America isn’t over, but plenty of people are eager to write its obituary.
Jeremy Boreing isn’t one of them.
On The Jeremy Boreing Show, the Daily Wire co-founder, filmmaker, and entrepreneur sits down with the builders and dreamers, the newsmakers and the troublemakers shaping the future of the country.
Leave behind the politics of despair and reclaim your agency from those who would rule over you.
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Is America Rome? 3 Historians Debate Decline, Faith & Agency | Weds LIVE Ep.57
Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 02:16:44
China's central bank just bought more gold in a single month than it has in nearly three years — its 22nd consecutive month of buying, at record prices. They're not doing it because gold is cheap. They're doing it because they've made a decision about what the next hundred years looks like.
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Do we act like a civilization that plans to be here in twenty years? Or are we living through our own version of Rome's slow fade?
Jeremy Boreing sits down with three guests who take that question seriously: historian Jeremy Ryan Slate (host of The Roman Pattern), Oxford classicist Spencer Klavan (host of Young Heretics, author of "How to Save the West"), and Daily Wire columnist Stephen Kent (co-founder of Geeky Stoics, author of the upcoming "Great Escape").
Was Rome saved by Christianity, or by Constantine's gold standard? Is Stoicism a ladder toward meaning or a ceiling under it? And is Western decline a cycle we're doomed to ride out, or a choice we can still make differently?
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00:00 Cold Open: China's Gold Buying Spree
3:13 Guest Introductions
4:11 Re-Enchantment of the West
9:34 Numbers, AI & Technology's Limits
22:01 Competence, Rome & the Frontier Spirit
44:48 Purpose, Mayflower & Autocracy Debate
59:35 Rome's Collapse: The Roman Pattern
1:17:18 Social Media, Screens & Spiritual Hunger
1:58:00 What Are We Actually Fighting For?
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He Rode With Charlie Kirk to the Hospital. One Year Later, The Full Story | Ep. 58 w/ Frank Turek
Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 02:20:02
Frank Turek was Charlie's friend and mentor. They shared one mission: to bring the gospel to college students. One year ago today, Frank was standing next to Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University when he was murdered. He rode with Charlie's body to the hospital. He has spent the year since defending Erika Kirk, TPUSA, and his own name against a flood of conspiracy theories — chiefly from Candace Owens.
In this conversation, Frank returns to the show to talk through the last conversation he had with Charlie two nights before he died, why he's more convinced than ever of the reality of evil and demonic activity, and what actually happened in the vehicle on the way to the hospital — including why eyewitness discrepancies aren't evidence of a cover-up. He also opens up about Erika Kirk's grief and leadership of TPUSA, what she told him in the hospital hallway, and why forgiveness and civil justice aren't in conflict — plus what Christians get wrong about "turning the other cheek."
Frank and Jeremy also get into Charlie's private frustration with certain donors over Israel and why it was never what people now claim, Tucker Carlson and antisemitism, and a full, plain explanation of the Christian gospel — because too many Christian words have stopped meaning anything to the people who use them.
They take on the conspiracy industry that's grown up around the assassination: why Candace Owens' "receipts" are exactly the kind of eyewitness discrepancies a cold-case detective would expect to find, why the exploding-mic theory would require thousands of people to be in on it, and why the defense in the Tyler Robinson pretrial hearings isn't disputing any of it. Plus: whether Erika Kirk can forgive her husband's killer and still pursue the death penalty, what Romans 13 actually says about government and vengeance, why pastors abandoned the public square — and what Charlie's "Blessed are the peacemakers" moment taught a man twice his age.
Frank Turek is the founder of CrossExamined.org and co-author (with Norman Geisler) of "I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist," now in a new 22nd-anniversary edition releasing this October. His new book, "The War on Reality" (co-authored with Phoenix Hayes), is out now and includes a foreword by Erika Kirk.
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0:00 Cold Open: "The Last Person I Think of Before Bed Is Charlie"
9:26 The Demonic Is No Longer an Abstraction
20:17 The Hospital Hallway: Erika's First Words
25:09 Meeting Erika Kirk — And Knowing It Was All Lies
32:04 The CPR "Receipt" That Proves Nothing
53:47 Forgive the Killer, Then Sue Candace?
