The world is a complicated place. You need someone to expose the political fakers, fixers and takers, and cut through the mindless chatter and misdirection to make sense of it all. That person is Dan Proft and this is the Dan Proft Show.
Politicians take positions. Proft makes arguments. He's studied the western canons. He's read the books. He's seen every episode of "The Simpsons." From DesCartes to Cartman, Willy Loman to Groundskeeper Willie, he's the Firing Pin to William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" here to spark robust dialogue and see who can employ the most arcane (pop) cultural and artistic references to support their points of view.
Entrepreneur, editorial contributor to the Chicago Tribune, former Republican candidate for Illinois Governor, and morning drive radio talk show host with AM 560 The Answer in Chicago (560TheAnswer.com). He speaks truth to his audience with popular political commentary and provocative interviews with deep thinkers and solutionists.
Cornell University's Philippe Lemoine on models, math & manipulation. NYPost Op-ed Editor SohrabAhmari on populists' post-COVID China posture; nature gets the last at-bat. CFP Ashby Daniels on surviving The Revenant market. Toilet paper, wings & supply chains. SF's plastic bag sentimentality is over. The shutdown is the easy part? Ain't No Sunshine with Bill Withers gone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The rich are the best off and the most emotionally distraught. Cultural commentary with WashingtonExamniner.com 's Contributors Editor Brad Palumbo. The reports of our polarization are greatly exaggerated w/ Forward.com Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon. ALEC's Chief Economist Jonathan Williams on free market stimuli. Leftists spat. Michael Keaton and Gavin Newsom disagree about Trump getting out of the way. Mourning Joe's revisionist "everybody knew" history. A look at the death data from NYC +...
Is "The Batman of Wuhan" Patient Zero? We'll ask WashingtonTimes.com 's Bill Gertz. Will Trump get infrastructure spend for a Phase 4? We'll discuss with WSJ Tax Policy reporter Richard Rubin. Former Chief Asst US Attorney and NRO Contributor Editor Andrew McCarthy on law enforcement during a pandemic. It's not money vs. lives, it's some lives vs. other lives. The first COVID-19 movie is being shopped to the streaming services and it's as idiotic as you might have guessed...check out Prager's "N...
Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard on economic forecasting. AmGreatness.com 's Julie Kelly on Govs. Cuomo, DeSantis. Former VP Rockefeller policy aide, TheHill.com contributor Grady Means on our post-pandemic era. Mike Lindell's faith, servant leadership. The evolution of the N95 mask...a capitalist love story. Acosta plays patsy to Trump. The Cuomo brothers' vaudeville routine. Bocelli vs. Berklee College of Music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Ricochet.com 's Jon Gabriel on the DC press corps' Trump blame game. An on-the-ground London update from respiratory specialist Dr. Jessica Potter. JAMA Internal Medicine editor and "Wall of Silence" author Rosemary Gibson on ending US dependence on China for off-brand antibiotics. Dr. Bradley Bale's home preventative gargling remedy. Kudos to The Hill.com 's "Rising" anchor KrystalBall for ripping the DC press corps over Tara Reade noncoverage. A well-executed "Sound of Music" COVID-19 parody/P...
Brian Riedl, former Chief Economist for Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) on $2T of "necessary intervention." Price "gouging" is only ok when the govt does it? I'll discuss with UM Economics Professor and AEI's Carpe Diem blogger Mark Perry. JustTheNews.com 's John Solomon on the lessons to be learned from NIH mission creep. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is the national bad example for infantilizing constitutents with temper tantrums. A pitch-perfect Trump impersonator and tone-deaf SuperPACs. The gentlela...
Mercatus Center's Don Beaudreaux on disaster relief aid, John Stossel's red tape pandemic distillation. Is NY America's future? Testing in an ideal world and the promise of anti-viral clinical trials with epidemiologist and former WHO Director of Intervention Dr. Gary Slutkin. UT Professor of Practice and "The New Class War" author Michael Lind's proposal for a Health Finance Corp. Manhattan Institue's Michael Hendrix on bailing out muny bond market, Cuomo's call for a blank check from the feds....
#WheresTonyFauci no longer trending on Twitter because the actual Dr. Tony Fauci refuses to take the DC press corps' bait. Spiked's Brendan O'Neill on Leftist elites' performative apocalypticism. Commentary's Noah C Rothman on Pelosi, Dems misreading the moment. "The Pentagon's Wars" author Mark Perry on Boomers sacrificing themselves on the shores of COVID-19. Not even friendly cable news talkers can carry Joe Biden. Harvard has a $41B endowment but can't afford dining hall staff. Historical pe...
