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On this podcast, we largely cover who funds the groups and people who are influencing public policy — and today we'll be diving into the abyss of labor unions with our regular host and CRC's research director, Mike Watson. Thirty years ago, a former teachers-union operative named Max Green wrote a book called Epitaph for […]

Join Jim and Greg for this special Labor Day edition of the 3 Martini Lunch as they list their picks for the hardest-working people in politics and the media, the laziest figures in those same jobs, and share some favorite stories from jobs they had years ago. First, they look at the people in politics […]

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release date: 4 September 2026

Zach Abraham joins the Chicks to break down the escalating U.S.–Canada trade fight, its potential impact on American consumers and investors, and why he believes Mark Carney is playing politics with the negotiations. Plus, Zach explains what concerned investors should be watching as tariffs, inflation, and global instability collide. Subscribe and stay tuned for new […]

Welcome to Last Call, a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, they discuss a terrific defense of capitalism in the face of CNN lefties trying to tie it to white supremacy, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel telling Jews to put the […]

Earlier this summer, I had Tess Chakkalakal, professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College and author of A Matter of Complexion, a wonderful biography of the writer Charles Chesnutt, on the livestream. That stream was for full subscribers here on the Substack, but today I'm releasing this fascinating conversation for all to enjoy. […]

John Yoo is off again this week (I know—many of you think he's “off” every week!), so joining us as a special guest is Titus Techera, who wears many hats, including executive director of the American Cinema Foundation; Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College; International Program Coordinator, Edmund Burke Foundation; and researcher in political philosophy, Mathias […]

Erick defends the Lindsay Clancy jury against the online mob, walking through the one quirk of Massachusetts law that almost nobody on social media understands: Massachusetts is the only state where the prosecution must prove a defendant was sane beyond a reasonable doubt. Then the August jobs report lands at 162,000 new jobs, roughly three […]

Erick opens football season with Ben Sasse's Wall Street Journal case for high school football as one of the last institutions still forming young men, then makes his own argument for keeping politics out of sports, out of movies, and out of your hamburger. He plays the viral supercut of the words Candace Owens cannot […]

Erick tells the online right the hard truth about the SAVE Act: most Americans have no idea what it is, and no election bill is the serious problem standing between Republicans and November. He argues gas prices, wages trailing inflation and grocery bills are the real problem, then plays James Talarico on white privilege and […]

Maria Bartiromo is suddenly out at Fox News, and questions are already swirling about what really happened behind the scenes. The Chicks break down the reported dispute involving coverage of China election interference, Donald Trump's reaction to Bartiromo's departure, and JD Vance's response when reporters asked whether she could be headed to the White House. […]

AI has many amygdalae flooding nervous systems with warnings; a rising share of Americans look toward digital technology with deep suspicion; and a data center revolt is underway. The worries are increasingly apocalyptic. But it's not that America has never experienced a transformation of comparable scale, only that no living American is old enough to […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Friday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into much better-than-expected job numbers in August, the many bizarre facts and twists in the Lindsay Clancy case, Fox News dismissing Maria Bartiromo, and what we'll be doing for our Labor Day special. New episodes every weekday.

Further reading: Darel E. Paul, “Jason Arday and the Therapeutic Academy”  (First Things) Carl R. Trueman, “How the Therapeutic Killed Academic Standards” (First Things) Bethel McGrew, “Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie” (First Things) Tyler Austin Harper, “Why I Quit the Tenure Track” (The Atlantic) R. R. Reno, “The Failed 9/11 Memorial” (First Things)

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the political gap between American workers and the radical leaders of the worker's unions, the traps used by unions to force membership and payment, and how states […]

Guests: Matthew Spalding and J. A. Jackson Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., about the ideological capture of the National Museum of American History and his recent essay, “Make American History National Again .” And J. […]

I think a good description of 2026, culturally, economically, socially, and politically, is that we are in a modern medieval world. One part of our society is advancing at lightning speed into the future and progressing. But the other part is regressing, and regressing at a phenomenal pace back to what I would call the […]

In this episode, Bethany sat down with Julie Apel, the Assistant Headmaster of Hillsdale Academy to discuss classical education and some of the incredible things that Hillsdale has to offer parents passionate about educating their children, homeschooling or not. You can learn more about Hillsdale's robust K-12 programs and offerings here

Erick opens with a hot dog stand anecdote from New Way Weiners in Macon that matches the polling data: a Trump voter who is not angry, just disappointed, with diesel over six dollars a gallon. He walks through Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal warning that a Trump rally a day in October and an ad […]

Erick tracks the Iran war as Brent hits 95 dollars and West Texas crude hits 91, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claiming the Strait of Hormuz is flowing and the regime is finished while Iranian missiles hit Kuwait and possibly a hotel in Jordan. He then reports the growing revolt […]