1:15:05 The Evidence Says This Wasn't a Conspiracy
1:22:54 Erika Kirk's Words: "Reality Is Undefeated"
1:41:24 The Israel Question: Was Charlie Turning on Tucker?
1:59:00 Was Charlie Converting to Catholicism?
2:00:21 Inside "The War on Reality"
2:07:31 What Is the Gospel? Frank Turek Explains
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The Mark Driscoll Reckoning, Boreing Media Update, and a #1 Fantasy Show | Weds LIVE Ep.56
Thursday, September 3, 2026 • Duration 02:47:02
Mark Driscoll built one of the most influential — and most infamous — pulpits in American evangelicalism, preaching a version of Christian masculinity that filled Mars Hill Church before it became a cautionary tale that's still shaping how the church talks about strength, leadership, and accountability today.
The Jeremy Boreing Show interviewed Mark this week, causing considerable controversy online.
On this episode of Wednesday Live, Jeremy Boreing sits down with former Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry, pastor, cultural commentator, and Boreing Media President Jon Lewis, and Executive Producer Alyssa Cordova to ask the harder question behind the Driscoll story: What does Christian leadership really look like, and can the church even recognize it anymore?
The conversation ends with Jeremy's new Prime Video series The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin (the #1 fantasy series in the US and the UK) and the argument that conservatives are good at complaining and bad at building. From there, the vandalism of the West's founding myths, and whether modern Evangelicalism has what it takes to lead.
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0:00 – Company Update & the Driscoll Backlash
6:05 – Is Driscoll Biblically Disqualified?
14:34 – The Feminization of the Church & Paul's Example
28:06 – The Christianity Today Podcast & Scapegoating
39:48 – Ambition, Idolatry & Trusting God Over Men
55:10 – Q&A: NDAs and Protecting the Church
1:17:00 – Critics, Mike Winger & Defending Paul
1:37:44 – Rebuilding Razors with AI & Filmmaking
2:02:03 – Q&A, Pendragon Stories & Closing Monologue
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Mark Driscoll: Scandal, Forgiveness, and the War for Young Men's Souls | Ep. 55
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 02:17:46
Pastor Mark Driscoll — founder of the once-influential Mars Hill Church in Seattle, who resigned amid scandal in 2014 and now leads the fast-growing Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona — joins Jeremy for a two-hour conversation that doesn't blink.
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They start with the crisis: Gen Z men drowning in porn, gambling, and video games, a church that's been "over-mothered and under-fathered" since the men came home from World War II, and a seeker-sensitive movement that made Sunday morning safe for everyone except the men who needed it most. From there the conversation goes everywhere — the politics of the pulpit, why Gen Z is drawn to liturgy and structure instead of comfort, the Exodus story as a blueprint for what happens when believers exit the public square, and Driscoll's own account of the Mars Hill collapse: the hacking, the extortion, the fake confession sent to his entire mailing list, and the eighteen years of his own sermons he had to buy back at auction.
The back half is about forgiveness — not as a feeling, but as a decision, using the story of Joseph as the frame: "The deeper the forgiving, the greater the anointing." Jeremy pushes Driscoll on the difference between forgiving someone and trusting them again, and Driscoll closes with his answer to the question he says he asks every pastor who comes on the show: what is the gospel?
0:00 - The Masculinity Crisis in the Church
8:12 - Why the Church Became Feminized
16:05 - Seeker-Sensitive vs God-Centered
23:34 - Make Disciples, Not Converts
34:18 - Egypt, Exodus & Political Freedom
53:24 - Controversy, Scandal & Candace Owens
1:05:20 - The Fall & Rebuilding of Mars Hill
1:32:06 - Total Forgiveness: The Joseph Story
1:54:06 - Gen Z, Tate Brothers & the Gospel
2:08:18 - What Is the Gospel?
