Debunking the “Jesus myth” argument

[20:45] Wes Huff is an apologist, not a historian

[26:50] Who wrote the Gospels?

[32:52] The strongest argument against Christianity

[36:22] Who was the Apostle Paul?

[54:35] What we know about early Christian martyrs

[1:00:27] Scripture and tradition in the early church

[1:08:20] Going from evangelical to Catholic

[1:20:41] Where did Catholic church structure come from?

[1:30:20] Calvinist predestination doesn’t make sense

[1:32:29] Who were the Apostolic Fathers?

[1:38:12] Sacraments and the Jewish Temple system

[1:50:10] The power of physical rituals

[1:53:51] Roman persecution of Christians

[2:03:03] Why did God send Jesus at that moment?

[2:06:52] Modern comfort is a trap

[2:13:35] The Council of Nicaea

[2:30:55] Grappling with Mary and the Book of Revelation

[2:46:15] The development of Catholic doctrine over time

[2:54:14] The history of Marian apparitions

[3:01:04] Why should you consider Catholicism?

[3:09:43] American ideals are worth fighting for

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Zohran Mamdani just appointed Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who once represented an Al Qaeda member, as New York City's chief legal counsel. This sparked outrage from 9/11 families and a petition demanding that he not attend this year’s 9/11 memorial collected more than 100,000 signatures.

A hundred million Americans have been born since 9/11, and campus interviews reveal that many were never taught who attacked us or why. Osama Bin Laden's “Letter to America” went viral on TikTok a couple years ago as if it were a revelation rather than propaganda.

Twenty five years after 9/11, some have forgotten the first major crisis of the century, and others have rewritten the story.

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I sat down with investigative journalist and author Richard Miniter to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Richard has spent decades reporting national security and foreign policy issues and has interviewed Islamist radicals, intelligence officials, and others across the globe.

We get into:

* Why political radicalism and terrorism attract elites

* How Western life radicalized Mohamed Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

* Osama Bin Laden’s trajectory from construction tycoon heir to jihadist

* How terror cells use hazing intermarriage to lock in commitment

* The problem with Ron Paul’s “blowback” theory of Islamic terrorism

* How bureaucratic turf wars left America vulnerable on 9/11

* The PATRIOT Act and the limits of 4th Amendment rights

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Outline:

[0:00] Why do people become terrorists?

[7:56] Who was Mohamed Atta?

[17:48] Who was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

[26:58] Ramzi Yousef and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

[32:27] 9/11 wasn’t as ideological as we think

[36:00] Who was Osama Bin Laden?

[42:53] Work, terrorism, and a sense of purpose

[47:44] What really motivated Bin Laden?

[49:43] The psychology of terrorism

[1:03:29] The rise of the Red-Green Alliance

[1:11:47] Theology is the center of every civilization

[1:22:14] Terrorism is a political technology

[1:25:40] Living through 9/11 and turning to Ron Paul

[1:34:32] Did our government allow 9/11 to happen?

[1:48:29] The American and Soviet fight over Afghanistan

[1:52:33] America’s longterm conflict with Iran

[2:02:13] Bureaucratic tenure makes bad policy

[2:07:56] Is the PATRIOT Act unconstitutional?

[2:22:01] COVID permanently changed our society

[2:26:52] What did 9/11 mean for American society?

[2:33:03] Do young people really hate the country?

[2:39:39] Pragmatism, ideology, and incentives

[2:46:19] Can we avoid religious war?

[2:50:30] Utilitarianism contradicts human nature

[2:56:19] Can Islam be compatible with America?

[3:07:30] Immigration and assimilation in 2026

[3:12:31] Dad’s job is to tell kids the truth

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The bond market wobbled this week, and Secretary Bessent is now buying back government debt just to keep long-term interest rates from climbing further. Bond market volatility in the early fall has a bad history of signaling worse to come, from 1929 to 1987 to 2008.

The national debt sets a new all time high every day, recently crossing the $40 trillion mark. The U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has allowed us to kick the can down the road for decades, but interest payments on the national debt are reaching unsustainable levels and now the bond market is starting to push back.

Are we at the point of no return or can we still grow our way out of this mess?

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I sat down with Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and author of “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City,” to talk about what adults are and aren’t willing to sacrifice for the wellbeing of children. Katy has spent her career defending children’s rights to their own mother and father, touching on adoption, gay marriage, surrogacy, and IVF. We also get into how she raised kids who think for themselves even while attending Seattle public schools and her personal experience with the adoption system.

