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

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 Ilya 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: Wed. August 28, 2024, 9:51am PT

Both our presidential candidates, and their policy teams, seem to be suffering from a bad case of economic illiteracy, in somewhat different ways ... or maybe not so different. With two aspiring leaders both saying they want to make things better for middle class and lower-income Americans, it’s pretty discouraging to see them advance economic policies that would actually make everybody worse off.

Posted: Tue. August 27, 2024, 10:36am PT

In this second part of his two part interview, Dr. Atlas interviews Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Formerly, he was executive director and senior lecturer at Georgetown's Center for the Constitution. He's written several books, including the forthcoming Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites. They have a conversation about several of the most controversial issues in law and society, including the ideological invasion at our law schools, judicial activism, free speech, and more.

Posted: Thu. August 22, 2024, 8:41am PT

Independent Institute Senior Fellow and Good as Gold author Judy Shelton reacts to the recent lowered revision of jobs created. Is this the tip of the iceberg? More revisions could be coming. How can the Fed make decisions without confidence in the Fed’s models?

Posted: Wed. August 14, 2024, 11:00am PT

Dr. Atlas interviews Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Formerly, he was executive director and senior lecturer at Georgetown's Center for the Constitution. He's written several books, including the forthcoming Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites. And in 2020, he wrote Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court. They have a conversation about several of the most controversial issues in law and society, many of which are playing out every day in the United States.

Posted: Wed. August 7, 2024, 4:36pm PT

Karl Marx died in obscurity in 1883, but decades later, he became a major figure. Economic historian Phillip Magness reveals the surprising reason behind Marx's rise to fame.

Posted: Tue. August 6, 2024, 9:36am PT

Senior Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Is Social Justice Just? discusses the recent stock market drop and its implications. He talks about which indicators kill economic expansion. Unemployment is increasing, but why is that happening? Investors worldwide are worried, so he offers some life lessons in how to deal with volatility.

Posted: Mon. August 5, 2024, 1:50pm PT

Senior Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Is Social Justice Just? appears on the Ave Maria in the Afternoon radio show. Whaples discusses the US debt hitting the milestone (or millstone) of $35 trillion. That is $104K per person in the US. The debt is expected to grow over the next few decades. The fertility rate in the US is falling. With an aging population and fewer workers, what does that mean for the future of our economy?