Podcasts about Americanism

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – For the past half-century, our mainstream media, movies, television, more than half of our politicians. as well as schools at all levels of education have been veritable fonts of anti-Americanism, depravity, racism, and mandatory disrespect and even hatred for the republic's Founding generation of leaders, the war for freedom they...

Constitutional fun facts in honor of The American Legion National Oratorical Competition Finals THE INTERVIEW Army combat veteran Blake Hall created his company to protect veterans from identity theft. Veterans are more than 80% likely to have their identity stolen than other Americans. Learn how ID.me prevents fraud in this week's episode. SCUTTLEBUTT A salute Ronin – the hero rat who set a Guinness World Record for detecting landmines Legionnaires supporting manners, etiquette and Americanism in South Carolina Special Guest: Blake Hall.

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – For the past half-century, our mainstream media, movies, television, more than half of our politicians. as well as schools at all levels of education have been veritable fonts of anti-Americanism, depravity, racism, and mandatory disrespect and even hatred for the republic's Founding generation of leaders, the war for freedom they...

A Global Manifesto on Exceptionalism, Woke Culture, and Finding Purpose Beyond the PodiumIs America still the world's moral compass — or just the loudest voice in the room?In this cultural manifesto, Roy Sharples unpacks the contradictions of American exceptionalism, the rise of woke culture, and the country's often unconscious tendency to dominate global discourse. From the Trump-era wrecking ball to the polished rhetoric of modern political correctness, this lyrical commentary offers a brutally honest — and surprisingly affectionate — reflection on America's place in the world.Why does America feel the need to be the moral referee of the planet?How do other cultures view the U.S.'s hyper-performative identity politics?Can America still lead by listening, not just lecturing?This is not anti-Americanism.This is a love letter wrapped in satire — a wake-up call from one voice among many.It's time for America to lower the volume, kick off its platform shoes, and rejoin the global conversation — not as host, but as participant.Support the showAttitude. Imagination. Execution. Create Without Frontiers.

Americans, it's time to move to Europe! The American geo-strategist Jason Pack anticipated last week's advice from Simon Kuper and moved to London a few years ago during the first Trump Presidency. Pack, the host of the excellent Disorder podcast, confesses to be thrilled to have escaped MAGA America. He describes the esthetics of contemporary Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" and criticizes what he sees as the Trump administration's hostile atmosphere, ideological purity tests, and institutional destruction. Contrasting this with Europe's ideological fluidity, Pack warns that Trump's isolationist policies are increasing global disorder by fundamentally undermining America's global leadership role with its erstwhile European allies. Five Key Takeaways* Pack left America because he found the "esthetics" of working in policy and media spaces increasingly distasteful, particularly during Trump's first administration.* He argues that European political systems allow for greater ideological fluidity, while American politics demands strict partisan loyalty.* Pack describes Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" with institutions functioning like zombies - going through motions without accomplishing anything meaningful.* Unlike European populists who want to control institutions, Pack believes Trump's administration aims to destroy government institutions entirely.* Pack warns that America's deteriorating relationships with traditional allies is creating a "rudderless world" with increased global disorder and potential for conflict. Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. Over the last few days, we've been focusing on the impressions of America, of Trump's America around the world. We had the Financial Times' controversial columnist, Simon Cooper, on the show, arguing that it's the end of the American dream. He had a piece in the FT this week, arguing that it's time to move to Europe for Americans. Not everyone agrees. We had the London-based FT writer Jemima Kelly on the show recently, also suggesting that she hasn't quite given up on America. She is, of course, a Brit living in the UK and looking at America from London. My guest today, another old friend, is Jason Pack. He is the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason's been on the shows lots of times before. He's an observer of the world's early 21st century disorder. And he is an American living in London. So I'm thrilled that Jason is back on the show. Jason, did you have a chance to look at Simon Cooper's piece? Is it time for Americans to move to Europe?Jason Pack: You've already moved. Well, he's just popularizing what I've believed for eight or 10 years already. So yeah, I looked at the piece. I really enjoyed your podcast with him. I don't think many Americans will move because most Americans are not particularly global in their outlook. And as disenchanted as they will be, their networks of family and of perspective are in America. Some elites in media and finance will move. But for me, I just found the aesthetics of America becoming distasteful when I worked in D.C. during the first Trump administration. And that's why I pursued a European citizenship.Andrew Keen: Jason, it's interesting that you choose the word aesthetics. Two thoughts on that. Firstly, America has never been distinguished for its aesthetics. People never came to America for aesthetics. It's never been a particularly beautiful country, a very dynamic place, a very powerful place. So why do you choose that word aesthetic?Jason Pack: Because for most upper middle class Americans, life under Trump, particularly if they're white and heterosexual, will not change tremendously. But the aesthetics of working in the policy space or in the media will change. Having to deal with all the BS that we hear when we wake up and turn on the TV in the morning, having to interact with Republican nutcase friends who say, oh, the fat is being trimmed by the doge and don't worry about all those people who've been being laid off. The aesthetics of it are ugly and mean. And I have found among some Republican colleagues and friends of mine that they love the vileness of this dog-eat-dog aesthetic.