Robert P. George is the indispensable man of American social conservatism. The Princeton professor is a scholar of such intellectual power that he almost single-handedly rescued the anti-abortion movement from the fringes of the American sociopolitical and legal landscape in the 1990s when the secular left assumed that the reign of abortion on demand for any ... Show More
Aug 28
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of vic ... Show More
56m 54s
Aug 26
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty million years in the making is succumbing to warming oceans. Kelp forests are largely out of sight, hidden under the ocean’s surface, yet they are one of Earth’s most wondrous and underappreciated marine habitats. I ... Show More
31m 51s
Aug 24
A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West (Verso Books, 2026) is the definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory. “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its curr ... Show More
53m 40s
Jul 2024
#122 | Fighting Fire with Fire, Dr. Kevin Roberts
In this compelling episode, Dr. Kevin Roberts delivers his closing remarks at the Annual Leadership Conference on April 17, 2024. Join us as Dr. Roberts outlines the urgent need for conservatives to recognize the pivotal moment in America today and the necessity to fight back aga ... Show More
30m 27s
Apr 2021
How the NEW GOP Must Fight Back—with J.D. Vance
Charlie invites conservative stalwart, Marine Corp veteran, and celebrated author of the bestselling novel 'Hillbilly Elegy'—a man who may have a very bright political future ahead of him in Ohio, should he choose to pursue it—the one and only J.D. Vance to join him for a fascina ... Show More
1h 8m
Jul 2022
An Anti-Abortion Campaigner on the Movement’s Historic Win
<p>After Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, a group of conservative lawyers embarked on what would become a decades-long<i> </i>mission to reverse the ruling.</p><p>One of those lawyers, James Bopp, explains how they succeeded and what comes next.</p><p>Guest: James Bopp, general c ... Show More
41m 50s
Aug 2023
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
In this episode, which was originally published in August 2022, Sean Illing talks with Corey Robin, author of a 2019 book about the life and thought of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Robin discusses how Thomas — whose concurring opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. ... Show More
1h 3m