This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At United Nations climate change talks in Dubai, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, John Kerry, called for a halt to new coal plants worldwide. “There shouldn't be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world,” he said. “That's how you can do something for health. And the reality is that we're not doing it.” But the main alternative to burning coal is burning wood and dung,...
Dec 05, 2023•28 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At last Thursday's Congressional hearing, the lead witness for the Democrats, Olivia Troye, denied that she had called the evidence of government censorship a "conspiracy theory." Rep. Dan Bishop had asked her if she knew about the Missouri v. Biden censorship lawsuit headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And, if she was aware of it, “does it affect your view that all of this is a figment of our imagination?” Responded Tro...
Dec 02, 2023•31 sec
Nine months ago, I testified and provided evidence to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex, a network of government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, government contractors, and Big Tech media platforms that conspired to censor ordinary Americans and elected officials alike for holding disfavored views. I regret to inform the Subcommittee that the scope, power, and law-breaking of the Censorship Industrial Complex are even worse than we had reali...
Nov 30, 2023•15 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news During the summer of riots that followed the death of George Floyd, a particular political belief among anti-police activists became a religious dictate among liberals: that the only possible explanation for racial disparities among the victims of police violence was racism. If you lived in a big metropolitan area in the United States, any other explanation was regarded as heresy. It wasn’t safe to ask whether the reas...
Nov 08, 2023•21 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Toddlers unsnapping their onesies or pulling barrettes out of their hair are sending gender messages and could be transgender, says one expert in the field of gender medicine. Likewise, an adolescent with a long history of mental illness who suddenly announces a transgender identity is to be believed and immediately affirmed, according to the prevailing wisdom in gender clinics. Reflecting these beliefs, in 2018, the A...
Nov 05, 2023•35 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We’ve all experienced it. You get in an argument with someone who knows little about the subject they’re talking about, but who is absolutely confident they’re right. Maybe it’s police violence, maybe it’s climate change, or school closures during the pandemic. They’re reciting tired progressive talking points that have been debunked a dozen times over. You’re presenting them with counterarguments that are hardly origi...
Oct 30, 2023•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For a person suffering from gender dysphoria, the prospect of medical transition can offer the tantalizing promise of a pathway to inner peace. The anticipation and excitement about starting cross-sex hormones or undergoing a mastectomy or genital surgery often become a focal point for the distressed mind, with individuals pinning their hopes on these medical procedures to resolve all their pain and suffering. Proponen...
Oct 25, 2023•25 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The public debate on how to address America’s street addiction crisis has centered on two competing approaches: the “harm reduction” strategy of keeping addicts safe as they continue to use, and the “recovery” model, which advocates mandated treatment to get addicts off of drugs altogether. But there’s a dark reality that goes unacknowledged in that debate. With massive volumes of fentanyl and meth flooding into the co...
Oct 13, 2023•31 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The World Economic Forum claims to be an impartial, independent organization dedicated to making corporations around the globe accountable to all sectors of society. In partnership with the United Nations, the WEF is shepherding private-public sector cooperation toward sustainable development goals that will be a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity, now and into the future.” These goals include ending hunger, ge...
Sep 30, 2023•35 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We must be kinder and more altruistic, progressives say. The contemporary Left lionizes empathy above all virtues as the basis for a just and equitable society. But behind these pleas for selflessness can lie darker motivations of narcissism and authoritarianism, a growing body of psychological research suggests. A Swiss study published in Current Psychology earlier this year found antagonistic narcissism and psychopat...
Sep 02, 2023•19 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The lack of affordable housing, not addiction and mental illness, is the main driver of homelessness, say the researchers behind a recent University of California, San Francisco study . Hailed as the “deepest look” at the subject in decades, the Benioff Center for Homelessness and Housing Initiative conducted a statewide survey of thousands of people. The researchers say their conclusions settle the debate over the roo...
Aug 27, 2023•29 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news By Maddie Rowley On January 6th, 2021, the day that Congress was set to certify and confirm Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, thousands of Trump supporters swarmed the Capitol and took part in what mainstream media journalists and Democrats say was an insurrection and attempted coup. Just after 2 PM, the insurrectionists broke into the Capitol building through shattered windows and streamed towards ...
Aug 22, 2023•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Julian Assange is such a threat to America’s national security that he should die in prison, according to the United States government. Joe Biden, when he was vice president, called Assange a “high-tech terrorist.” Secretary of State under President Donald J. Trump, Mike Pompeo, likened Assange’s Wikileaks organization to a “ non-state hostile intelligence service .” According to U.S. government investigators and prose...
Aug 20, 2023•25 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news by Mia Ashton If your child comes to you out of the blue and tells you he or she is the opposite sex, you should affirm them, say experts in gender medicine. All of the major American medical associations say that if your child says he or she was born in the wrong body, you must agree with them, or you may cause them to commit suicide. But a group of parents is pushing back. They say that affirming a child’s gender con...
Aug 19, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For most people, the struggle for gay and transgender rights are one and the same. It's the LGBT movement, not the ‘gay rights movement’. But it wasn’t always this way. Until the 1990s, the two communities were largely separate, and it wasn’t until the 2010s that they officially joined forces. At the time, many liberals readily embraced this alliance as a logical evolution. After all, the fight for gay rights was drawi...