We get into:

* Why children are safer with their own married mother and father

* What the data actually says about stepparents and abuse

* How the sexual revolution reshaped our whole society

* Why legalizing gay marriage meant eliminating “mother” and “father” from the law

* The truth about IVF and the fertility industry

* Why adults’ desires are now put before children’s needs

* What Christianity requires of us when defending kids

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Outline:

[0:00] Raising conservative kids in a woke city

[12:06] The needs of children should come first

[16:23] Why stepparents are more abusive

[27:49] The misplaced empathy for Lindsay Clancy

[33:36] The sexual revolution deranged our culture

[46:56] Traditional values can work for everyone

[51:59] Is gay adoption better than nothing?

[1:04:12] Are people born gay?

[1:14:01] Legalizing gay marriage had crazy side effects

[1:29:07] Does IVF or surrogacy violate the rights of children?

[1:44:00] AOC’s egg-freezing stunt and the denial of tradeoffs

[1:52:19] Should we just ban it all?

[2:04:53] Parenting for future generations

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The Lindsay Clancy trial has exploded into the latest social media gender war over postpartum mental health, the role of mothers in society, and the nature of moral responsibility. The defense says postpartum psychosis is to blame and that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible in the deaths of her three children. Now the jury is deciding whether they buy her story.

Videos of women excusing Clancy’s actions or promoting conspiracy theories implicating her ex-husband have spread like wildfire on TikTok. Hundreds of women showed up to her trial wearing pink in solidarity and her family has now raised over $1,000,000 on GoFundMe. Meanwhile, Massachusetts lawmakers just legalized abortion up until the moment of birth to great fanfare.

Both reflect the same moral drift: a culture that has grown increasingly comfortable letting mothers decide when they are, and aren’t, responsible for the lives of their children.

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I sat down with theoretical physicist Dr. Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled” and former Under Secretary of Energy for Science under President Obama, to discuss what he calls the “consensus trap.” He argues that the 2008 financial crisis, COVID policies, and climate alarmism all followed the same template, and the people who got it wrong faced no accountability while the costs fell on the poor. Institutions built policy on flawed models, manufactured an elite consensus, and punished the scientists who dissented.

We get into:

* Why Fauci saying “I represent science” was a betrayal of science

* How the RCP 8.5 climate scenario was used for propaganda

* Working as BP’s chief scientist and inside the Department of Energy

* Why the global energy transition hasn’t moved the needle on fossil fuel use

* Why wind and solar can’t be the backbone of the electric grid

* The real risks of EMP attacks and solar storms

* The state of nuclear power and small modular reactors

* How AI is reshaping energy reliability, affordability, and emissions

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Outline:

[0:00] Can science be “settled”?

[12:39] What is a scientific model?

[20:25] Human behavior is hard to predict

[25:36] Cause and effect in complex systems

[28:33] Why are scientists swayed by “consensus”?

[33:47] Working in the Obama administration

[42:59] Insane climate models were treated as sane

[53:41] Fossil fuels and power grids are life-saving

[1:03:38] The risk of an EMP attack

[1:12:38] AI data centers and energy reliability

[1:18:05] “But we need climate action!”

[1:26:53] The incentives inside scientific institutions

[1:31:56] How the military drives scientific research

[1:39:25] Should we worry about the Skynet timeline?

[1:51:27] Always check your opinions against real data

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Last week, Cambridge’s youngest ever black full professor was found dead, days after resigning under investigation for plagiarism and his fabricated life story. Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, couldn't speak until age 11, and still earned a PhD by 30. When the scrutiny finally caught up with him, Amnesty International's response was to call for censorship.

Meanwhile, MIT's black enrollment dropped from 13% to just 5% after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against affirmative action. Racial preferences in admissions have not achieved the supposed goal of closing educational disparities between black and white Americans, but instead have just papered over them.

The West has spent decades manufacturing token success stories to manage its own white guilt. Can we finally admit that meritocracy was the right answer all along?

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I sat down with Os Guinness, author of “Our Civilizational Moment,” to discuss how the West has become a “cut flower” civilization. Os argues that the slow secularization of the West has left its freedom, virtue, and sense of meaning disconnected from the foundation that sustained them for centuries.

We get into:

* Growing up in China during WWII and the rise of Mao

* Why the West is a “cut flower civilization”

* The golden triangle of freedom, virtue, and faith

* Why atheism conflicts with free will

* Whether Islam can adapt to Western norms

* The Hebrew Republic’s overlooked influence on America’s founding

* The rise of antisemitism on the left and right

* What it will take for the West to come home to its own roots

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Outline:[0:00] Growing up in China in the 1940s

[2:34] Eastern VS Western Civilization

[6:53] The roots of the West have been cut

[16:14] Freedom, virtue, and faith

[27:51] Civility and truth in public discourse

[36:59] Can people be equal without faith?

