Veteran political columnist Matt Lewis joins the show to discuss recent attacks on freedom of speech, especially the FCC chair's jawboning of ABC.
Economist Patrick Horan joins us to discuss the economy, the Federal Reserve, and monetary policy.
AEI's Brent Orrell joins us to discuss his research on Artificial Intelligence's impact on the American workforce.
Known for his work exposing the excesses of the academic left, lesser known is James Lindsay's intelligent critique of the anti-liberal, postliberal, and even "woke" right. He joins us for a conversation that is both illuminating and terrifying.
Veteran firearms reporter Stephen Gutowski (founder of The Reload), joins us to discuss what is known about mass shootings and the debates about using public policy as a response to them.
John chats with veteran journalist and stand-up comedian Robert A. George about the state of America's two major parties.
We are joined by veteran Hollywood screenwriter Howard Klausner (Space Cowboys). He talks about his recent project, Reagan, which fittingly has the record for largest gap between critic and audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (18% - 98%).
Gábor Csizmazia, Research Fellow at the John Lukacs Institute for Strategy and Politics, joins us to discuss the situation in Hungary and its relation to the United States. He helps us to understand the perspective of the Hungarian right. He remains objective throughout, though Thomas openly shares some of his own criticisms of the postliberal thinkers connected to Orban.
We chat with political strategist and writer Emily Zanotti about the tragedy in Gaza and the impossibly difficult position Israel finds itself in.
Stephanie Slade, Senior Editor of Reason Magazine, joins us to talk about her upcoming book about fusionism, the political philosophy of Frank Meyer, so dear to Ronald Reagan, which holds that conservative ends are best sought through libertarian means.
Retired Army Special Forces officer Mike Nelson joins us to talk about various issues related to the White House, Pentagon, military, foreign policy, and national security.Check out his recent piece in the Atlantic: "What Pete Hegseth Doesn't Understand about Soldiiers: Lethality Alone Doesn't Win Wars" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...
Veteran political commentator Quin Hillyer joins us to talk about the Putin tankies in Trump's administration, abuses of executive power, and more.
Kimberly Ross joins the podcast for a special Independence Day episode.
John Daly chats again with Clifford Smith and Ukraine expert Kateryna Shynkaruk about Ukraine, especially in light of the recent success of Operation Spider Web.
We chat about the Gipper with historian James Cooper.
Season 1, Episode 6 - Constitutional lawyer Casey Mattox joins us to discuss some big constitutional questions, Trump's tariffs, and American Constitutionalism.
Season 1, Episode 5 - James CaprettaJames Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute joins the show to discuss the Big Beautiful Bill, entitlement reform, and DOGE.https://www.aei.org/health-care/creating-incentives-for-efficient-government/
Kevin Carroll joins the show to discuss national intelligence, soft power, the Signal chat controversy, Israel-Iran, Taiwan, and other hot topics.Carroll served previously as senior counsel for Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King. He also served as an Army and CIA officer.
James M. Patterson comes on the show to talk about the "postliberal" political philosophy of J.D. Vance and others.
Phil Magness, economist and economic historian, joins us to talk about trade policy and the NatCons in the White House.