Aug 09, 2023•28 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Progressivism appears to be about progress — it’s right there in the name. Progressives, liberals, and the Left more generally say they are advocating for social, racial, and economic progress. And yet when you point out how much progress we have already achieved, many progressives deny it. Point out how much police brutality has declined and many progressives will accuse you of racial insensitivity. Point out how much...
Aug 06, 2023•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The bewildering number of news organizations has inspired entrepreneurs to create ways to rank them. The most prominent of them is NewsGuard . It ranks media organizations based on their trustworthiness and then provides these rankings to large corporate advertisers. NewsGuard’s co-CEOs are Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz. Before starting NewsGuard, Brill had created CourtTV, and Crovitz was the publisher of The Wall S...
Aug 03, 2023•30 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rates of mental illness across the Western world are surging, with young people being disproportionately impacted. From an exponential increase in referrals to pediatric gender clinics to substantial upticks in depression and anxiety diagnoses, the younger generation has never been more unhappy. A common explanation for this phenomenon is the challenges of contemporary living. With a growing tendency towards isolated l...
Aug 01, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the last three years, reading scores for 13-year-olds in the United States have fallen fourteen points, while math scores fell nine points. Reading scores are now the lowest they’ve been since 2004, and math scores are back where they were around 1990. But instead of finding ways to address this crisis in American education, public school systems are shifting their focus away from math, science, and reading and ar...
Jul 29, 2023•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news When Asra Nomani, an advocate for children and a self-described “Muslim feminist,” came to my house to record our podcast episode, she brought with her two piles of books. Many of those books are a part of the new literary curriculum in Montgomery County, Maryland. The stack included toddler board books like “Pride Puppy,” “Bye Bye, Binary,” and “The Gay B Cs.” There were other titles aimed at elementary and middle sch...
Jul 27, 2023•18 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news by Michael Shellenberger For most of the post-war period, liberalism in the United States was defined around freedom of speech, the needs of the working class, and the fight against racism and sexism. It was liberals who defended the right to burn the American flag, and of neo-Nazis to march through a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors. It was liberals who fought against corporate power and for the rights of working p...
Jul 23, 2023•19 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last month, Hunter Biden struck a deal with federal prosecutors. He’ll plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and avoid jail time. The crime? Writing off escorts and a sex club membership as “business expenses.“ New documents suggest Hunter — and his dad, “the big guy” — got off easy. Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the infamous “FD-1023” form. In it, an FBI whistleblower alleges the founder of Burisma, the U...
Jul 22, 2023•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is also one of the plaintiffs in the Missouri v. Biden case and is suing the federal government for coordinating with social media services to censor users. Yesterday, Public published a story containing previously unreleased emails and Slack messages from the authors of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,”...
Jul 19, 2023•22 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 1973, Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, was introduced to the world of gender medicine when his supervisor sent him a patient who wished to become a woman. The patient told Dr. Levine that he had been sitting under an oak tree with a gun in his mouth, and he had decided that either he was going…...
Jul 17, 2023•48 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news by Michael Shellenberger One of the most worrisome trends of our time is the devaluing of young men. We have filled their heads with dumb superhero fantasies and undermined their quest for authenticity and individuality. We have not required enough of them and thus deprived them of the adversity they need. And we have demonized masculinity; the adjective…...
Jul 16, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news This morning, Matt Taibbi asked a question that we’ve long been struggling with ourselves here at Public: Where have all the liberals gone? The old-school leftists who protested Tipper Gore’s parental advisory warnings on records and CDs in the 1980s, the ones that were outraged by the efforts of the late Senator Jesse Helms and then-Congressman Al D’Amato in 1989 to pull funding for the artist who created “Piss Christ...
Jul 12, 2023•22 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In March, I told members of Congress that in addition to defunding and dismantling the Censorship Industrial Complex, they should mandate that government officials and Big Tech social media platforms be transparent about all censorship (“content moderation”) requests and actions relating to social and political issues. I now believe that such steps may be too weak and that Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Courts...
Jul 11, 2023•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news by Michael Shellenberger Just a few weeks ago, I was lamenting the absence of any new nonfiction book that I really wanted to read. Many new books of late should have been long articles and were joyless to read. Then I read, in a single sitting, British author Brendan O’Neill’s new collection of essays, A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays On The Unsayable . It offers one of the most important defenses of liberal democratic c...
Jul 09, 2023•32 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The July 4 ruling that the federal government must not demand censorship by social media companies is a major setback in the war on disinformation, reports the New York Times yesterday. The reason, says The Times, is that the Trump-appointed judge and other Republicans have fallen prey to a conspiracy theory that a Censorship Industrial Complex exists. Most dangerously, reports the Times, “The judge’s preliminary injun...
Jul 06, 2023•35 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the last few weeks, we have documented the global crackdown on freedom around the world. Members of the UK parliament want to read your text messages without a warrant. The Irish government wants to be able to enter homes and read phones and computers without a warrant. The European Union is seeking to impose sweeping censorship restrictions and unprecedented invasions of privacy. And so it came as wonderful news ...
Jul 05, 2023•40 min