[40:19] Christianity is anti-utopian

[48:21] Is an Islamic Reformation possible?

[59:07] Are there limits to free speech?

[1:10:21] The Jewish influence on the Founding Fathers

[1:17:35] How can Christians and Jews work together?

[1:25:48] Why are Jews so influential in the West?

[1:35:53] The elitist-populist divide

[1:42:04] The role of entrepreneurship in freedom

[1:46:32] Man’s Search for Meaning

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This show began in response to the mental health crisis I saw emerging among my son’s peers. Then COVID lockdowns hit and turned my worst-case predictions into reality. Now, socialism is sweeping the Democratic Party and young women are marching in support of Hamas, all while social media continues to poison the minds of our kids.

As I like to say, the 1990s were the peak of Western civilization. The Cold War had been won, the economy was relatively stable, and our politics didn’t feel existential. Most importantly, both parties agreed that America was fundamentally good.

That consensus is dead. If the next generation no longer believes in the system that built the world they’ll inherit, what comes next?

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I sat down with Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress of Michaela Community School and the UK’s most outspoken voice on education, to mark the launch of our new YouTube collaboration, Strictly Education. Katharine runs one of the strictest schools in the UK, for mostly disadvantaged students from immigrant families, and gets some of the best results in the country. Her solution to the failure of modern schooling isn’t about funding, racial politics, or experimenting with radical teaching methods. It’s discipline, structure, and a return to the values our grandparents understood instinctively.

We get into:

* Why shame, done right, is essential to raising well behaved kids

* How gentle parenting and white guilt are burning down Western civilization

* Why the left refuses to try proven solutions in education

* The consequences of failing to teach our true history

* Why AI can never replace the relationship a great teacher builds with a child

* Her case for government intervention regarding social media and smartphones

* The vision behind Strictly Education and why she wanted to team up with Dad Saves America

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Outline:

[0:00] Why launch Strictly Education?

[15:39] What’s happening to young women?

[20:40] Can free-range parenting work in 2026?

[30:56] What does “culture” actually mean?

[35:49] Bad behavior thrives on attention

[42:46] Why shame is useful in the classroom

[52:43] White guilt is destroying civilization

[1:00:07] Why the left attacks real solutions

[1:08:55] Kids are being lied to about our history

[1:18:26] You can’t teach critical thinking

[1:27:01] Is technology a net-negative in education?

[1:32:06] How do we keep kids off social media?

[1:50:55] Gentle parenting, adulthood, and the death of God

[1:58:05] How should we teach the Western canon?

[2:05:51] We’ve literally dumbed-down education

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Socialist Abdul El-Sayed just won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, but the exit polls tell the real story. He dominated in college towns and lost badly in the working class neighborhoods he claims to represent. The same pattern played out in Zohran Mamdani's election.

The socialists calling themselves the voice of the working class have never done a day of physical labor in their lives. The working class knows it, and they're not buying it. So who's this “working class” movement actually for?

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I sat down with Nick Freitas, veteran, fellow podcaster, and author of “The Manbook,” to talk about what it actually means to be a man in the aftermath of the woke revolution. In recent years, manosphere figures like Andrew Tate have arisen as an answer for young men who feel cast out at school, at work, and in mainstream culture. Their message takes legitimate grievances and points them in unhealthy directions. Nick advocates for a different answer: biblical masculinity.

We get into:

* What masculinity is really all about

* The moment Nick’s co-host changed the way he gives advice

* Why conservatives aren’t getting through to radicalized young men

* What he’s observed raising both a son and daughters

* How he and his wife built a successful marriage and family

* Why Christianity gets results, even if you can’t see it yet

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Outline:

[0:00] What does it mean to be a man?

[2:59] How can we speak effectively to young men?

[16:56] The woke revolution in corporate America

[30:19 30:22] Compassion has become victimhood worship

[38:30] Is ideology downstream of technology?

[47:22] Men blame objects and women blame themselves

[55:45] How do we protect girls from bad influences?

[1:05:58] Gen Z’s expectations are off

[1:15:09] Are we overthinking our problems?

[1:22:38] Marriage is hard because life is hard

[1:36:10] Cause and effect is a good guide to truth

[1:41:45] What does a healthy identity look like?