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's an interesting way of putting it. And I understand exactly what you're saying. I'm less concerned with the aesthetics as with the reality. And my sense in some ways of what's happening is that the Trump people are obsessed with what you call aesthetics. They want to appear mean. I'm not actually sure that they're quite as mean as they'd like to think they are.Jason Pack: Oh, they're pretty mean. I mean, people are running around the NIH offices, according to colleagues of mine. And if you're out to the bathroom and your card is inserted in your computer, they go in, they steal the data from your computer.Andrew Keen: Actually, I take your point. What I meant more by that is that whereas most traditional authoritarian regimes hide their crimes against migrants. They deny wrongdoing. My sense of the Trump regime, or certainly a lot of the people involved in this Trump administration, is that they actually exaggerate it because it gives them pleasure and it somehow benefits their brand. I'm not convinced that they're quite as bad as they'd like to think.Jason Pack: Oh, I agree with that. They make Schadenfreude a principle. They want to showcase that they enjoy other people's pain. It's a bizarre psychological thing. Trump, for example, wanted to show his virility and his meanness, probably because he's an inner coward and he's not that feral. But we digress in terms of the aesthetics of the individual American wanting to leave. I experienced American government, like the State Department, and then, the bureaucracy of the policy space, say think tanks, or even the government relations trade space, say working for oil companies and government relations, as already authoritarian and ass-kissing in America, and the aesthetics of those industries I have always preferred in Europe, and that's only diverging.Andrew Keen: One of the things that always struck me about Washington, D.C. It was always uncomfortable as an imperial city. It always has been since the end of the Second World War, with America dominating the world as being one of two or perhaps the only super power in the world. But Washington, DC seems to always have been uncomfortable wearing its imperial mantle cloak in comparison, I think, to cities like London or Paris. I wonder whether, I'm not sure how much time you've spent back in America since Trump came back to power. I wonder if in that sense DC is trying to catch up with London and Paris.Jason Pack: I actually was giving a briefing in Congress to staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee only three weeks ago, and DC seemed post-apocalyptic to me. Many of my favorite restaurants were closing. There was traffic jams at bizarre hours of the day, which I think this is because the Trump people don't know how public transport works and they just ride their cars everywhere. So, yes, it seemed very bizarre being back. You were trying to gauge the interlocutor you were speaking to, were they merely pretending to be on board with Trump's stuff, but they actually secretly think it's ridiculous, or were they true believers? And you had to assess that before you would make your comments. So there is a slide to a kind of, again, neo-authoritarian aesthetic. In my conference, it became clear that the Republican Congressional staffers thought that it was all junk and that Trump doesn't care about Libya and he doesn't understand these issues. But we needed to make lip service in how we expressed our recommendations. So, fascinatingly, various speakers said, oh, there's a transactional win. There's a way that cheaper oil can be gotten here or we could make this policy recommendation appeal to the transactional impulses of the administration. Even though everyone knew that we were speaking in a Democrat echo-chamber where the only Republicans present were anti-Trump Republicans anyway.Andrew Keen: Describe DC as post-apocalyptic. What exactly then, Jason, is the apocalypse?Jason Pack: I don't think that the Trump people who are running the show understand how government works and whether you're at state or the NIH or USAID, you're kind of under siege and you're just doing what you're supposed to do and going through the motions. I mean, there's so much of like the zombie apocalypse going on. So maybe it's more zombie apocalypse than regular apocalypse, whereby the institutions are pretending to do their work, but they know that it doesn't accomplish anything. And the Trumpian appointees are kind of pretending to kind of cancel people on DAI, but the institutions are still continuing.Andrew Keen: I'm going to vulgarize something you said earlier. You talked about Trump wanting to appear bigger than he actually is. Maybe we might call that small penis syndrome. Is that, and then that's my term, Jason, let's be clear, not yours. Maybe it's fair or not. He probably would deny it, but I don't think he'll come on this show. He's more than welcome. Is that also reflected in the people working for him? Is there a bit of a small penis syndrome going on with a lot of the Trump people? Are they small town boys coming to America, coming to D.C. And in all their raison d'état trying to smash up the world that they always envied?Jason Pack: 100%. If you look at the Tucker Carlson and the Hegset, who went to Princeton in 03, and obviously Tucker Carlsen's WASP elite background is well known, they wanted to make it conventionally and couldn't. Hegson didn't achieve the rank of lieutenant general or colonel or anything in the army. He didn't make it in finance and Vance, obviously had just a minor career in finance, they didn't make the big time except through their hate and resentment of the establishment that succeeded on merit. So, I mean, you could call that small penis syndrome. I think another thing to point out is that many of them have been selected because whether they've been accused of rape or financial crimes or just meanness, they owe the great leader their ability to be in that position. And if he would throw them overboard they're entirely exposed, so that cash patels of the world and the Hexeds of the world serve at the mercy of the great leader, because if they were thrown to the wolves, they could be devoured for their misdeeds. And I think that that makes it a place where it's all about loyalty to the boss. But maybe we could pivot to the initial topic about how I think Europe is a place where you can reinvent yourself as an individual now. Certainly in the political and ideology space, and America really hasn't been for much of my left.