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America's Occult Awakening: A Demon Expert, Former Psychic, & Journalist Explain | Weds LIVE Ep.54
Thursday, August 27, 2026 • Duration 02:23:58
Feat. Dr. Richard Gallagher, Jenn Nizza, and Billy Hallowell
Three weeks ago on this show, Rod Dreher told us the story of the night he tried to help Tucker Carlson after a demonic encounter — four bleeding claw marks, two exorcists offered, help refused. Tonight we go further.
Vice President JD Vance says he doesn't think UFOs are aliens — he thinks they're demons. Nearly a third of Americans consult astrology, tarot, or a fortune teller every year. More than half of teenagers do. And at the same moment this conversation is opening up in serious ways, Candace Owens is running what looks like a demonically driven campaign against a grieving widow — claiming Charlie Kirk visits her in dreams, that the two of them practiced astral projection, and telling a viewer last week: "we are legion."
Something real is breaking open in American culture. The guardrails are nowhere.
Tonight, three guests who can actually tell the difference between spiritual warfare and a personality disorder:
DR. RICHARD GALLAGHER — board-certified psychiatrist, professor at New York Medical College, and the longest-standing American member of the International Association of Exorcists. He has personally evaluated more suspected possession cases than any other physician in the world. Author of "Demonic Foes" (HarperCollins, 2020).
JENN NIZZA — spent 25 years as a professional psychic medium, starting at age 13. Now warns audiences about the occult on The Ex-Psychic Saved Podcast. Author of "Darkness in Disguise," "Rescued from Demons," and more.
BILLY HALLOWELL — 20-year investigative journalist covering faith and the supernatural for CBN News. Director of the 2026 documentary "Investigating the Supernatural: Angels & Demons." Author of "Playing with Fire."
We cover: what separates a real demonic case from a psychiatric one; how psychic "accuracy" actually works; what happened when Tucker refused help; how Candace Owens is weaponizing spiritual language against Charlie Kirk's widow; why the American church went silent on the unseen world — and what to do about it.
00:00:00 – Tucker's Demonic Attack & the National Spiritual Moment
00:04:42 – Meet the Guests & Is This Actually Increasing?
00:08:52 – Jen's Life as a Psychic Medium — and Her Deliverance
00:12:30 – Body and Spirit: Can Oppression Cause Physical Harm?
00:19:34 – Cultural Scientism & the Church's Retreat
00:42:52 – Curses, Vulnerability & Psychedelics
01:03:22 – Why Now? Tucker, Candace & Spiritual Contagion
01:28:41 – Gallagher's Most Dramatic Cases
01:44:34 – Closing: Ephesians 6 & the Gospel
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What Were Pastors Doing While Charlie Kirk Did Their Job? | Ep. 53
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 38:34
America's pastors have retreated from politics — and the wolves walked right in. In this monologue, Jeremy Boreing makes the case that the collapse of the American church, from the seeker-sensitive movement to the silence on porn, gambling, and feminine sin, is why the culture is coming apart.
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Young men chant for Andrew Tate outside a jail. Four hundred women in pink rally for a mother who strangled her three children. Charlie Kirk stood in the public square doing the watchman's work in a country with a church on every corner — and was killed doing it. What were the pastors doing?
Jeremy traces the rot back to its source: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, Bill Hybels and Willow Creek's "unchurched Harry," the 2007 REVEAL study that proved the model failed, and the audience capture that turned pulpits into comment sections. Then he takes on the other error — Christian nationalism, integralism, Adrian Vermeule, Stephen Wolfe, and "measured theocratic Caesarism" — and argues the Constitution didn't fail us. We failed it.
The alternative is neither retreat nor theocracy: a church courageous enough to make Christians, Christians courageous enough to govern themselves, and citizens courageous enough to govern their country.
