The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 449 of the In The Tank Podcast. Is Populism a threat to Democracy? U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi believes so. Pelosi recently took part in an Oxford Union debate on this very subject where she made the case that populism has become synonymous with ethnonationalism and right-wing extremism. Arguing against this position was Winston Marshall, a former member of the musical group, Mumford & Sons. What role does Populism play in American politics? Is it something that should be embraced or rejected by pro-liberty advocates?

OPENING CHIT CHAT - BIDEN V. TRUMP DEBATES SET

Politico - It’s on (for now): Biden and Trump agree to 2 debates

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/biden-proposes-2-debates-with-trump-ditching-bipartisan-commission-00158082

PRIMARY TOPIC - DEFENDING POPULISM TO DEFEAT THE ELITES?

NYP - Winston Marshall: I didn’t have to expose Nancy Pelosi — she did it herself

https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/opinion/winston-marshall-i-didnt-have-to-expose-nancy-pelosi-she-did-it-herself/

WSJ - Notable & Quotable: Pelosi on Populism

https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-pelosi-on-populism-threat-democracy-culture-war-909afce8

(video) Oxford Union - Winston Marshall argues that populism is not a threat democracy, but rather is democracy itself 6/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFmjgbdNNgw

(video) Politico - Obama: I'm the real populist, not Trump

https://www.politico.com/video/2016/06/obama-im-the-real-populist-not-trump-059801

(video) Tucker Carlson - About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent ...

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1783979370811724167

In Episode 141 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Peter Heather, author ofChristendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300. 

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Peter Heather, chair of medieval history at King's College, London, to discuss his new book, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300. They chat about how a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations became a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, the Church’s chameleonlike capacity for self-reinvention, and how nothing was inevitable about Christianity’s rise and dominance in Europe. 

Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546307/christendom-by-peter-heather/

Show Notes: 

City Journal: Edward Short – “Fair Triumph, or Foul?”

https://www.city-journal.org/article/fair-triumph-or-foul

Literary Review: Costica Bradatan – “Onward Christian Emperors”

https://literaryreview.co.uk/onward-christian-emperors

New York Times: Paul Elie – “Looking at Early Christianity Through a Different Lens”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/books/review/christendom-peter-heather.html

Public Discourse: Robert Wilken – “ The History behind the Formation of Christendom”

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2023/07/89727/

The Spectator: Eleanor Myerson – “The rocky path to Christian dominance in Europe”

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rocky-path-to-christian-dominance-in-europe/

The Telegraph: Peter Stanford – “How 4th-century Christianity radically reinvented itself from a marginal sect to a world power”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/how-4th-century-christianity-radically-reinvented-marginal-sect/

Times Literary Supplement: Diarmid MacCulloch – “Kingdom of God”

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-formation-of-christendom-judith-herrin-christendom-peter-heather-book-review-diarmaid-macculloch/

Washington Examiner: Diane Scharper – “How Christianity Happened”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-life-arts/376645/how-christianity-happened/

On episode 109 of The Climate Realism Show, we look at two recent polls that show climate change opinion is sharply waning in its perception as a threat to the public. At the same time, ESG funds have essentially collapsed as investors pull their money.

Joining us to discuss these issues is Donald Kendal deputy director of Heartland’s Socialism Research Center, and video host of the In the Tank weekly podcast.

Plus, host Anthony Watts, The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett, and Linnea Lueken analyze this downturn. And, as always, we have the Crazy Climate News of the Week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET (12 p.m. CT) for the kind of climate realism you can’t find anywhere else, and join the chat to get your questions answered, too.

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The other day, H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Steve Gruber Show. He was invited back on the program to talk about the effort by The Heartland Institute and others to stop a massive wind project off the shore of Virginia to protect the criticially endangered right whale. Sterling also talked about plans to start putting wind turbines in Lake Michigan, too.

If you appreciate this podcast, and all the work we do at The Heartland Instiute, considering supporting us with a tax deductable donation. Just go to Heartland.org and hit the donate button on the top of the page. Now, on to the interview.

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The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Linnea Lueken present episode 448 of the In The Tank Podcast. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was featured at a recent World Economic Forum event where he spoke on the subject of future investments. Toward the end of the panel, Fink trashed wind and solar as viable options to meet our economy's growing appetite for cheap, reliable energy. Are these statements by Fink just an anomaly in the larger climate alarmist movement or do they signal a potential shift in global energy trends?

OPENING CHIT CHAT

Monmouth Poll - Younger adults express less urgency than in prior polls

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_050624/

PRIMARY TOPIC - BLACKROCK CEO BURIES WIND AND SOLAR AT WEF EVENT?

(video) Larry Link at WEF Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRVYFHNc6k&t=2787s

(Time stamp: 46:27 - 47:54)

(video) Zuckerberg: Energy, not compute, will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-o5YbNfmh0

(Time stamp: 0:00 - 1:00ish)

Bloomberg - Data Centers Now Need a Reactor's World of Power, Dominion Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/data-centers-now-need-a-reactor-s-worth-of-power-dominion-says?leadSource=reddit_wall

Reuters - OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-ceo-altman-says-davos-future-ai-depends-energy-breakthrough-2024-01-16/

NBC News - The AI industry is pushing a nuclear power revival — partly to fuel itself

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nuclear-power-oklo-sam-altman-ai-energy-rcna139094

CNN - New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/climate/nuclear-small-modular-reactors-us-russia-china-climate-solution-intl/index.html

The other day, Donald Kendal, Deputy Director of Heartland Institute's Socialism Research Center, was a guest again on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM560 The Answer in Chicago. Donny tells Shaun what Blackrock CEO Larry Fink -- one of the most powerful men in the world, controlling trillions of dollars in funds -- has been up to, and what he revealed at a special meeting at the World Economic Forum special meeting in Saudi Arabia this week. You'll definitely be surprised. Have a listen.