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. And this is how actually our conversation you're doing. You're a much better podcast host than I am, Jason. You're reminding us of the real conversation rather than getting led down one Trumpian byway or another. I did a show recently on why I still believe in the American dream. And I was interviewed by my friend, David Maschiottra, another old friend of the show. And I suggested I originally came to America to reinvent myself and that's always been the platform with which Europeans have come to America. You're suggesting that perhaps the reverse is true now.Jason Pack: I really enjoyed that episode. I thought you were a great guest and he was a natural host. But I realized how it wasn't speaking to me. Many of my European friends who work in law, finance, tech, startup, you know, they finished their degrees in Italy or in England and they moved to America. And that's where they raised venture capital and they go on the exact success trajectory that you explained and they fetishize, oh my God, when my green card is gonna come through, I'm gonna have this big party. That never resonated with me because America was never a land of opportunity for me. And it hit me in hearing your podcast that that's because what I've aspired to is to work in government slash think tank or to be a professional expert. And if you don't ally yourself with one of the major political movements, you're always branded and you can never move ahead. I'll give a few examples if you're interested in the way that my trying to be in the center has meant that I could never find a place in America.Andrew Keen: Absolutely. So you're suggesting that your quote-unquote American dream could only be realized in Europe.Jason Pack: So I moved to the Middle East to serve my country after 9/11. If Gore had been elected president, I likely would have joined the army or the Marines or something. But Bush was president and I knew I needed to do this on my own. So, you know, I lived in Beirut, then I went to Iraq. Where did you graduate from, Jason? I graduated from Williams in 2002, but I was changing my studies as soon as the 9-11 happened. I stopped my senior thesis in biology and I pivoted to doing the Middle East. I thought the Middle East was going to be the next big thing. But I didn't realize that if you wanted to do it your own way, for example, living in Syria prior to working in government, then you couldn't get those security clearances. But in the UK, that's not really a problem. If you go to Leeds or Oxford and you got sent to study Arabic in Syria, you can work for the UK government, but not in America. If your went and did that your own way, your loyalties would be questioned. You wouldn't get your security clearance. I got an internship to work at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, where I fell afoul of my supervisors because I was someone who wanted to speak in Arabic with Omanis and, for example, go to hear prayers at the mosque and really be a part of the society. And I was told, don't do that. But aren't we here to understand about Oman? And they're like, no, it's really important to mostly socialize with people at the embassy. But my British colleagues, they were out there in Omani society, and they were, for example, really participating in stuff because the relationship between the Omanis and the Brits and the Americans is a happy one. That's just a small example, but I wanna make the kind of further point, which is that if you wanna get promoted in think tank world in America, it doesn't matter whether it's Cato or Heritage on the right or New America Foundation or Middle East Institute on the left. You have to buy in hook, line, and sinker to the party line of those institutions. And if that party line is DEI, as it was at the Middle East Institute when I was there, and you're a white heterosexual male, you're not going to get promoted. And if, for example, you want to then interact with some Zionist think tank like FDD, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, I was going to a fellowship there for work that I had done about monitoring ISIS in Libya, and they had proposed a funding line for my project, which was just technically reading jihadi Facebook posts and monitoring them. And then they did some more research on me, ironically, after we had already signed the funds. And they said, oh, we're so sorry, we are going to have to pull back on this. We are going have to pay you a kill fee. We are really, really sorry. And I came to understand why that was. And it was because I had advocated that the Iranians should be allowed to get the bomb so that they could have mutually assured destruction theory with Israel.Andrew Keen: Well, Jason, I take your point, but everyone has their own narrative when it comes to why their career didn't did or didn't take off and how they know what that doesn't happen in Europe. I'm just making a contrast. Let me just come back to my argument about America, which is it isn't necessarily as straightforward as perhaps at first it seems. I think one of the reasons why America has always been a great place for reinvention is because of the absence of memory.Jason Pack: No, but what I'm saying is Google will inspire on you, and if you're not within the ideological cadre, you cannot progress at these kind of institutions.Andrew Keen: Okay, I take your point on that, but thinking more broadly, America is a place where you can, I've done so many different things in this country from being a scholar