What happens when we trade independence for comfort? According to today’s guest, Christopher Caldwell, you lose both and end up with the kind of populist revolt that’s sweeping the U.S. & Europe. The path forward? “Learn to be peasants again.”

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Last week, I debated former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton at the Virginia Military Institute on the topic of foreign interventionism. It was a competition of ideas between neoconservatism vs. America-First. At the beginning of the debate, 19% of the audience agreed with my position. By the end, it was 55%. It's amazing what happens when you engage in open debate with hard facts.

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Calling the other side “weird” has become a political insult. Politicians like Tim Walz want us to stay stay in our lanes, keep our mouths shut, and defer to “experts” from the managerial class.

Our Founders didn’t care what the experts thought. They were self-taught, self-made Renaissance men who built a self-governing nation in a world of monarchies and aristocracies. 

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Springfield is overrun with migrants, the SAVE Act is unlikely to pass, and GOP Senate candidates are trailing Trump (sometimes by double digits). In this week's episode, I discuss the hard conversations that need to happen within the America First movement and propose solutions drawn from my new book, TRUTHS. bit.ly/3KKNTE0

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Polls show a dead heat between Trump and Harris. So why are GOP candidates for swing-state Senate seats polling worse than the former president? Curt Mills of The American Conservative joins me to discuss the return of ballot splitting, the rifts in both major parties, and what a winning Republican message looks like.

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After last night’s debate in Philadelphia, the real question is whether voters will buy what the media is trying to sell. Whether they do will determine the future of the country. I share my perspectives on what’s really going on in this race.

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Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe seized Ben Freeth's family farm. When he took the government to court, Mugabe's thugs burned down his house, kidnapped him, and fractured his skull. He joins me to discuss the rise of tyranny, the importance of property rights, and the dangers of victimhood politics.

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You don't have to be a vegetarian to care about animal cruelty. And you don't have to be a liberal either. My former law school classmate Lewis Bollard joins me to discuss factory farms, crony capitalism, and legal hypocrisies on both the left & the right.

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How will the far-left protests at the DNC affect Kamala’s campaign? Chris Rufo joins me to discuss how to beat Harris, assess how Republicans are doing, and debate the future direction of the conservative movement.

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Will dismantling the administrative state take one decisive battle? Or a long “island hopping” campaign? Entrepreneur & futurist Balaji Srinivasan joins me to discuss the broken drug approval process and explain why he turned down a job in Trump’s FDA - and the implications for the future of government itself.

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Two sharks, one tank! Fellow entrepreneur Mark Cuban joins me for a conversation about DEI, ESG, and the 2024 election. It gets heated, but that’s what America’s all about: speak your mind, disagree like hell, and still respect each other at the end.

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