This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Politicians and activists alike have warned of a looming climate catastrophe for decades. “Biden urged to declare climate change a national emergency,” reported NBC last year . “Climate Changes Threatens Every Facet of U.S. Society, Federal Report Warns,” announced Scientific American . Cambridge University climate scientist Mike Hulme disagrees. “Declaring a climate emergency has a chilling effect on politics,” he tel...
Feb 25, 2024•27 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news On Monday, Alex Gutentag and I reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is misrepresenting the location of the alleged bomb allegedly found at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on January 5, 2021, and that little about the alleged bomb scare makes any sense. Today, I sat down with Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave of “The Rising” to discuss the issue. They asked me hard questions, and I...
Feb 21, 2024•7 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2020, progressives rode a wave of righteous anger toward what many believed would be decisive and lasting change. The pandemic ensured a captive audience; America could no longer look away. So why did a year that saw the largest combined protests in the history of this country fail to deliver substantive change, let alone the radical shift progressives were banking on? Essayist and author Freddie deBoer parses these...
Feb 08, 2024•27 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rob Henderson is a writer and academic perhaps best known for popularizing the concept of “ luxury beliefs .” Over the past several years, he’s become an influential commentator, both in mainstream media and with his own Substack. Now, he has a much-anticipated book coming out from a major publisher. “ Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class ,” recounts his tumultuous childhood and unlikely path to e...
Feb 05, 2024•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last week, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused pro-Palestinian protesters who demonstrated outside her San Francisco home of being Russian stooges. She even urged the FBI to investigate them. Obviously, the FBI can’t legally investigate an allegation for which there is zero evidence. And to be clear, Pelosi offered zero evidence. Is it possible that Russian interests have funded pro-Palestine activists? Sure, just like...
Feb 03, 2024•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rope, not the wind industry, killed the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead last Monday, claim scientific organizations , the US government, and the news media. “This case highlights the ongoing threat right whales and other whale species have been facing from fishing gear entanglements for decades,” said Amy Knowlton of the New England Aquarium, which is working with the North Atlantic Oceanic ...
Feb 03, 2024•52 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Have you ever heard of the “Five Eyes” nations? I confess that I hadn’t until I started covering censorship and other governmental abuses of power last year. But it turns out to be something really important. The Five Eyes refers to intelligence agencies in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, which have collaborated on spying and intelligence sharing since World War II. Now it appears Canada spread disinfor...
Feb 01, 2024•48 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2010, the family of Monica Harris’s partner held a reunion in southeastern Montana. “She says, ‘Hey, babe, would you ever want to go?’ And I don't know about you, but Montana was one of these places that had always been on my bucket list. It's Big Sky country, you know? So I said, ‘Sure, let's go. And we were there for a week, and it was just — I think it was life-changing.” Monica is a Harvard-educated entertainmen...
Jan 29, 2024•26 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news “People get fat because they eat too many calories.” “A calorie is a calorie.” “Saturated fats are bad.” America’s leading dietary experts, the US government, and food manufacturers agreed on the above for decades. During that time, rates of overweight, obesity, and diabetes skyrocketed. Either the experts are wrong or people didn’t follow the advice of experts. Two journalists, Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz, say the e...
Jan 27, 2024•30 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The US Department of Justice has charged over 1,200 people with federal crimes related to the January 6, 2021 riot. In order to convict those individuals, the DOJ has relied heavily on 14,000 hours of surveillance video as well as cell phone data, some of which somebody leaked to the New York Times. “The data we were given showed what some in the tech industry might call a God-view vantage of that dark day,” wrote Char...
Jan 26, 2024•1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For more than 30 years, progressives and conservatives have differed over how to think about mentally ill homeless people. Progressives have argued that the fundamental problem is the lack of funding for mental health services, while conservatives have argued that the problem is the unwillingness of progressives to mandate care. Now, a new book, Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Menta...
Jan 21, 2024•30 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news If you watch the mainstream media, you might think that what happened on January 6th, 2021 was a coup attempt. But what if that’s not at all what happened? The dictionary definition of a coup is a “violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.” There’s no doubt that the chaos on January 6 was a bad day for the United States. But it was a bad day that would have been prevented had Congressi...
Jan 19, 2024•1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Did you see what happened last Monday night after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in Iowa? Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes of it. Why was that?
Jan 17, 2024•33 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Imagine for a moment that you wanted to seize control over the Internet and put in place a system of mass censorship worldwide. How would you do it? You wouldn’t advertise your intentions. You’d hide them. You’d claim there was a rise in hate speech and misinformation and that it was hurting vulnerable people. You wouldn’t take on powerful interests. You’d pick on individual citizens. You’d say that they were on the ve...
Jan 15, 2024•30 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news There are a lot of scary charts and graphs out there. Like this one, which shows learning loss during covid lockdowns. Or this one, which shows the increase in illicit drug deaths over the last twenty years. Or this one, which shows the spike in illegal border crossings. But this chart is scarier than the others:...