[1:56:28] Why losing his Congressional election was a blessing

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Rand Paul just released Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal diary, more than 1,100 pages stored on government servers, and then made him answer for it before the Senate. Fauci’s response to almost every question was the same. He pleaded the Fifth, over and over again.

But the real story isn’t the diary. It’s what Fauci represents. From funding offshore gain-of-function research, to soliciting cash prizes using federal resources, to the preemptive pardon shielding him from all of it, this is a portrait of an expert class that plays by it’s own rules and doesn’t think you should get a say.

Is this the moment the myth of expert rule finally dies?

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I sat down with political scientist Kevin Wallsten to discuss his project building a new college ranking system from scratch. The standard metrics of acceptance rate, endowment size, and name recognition fail to address rising concerns about ideological bias and campus culture. With activism replacing the pursuit of truth throughout higher education, here’s what parents should know before sending their kids off to college.

We get into:

* Why University of Florida ranks #1 and Harvard lands at #37

* What the 68 variables in this new ranking system actually measure

* Why US News & World Report rankings almost never change, even as elite campuses melt down

* How faculty became activists, and why even tenured professors self-censor

* What DEI bureaucracies did to schools like the University of Michigan

* The three competing purposes of the university: personal development, job training, and politics

* Why universities are alienating the students they need most

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Outline:

[0:00] Universities have lost public trust

[6:59 7:12] What happened on campus in 2015?

[16:38] How universities became ideological

[24:33] What is the purpose of education?

[37:00] Should we think of college as career training?

[45:38] Campus politics is a status game

[53:51] The self-censorship tipping point

[1:07:40] Why don’t academics like debate?

[1:19:09] How academics view American society

[1:26:43] Has a diploma become a meaningless credential?

[1:35:29] How colleges stack up in 2026

[1:57:35] University governance is broken

[2:06:48] The tension between public funding and academic freedom

[2:19:23] Higher ed is about to drop off a demographic cliff

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Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” opened last weekend and sent Homer's 2,800-year-old poem back up the bestseller charts. It also became the most fought-over movie in recent memory, with accusations of woke casting and the "1619 Project” treatment of the Western canon.

I decided to see the movie opening weekend. Some of the criticism lands. Some of it falls apart the moment the film starts. The real question isn't only whether the movie stays faithful to Homer, but which version of the West we think we're fighting for.

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I sat down with bestselling author Eric Metaxas to discuss the Christian roots of America and what happens to our freedom if we forget them. His new book, “Revolution,” tells the story of the founding and the values that make America exceptional.

We get into:

* How the founders’ religious beliefs shaped the Revolution

* The paradox of freedom and faith

* Why the French Revolution ended in a bloodbath and ours didn’t

* The true role of slavery in the Declaration of Independence

* Why British elites despised the American colonists

* The role of populism in American history

* What it means to be an American, and how Mamdani fits into that picture

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Outline:

[0:00] Why is the U.S. the greatest nation in history?

[4:12] You can’t have liberty without Christian faith

[14:35] When did our culture take a wrong turn?

[18:57] We’re vulnerable to the enemies of liberty

[25:09] Can a theocracy be truly Christian?

[32:14] How religious liberty emerged in America

[35:34] Were the Founding Fathers hypocrites about slavery?

[40:21] British elites despised the Americans

[46:13] Healthy populism vs mob rule

[52:29] How popular was the American Revolution?

[57:46] What does it mean to be an American?

[1:02:43] Is Mamdani really an American?

[1:06:21] The collapse of American pride

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New York just became the first state to halt new AI data center construction. Bernie Sanders and AOC want to take that policy national, and 63% of Americans agree with them across party lines. This has become the one truly bipartisan issue in our politics, but bipartisan doesn't mean good.

The concerns range from energy costs to water use to noise pollution. Some concerns are legitimate, some have already been solved, and others are simply based on false information. For better or for worse, technological revolutions usually aren't reversible.

So what will the future of the American economy look like?

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I sat down with economic historian Phil Magness to give Karl Marx the fairest hearing we could, and then find out how his ideas took over half the world and most of modern academia.

We get into:

* The historical context of Karl Marx’s writings

* Why surplus value theory made intuitive sense and why it’s wrong

* How the iPhone launch disproves Marx’s labor theory of value

* The unlikely story of how Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Russia

* Stalin, Trotsky, and the “real communism was never tried” folks

* How Soviet propaganda helped resurrect Marx in the West

* Why Marx is read in every academic field… except economics

* How to minimize cost and Marxist indoctrination in college

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Outline:

[0:00] The “best” of Karl Marx

[11:21] What was Marx’s actual vision?