00:00 Intro: Tate Protests vs. Clancy Vigil
04:24 Whitfield and the Great Awakening
07:21 Rise of Seeker-Sensitive Christianity
15:45 Gambling, Porn, and Pulpit Silence
23:22 Christian Nationalism Rising
29:43 A Call to Pastors
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Lindsay Clancy, SSRIs, and the Toxic Online Culture Destroying Women | Weds LIVE Ep. 52
Thursday, August 20, 2026 • Duration 02:04:19
Featuring Jessica Reed Kraus (@houseinhabit), Jonathan Alpert, and Ericka Andersen.
A courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is hearing the Lindsay Clancy murder case. But Jeremy Boreing argues the more revealing story is not inside the courtroom at all — it is the parallel universe that has assembled around it online, where thousands of women who have never read a legal filing have watched a few hours of true-crime video and concluded they have solved a case that seventy witnesses could not settle.
This week's Wednesday live panel takes that phenomenon as the entry point into a much larger question: what is actually happening to women in America, and is there a way back? Jeremy makes the case that the online response to this trial is not an isolated curiosity but a symptom — of a country that has medicated women at extraordinary rates, watched women's drinking climb for two decades, built a billion-dollar market in explicit fiction, and handed millions of women an ecosystem that rewards suspicion, grievance, and resentment while penalizing trust, connection, and accountability. As Alex Clark put it on X, idle people are easy to radicalize, and women who are not plugged into community are sitting prey. Jeremy argues she is right — and that this eventually reaches the ballot box.
Three guests take that question from three genuinely different vantage points.
Jonathan Alpert is a psychotherapist with two decades of clinical practice in New York and Washington, D.C., and the author of Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It's Left Us More Anxious and Divided. He is the clinical insider making an argument against his own field: that despite unprecedented access to therapy, anxiety and depression are at record highs, and that words like trauma, boundaries, toxic, and self-care escaped the consulting room and were weaponized in the culture. He walks Jeremy through the mechanism — how a clinical tool becomes a cultural weapon, why women became the primary consumers of therapeutic language, and what that has produced.
Jessica Reed Kraus — known to more than a million followers as @houseinhabit — is an independent journalist who has covered high-profile trials from the inside, from the Britney Spears conservatorship to Ghislaine Maxwell to Harvey Weinstein. She reports on the online world under discussion as both observer and professional participant, and as a mother of four. She describes what she actually sees when she looks at trial TikTok, true-crime fan communities, and the conspiracy ecosystems Jeremy is criticizing — and what it looks like to work online without being consumed by it.
Ericka Andersen is a conservative writer, WORLD Magazine columnist, and the author of Reason to Return: Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs Women and Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith. She argues that roughly 16 million women have left the church over the last decade and did not find nothing in its place — they found something else. She makes the faith-and-community case for what heals, and speaks from her own history of poverty, trauma, and recovery.
Alpert diagnoses in clinical language and locates the failure in institutions. Andersen locates the cure in faith, church, and embodied community. Kraus reports from inside the ecosystem without either vocabulary. Jeremy pushes all three toward the uncomfortable version of the argument, including the consistency test: if men were forming parasocial fan clubs around accused murderers and building theories out of a few hours of video, we would call it radicalization without hesitating. The conversation closes on one concrete thing a woman watching could do in her actual life — not online.
00:00:00 – Jeremy's Razors & the Lindsay Clancy Case
00:07:22 – Meet the Guests: Women in Crisis Online
00:16:22 – Gnosticism, Lost Community & Coddled Kids
00:33:18 – Postpartum Psychosis & Victimhood Culture
00:44:32 – AI, Algorithms & Destination Vices
01:03:16 – Diagnosis Culture: Sin & Diluted Language
01:16:47 – Satan as Accuser: Candace, Tucker & Evil
01:20:22 – Rebuilding Trust & Family Estrangement
01:37:53 – COVID's Legacy & Finding Real Hope
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Andrew Klavan: AI Has No Soul (And Never Will) | Ep. 51
Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 02:08:48
Andrew Klavan joins Jeremy Boreing for a wide-ranging conversation on faith, AI, and the cultural moment we're living through. They talk about why optimism is still justified despite civil war on the right and rising socialism on the left, why AI is a "mechanical sociopath" with no soul and never will be, and why the revival of faith may come not from the pews but from scientists and intellectuals finally admitting the math doesn't work without God.
