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Kanye Fights Back, Dan McCarthy on Biden vs Trump 2020

Listen to the podcast: “In a society where the person is not considered sacred, the person is expendable if enough people say it is.” David Gornoski starts the episode by reflecting on Kanye West’s tweet on abortion and the four Ds. Joining David is Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age, to comment on Kanye’s remarks as […]

Dr. Yu on Dark Energy, Tho Bishop on Leftist Hegemony

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 […]

Curt Mills Breaks Down the State of the 2020 Election, Biden vs Trump

Curt Mills, Senior Reporter at The American Conservative, joins David Gornoski to provide some much-needed analysis of the 2020 election showdown between Biden and Trump. Is there any chance for Trump to excel without the massive rallies that were commonplace in 2016? Why has Trump lost his energy in the campaign and is there any possibility […]

Tough Times at the NY Times

David Gornoski examines the latest news of Bari Weiss resigning from the New York Times. How much credibility does the media have as it continues to misdirect people on behalf of the political establishment? “These are not media outlets but stinky, crusty PR firms,” David remarks as he observes the anti-science stance that mainstream media […]

Do Overseas Lives Matter?

If the Democrats care about black lives, why are they silent about the suffering of black lives in Libya that was caused by Obama and Clinton? Join David Gornoski as he dismantles the media and their crony corporate allies who pretend to care about black lives but then proceed to shatter black families, both at […]

Our Vain Search for Scapegoats

Our fixation on identity politics, David Gornoski says, is driving our society towards blame games. “We need to continue to encourage people in thinking for themselves rather than groupthink.” David takes us through the idea of original sin–the concept that sin exists universally–and how filtering that idea through group identities is a recipe for conflict. […]

Scott Horton on the NY Times Story on Afghanistan Russian Bounties

Scott Horton of antiwar.com returns to the show to comment on the NY Times story of alleged Russian bounties in Afghanistan. Who are these anonymous intelligence sources which the media cite? Horton asks. Is there any servicemen deaths attributed to these bounties? Horton also points to the fact that the American government has been paying […]

George Floyd and the Futility of Victimless Crime Laws

In light of the recent murder of George Floyd, many are demanding accountability; but it’s hard to get accountability when the government holds monopoly power and violent mobs riot on the streets of our nation. “We need to dissolve monopoly power,” says host David Gornoski. “We need to look at ourselves and ask: ‘Why am […]