We've hosted engaging guests for great conversations here on the Truth Podcast. As I focus on dismantling the unaccountable administrative state in a new role leading up to America's 250th birthday, we're going to pause this weekly conversation for now. Elon Musk and I are looking forward to going about this vital mission in the most open and transparent way possible—stay tuned for more of what's ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2024•3 min
"America First" rightly put the American people back at the center of our government. The next step is not to turn the left-wing nanny state into a right-wing one. We want to SHUT IT DOWN. That's how we'll restore prosperity, national identity and declare independence from China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2024•54 min
Go inside President Trump’s landslide win with Vivek. What are the implications for America’s future? How have political alliances shifted? How did the media do? We the people defeated the machine -- but is the machine gone for good? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 07, 2024•16 min
I break down a fundamental debate on immigration policy. Sohrab sees immigration restrictions as a way to drive up wages and make Americans richer. I believe immigration is about more than just dollars and cents; it's about respecting the rule of law and preserving our national identity, which is priceless. Join us as we dig into immigration reform and how it will impact our country’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Is it time for conservatives to rethink free markets? What’s the proper role of tariffs? And is the administrative state really that bad? Author and New Right intellectual Sohrab Ahmari joins me to discuss the legacy of the New Deal and what it means to pursue the common good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2024•55 min
The polls are looking good right now, but winning is just step one. It’s time for a serious conversation within the America First movement about how to defeat the left without becoming the left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2024•25 min
What happens when we trade independence for comfort? According to today’s guest, Christopher Caldwell, you lose both and end up with the kind of populist revolt that’s sweeping the U.S. & Europe. The path forward? “Learn to be peasants again.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Last week, I debated former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton at the Virginia Military Institute on the topic of foreign interventionism. It was a competition of ideas between neoconservatism vs. America-First. At the beginning of the debate, 19% of the audience agreed with my position. By the end, it was 55%. It's amazing what happens when you engage in open debate with hard facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 07, 2024•2 hr 31 min
Calling the other side “weird” has become a political insult. Politicians like Tim Walz want us to stay stay in our lanes, keep our mouths shut, and defer to “experts” from the managerial class. Our Founders didn’t care what the experts thought. They were self-taught, self-made Renaissance men who built a self-governing nation in a world of monarchies and aristocracies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 02, 2024•43 min
Springfield is overrun with migrants, the SAVE Act is unlikely to pass, and GOP Senate candidates are trailing Trump (sometimes by double digits). In this week's episode, I discuss the hard conversations that need to happen within the America First movement and propose solutions drawn from my new book, TRUTHS. bit.ly/3KKNTE0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 25, 2024•52 min
Polls show a dead heat between Trump and Harris. So why are GOP candidates for swing-state Senate seats polling worse than the former president? Curt Mills of The American Conservative joins me to discuss the return of ballot splitting, the rifts in both major parties, and what a winning Republican message looks like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2024•59 min
After last night’s debate in Philadelphia, the real question is whether voters will buy what the media is trying to sell. Whether they do will determine the future of the country. I share my perspectives on what’s really going on in this race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2024•58 min
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe seized Ben Freeth's family farm. When he took the government to court, Mugabe's thugs burned down his house, kidnapped him, and fractured his skull. He joins me to discuss the rise of tyranny, the importance of property rights, and the dangers of victimhood politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 04, 2024•54 min
You don't have to be a vegetarian to care about animal cruelty. And you don't have to be a liberal either. My former law school classmate Lewis Bollard joins me to discuss factory farms, crony capitalism, and legal hypocrisies on both the left & the right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min