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Klavan opens up about losing a decade of his life to mental illness, the eerie experience of losing an entire manuscript twice during moments of spiritual significance, and how Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" changed the course of his life at 19. The conversation moves through the death of woke Hollywood and the rise of "post-woke" art, the failures and strange virtues of the boomer generation, the coddling of Gen Z, and a frank debate about where art crosses the line into pornography versus honest depiction of the human condition.
They close with a look ahead to the 2026 midterms, whether AOC is as dangerous as she is talented, and why Klavan is worried — but not opposed to — JD Vance.
0:00 – Optimism Amid Chaos
3:15 – Faith Revival on the Horizon
13:40 – Reality, Madness & Political Christianity
24:59 – Suffering, Suicide & the Soul
41:11 – Trump, Agency & Government Overreach
57:23 – AI, Jobs & the Soul Question
1:04:21 – Klavan's Illness & His Novels
1:13:01 – Faith in Fiction & Hollywood
1:41:09 – Art's Line & the 2026 Midterms
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The $20 Burrito That Blew Up The Right | Weds LIVE Ep. 50
Thursday, August 13, 2026 • Duration 02:16:58
A college student complained he couldn't afford a $20 burrito. A senior producer replied that his wife feeds a family of eight homemade burritos for less than that. Twelve million views later, the American right was at war with itself over whether the affordability crisis is real — and whether anyone on the right is allowed to say so out loud.
On this Wednesday Live panel, Jeremy Boreing sits down with the three men who got the facts right and still watched the room turn on them. Joel Berry — Marine Corps veteran, former managing editor of The Babylon Bee, author of the bestselling The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress, and senior producer of this show — wrote the post that started it. David Harsanyi, founding editor of The Federalist and senior writer at the Washington Examiner, has spent the week making the data case that food inflation has returned to something close to its historical norm. Daniel Di Martino, Venezuelan-born economist, Manhattan Institute fellow, and founder of the Dissident Project, watched socialism destroy what was once the fourth-richest country in the world — and argues the American shortage was built by government and can be unbuilt by it.
The numbers set up the problem. The July inflation report released this morning put headline CPI at 3.4 percent annually and core at 2.5 percent, both down slightly from June. Food inflation over the last two years has run near 3 percent a year. The acute spike that began in 2021 and crested in 2022 is over. And yet a July Washington Post poll of nearly 2,700 adults found 65 percent of Americans calling grocery prices unaffordable — including 56 percent of households earning more than $100,000 a year.
Why the gap? Because the rate of increase came back down and the prices never did. Grocery prices are up roughly 30 percent since the pandemic. A twenty-two-year-old who paid seven-fifty for a Chipotle burrito in high school now pays eleven-sixty. That is a complaint about the price level, not the rate of change — and as Cato's Ryan Bourne argues, telling people to cook cheaper substitutes may be the political equivalent of Jimmy Carter telling Americans to put on a sweater.
This hour is the argument the right has been avoiding: how to say a true thing without insulting the person who needs to hear it. The panel works through the dispersion hiding under the headline numbers, the four categories where the real pain lives — housing, healthcare, tuition, childcare — and the policy levers that actually move prices. Di Martino makes the housing supply case in plain English: zoning, parking mandates, permitting. He also says on the record that lifting tariffs is the fastest available lever on goods prices, which puts him crosswise with the current administration. Harsanyi defends the historical context: food's share of the family budget has fallen from roughly 42 percent in 1901 to under 10 percent today. Berry connects affordability to family formation, marriage, and birth rates — and to why economic populism captured a large share of the party instead of the case for cutting spending, taxes, regulation, and entitlements.
Then there are the stakes. Zohran Mamdani won New York City on a cost-of-living platform, and DSA candidates are gaining ground elsewhere on the same pitch. His argument was never that the right is cruel. It was that nothing has been tried. Did the right hand him that? And is it about to hand somebody else the midterms?