[15:24] Socialism Before Marx

[24:50] Is “capitalism” a slur?

[28:54] What’s the moral argument for land ownership?

[35:23] Labor theory vs subjective value

[46:07] Why Marx was left behind

[52:53] Marx’s math doesn’t work

[1:01:10] Why did the Bolsheviks pick up Marx?

[1:09:49] How Lenin conquerors Russia

[1:20:29] Was Lenin “not as bad” as Stalin?

[1:23:30] What did Lenin actually think?

[1:27:41] “Real communism has never been tried”

[1:30:24] Why academia loves Marx

[1:49:16] Does socialism have anything to offer?

[1:56:28] Is Marxism a religion?

[2:09:38] Modern Marxism is just woke mad libs

[2:13:41] “Cracks in the Ivory Tower”

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Last week, Zohran Mamdani “celebrated” this country’s 250th birthday by sitting behind George Washington’s desk and lecturing America about who we are. His own mother once said he isn't American at all, and never wanted to be. These days, most other countries have a higher opinion of the United States than Democrats.

Every immigrant who takes the citizenship oath swears to uphold values we’ve stopped taking seriously as a country. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just upheld birthright citizenship, even for children born to parents with no allegiance to this country. Citizenship was once understood to be a responsibility, including civic and military participation, but not anymore.

The question is whether becoming a citizen means becoming an American, or if it’s just a formality.

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I sat down with Phil Magness, economic historian and author of “The 1619 Project Myth,” to discuss how the New York Times rewrote the founding narrative of the United States, first in print but eventually in schools nationwide.

We get into:

* How Phil caught a fabricated claim about Excel and plantations

* How the “new historians of capitalism” rewrote economic history

* Why Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, disproves the 1619 narrative

* Why libertarians and marxists united against the 1619 Project

* How Phil caught the Times quietly deleting its own claims

* The real story the Declaration of Independence tells about slavery

* How Britain and the US ended the slave trade

* The claim that slavery was the main driver of American wealth

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Outline:

[0:00] What is the 1619 Project?

[6:23] Was capitalism built on slavery?

[17:03] Southern culture was anti-capitalist

[23:02] Adam Smith on mercantilism and slavery

[33:04] How did the NYT get this so wrong?

[37:44] Was the revolution fought to preserve slavery?

[44:00] What did Jefferson think about slavery?

[49:26] The NYT refused to correct the record

[56:03] How slavery began to be abolished

[1:05:41] Slavery isn’t an American institution

[1:12:04] They hate capitalism more than racism

[1:20:02] Phil’s Twitter battle with Nikole Hannah-Jones

[1:31:48] The economics of slavery

[1:38:32] How should we teach about slavery?

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Most Americans can quote a line or two of the Declaration of Independence, but almost no one has actually read the whole thing. Today I'm going line by line to unpack what Jefferson was actually arguing and why it matters even more now than it did in 1776.

A generation raised with little independence and everything on demand can’t fully understand the values woven into the Declaration and how they apply today. In 2026, it isn’t all that suprising that Gen Z is increasingly pro-socialism and anti-patriotism.

Our creed won't pass itself on. That's our job as parents.

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I sat down with historian James Hankins, who recently resigned from Harvard after 40 years, to discuss why academia abandoned Western civilization, the institutional mechanisms that silence dissent, and how we can embrace the Western roots of America in the 21st century.

We get into:

* Why he left Harvard and joined the Hamilton School in Florida

* How fear of student backlash silences even tenured professors

* What happened to Harvard’s commitment to Western civilization

* Why teaching “global history” misses the point of education

* The link between Christianity, liberalism, and capitalism

* The classical education movement as antidote to institutional rot

* Why America needs to reclaim its Western heritage

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Outline:

[0:00] Why he left Harvard after 40 years

[7:51] The decline of elite higher education

[18:12] The big lie about Western Civilization

[25:27] Global history vs. narrative history

[42:04] Does history help us predict the future?

[49:45] What is Western Civilization?

[1:01:23] Islamic conquest and the Dark Ages

[1:05:20] The origins of liberalism

[1:19:07] How did the Church enforce canon law?

[1:24:42] The evolution of usury laws

[1:33:19] America’s role in Western Civilization

[1:39:45] The French Revolution’s societal self-hatred

[1:47:30] The Radicalism of the American Revolution

[1:54:04] Do Catholics belong in America?

[2:01:20] Is the “Protestant work ethic” real?

