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Posted: Thu. October 10, 2024, 11:21am PT

Research fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism interviewed on KMOX radio in St. Louis. Ginsberg discusses the current anti-semitism on college campuses. He says students are motivated by their feelings instead of facts. The educational system is largely to blame, Ginsberg says. The protests are revealing sad facts about education. High school graduates know little, he says, about American history.

Posted: Wed. October 9, 2024, 2:38pm PT

In this episode Scott welcomes former Trump administration National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster. H.R. is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover institution and also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute, and he also lectures at Stanford's business school. They have a conversation about several of today's hotspots in the world including ongoing military battles arising under the Biden Administration and how our elected leaders are functioning to keep us safe.

Posted: Tue. September 24, 2024, 8:52am PT

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In the second part of this two part interview, Scott welcomes back to the show Victor Davis Hanson, world renowned scholar of classics and military history. They discuss the current state of foreign affairs and our politicians’ refusal to learn from history.

Posted: Mon. September 16, 2024, 12:27pm PT

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, health care in America has not improved in the ways we were promised. In fact, inequalities in care have grown, and for many people health coverage is worse. But the errors can still be reversed. John C. Goodman's new book, Priceless: Curing the Health Care Crisis, maps out a better way, one that frees patients, doctors, and employers from the regulatory traps and perverse incentives that hold everybody back.

Posted: Tue. September 10, 2024, 10:03am PT

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In this episode, Scott welcomes back to the show Victor Davis Hanson, world renowned scholar of classics and military history. Victor is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His latest two books are The Dying Citizen and The End of Everything. They discuss immigration, patriotism, nationalism, and the clash of cultures and values in America today.

Posted: Sat. September 7, 2024, 8:37pm PT

Today we had the pleasure of interviewing Judy Shelton to discuss whether we could see a gold backed US Dollar, as well as why the US Dollar will continue to lose purchasing power, why the US needs to back the US Dollar with gold, and why nations are buying gold so aggressively.

Posted: Fri. September 6, 2024, 10:52am PT

“Sunset on the Humanities?” captures a live discussion at The ‪Rosenbach Museum‬, moderated by ‪The Civi Discourse‬ Host Paula Marantz Cohen (Distinguished Professor of English and former Dean of Pennoni Honors College at ‪Drexel University‬) and featuring a panel of four experts in a range of humanities-driven fields: Andrew Delbanco; Phillip Magness (author, economic historian, and The Independent Institute chair); Dana A. Williams (‪Howard University‬ professor of African American literature, Dean of the Graduate School, and President of ‪Modern Language Association‬); and Laurie Zierer (Executive Director of ‪Pennsylvania Humanities Council‬).

This conversation examines the importance of the humanities and the role of academic and cultural institutions in the future of a knowledgeable, informed, and well-rounded society.

Posted: Tue. September 3, 2024, 9:23pm PT

Episode 112 of the Let People Prosper Show with Dr. Abby Hall as we discuss her fantastic book "How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite." She is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa and received her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.