RN, Nursing Prof Amy Anderson for discussions of front-line health care workers. Naval War College Prof. James Holmes on America's character in crisis. City Journal's Heather MacDonald on cure damage > disease. Dr. Fauci is wrong...my latest :60 of Sanity. Why are men 2x more likely to die? Because they want to? (Hi-yo), and the performative apocalypticism of Left elites...check out Brendan O'Neill's piece in Spiked Online. Must read. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
4 keys from Trump's Sunday briefing. 2009 Fauci vs. 2020 Fauci. TheFederalist.com 's John Daniel Davidson on the goodness of federalism and badness of the DC press corps. Brookings Institution's Josh Gotbaum on the fiscal & Fed support needed now. RealClearPolitics.com 's Susan Crabtree on pandemic politics and the threat Cuomo may pose to Biden. Former WaPo John Pomfret on why China will miss US reporters they kicked out. Neil Diamond's slightly edited version of "Sweet Caroline. " And, the...
Law prof Richard Epstein is incredulous at the decision-making of the dum-dums who lord over us from sea to shining sea. His Hoover Institution colleage John Cochrane isn't quite there but he agrees we can't stop time. Reason.com 's Jacob Sullum strikes a note for constitutionality and practicality with regard to the government's COVID-19 response. Will dinner & a movie be a thing of the past post COVID-19? We've ended with inspirational music all week from Maurizio Marchini to Yo-Yo Ma. We ...
AEI's Michael Strain on the form the govt's economic aid should take to keep people employed. Why the Manhattan Contrarian has fled to the countryside. AmGreatness.com 's Chris Buskirk on the Chinese propagandists in the DC press corps. Yes, you can pet dogs. Yes, you can play golf. The great Yo-Yo Ma's tribute to health care workers (which I extended to supermarket workers as well) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
"Stimulus" #1. Highlights from POTUS & his Coronavirus Task Force Wed briefing: authorizing DFA, testing, closing off Canada to non-essential travel. What to say to those who say govts are overreaching, Dr. Kevin Pham, DailySignal.com Contributor? SpectatorUSA's Melissa Chen on how pandemics change the way we think. Mental health help: virtual museum tours, Shedd Aquarium's penguins, online education. PowerlineBlog.com 's John Hinderaker: the #COVID19 election? See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
I speak with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson about the good, the bad and the lazy COVID-19 news coverage. On the good front, the observations of former network affiliate news director Bill Shory. R Street harm reduction researcher (and former AIDS researcher) Chelsea Boyd discusses the science of testing and social distancing. How should Trump frame Biden and vice versa. I'll handicap the POTUS matchup with Washington Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti. Italian tenor Maurizio Marchi...
Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson rates Trump's COVID-19 response. The Iditarod, America's new National Pastime? Fox Business regular Scott "TheCowGuy" Shellady on the market hemorrhage and the prospects of the big R. Crisis Magazine's Michael Warren Davis on the need for need-based economics. Mark Hemmingway on press propping up Biden. Amazon, EBay can set their prices but they won't let Matt Colvin set his. Champaign, IL backs off martial law. Former FL Dem gubernatorial nominee says he...
Trump & his Rose Garden crew rally the mkt. It's "Trump's Chernobyl"? What's it for collusion/impeachment Dems? Amity Shlaes on big growth ideas to pursue. CS Lewis vs. Peggy Noonan. Sports cancellations = Revenge of the Nerds? Omar gets hitched to a non-relative See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fox Business regular Scott "The Cow Guy" Shellady on the worst day on Wall St since 1987. "Trump's Chernobyl"...we'll ask TheFederalist.com 's Joy Pullmann. Dr. Robert Epstein says, sans a landslide, Trump can't win in November and it has nothing to do with COVID-19 and everything to do with Google. Spectator USA's Dominic Green argues Trump can't defeat a virus and should temper his evidence-free optimism. America's politics imitates Shakespearean tragedies. I go toe-to-toe with Columbia Englis...
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Robert Citronberg on assessing the pandemic. WSJ's Steve Moore and I debate what to do in the face of the bear market. TheFederalist.com 's Christopher Bedford on the POTUS politics of COVID-19. Dr. Drew's spot-on diagnosis of the melodramatic media. City Journal's Steve Malanga on Roger Goodell and the NFL's 180 on sports gambling. French Smurfs get busy living. Weinstein sentenced. Mixed report on Domingo. #MeToo 's absence from child sex abuse allegations in Hol...
Shaun Thompson, and Scott Shellady fill in for Dan on today's edition of the show. Washington Time's Cheryl Chumley, Hot Air's Ed Morrisey on Super Tuesday 2, Carol Roth reacts to the markets vs. Coronavirus hysteria. Joe Biden tells an autoworker he's 'full of sh*t', and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Capitalist Pig Jonathan Hoenig on the historic hysteria on Wall St. Is bias against conservatives on campus overstated? I'll ask George Mason University Econ Professor Walter Williams. Is MI Bernie's last stand? Detroit News' NolanFinley previews. Hillary's (unintentionally) hilarious take on the (vast) right-wing echo chamber and Mark Zuckerberg. President Fellow on Urban Futures at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin discusses the clerisy vs. the yeomanry. POTUS debate undercard: Don Jr. vs. H...