[2:07:32] What to prioritize when educating your kids

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The United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Today I'm going back to the original text of the Constitution to uncover what it actually says, and just as importantly, what it doesn't.

The Constitution never mentions health, education, or retirement. The president was never meant to wield this much power. The Senate was never supposed to be directly elected. And the First Amendment almost wasn't about free speech at all.

The Founding Fathers didn't trust pure democracy. After 250 years, it's pretty clear they were right.

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I sat down with Jack Henneman, host of the “History of the Americans” podcast, to discuss the early history of the American colonies, the weaponization of history for political purposes, and why judging the past by today’s standards corrupts our ability to understand it.

We get into:

* Why Jack launched a podcast to read American history from the very beginning

* How the New York Times weaponized the 1619 Project to reshape history education

* How Spain’s conquest of the New World set the stage for English colonization

* Why the Puritans and the Virginia planters built two completely different Americas

* How the Dutch built the most important city in history trading beaver fur and guns

* What the arrival of Africans at Jamestown in 1619 actually tells us about the origins of slavery

* Why conflicts broke out between Native Americans and European settlers

* What the great men of history can teach us about our own blind spots

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Outline:

[0:00] The History of the Americans podcast

[4:11] The fundamental flaw of the 1619 Project

[15:59] Spanish settlement of America

[30:41] The rise of English America

[34:45] Why New England Puritans were so successful

[44:41] The aristocratic culture of the South

[49:55] How slavery became the norm in the South

[55:56] What was Bacon’s Rebellion?

[1:00:58] The Native Americans of New England

[1:08:10] Where did Thanksgiving actually come from?

[1:16:03] The 400-year decline of Native Americans

[1:20:47] Dutch settlement of New York

[1:30:09] John Winthrop’s “City on a Hill”

[1:34:47] Why Pennsylvania was Quaker

[1:46:16] The Catholic colony of Maryland

[1:49:17] Why slavery became more violent

[1:56:14] How to read history as an amateur

[2:08:37] What’s the point of studying history?

[2:15:56] Ideas, ideology, and identity

[2:21:12] What is an “American”?

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The world comes to America for the World Cup and falls in love. Europeans are singing our songs, losing their minds at Buc-ee's, and telling us we don't know how good we have it. Meanwhile, Rupert Lowe just released his 200-page report on the UK’s decades-long grooming gang disaster. The UK government now wants to ban social media for teenagers and arrest people for saying the wrong words online.

America is basking in global admiration. Britain is facing a civilizational reckoning. The question is whether we understand what makes the difference, and whether American fathers are willing to fight to keep it that way.

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I sat down with Tony Woodlief to discuss federalism, the collapse of left-right politics, and what it takes to raise kids through suffering.

We get into:

* Why federalism was the Founding Fathers’ most important contribution to governance

* Whether Mamdani’s New York will teach Americans the pitfalls of socialism

* The truth about political polarization and geographic sorting

* How federal agencies regulate your life without a single vote or legal basis

* Why we should shrink school districts back to the neighborhood level

* How revolution vs status quo is replacing left vs right

* The libertarian blindspot for community and interdependence

* What happens to a father when he can’t protect his child

* The moment that changed how Tony raises his son

* How the Orthodox Church helped Tony put his life back together

* What makes the Constitution work, and where things break down

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Outline:

[0:00] Why the American creed works

[5:33] Does Mamdani have a place in America?

[17:37] Are Americans really that divided?

[31:26] What do left and right mean in 2026?

[46:00] What is the State Policy Network?

[58:38] The real political fight local

[1:12:38] Why did Democrats abandon the police?

[1:21:31] Boys and young men need to hear this

[1:28:23] The turmoil of losing a child

[1:40:37] Freedom, pain, and faith

[1:47:52] Protecting kids through divorce

[1:55:58] Why join the Orthodox church?

[2:06:28] Liberty is a tool, not the goal

[2:14:56] Is history cyclical or cumulative?

[2:19:44] How did Christianity spread worldwide?

[2:31:51] Is there hope for America’s future?

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Bari Weiss fires Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes and he compares it to losing a spouse. Karmelo Anthony's supporters call his conviction racist. Black YouTubers discover that the 1619 Project history taught in school is a lie.

The institutions we were told to trust have been exposed as propaganda operations. Online, people are waking up, but too many remain stuck in the legacy media echo chamber. When will the dam finally break?