The hour closes on the hardest version of the question. A family of eight can eat well on twenty dollars if somebody is home to cook. What is the answer in a household where nobody is — two working parents, no time, no margin? Each guest names the one thing he would remove rather than add to make American life cheaper.
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00:00:00 – Inflation Report & the Great Burrito Battle
00:05:13 – The Burrito Tweet, Backlash & COVID's Lasting Damage
00:14:32 – Is the Right Embracing Left-Wing Economics?
00:21:14 – Entitlements, Freedom & the Value of Struggle
00:38:20 – Marriage, Divorce & the Real Affordability Crisis
00:42:27 – College Debt & the Broken University System
01:05:14 – Congress, the Administrative State & Trump's Record
01:20:47 – Obama's Legacy, Socialism & American Exceptionalism
01:41:36 – Raising Conservative Kids & the Conservative Message
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Hasan Piker and Candace Owens Are Selling You Third-World Thinking | Ep. 49
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 41:52
Two trials are running in America right now.
One is in a Fourth District courtroom in Provo, Utah, where prosecutors have spent months building the case against Tyler Robinson the hard way — eyewitness testimony, hours of security footage, forensic reports, DNA, handwriting on a shell casing, a .30-06 rifle. Slow, methodical, adversarial, and bound by rules. The accused is presumed innocent. The evidence has to survive cross-examination.
The other trial is happening behind a podcast microphone. It has no judge, no jury, no burden of proof, and no standard for what counts as evidence. In that trial, the verdict is set by likes and shares, insight arrives as gossip and hearsay, and the culprit changes week to week. Millions of people are watching it and believing it.
In this monologue, Jeremy Boreing argues that the distance between those two rooms is the distance between Western civilization and everything that came before it — and that we are walking backwards across it faster than most people realize.
Jeremy starts with a viral video out of Dearborn, Michigan, and Allie Beth Stuckey's response to it, then widens the lens: the physical walls at the border are not the only ones crumbling. The walls in our minds are cracking too. Cross-cultural researchers describe the West as a guilt/innocence culture — an objective moral code, applied to everyone, where justice is blind and the claim outranks the man. Most of the world runs on honor and shame instead, where your worth is issued by the people watching and can be revoked by them, where an unanswered insult is a kind of social death, and where the sneer isn't a failure to make an argument — the sneer is the argument.
That framework, drawn from the work of psychologists Angela K.-Y. Leung and Dov Cohen, explains an enormous amount about the American public square in 2026: why ad hominem now reads as authority, why the Republican primary debates of 2016 went the way they did, why Candace Owens told Andrew Wilson that objective debate standards are for the soft, and why the mob's verdict has quietly replaced the evidence.
From there, Jeremy makes the case for how strange the West actually is — starting with the price tag. A fixed price is not natural. Corruption is natural. The haggle is natural. What the West built instead was impersonal exchange: contracts a court would enforce, property a king couldn't seize, honest weights and measures commanded by the God of Israel and enforced for centuries by a Church that treated cheating a stranger as a matter for your soul. Nobel-winning economist Douglass North traced the explosion of Western prosperity to that structure. Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich traced it back further — to the medieval Church banning cousin marriage, dissolving the clan, and creating something genuinely new in human history: the individual.
And it explains John Adams, who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre because he believed the truth was owed even to the enemy of his own people — and lost half his law practice for it. It explains a mother and father in southern Utah who looked at a surveillance image, recognized their own son, and drove him to the sheriff's office themselves.
Set that against Tucker Carlson's 2015 rule that he would never criticize his brother in public, under any circumstances, even for mass murder. That's the tribe placed above the truth. Blood over justice. Half the world would hear it and nod.
Jeremy's argument: the Left says the transaction was always theft, so take yours back. The post-liberal Right, borrowing from Carl Schmitt, says the tribe was always the point, so reward friends and punish enemies. Different roads, same destination — and neither is offering anything new. They are offering what everybody had before Christianity showed up.
None of it was inevitable, and none of it is irreversible. We built the fixed price. We built the jury. We built the father who turns in his own son. Those were choices, and choices can be made differently tomorrow.
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