Chucky Coreleone from Brooklyn. The Dispatch.com 's David French handicaps SCOTUS' upcoming decision on the LA prolife law. Screenwriter Tiffany FitzHenry on child sex abuse in Hollywood (read her writeup of the Ricky Garcia case vs. Disney). WashingtonExaminer.com 's Tim Carney on Biden's greatest vulnerability. EWTN's Matt Bunson on Catholic voters' attitudes. Jouralists' math, plus A soccer coach's humilty and common sense on coronavirus, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
AEI's JimPethokoukis on modeling COVID-19's econ impact. Schumer and the Socialist Spice Girls on SCOTUS. TheFederalist.com 's David Marcus on Bloomy's bye-bye and Warren's so-long salvo. CAMPUS BEAT: higher ed is a woman's world. Another case of zero tolerance = zero sense. :60 of Sanity on Bolshevik Bernie's Super Tuesday flameout, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Advantage Biden as Bernie flames out and Samoa Mike bows out. I'll discuss with TheAmericanConservative.com 's Curt Mills and Spectator USA's Dominic Green. Freedom House's Sarah Cook on the (in)stability of Xi's China. Butterfield Effect warning: 8-16-yr-olds feel their views on climate change aren't valued. More likely to find better acting: "Friends" reunion event vs. ophan monkeys in Japan (I remember seeing the Orphan Monkeys open for Fine Young Cannibals at Chicago Stadium in '87). Not mis...
Your calls as Super Tuesday (or is it "Super Thurs..." H/T Joe Biden) election results rolled in. Analysis from: WashingtonExaminer.com's Quin Hillyer, Niskanen Center Research Fellow Rachel Bitecofer, Pollster Brad Bannon, University of Chicago Poly Sci Professor Emeritus Charles Lipson, "Unlock Congress" author Michael Golden, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I'll ask AmGreatness.com contributor and member of the British House of Lords, Conrad Black, is it all hands on deck for Biden after the ship capsized? Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense Director TomSpoehr on the Taliban peace deal. Rolling Stone's DC Bureau Chief AndyKroll goes to DC to fnd out if any of the Dems can beat Trump. Bernie breaks up Public Enemy. AOC brandishes her pre-college science honors and argues religious liberty is just a cover for bigotry. TheAmericanConserv...
His eminence VDH on the factors pointing to Trump's re-election and the NYT's clownish Chinaphile Tom Friedman. Claremont Institute's Angelo Codevilla argues for abolishing CIA, FISA. Former WI Gov. Scot tWalker from CPAC. The authoritarian vs. democratic COVID-19 responses. Ending a tough week with some inspiration from Chicago (of all places) and entertainment on SC primary eve. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former Cleveland Clinic oncology director Dr. Roger Klein with perspective on COVID-19. The opportune time for the GOP to revisit capitalism? I'll discuss Nikki Haley remarks with PowerlineBlog.com 's John hinderaker.U of C economist Casey Mulligan quantifies the Bolshevik's platform. Breitbart's James Delingpole on the Dems' fracking insanity. The Village People are okay w/ Trump's "Macho Man". AG Meese on AG Barr. Secession movements just keep Blue State denizens occupied until they pilgrimage...
+ The Mensheviks target the Bolshevik w/ Spectator USA's Chadwick Moore & WashingtonExaminer.com 's Kaylee McGhee. AmGreatness.com 's Julie Kelly on NeverTrump getting dumped. Fmr AG Mukasey defends AG Barr, rule of law. Promoting proportionality re: COVID-19..."keep calm, carry on." Project Veritas strikes again, this time with excited utterances from (now suspended) ABC News Correspondent David Wright. Socialism not just the realm of coastal elites as the campaign contributions from Big Te...
Joe Biden's prime. You can't recall something that never was. WashingtonExaminer.com 's Eddie Scarry on "privileged victims". TheFederalist.com 's Nathanael Blake on coming to Trump. Red Rover, Red Rover, Arielle Scarcella, come over. Best job markets primarily in red states. H2B Visas + new self-reliance regs on immigrants demonstrates one can be simulatenously pro-immigration and pro-immigration-law-enforcement. Appropriately poignant yet celebratory memorial service for Kobe Bryant. Is there ...
Washington Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti and The American Conservative's W. James Antlon the Bolshevik vs. the Mensheviks. The Human Stain convicted & Clint Eastwood on #MeToo. The Russian meddling misdirection. COVID-19 hysteria rocks the markets. Just how good are the crab legs in Hunstville, AL? (see below). "Miracle on Ice" - 40th Anniversary. Philip Haney's death, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