How will the far-left protests at the DNC affect Kamala’s campaign? Chris Rufo joins me to discuss how to beat Harris, assess how Republicans are doing, and debate the future direction of the conservative movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Will dismantling the administrative state take one decisive battle? Or a long “island hopping” campaign? Entrepreneur & futurist Balaji Srinivasan joins me to discuss the broken drug approval process and explain why he turned down a job in Trump’s FDA - and the implications for the future of government itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Two sharks, one tank! Fellow entrepreneur Mark Cuban joins me for a conversation about DEI, ESG, and the 2024 election. It gets heated, but that’s what America’s all about: speak your mind, disagree like hell, and still respect each other at the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The FBI is accused of misleading Americans about the Trump shooter’s motives, and Democrats go all-in on calling Republicans “weird.” Journalist Matt Taibbi joins me to discuss these developments, plus his years in Russia, his work on the Twitter Files, and the left’s abandonment of civil libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 7 min
It's become fashionable on the right to talk about using the administrative state to help the forgotten men and women of America. But that managerial machine is has a dark history. Rachel Ferguson, the Director of the Free Enterprise Center at Concordia University Chicago, joins me to explain how progressive policies built on eugenics devastated minorities in America and how Republicans can reconnect with black voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Biden's announcement that he will not be the Democratic nominee confirmed what I've been saying for over a year (even when they called me a conspiracy theorist). It also confirmed that we're not really running against a candidate. We're running against a managerial machine. It doesn't matter if the Democrats put up Kamala Harris or someone else. 2024 is about dismantling that machine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 22, 2024•19 min
First, I reflect on my time at the Republican National Convention and how we can move forward as a party and a country after the tragic attempt on Donald Trump’s life. Then, pastor, author, and theologian Carl Trueman joins me to discuss the tension between freedom and duty, the decline of organized religion, and the fallout of the sexual revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Should the government be paying people to have babies? Or are there other ways to reverse our demographic decline? Demographer Lyman Stone joins me to discuss the causes and implications of America’s falling birthrate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min
It’s been a hell of a week. Biden’s debate disaster left Americans wondering who’s really pulling the strings, and a pair of Supreme Court decisions gutted the administrative state. I joined my old classmate Paul Davis and political law attorney Steve Roberts to discuss these events and game out exactly how Democrats might replace Biden on the ballot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Description: How will media failures in the lead-up to the 2020 election affect their coverage of the 2024 race? Vivek talks to Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith ahead of the first Trump-Biden debate. They cover the Julian Assange plea deal, Vivek’s shareholder activism at BuzzFeed, and the revival of institutional purpose. It’s a rapid-fire, high-intensity episode not to miss. Like Ben? Listen to his podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/tIKOTBUG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Vivek and Pastor Jim Davis investigate the crisis causing Americans to abandon their churches -- dechurching. Our hearts have God-shaped holes. In today's episode, we learn what else Americans are using to try to fill those holes right now and discuss how to restore meaning and purpose to our nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Vivek and law professor Jed Rubenfeld unpack how the ambiguity and laxness of the American legal system has permitted partisan legal practitioners to interpret laws in favor of political objectives, as seen in the recent conviction of former president Donald J. Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min
U.S. Air Force Veteran and award winning author Rob Henderson joins Vivek to discuss his take on the current class system in the United States and how many of today’s social movements end up hurting the very people they profess to stand up for. A Ph.D. from Yale University, Rob coined the term, “luxury beliefs”, which refers to the elitism we see in the western world when it comes to progressive ideologies; beliefs, most times radical, that can be held with no consequences to the people champion...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Vivek and Dr. Vinay Prasad discuss whether American patients are better off or worse off today because of the existence and the mandate of the FDA, or any other health-focused agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Vivek and Philip Goff discuss the rise of scientism–the framework that says that science or empiricism is the only means of accessing knowledge. How may humanity access knowledge? What is the core philosophy of scientism? What are the implications for accessing not only scientific but also spiritual knowledge? More from Philip Goff: Philip Goff’s book ‘Why? The Purpose of the Universe’: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Purpose-Universe-Philip-Goff/dp/0198883765/ Philip Goff’s book ‘Galileo’s Error: Fo...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Vivek was in court with President Trump on Tuesday and now shares his first-hand account of the sham trial. Is it a prosecution or a persecution? What even are the charges? What are the scandals hiding in plain sight? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 15, 2024•54 min
