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Episode 152: LARPing through the Overton Window

September 16, 2019

David and Alexandra introduce the concept of political LARPing (live-action role playing) and why it matters to the Democratic primary.

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Episode 151: Why Viewpoint Neutrality Is Worth Defending

September 9, 2019

David and Alexandra discuss last week’s liberalism debate at Catholic University, hyper-partisanship and Elizabeth Warren’s unconstitutional proposals, and the latest abortion polling from Pew Research Center.

Episode 150: How Should Conservatives Respond to Liberal Bias?

September 6, 2019

David and Alexandra discuss conservative bias in the media, white-supremacist infiltration of conservative organizations, and the need to focus on principles rather than just fighting the Left.

Episode 149: It’s All Fun and Games until We Invade Denmark

August 21, 2019

David and Alexandra answer the burning question: Is Trump getting worse?

Episode 148: Warren’s Surge, Trump’s Woes

August 19, 2019

The meaning of the Warren polling surge and the Trump polling slump, who is the "least unappealing" Democrat, two members of "Squad" are caught partnering with vicious anti-Semites, and some ...

Episode 147: A Dreadful Day

August 5, 2019

David and Alexandra discuss the El Paso and Dayton shootings, the role of rhetoric in political violence, and whether there are gun-control measures that could help.

Episode 146: Gluing Joe Biden to the Driver’s Seat

July 30, 2019

David and Alexandra talk about Joe Biden, the Evangelical purity culture, Josh Hawley's Republican daddy state, and the Babylon Bee.

Episode 145: When Double Standards Are the Only Standard

July 23, 2019

David and Alexandra discuss Jane Mayer's defense of Al Franken, a truly bizarre gender identity controversy in Canada, and more!

Episode 144: Maverick

July 18, 2019

David and Alexandra discuss the new Top Gun trailer (no, really), the BDS movement, Planned Parenthood, and nationalists.

Episode 143: Donald Trump vs. “The Squad”

July 15, 2019

How Trump’s tweets attacking the progressive Democratic congresswomen are damaging and counterproductive for conservatives, and whether Charlie Cooke misses the mark on immigrants and gratitude.

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Law & the Courts

The Arizona Supreme Court Strikes a Powerful Blow for Free Speech and Religious Freedom

By David French

Free speech and religious liberty are on a winning streak. Last month the Eighth Circuit Court of appeals ruled that Christian wedding photographers could not be compelled to use their artistic talents to help celebrate same-sex weddings. Today, the Arizona Supreme Court reached a similar holding, this time on ... Read More

Law & the Courts

The Architect of the Latest Kavanaugh Smear Just Gave a Self-Damning Radio Interview

By Kyle Smith

There is no substantiated evidence of any sexual misbehavior by Brett Kavanaugh at any point in his entire life. Several shaky claims have been made along these lines, but all of them are badly undercut by available evidence. None of them is more likely than not to be true. Yet in a casual radio interview this ... Read More

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Law & the Courts

The New York Times Still Doesn’t Understand What It Did

By David French

It was every writer’s dream — or it should have been. Two New York Times reporters, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, wrote a book about one of the most controversial and most reported news stories of our time, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, and thanks to their due diligence, they uncovered a truly ... Read More

Education

George Packer Gets Mugged by Reality

By Matthew Continetti

Few journalists are as respected by, and respectable to, liberals as The Atlantic’s George Packer. The author of The Assassin's Gate (2005), The Unwinding (2013), and a recently published biography of Richard Holbrooke, Our Man, Packer has written for bastions of liberal thought from the New York Times Magazine ... Read More

Politics & Policy

Thanks to Michigan’s New Vaping Rules, It Looks Like I’m Going to Prison

By Katherine Timpf

According to a leaked draft of Michigan’s potential “emergency” anti-vaping rules, it looks like I very well may be going to prison the next time I travel to my home state. According to a piece in the Detroit News -- co-written by Jesse Kelley, a criminal-defense attorney and the government-affairs ... Read More

White House

Pelosi Strongly Criticizes Nadler in Fight over Impeachment Process

By Zachary Evans

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler in a closed-door meeting last week, saying that the panel has taken the push for impeachment of President Trump far beyond the position of the House Democratic caucus. Pelosi shocked those present at the meeting with her ... Read More

Politics & Policy

CNN: Everything but the News

By Victor Davis Hanson

For a while, we thought MSNBC had temporarily usurped CNN as the font of fake news — although both networks had tied for the most negative coverage (93 percent of all their news reports) of President Trump’s first 100 days in office. A cynic would argue that CNN had deliberately given Trump undue coverage ... Read More

Elections

Kamala Harris’ Presidential Campaign Barely Has a Pulse . . . in California!

By Jim Geraghty

Since the early days of this presidential primary cycle, there’s been a quiet but intriguing narrative that Kamala Harris was a much stronger candidate than her national polling might suggest. The gist is that while most years, California is just an ATM for Democratic presidential candidates, this cycle the ... Read More

Film & TV

Peanut Butter Falcon: A Film with a Conservative Soul Teaches Three Great Truths of Manhood

By David French

This weekend, I watched one of the most deeply conservative movies I’ve seen in a very long time. At its heart, it’s a movie about a boy becoming a man — and becoming that man through ancient forms of tradition and ritual that are disguised behind the modern frame of the unconventional, accidental ... Read More