Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at Reason Foundation and Adjunct Scholar at Cato Institute, joins David Gornoski to discuss the news of teachers’ unions and the Democratic Socialists of America demanding a ban on private schools. Corey argues that the factory-model of public schools are failing in big ways while students in ‘micro-schools’ and […]
“If you don’t have a family first society, you won’t have the environment necessary for individual liberty to flourish.” How do we create that family first society? Join David Gornoski as he explores this question while commenting on the government’s decision to pay out stimulus checks. Is creating money out of thin air a viable […]
Nuclear scientist Dr. Max Zamilov returns to the show to talk about the next Galileo and Renaissance moments in history. Why is it that we are not interested in innovation anymore? Is everything already solved? Dr. Max says that the biggest problem is an outdated educational system that “grounds its student to a pulp” and […]
“Change doesn’t happen by appealing to the crowd. Since when has truth won by appealing to the crowd?” Join David Gornoski as he dives deep into the magnetic nature of crowds and unravels the bind of groupthink that controls almost every part of our society. How do we break from this attraction of persecuting crowds? […]
Dr. Weiping Yu returns with Science and U and comments on the mystery surrounding dark energy and the universe’s rate of expansion. Is Einstein’s “cosmological constant” reliable? the physicist asks. Is the universe an isolated system? Is the second law of thermodynamics accurate in its conclusion? Mises Institute’s Tho Bishop calls in to comment on the […]
“The modus operandi of our time: If you want more power you have to look more vulnerable.” David Gornoski argues that this is due to the haunting of Christ’s crucifixion in American society. Without looking to Jesus as a model for imitation, David says, we will devolve into fighting over and weaponizing all external identity […]
Dr. Paul Axton, theologian and host of the Forging Ploughshares podcast, sits down with David Gornoski to talk about his experience of living in Japan, the idea of shame in death, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and seeing Japanese culture through Christian eyes. While pointing out that Romans 7 is absolutely essential for understanding what it is to imitate […]
I am blown away in discovering Jesus’s seemingly hyperbolic symbolic aside at the entrance of Jerusalem is actually a prophecy: Luke 19:37-40: “As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works […]
How do we build and model our relationships in a Triune way as opposed to the way of scapegoating? Rich Bledsoe, chaplain at Boulder Community Hospital, calls in to answer this pressing question. Bledsoe likens the activity of the Trinity to a network of human beings. “The first corporation in the world,” Bledsoe says, “is […]
Roy Barzilai, independent researcher and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis, joins David Gornoski to explain how the decrease in testosterone has correlated with the current crisis in our health, politics, and culture. Barzilai argues that exposure to solar activity is not only the key to fighting the coronavirus pandemic but also important in tackling the coddling […]