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Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten features compelling long-form conversations with exceptional thinkers and doers on the most important ideas and issues of our time, and all time. Discussions focus on top... Read more

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Penn Law's Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Values, Attacks on Free Speech, Criticism of Affirmative Action and Diversity, Anti-Western Colleges

Penn Law's Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Values, Attacks on Free Speech, Criticism of Affirmative Action and Diversity, Anti-Western Colleges

Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she specializes in s... Read more

20 Jun 2018

51mins

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Dennis Prager on the Self-Righteously Suicidal West, the Disaster of Jewish Leftism, Intentions Versus Outcomes on the Left and Right, Western Values and Immigration, Social Media Censorship and PragerU

Dennis Prager on the Self-Righteously Suicidal West, the Disaster of Jewish Leftism, Intentions Versus Outcomes on the Left and Right, Western Values and Immigration, Social Media Censorship and PragerU

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio host, columnist, author of numerous books, teacher, film producer and co-... Read more

1 Aug 2018

38mins

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Former CIA Operative Charles Sam Faddis on Disastrous Politicization of the Intelligence Community, How China's 'Eating Our Lunch' in Intel and NatSec, The Grave (Ignored) Narco-Hezbollah-Failed State Threat on America's Southern Border

Former CIA Operative Charles Sam Faddis on Disastrous Politicization of the Intelligence Community, How China's 'Eating Our Lunch' in Intel and NatSec, The Grave (Ignored) Narco-Hezbollah-Failed State Threat on America's Southern Border

Charles Sam Faddis (@RealSamFaddis) is a retired CIA operative, where he spent decades serving abroad in the Middle East... Read more

22 Aug 2018

45mins

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Andrew C. McCarthy: Lessons from the Blind Sheikh Terror Trial, What Animates Jihadists, Why U.S. Middle East Policy Fails, Collapsing Iran's Regime (Part I)

Andrew C. McCarthy: Lessons from the Blind Sheikh Terror Trial, What Animates Jihadists, Why U.S. Middle East Policy Fails, Collapsing Iran's Regime (Part I)

Andrew C. McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) is senior fellow at the National Review Institute, contributing editor of National... Read more

6 Jun 2018

1hr 18mins

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Did the 'Deep State' Deep Six Pentagon's Lovinger Over Discovery of Shady Defense Department Contracts to FBI Trump Informant Stefan Halper?

Did the 'Deep State' Deep Six Pentagon's Lovinger Over Discovery of Shady Defense Department Contracts to FBI Trump Informant Stefan Halper?

Sean Bigley (@smb_JD) is a national security attorney who prosecutes intelligence community whistleblower retaliation ca... Read more

30 Aug 2018

37mins

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Andrew C. McCarthy on Russiagate, Clinton-Trump Investigation Double Standards, Mueller's Mandate, DOJ-FBI-CIA Politicization (Part II)

Andrew C. McCarthy on Russiagate, Clinton-Trump Investigation Double Standards, Mueller's Mandate, DOJ-FBI-CIA Politicization (Part II)

Andrew C. McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) is senior fellow at the National Review Institute, contributing editor of National... Read more

13 Jun 2018

58mins

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SPECIAL EPISODE (JULY 4): Deep Dive on the Declaration of Independence and its Relevance Today

SPECIAL EPISODE (JULY 4): Deep Dive on the Declaration of Independence and its Relevance Today

For Independence Day, I take a deep dive into Declaration of Independence in terms of its unique place in history and th... Read more

4 Jul 2018

47mins

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Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, the Administrative State, Free Speech, Silicon Valley Regulation

Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, the Administrative State, Free Speech, Silicon Valley Regulation

Professor Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He previously served... Read more

25 Jul 2018

45mins

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How Leftism Supplanted Judaism and Subverted Israel and Zionism Under 'Tikkun Olam' -- Social Justice with a Perverse and Baseless Religious Veneer

How Leftism Supplanted Judaism and Subverted Israel and Zionism Under 'Tikkun Olam' -- Social Justice with a Perverse and Baseless Religious Veneer

Jonathan Neumann has written perhaps the seminal book on how modern Jewry has supplanted its traditional values and prin... Read more

15 Aug 2018

40mins

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Confucius Institutes: Centers for Chinese Cultural Exchange, or Trojan Horses for Propaganda and Penetration of U.S. Colleges?

Confucius Institutes: Centers for Chinese Cultural Exchange, or Trojan Horses for Propaganda and Penetration of U.S. Colleges?

Rachelle Peterson is director of research projects at the National Association of Scholars (NAS), an organization dedica... Read more

11 Jul 2018

32mins

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