Jan 14, 2024•16 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Donald Trump cannot become president of the United States because he led an insurrection against the government on January 6, 2021, most experts and journalists agree. Republican primary voters and caucus-goers should choose a different candidate over Trump, they say. And if they don’t, then the courts should either keep Trump off the ballot, they argue, or put him in prison so that he cannot become president. Voters d...
Jan 13, 2024•24 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news It sounds like a Hollywood movie. Government intelligence agencies, perhaps CIA and Mossad, use sex with dozens of teenage girls to blackmail some of the world’s most powerful people, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton. But it’s not a movie. It appears to be what New York investor Jeffrey Epstein did from the 1990s until 2018. One year later, he died in jail, either by suicide or murder. There’s a lo...
Jan 09, 2024•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Before 2016, when the wind industry’s increased boat traffic, sonar mapping, and construction began, eight humpback whales were found dead per year between Virginia and Maine . Since 2016, an average of 25 humpbacks were found dead annually. And last year, there were a record 83 whales found dead. And yet the Associated Press insisted last month that “the…...
Jan 08, 2024•6 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We tend to think of censorship as a violation of the rights of the censored. And it is that, of course. But censorship creates other victims we give less consideration to: the millions who are denied the chance to hear the perspectives of those who are silenced. In totalitarian societies, censors deny the public the opportunity to hear opinions that diverge from state orthodoxy. Suppressing dissent allows the governmen...
Jan 07, 2024•2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Most days, we get up and think everything’s fine. We are alive, we are housed, and we are members of society we call a nation. Within the borders of that nation, we don’t let foreigners poison our children. But we do let foreigners poison our children. Last year, foreigners, with the help of their American business partners, poisoned 112,000 of our children, relatives, and fellow citizens with fentanyl, meth, and other...
Jan 06, 2024•1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Right-wing activists are responsible for the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, say mainstream news media organizations. “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism,” read the Associated Press headline. Politico attributed Gay’s resignation to a “conservative activist’s crusade.” Both the New York Times and Washington Post published pieces suggesting t...
Jan 03, 2024•35 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rikki Schlott was 14 years old when she and other students were herded into racial affinity groups to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. “That was my first moment of kind of doubting the environment around me,” she recalled. By the time she got to NYU, she was hiding books by Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, and other authors. “It's been so ideologically oppressive for as long as I can really remember being even vaguely ...
Dec 31, 2023•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In the field of anthropology, it’s difficult to avoid talking about sex. For physical anthropologists, much of the field’s focus is on skeletal remains where body size, bone mineral density, and other sex differences are of utmost importance. For forensic anthropologists, determining the sex of remains is a crucial element of identifying crime victims. Archaeologists, too, glean valuable insights into social structures...
Dec 25, 2023•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news You no doubt saw the news that the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump cannot be on the ballot because he attempted insurrection on January 6. You might have paid little attention to it because you heard that the US Supreme Court would overrule the decision, and the holidays were coming up. But we should all pay attention, no matter your feelings about Trump, because what is at stake is nothing less than our democr...
Dec 23, 2023•26 sec
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Few members of the Senate have ever been stronger defenders of the First Amendment than Senator Rand Paul. For that reason, I was excited to sit down with him in Washington, D.C., to learn more about his proposal to prohibit federal government employees from talking to social media companies. Paul’s proposal is controversial....
Dec 17, 2023•10 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2020, The New York Times published an op-ed piece that put the lives of its black employees in danger, many of them said. Senator Tom Cotton had written the op-ed, and the New York Times gave it the headline, “Send In The Troops.” Cotton argued that President Donald Trump should deploy the National Guard to quell rioting. The next day, the New York Times published a news story about the resulting internal controvers...
Dec 14, 2023•4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For more than one year now, we and others have been releasing internal emails and messages between social media employees and current and former government officials working for the White House, Defense Department, CIA, FBI, UK Ministry of Defense demanding and coordinating mass censorship of disfavored political and cultural views. We have released so much information that we need to take a breath sometimes and assess...
Dec 11, 2023•1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the last year, we and others have documented the leadership and participation of US military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in demanding greater censorship of legal speech online by social media platforms. Over the last two weeks, we have traced the creation of a mass, public-private censorship effort called Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL) to two separate US Department of Defense organizations...
Dec 09, 2023•11 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Our military, police, and intelligence officials exist to protect us from domestic and international danger, we were all raised to believe. Military, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals are not there to decide what we should think or how we should think. They are there to protect us from those who would try to take away those freedoms. Public’s reporting shows that top military and intelligence officials an...
Dec 08, 2023•4 min
It sounds like a "Black Mirror" episode: a small country announces a crackdown on hate speech to seize control over the entire Internet. Except it's not a "Black Mirror" episode. It's real life. And it's happening right now in Ireland. The so-called "Hate Speech" bill isn't what it seems. It's not a bill about protecting the Irish people from hate crimes. It's a Trojan Horse designed to control the world's Big Tech companies — X, Facebook, Google, and YouTube. This is a free speech emergency. We...
Dec 06, 2023•2 min