Erick knocks down the viral photos of the rusted USS Abraham Lincoln as left-wing propaganda, pointing to the HMS Hermes coming back from the Falklands in 1982 in worse shape, then takes a call from Tom, a Navy pilot's father who says the fleet is simply broken and that 62 percent of jet pilots and […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they react to Nebraska's “independent” candidate for senator getting caught saying he can't win if he admits certain positions, a Virginia mom getting convicted and put on a child abuse registry for letting her child take a walk, Maine Sen. Susan Collins stating on […]

With all due respect to grammarians, when we at Beyond the Polls think of New Hampshire, hard facts and rock-solid political analysis from our friend Dante Scala are foremost in mind. In anticipation of Tuesday's Democratic primary, he and Henry discuss the tectonic political shift in the Granite State now that Jeanne Shaheen is retiring—along […]

Things get messy fast in this section of the show as Tim Pool publicly unloads on Alex Jones, refuses calls for a debate and explains why he says he's finished with the longtime media personality. The hosts react to the escalating conservative media infighting before turning to Tucker Carlson's latest comments on Michigan politics. Tucker's […]

Italy is increasingly pushing back against Europe's approach to illegal immigration, including a growing dispute with Germany over who should take responsibility for migrants rescued in the Mediterranean. On this week's episode of the Center for Immigration Studies' Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, Francesca Ronchin offers an Italian perspective on the migration pressures facing Europe and […]

In our back-to-school episode, we welcome the return to D.C. by diving straight into the upcoming midterm elections. Who the hell is running? What the hell do they believe in? Where the hell are the particularly crucial races? Between the Iran War, heightening antisemitism, the increasingly popular DSA, and a possible AI bubble, American voters […]

We're back with another episode of Freedom to Learn, with DFI's Angela Morabito filling in for Host Ginny Gentles. This week, U.S. Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent joins the podcast to give an inside look on how the The Department of Education is bringing transparency to higher education's foreign financial ties, partnering with the […]

Erick returns from break with good scan news for his wife, then breaks down why Army Secretary Dan Driscoll walked into the White House, told President Trump how many generals and admirals Pete Hegseth had quietly purged, and resigned on the spot. He also takes on Laura Ingraham by name over her “never Trump” attack, […]

Jeff and Trisha Bradford join The Chicks on the Right to share the deeply personal story behind their pro-life mission and their book Beauty from Ashes. More than three decades ago, while engaged to be married, Jeff and Trisha discovered they were pregnant. After receiving advice from someone they trusted, they went to Planned Parenthood […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they consider a terrific defense of capitalism in the face of CNN lefties trying to tie it to white supremacy, Rick Caruso's odd re-emergence in the LA mayor's race, Sen. Ed Markey easily winning his primary and immediately calls for Trump's impeachment, and Hunter […]

In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools and retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Barry Anderson speak with historian and legal scholar Edward Larson, author of Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters. He explores how the thirteen colonies moved from resistance to British rule to the […]

While many know that Mark Twain created some of the most famous characters in literature—Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Puddn'head Wilson—too few have understood that the Missouri author wasn't only America's greatest humorist, but also one of its most subtle political thinkers. But what was the political philosophy of the elusive and ironic […]

A few weeks ago, conservative online discourse was focused on the price of a burrito. Yes, the Vice President of the United States, along with the right's most celebrated minds, were arguing over whether a burrito should cost $20. Beneath the viral posts was a serious question: why does it feel like the American Dream […]

In a retort to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's refusal of a recent trade deal with the United States, President Trump renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” This political renaming of natural landmarks and wonders is not original to Trump. Barack Obama renamed Mount McKinley. Earl Warren's name was stripped from the Legal Institute. Even […]

Erick opens by answering Laura Ingraham's Twitter attack over his Ken Paxton column, then defends Amy Coney Barrett for siding with Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump in the 5-to-4 White House ballroom ruling while tearing apart John Roberts and his “aesthetic injury” dissent. The hour closes on the deadlocked Lindsay Clancy jury in Massachusetts, with […]

Erick breaks with much of the right on Flock cameras, taking apart Ron DeSantis and his move to pull every license plate reader off Florida's state highways, and laying out three fixes he says beat an outright ban: prohibit facial recognition in public rights of way, mandatory prison sentences for police who abuse the system, […]

Erick walks the whole 2026 Senate map, refusing to back off his warning that Ken Paxton is a bad general election candidate against James Talarico in Texas, then breaks live news that Donald Trump has launched new strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz after Iran tried to mine the strait and fired […]

The Lindsay Clancy trial remains deadlocked as jurors once again fail to reach a verdict—and the circus surrounding the courthouse may be getting even stranger. From Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington's growing fan club to street interviews and one man's blunt assessment of the case, we break down the latest developments. Then Scott Bessent takes aim […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they discuss congressional Republicans finally defending their own record, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel telling Jews to put the world's needs before their own survival, James Talarico saying fighting climate change requires dismantling capitalism, and Abdul El-Sayed's disturbing 9/11 message. New episodes every weekday. […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Alvin Lui, President of Courage Is A Habit, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how the left weaponizes the empathy of normal Americans to force inclusion through “affordable housing,” even if it destroys thriving cities. They discuss how this affects the housing market, crime, […]