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Trail Thoughts: Social Media Censors Old Abe

David Gornoski starts the episode by commenting on the rampant disregard, especially in politics, of our opponent’s personhood under the shadow of victimism. David also reads from his essay “The End of Football” where he makes the case why our society is no longer able to hide the victims of state violence. Plus, Eric Kampmann […]

How Victimism Blinds People to Systemic Oppression

David Gornoski is back with another exciting episode and this time he gets to the bottom of the Democrats’ victimist-driven politics as deflection from real tyranny. Beneath the veneer of diversity and social justice, the Democrats and their media allies perpetuate nothing but crony corporatism and authoritarianism. Does the Left’s “diversity” matter when people like […]

Jon Miltimore: Elon Musk Torches Robert Reich

FEE’s Jon Miltimore returns to the show to talk about his latest article on Elon Musk’s twitter war with Robert Reich. Former Secretary of Labor Reich accused Musk of being a “modern-day robber baron” and Musk retorted by saying Reich is a “modern-day moron.” Jon says that Musk is the role model we need with […]

Who is Our Model for Morality?

When politicians cry moral outrage, the question for us should be: What is the moral standard for our country today? The brotherhood of man? Democracy? David argues that you cannot eliminate the rule of tyranny and violence without modeling yourself on Jesus. If we’re to imitate Jesus as the role model for governance, does that […]

James Lindsay on Cynical Theories

What happens when a government based on mob mentality and sacrifice is dying right before our eyes? Exactly what we’re seeing right now on the streets of our nation, David Gornoski says. For far too long, people have been imitating a government system rooted in violence and coercion and have learned to carry out in […]

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 […]

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. […]

David Gornoski on the End of Capitalism, James Kourtides on 21st Century Questions

“It’s cool to hate capitalism because most of us are raised in government schools,” says David Gornoski. How can we have a truly free market when the referee is always paid off to rig the game? We need to get the notion out of our heads that saving money to defer consumption is somehow ‘greed.’ […]

How To Exorcize Collectivism

We’re far too often told that we must shrink towards collectivism if we’re to find our identities. Humans have a proclivity to find comfort within a tribe and then assert themselves over those with different identity markers. Is collective warfare the right way to find solutions? David Gornoski says otherwise. “We must realize that many […]

Peter Quinones on the Rule of the Law

David Gornoski sits down with Peter Quinones, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, to tackle some important questions in the light of recent events. Can Americans see past the bipartisan political landscape and regain their appetite for freedom of choice? Peter addresses this question and also discusses the censoring of dissident voices […]