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I sat down with Georgetown University constitutional law professor and originalist scholar Randy Barnett to discuss his books on his time as a Chicago prosecutor, how the Supreme Court has reinterpreted the 14th Amendment, and whether Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions should be upheld by the Court.

We get into:

* How George Soros changed prosecution from a nonpartisan job into an ideological one

* The missing Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment

* Why the DEI framework contradicts the original meaning of the Equal Protection Clause

* What libertarians have gotten wrong about public infrastructure and private power

* The meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction” and why Trump’s argument is stronger than the media admits

* Why creed and culture have to reinforce each other for a free society to survive

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Outline:

[0:00] Working as a prosecutor in Chicago

[6:58] The Warren Court and the rise of originalism

[16:44] George Soros prosecutors are dangerous

[21:46] How prosecutors build strong cases

[34:16] Power corrupts even good prosecutors

[41:17] Libertarians ignore the problem of private power

[45:51] The 14th Amendment and the first civil rights laws

[57:28] Disappearing constitutional limits on government

[1:03:59] What is “equality under the law”?

[1:09:53] What kind of discrimination should be legal?

[1:17:57] We still need intellectuals and academics

[1:28:46] Will the Supreme Court end birthright citizenship?

[1:42:09] Rethinking immigration as a libertarian

[1:58:24] Utopianism and “ideal world” libertarians

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New York City elects a Muslim socialist immigrant as mayor. British police give preferential treatment to non-white criminals while arresting white victims as they bleed out on the street. Europe held back Muslim invaders for hundreds of years, but now its major cities are upwards of 10% Muslim.

The left condemns the West while cheering its conquest by Islamic civilization. The question is, which side of the Red-Green alliance is the useful idiot and which holds the real power?

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I sat down with education innovator Graham Frey to discuss what school is actually for, how structure and choice should be balanced in a child’s life, and why the "falling behind" framework scares families into staying at failing schools.

We get into:

* The six habits every kid should leave school with

* How standardized test hide the reality of public schools

* The tension between teachers and school bureaucracies

* What school choice offers that zip-code schools don't

* Why Graham thinks kids fundamentally want to learn

* How social pressure manipulates parents into propping up public schools

* The ethics of running education experiments on kids

* Student-directed learning vs. traditional structure

* Why the future of education might be found in abandoned malls

* What AI will and won't change about how kids learn

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Outline:

[0:00] Learning to love school

[11:53] Education degrees are useless

[19:17] What is the point of school?

[31:18] Hold kids to standards

[37:09] What if parents aren’t doing their job?

[46:50] Teacher autonomy vs standardization

[55:06] What is the Primer School network?

[1:03:14] How to choose between alternative schools

[1:12:19] Most students are falling behind

[1:18:19] Growth matters more than “grade level”

[1:27:38] Teachers need to be held accountable

[1:32:49] Catholic schools are a missed opportunity

[1:35:47] The pros and cons of school consolidation

[1:49:12] Students need structure before choice

[2:03:37] How rigorous should school be?

[2:17:16] We don’t know what AI means for education

[2:29:09] Parenting from first principles

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Elon Musk called artificial intelligence the biggest existential threat in human history. That was 2014. Now it's 2026, the models are writing their own code, data centers are triggering bitter political fights, and Pope Leo just made AI the focus of his first encyclical.

Public sentiment on AI has cratered faster than any technology in memory. College graduates are booing commencement speakers who mention it. Google's I/O ‘26 keynote, focused on its ongoing AI projects, pulled over 8 million views on YouTube but less than 30,000 likes. Meanwhile, a recent Edelman poll found that China is highly enthusiastic about AI adoption, polling at 44% net approval compared to America’s 32% net disapproval.

Job loss, dehumanization, and plain old AI addiction are all crucial issues for Americans to grapple with, but is the revolt against AI pointed in the right direction?

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I sat down with political scientist and co-founder of Unified Solutions America Wilfred Reilly to discuss the state of the woke left, the toxic feedback loop between radical feminism and the manosphere, and the ongoing battle over American identity.

We get into:

* The SPLC federal indictment and allegations of funding white supremacist groups

* Why woke isn’t dead and how society keeps moving to the left

* How radical feminism set the stage for the manosphere to thrive

* Why young men and women have stopped getting together

* The “toaster lover problem” and how the internet concentrates fringe behavior

* Why neither the woke left nor the red pill right works for normal people

* The Hamas-Israel conflict and why Reilly says Israel is clearly in the right

* America as Rome and whether we’re heading toward empire

* Race, IQ, and how to have an honest conversation about group differences

* Where Reilly sees human civilization in 100 years

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Outline:

[0:00] The SPLC indictment

[15:06] Wokeness in Trump’s 2nd term

[27:33] Are young men going too far?

