At stake is the ability to govern without violent resistance. I’ve spent the past 48 hours doing mostly two things: shoveling far more snow than I’d planned to, and tracking the steady stream of new information coming out of Minneapolis. I remember the Black Lives Matter riots. There were moments when the unrest reached Washington, and images showed streets on fire and President Trump going into the White House bunker. It was an unnerving moment. I think it felt especially unnerving because what...
Jan 27, 2026•16 min
Sam Tanenhaus is an American historian, journalist, and editor whose career has spanned some of the most influential institutions in media, including Vanity Fair , The New York Review of Books , and The New York Times Book Review , where he served as editor. He is the author of Whittaker Chambers , a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the long-anticipated biography of William F. Buckley Jr., a project decades in the making. Tanenhaus’s work explores the evolution of American conservatism and the figur...
Dec 02, 2025•52 min
Today on the show we have Josh Hammer. He's a leading conservative commentator, attorney, and author. He's senior editor-at-large at Newsweek , host of The Josh Hammer Show , which everyone should listen to, and author of the must-read Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. He was very close friends with Charlie Kirk, and at TPUSA’s Student Action Summit, Charlie personally tapped him to take the stage in a high-stakes Israel debate. In this interview...
Sep 19, 2025•31 min
Ryan Sheridan is a Missouri nurse practitioner and entrepreneur, running for Congress on the MAHA agenda. His campaign is championing transparency in food and medicine, decentralization of healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, positioning him as a conservative alternative to failed bureaucratic systems. WHAT WE DISCUSSED How to dismantle America's broken healthcare system and end hospital monopolies The MAHA movement’s push for total transparency in food and medicine Why Americans are still dem...
Sep 05, 2025•22 min
Tevi Troy served as Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush and was one of the administration’s top domestic policy advisors. He played a key role in shaping health and homeland security policy during a critical era. He’s now a presidential historian and senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and the author of Fight House and other books on politics, media, and the presidency. WHAT WE DISCUSSED Why Trump’s second term is more focused and unified than ...
Aug 29, 2025•26 min
Park MacDougald is a senior writer for Tablet magazine’s newsletter, The Scroll , and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Recently named a Robert Novak Fellow, his work focuses on exposing information operations and the financial and political networks that manufacture narratives to shape public debate. WHAT WE DISCUSSED The propaganda war against Israel: who’s behind it and why they’re winning. The campaign to split Evangelicals from Israel with fake persecution stories. "Epstein Gate": Tucker...
Aug 22, 2025•33 min
Eric Lipton is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and a multiple Pulitzer Prize winner. His work specializes in dissecting the hidden influence of money and lobbying on American government, revealing how powerful interests shape policy far from public view. WHAT WE DISCUSSED How Trump’s family has built massive new wealth through crypto ventures since his second term began Why the scale and direct involvement of a sitting president in these business deals is unprecedented The poten...
Aug 15, 2025•23 min
Brian Nosek, a pioneering psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia, shook the scientific establishment in 2015 when his Reproducibility Project revealed that only 36% of published psychology studies could be successfully replicated—exposing a crisis at the heart of scientific research. As co-founder of the Center for Open Science, Nosek has built an organization dedicated to increasing transparency and accountability in scientific practice. His work challenges the academic incent...
Aug 08, 2025•39 min
Rikki Schlott is a journalist at the New York Post , a fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and co-author of The Canceling of the American Mind . As a Gen Z voice in the national conversation on free speech, she’s become a sharp critic of academic orthodoxy and cancel culture. Schlott also hosts two podcasts— Lost Debate and We Never Had This Conversation —where she challenges dominant narratives and explores the generational divide over expression, politics, and power....
Jul 31, 2025•34 min
Frannie Block, a reporter at The Free Press , writes about how money, power, and ideology shape the narratives espoused by the media, elite institutions, and governments — both foreign and domestic. Our conversation focuses on her recent article “ How Qatar Bought America .” Block has become one of the leading figures in uncovering efforts by the tiny nation of Qatar to influence significant sectors of American life, from K-12 education, to universities and think tanks — and even the highest lev...
Jun 27, 2025•38 min
Heather Mac Donald, a bestselling author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is renowned for her incisive critiques of the Black Lives Matter movement and the media's role in constructing misleading narratives around police brutality. Her influential reporting during the 2020 riots captured national attention, exposing how anti-police rhetoric—propelled by inaccurate and sensationalized media coverage—intensified violence and endangered American cities. Grounded in rigorous data analys...
Jun 17, 2025•49 min
Israel Ganz is the Governor of the Binyamin Regional Council, which oversees the largest Israeli-controlled area in Judea and Samaria — otherwise known as the West Bank. A long-time advocate for Jewish life and security in Judea and Samaria, Ganz plays a major role in shaping Israeli policy on settlements and advocates for advancing Israeli sovereignty over the entire contested region. As tensions escalate and Iran and its proxies grow more desperate, protecting Israeli communities will become e...
Jun 15, 2025•16 min
Xaviaer DuRousseau is a former BLM activist turned conservative commentator and the host of Respectfully, Xaviaer at PragerU. In this conversation, he breaks down how parts of the right are drifting into dangerous territory, how Gen Z is changing the political game, and why the Israel conversation has gone completely off the rails—especially since October 7. What we discussed: What the “Woke Right” actually is—and how it mimics the radical left Why Kanye West’s spiral says a lot about culture an...
Jun 13, 2025•27 min
Rob Henderson is a writer and scholar best known for coining the term luxury beliefs —ideas held and promoted by elites that often harm the working class. A U.S. Air Force veteran and Yale graduate, Rob’s path from foster care to the Ivy League gives him a unique lens on class, culture, and identity in modern America. We get into: Why young men and women are splitting politically across the West How dating apps, social media, and modern prosperity are shaping ideology The rise of podcast-fueled ...
Jun 05, 2025•21 min
Curt Mills is the very influential Executive Director of The American Conservative , where he helps shape the national conversation on foreign policy and the future of the American right. A seasoned journalist and political commentator, Mills has reported extensively on Washington’s power players, the GOP realignment, and America’s role in the world. His work—featured across major outlets from Fox News to NPR—offers an anti-interventionist perspective that challenges the bipartisan foreign polic...
May 23, 2025•28 min•Ep. 3
The progressive movement that dominated the Democratic Party beginning in the Obama era is rapidly losing ground. Ideas that once seemed politically unchallengeable on the left — from defunding police to abolishing fossil fuels — have hit a wall of public rejection by the voters. So, as the Democratic Party’s progressive momentum fades, some of its top thinkers are trying to regain stability by returning to the political center. I spoke to Ruy Teixeira, a seasoned political scientist and comment...
May 20, 2025•30 min•Ep. 2
I spoke with Jim Hanson , chief editor at the Middle East Forum. As a former US Army Special Forces operator, he’s worked in counterterrorism and foreign defense missions in over two dozen countries.
May 20, 2025•14 min•Ep. 1