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On episode 108 of The Climate Realism Show, special guest James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute and the founding director of Heartland’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy, presents data refuting multiple climate change myths. James recently took part in a debate called "THE DUEL OF THE THEORIES ON GLOBAL WARMING" with Professor Harold R. Wanless, professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of Miami.Taylor covers topics such as global temperatures, sea level rise, crop production, hurricanes, and tornadoes, citing data from peer-reviewed sources in the process.

Join host Anthony Watts, and The Heartland Institute’s H. Sterling Burnett as we do some play-by-play analysis. Plus, as always, the Crazy Climate News of the Week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET every Friday at Heartland's YouTube and Rumble channels for the kind of climate realism you can’t find anywhere else, and join the chat to get your questions answered, too.

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The other day H. Sterling Burnett, director of The Heartland Institute's Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy was a guest on The John Steigerwald Show on AM1250 The Answer in Pittsburgh. Sterling is a frequent guest on that excellent program, and was asked on to talk about Pennsylvania's plan to lean on solar and wind for future energy. As you might expect, Sterling explained how and why this is a bad idea, especially for resource-rich Pennsylvania.

Excellent links for more climate realist information from The Heartland Institute:

https://heartland.org/topics/environment-energy/

https://climaterealism.com/

https://climateataglance.com/

https://energyataglance.com/

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 447 of the In The Tank Podcast. Over the past week, student-led protest groups have essentially taken over college campuses across the United States, demonstrating on behalf of the pro-Palestine movement. The radical rhetoric, the disruption of classes, and the crack down by police has stirred up a lot of attention on this matter, but many important aspects are being ignored. Who is funding this movement? What are the true intentions of the protests? And how are these factors effected by the upcoming Presidential election?

OPENING CHIT CHAT

Reason - “Disinformation Czar” Jankowicz Returns as Head of New Project Before Election

https://reason.com/2024/04/25/nina-jankowicz-disinformation-czar-is-back-in-action/

PRIMARY TOPIC - Cultural Marxists Take Over College Campuses

The Federalist - Campus Radicals Go Bananas At The Colleges That Created Them

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/30/campus-radicals-go-bananas-at-the-colleges-that-created-them/

New York Post - George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/

The Jerusalem Post - Pro-Palestine protests are generously funded by donors promoting radical Islam studies - analysis

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/pro-palestine-protests-are-generously-funded-by-donors-promoting-radical-islam-studies-analysis-799154

Reason - Texas Public Colleges Crack Down on Peaceful Anti-Israel Protests

https://reason.com/2024/04/25/texas-public-colleges-crack-down-on-peaceful-anti-israel-protests/

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by friend of the podcast H.W. Brands, the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss his new book, Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics. They chat about how, while the Framers viewed political parties a fatal threat to republican virtues, parties emerged even before the ink on the Constitution was dry. They then discuss all things Federalist vs. Antifederalist/Republican, how contentious the political battles between them were, but yet how, despite all this, peaceful transfers of power continued.

Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713058/founding-partisans-by-h-w-brands/

Show Notes:
Wall Street Journal: Adam Rowe – “‘Founding Partisans’ and ‘A Republic of Scoundrels’: Opportunists and Patriots”
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/founding-partisans-and-a-republic-of-scoundrels-opportunists-and-patriots-b61dbf2f

Washington Post: C.W. Goodyear – “American political discord is as old as America itself”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/12/06/founding-partisans-political-book-review/

The Heartland Institute's Tim Benson is joined by Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, to discuss his new book, The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II. They chat about the backstory behind the three subjects of the book—Felix Kersten, Yoshiko Kawashima, and Friedrich Weinreb—and why all three have been vilified and mythologized. They also discuss the three subjects’ varying levels of culpability for the crimes committed by the people and regimes they served.

Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659322/the-collaborators-by-ian-buruma/

Show Notes: 

The Guardian: Matthew Reisz – “The Collaborators by Ian Buruma review – intriguing study of the frenemy within”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/12/the-collaborators-three-stories-of-deception-survival-world-war-ii-by-ian-buruma-review-intriguing-study-of-the-frenemy-within

New York Times: Lesley M.M. Blume – “Amoral Traitors? War Heroes? Survivors? Depends Whom You Ask.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/books/review/the-collaborators-ian-buruma.html

The Times: Ben McIntyre – “The Collaborators by Ian Buruma review — three stories of deception and survival in the Second World War”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-collaborators-by-ian-buruma-review-jljr2msmd

Times Literary Supplement: Josh Ireland – “Unholy compromises”

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-collaborators-ian-buruma-book-review-josh-ireland/

Wall Street Journal: Diane Cole – “‘The Collaborators’ Review: They Dealt With the Devil”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-collaborators-book-review-world-war-ii-history-they-dealt-with-the-devil-8a1cad6b

Washington Post: Scott Martelle – “For three liars during WWII, deception proves to be both good and evil”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/03/world-war-ii-collaborators-book/