Media Malfeasance

by Mark Bauerlein

Christine Rosen joins the podcast to discuss her articles “All the President's Press Men” and “Enola Gay, or, How the Media Imploded When It Came to Harvard's President.” Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2024 0

An Investigation into Disinformation

by Mark Bauerlein

Mark Hemingway joins the podcast to discuss his work for RealClearInvestigations, addressing state and private censorship and reviving the art of investigative journalism. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2022 0

Russell A. Berman on the State of Emergency

by R. R. Reno

Russell A. Berman joins the podcast to talk about his article from the June/July 2022 print edition, “State of Emergency,” which discusses the natural fragility of democracy and the threat that government emergency powers can pose. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2022 0

The Authority Vacuum

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Mark Bauerlein and Peter Skerry discuss political hierarchies, populism, and the power of the media. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2019 0

The Covington Catholic Debacle

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Robby Soave on media dishonesty and the Covington Catholic incident.  Continue Reading »

24 Jan 2019 0

Digital Enthusiasts and Informed Skeptics

by Mark Bauerlein

Actual attendance in class and taking notes by hand, not with any technology, is better for learning. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2017 0

Ryan Anderson Drives People Crazy

by Matthew J. Franck

Those of us who know Ryan Anderson have certain adjectives that come naturally to mind when we think of the country's most visible and effective under-40 defender of the truth about marriage. (And if I thought about it, I might drop the “under-40” qualifier.) Fearless, composed, tenacious, . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2015 0

Our Homophobic Pope

by R. R. Reno

The media make a big deal of Pope Francis when this or that utterance seems to signal that the Great Capitulation is imminent. Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being “anti-modern,” which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2015 0

Celebrity and the Absence of Faith

by Robert Fay

In Christopher Beha’s excellent debut novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder?, writer Charlie Blakeman nearly laughs when Sophie, his ex-girlfriend and a Catholic convert, says she plans to save the soul of her dying father-in-law, an atheist: “I don’t think I knew a single person who would have spoken in that way about saving someone’s soul,” ­Charlie observes. “The religious people I knew talked about their faith apologetically. It was an embarrassment to their own reason and intelligence, but somehow a necessary one.” Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2014 0

The Republican Establishment Part I: A Different World

by Pete Spiliakos

I’m not a product of the digital world that everyone under thirty seems to take for granted. When I started watching television, we had seven channels. Three of them had bad reception some of the time, and the other four had bad reception most of the time. There was no remote control and the . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2013 0