This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the past several years, Canada’s drug crisis has spiraled out of control with no signs of slowing. From January 2020 to June 2021, nearly 10,000 Canadians died from opioid overdoses – fentanyl detected in an overwhelming majority. This is familiar to us in the U.S., but the Trudeau administration’s approach to combating the crisis is usually a few steps ahead when it comes to “harm reduction” approaches – includin...
Jul 03, 2023•32 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For a moment last week, the war in Ukraine appeared to have arrived at an almost inconceivable turning point. The Wagner Group, a brutal mercenary army the Kremlin deploys to conduct off-book military operations around the world, from Mali to Syria, did an about-face from its position in Ukraine and invaded the motherland. In the course of their rebellion, Wagner troops shot down five Russian helicopters and a valuable...
Jul 01, 2023•20 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Yesterday, Public reported on the new House Judiciary Commiteee report on how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been engaged in an effort with big tech companies to censor American citizens. The headline finding was that the people involved knew that what they were doing was wrong. “It’s only a matter of time,” wrote Suzanne Spaulding, a former assistant general counsel for the Central Int...
Jun 28, 2023•16 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For decades, Union Rescue Mission President and CEO Andy Bales has lived the values he preaches, caring for the most vulnerable among us and inspiring hope in the darkest places. He has also been a relentless gadfly in L.A.’s homelessness debate, a lone voice advocating recovery and community-based services amid the din of harm-reduction mantras and corrupt development rackets . After 20 years leading URM, the next six...
Jun 25, 2023•21 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news If you’re a paid subscriber and are not getting our full podcast episodes on your podcast player, go to https://public.substack.com/account and follow the instructions to set up a private feed. Despite living and practicing in the very blue state of Oregon, Stephanie Winn, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, realized something didn’t feel quite right about immediately affirming gender dysphoric kids. “As soon as ...
Jun 15, 2023•19 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news As more pieces of the UFO puzzle emerge, the picture doesn’t get clearer, just bigger and more complex. The idea of UFOs may make some roll their eyes, but simply put, these aerial craft are unattributed to a known source. Many cases of UFOs can certainly be connected to foreign technology or even classified research that even those within the same government are unfamiliar with. However, new whistleblowers like David ...
Jun 10, 2023•37 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news If you’re a paid subscriber and are not getting our full podcast episodes on your podcast player, go to https://public.substack.com/account and follow the instructions to set up a private feed. On February 17, 2020, The New York Times and the Washington Post suggested that the lab leak hypothesis was a “ fringe theory ” that had been “ debunked .” In April of 2020, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace called the lab leak hypothesis ...
Jun 08, 2023•21 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Some time in the mid-2010s, a strange idea exploded into public consciousness. It was the idea that some men are women, and some women are men. Caught off-guard, many people, failing to see the harm, went along with it, thinking it was meant in a metaphorical sense. Helen Joyce, author of Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights, was one of those people. In our discussion, she says the moment she wa...
May 29, 2023•31 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In March, Public published my essay, “Why Are We Sterilizing Children?” It argued that the sudden explosion of adolescent girls identifying as transgender in recent years is a “social contagion,” much like anorexia before it. Scientific support for that hypothesis comes from a 2018 study by Brown University’s Lisa Littman. She found that girls suffering from gender dysphoria, or confusion about whether they were male o...
May 28, 2023•21 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Nationalism is synonymous with fascism, racism, and anti-Semitism in many people’s minds. The ideology brought us World War II, Saddam Hussein, and Vladamir Putin. But nationalism isn’t necessarily any of those things, argues historian Michael Lind. “Almost all of the states in the United Nations General Assembly are nation-states,” he notes in a new podcast he recorded with Public last week (above). “I think of nation...
May 27, 2023•1 hr 32 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For a year and three months, we’ve been told there’s only one correct position on the war in Ukraine. In a sense, that’s true: Russia’s invasion of the country is morally indefensible. It’s hard to imagine even the most cynical pretext for cheering Moscow on. Fortunately, nobody is doing that. Not even Oliver Stone . But one need not side with Putin to wo…...
May 24, 2023•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Americans tend to think of Canadians, when we think of them at all, as mild-mannered, agreeable, and nicer versions of ourselves. But over the last several years we have seen Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, crack down harshly on his fellow citizens. In January 2022, Trudeau froze bank accounts of people who had donated money to protesting truckers, who he compared to Nazis. A Canadian military-funded think tan...
May 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news By Alex Gutentag During the Dark Ages, Irish monks copied down all the books they could find. As libraries disappeared across Europe, Ireland’s monasteries preserved Western knowledge and literature. These monks eventually brought their transcribed manuscripts back to the rest of Europe and saved civilization from a period of decline that might have been fatal. Irish journalist Ben Scallan from Gript Media says this hi...
May 06, 2023•20 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news It’s now clear that heads of state around the world, from the U.S. and Canada to Britain and New Zealand, are working together to censor their political opponents, lie to the public, and crack down on free speech — all in the name of fighting “disinformation,” “extremism,” and “hate.” A former Army intelligence officer named Jacob Siegel wrote the best overview of this creeping totalitarianism for Tablet Magazine, and ...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news When Michael testified before Congress two weeks ago with Matt Taibbi, many of his insights into the Censorship Industrial Complex were thanks to the exhaustive research of Mike Benz. Benz, a former State Department official, heads up the Foundation for Freedom Online . He’s a bona fide expert on the global digital censorship regime that has emerged in r…...
Mar 21, 2023•23 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At the height of the #MeToo movement and the online fever that accompanied it, then-novelist Stephen Elliott was shocked to find his name on a public Google spreadsheet in which anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct were being made of men who worked in the media industry. Next to his name was the career-ending word, “rape.” The “Shitty Media Men” li…...
Mar 12, 2023•18 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Welcome to our debut episode of Public’s new podcast. We can’t imagine a better first guest than Martin Gurri, author of Revolt of the Public, the book that inspired this publication’s name. We talk to Gurri about wokeness, totalitarianism, Cuba, and other subjects.
Mar 02, 2023•23 min
