Seemingly overnight, a large segment of America has gone insane. We’re not talking about the culture of paranoia and safety that has metastasized in the wake of COVID-19 hysteria. We’re talking about the ideological shift, particularly on cultural issues, that...
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3/26/21 Jack Matlock on America’s Unnecessarily Hostile Relationship With Russia
Jack Matlock, America's second-to-last ambassador to the Soviet Union, talks to Scott about relations with Russia today. He stresses that the real ideological differences that once divided America and the USSR don't stand in the way anymore, and we need not continue...
3/26/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Equivocations
Matthew Hoh comes back on the show to talk about Afghanistan. President Biden said in a recent press conference that due to logistical difficulties, America is unlikely to meet the May 1 withdrawal deadline laid out in the Doha agreement signed under President Trump....
COI #89: Biden Plans to Waste Billions on Lost Wars & Defective Weapons
On COI #89, Kyle and Will discuss Joe Biden's plans for the military budget. Recent reports suggest he has no intention to press for any significant cuts and will keep spending around the same level as the Trump administration before him, which itself increased the...
The Politics of Reaction: Civil Rights & Social Media Purges
On January 11, 2021, Robert Wenzel authored a blog post entitled “Why I Would Like to See Twitter and Facebook Ban More Accounts.” In the post Wenzel makes the astute observation that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter cannot kill off “deep thinkers from...
The Success of Bottom-Up ‘Constitutional Carry’
Few political movements can boast of success like the firearms movement in the United States. Often overlooked is how before the 1980s there was no concept of licensed, let alone unlicensed, concealed carry in the overwhelming majority of the country. The sole...
3/26/21 Joe Dyke on the Secret Talks that Nearly Saved Gaddafi
Scott interviews Joe Dyke about his coverage of the little-known secret talks between Norwegian diplomats and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which sought a peaceful end to the war there. Although Norway was a part of the group of countries that decided to begin bombing...
3/26/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Uncompromising Parliamentary Extremists
Kalmen Barkin fills Scott in on the political situation in Israel, a country that in his words is in complete political deadlock. Leading right wing figures like Prime Minister Netanyahu have had trouble forming clear ruling coalitions recently, in part because of...
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