[38:49] The reality of racism in 2026

[43:47] How the social sciences lie with data

[49:00] Why are we uncomfortable judging behavior?

[55:18] Is the dating crisis driving political insanity?

[1:04:33] How the internet amplifies weird niches

[1:09:38] Inoculate yourself against novelty addiction

[1:17:07] How religion and community create stability

[1:21:39] Critical theory can’t build anything

[1:25:57] Abolishing social rules drives people crazy

[1:34:39] We’re overthinking the Israel-Gaza war

[1:46:23] How impactful is antisemitism?

[1:54:00] Where is American civilization headed?

[2:02:16] Will America follow Rome’s path?

[2:07:09] Why Wilfred is optimistic for the future

[2:13:49] An honest take on race and IQ

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The UN's top climate body just quietly buried the doomsday scenario that drove the past 15 years of climate panic, and almost no one noticed. The IPCC has officially declared RCP 8.5, its most extreme emissions model, implausible. That's the same model behind nearly every apocalyptic headline Gen Z has been reading since grade school.

The damage is already done. A Lancet study of 10,000 young people found that 84% are worried about climate change, 45% feel negatively affected in their daily lives, and nearly four in ten say they're hesitant to have children.

The junk science and the derangement that’s followed didn't spread itself.

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I sat down with Senegalese immigrant and entrepreneur Magatte Wade to discuss why Africa remains the poorest continent and why the most popular explanations are wrong.

Colonialism, slavery, or IQ differences are the answers most people reach for, but the data says otherwise. Ethiopia was never colonized and has been the poster child for African poverty for decades. Slavery was practiced by every race against every other race throughout human history. Nigerian immigrants are some of the most successful people in America.

Originally believing the Marxist narrative about Africa’s struggles, Magatte later realized that the truth was the exact opposite.

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Outline:

[0:00] Why is Africa poor?

[13:16] The race-IQ question

[24:09] Colonialism and slavery are universal

[31:38] How did slavery become about race?

[48:21] Marxism tells a compelling story about Africa

[0:59:59] Why its hard to advocate for capitalism

[1:05:09] Survivor’s guilt from leaving Africa

[1:13:26] Setting up a business in Senegal is impossible

[1:22:34] Why did Marxism take over Africa?

[1:38:30] How could Mamdani be popular in 2026?

[1:45:55] COVID triggered a revolution in education

[1:52:35] Does education or psychology drive beliefs more?

[1:57:33] Agency is the key to success

[2:01:31] Optimism, prosperity, and wealth disease

[2:10:07] Black American vs African immigrant culture

[2:23:23] Can we get over racial grievance politics?

[2:30:58] America is the greatest country

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President Trump was in China this week, negotiating with Xi Jinping over Iran, Taiwan, and trade deals. China’s economic miracle has transformed the country into a major global power over the past few decades. The American left likes to spin that success story as a win for central planning and socialism, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Scandinavia tells a similar story. Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani laud the “Nordic model” as proof that democratic socialism works, but leaders across the political spectrum in those countries would disagree. During the ‘70s and ‘80s, Sweden tried going in an actually socialist direction and soon paid the price. Since then, the country has successfully backtracked, balancing budgets, privatizing schools and hospitals, lowering taxes, and enjoying the fruits of capitalism.

How many supposed “wins” for socialism have to exposed as capitalism before the left updates its priors?

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I sat down with Gad Saad, author of “Suicidal Empathy,” to discuss the evolutionary psychology behind why the West is self-destructing in the name of tolerance.

Empathy is a perfectly adaptive human trait, but like any biological mechanism, it can misfire. When ideological parasites like gender ideology and critical race theory are the basis for empathy, it stops being a virtue and becomes a civilizational death wish.

We also get into why intelligent people are paradoxically the most vulnerable to bad ideas, why communism keeps coming back no matter how many times history buries it, and what it will actually take for the West to rediscover its survival instinct.

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Outline:

[0:00] A Canadian trying to save America

[2:08] What happens when empathy misfires?

[8:21] Even victims of crimes feel guilty now

[17:06] The evolution of the parasitic mind

[31:40] Christian ethics and self-sacrifice

[36:03] Can we trust evolutionary psychology?

[46:18] There are different kinds of truth

[54:24] Why don’t bad ideals die out?

[105:04] Is comfort driving us crazy?

[1:08:34] How to protect your kids from the mind virus

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