to being an internet entrepreneur to being an expert on technology to being a critic of technology to being against podcasts, to being a podcaster. And you can get away, and I've failed in practically all of them, if not all of them, but the fact is that because people don't have memory, you can keep on doing different things and people won't say, well, how can you get away with this? Last week you were doing X. My sense, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong about London or Europe, is there is much more memory. You can't get away with perpetual reinvention in Europe as you can in the U.S. and maybe that's because of the fact that in your language, living in Europe with its memory and respect for memory is more aesthetically pleasing. So I'm not suggesting this is as simple as it might appear.Jason Pack: I agree with that last point, but I think I'm trying to bring something else out. In spheres like tech or podcasting, there isn't credentialism in America. And therefore, if you're just good at it, you don't need the credentials and you can get going. And you and other Europeans who had great merit, as you do, have benefited from that. And in Europe, you might run up against credentialism, but, oh, but you didn't work at the BBC, so you don't get the job. I'm making a different point about ideological purity within the very specific realms of, say, working for an American presidential candidate or briefing a policymaker or rising up at a think tank. I have briefed labor MPs, Lib Dem MPs and Tory MPs. And they don't ask my politics. I can go in there and get a meeting with Keir Starmer's people on Libya, and they don't care about the fact that I want him to do something slightly different. Criticized him and praised him at different times on my podcast, try having an influence with some Trump people and then say, Oh, well, you know, I really think that I can help you on this Libya policy, but I happened to run a fairly anti-Trump podcast. No, you just can't get the briefing because America is about ideological purity tests and getting your ticket punch in the government and think tank and exporting professions, and therefore it's not some place you can reinvent yourself. If you're clearly an anti-Trump Republican McCainite, you can't all of a sudden become an AOC Democrat for the purpose of one meeting. But in Europe you can, because you can be a Lib Dem like Liz Truss and then be a Tory Prime Minister. And no one cares what my position on these topics are when they ask me to brief Keir Starmer's people and that's something that I find so fantastic about Europe.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, you know this stuff better than I do. But isn't someone like Truss rooted in ideological purity? She was a Lib Dem when she was at Oxford. Yeah, but that was a long time ago. I can reverse that, Jason, and say, well, when Trump was young, he ran around with Bill and Hillary Clinton, he went to their wedding, he funded them. He never was even a Republican until 2014 or 15. So, I mean, he's an example of the very ideological fluidity that you idealize in Europe.Jason Pack: I agree with your point. I think that he's an exception there and he wouldn't have allowed it from his staffers. They now have essentially loyalty tested everything. It's not a place where if you were Democrat with ideas that would benefit the Trumpian establishment, you can be heard. I'll give an example. I like the Abraham Accords and I have a colleague who wants to help extend the Abraham Accords to Pakistan, she can only work with ideologically pure Republicans in the pitching of this idea. She can't work with someone like me because I don't have the ideological purity, even though this is a nonpartisan idea and it should be embraced if you can get the Trumpians to be interested in it. But that's not how America works and it has not been. Reagan, of course, if you said that you like taxes, and I'm someone who likes taxes and I don't believe in the Laffer curve, and neoliberalism is a sham, you couldn't be on that economic team. So there are different ideological tests. Trump was never a politician, so he's not an expert like me in the expert class where we've been litmus tested our whole careers.Andrew Keen: Interesting. Jason, yesterday I was talking to someone who was thinking of hiring me to do a speech in Europe to a business group, and we were discussing the kinds of speeches I could give, and one of the things I suggested was a defense of America, suggesting that we can believe in America and that everyone's wrong. And these people have hired me before. I've often made provocative counterintuitive arguments, there was a little bit of a silence and they said, you can't make that speech in Europe. No one will take it seriously to a business community. What's generally, I mean, you travel a lot, you talk to lots of different people. Have people really given up on the promise of America, particularly within the establishment, the business establishment, the political establishment?Jason Pack: I don't know. I think that many Europeans still think that this is a passing phase. I will comment on the fact that I do not see anti-Americanism in my daily life as a result of Trump, the way that, for example, you do see anti-Semitism as a results of Netanyahu's policy. The individual Jew is tarred by horrible things happening in Gaza, but the individual American is not tarred by the deporting and illegal detentions and sacking of people by Doge because people in Poland or London or even the Middle East understand that you're likely to not be a Trump supporter and they're not targeting you as an individual as a result of that. So I think they believe in the promise of America and they still might like to move to America. But on individual level if you want to be a political animal inside the beast of campaigns, rising up to be a David Axelrod kind of figure. America has been a place of these litmus tests. Whereas in Europe, you know, I feel that there's tremendous fluidity because in Italy they have so and so many political parties and in Germany, what's the distinction between the SPD at one moment in the CDU and the Greens and there's a tradition of coalitions that allows the individual to reinvent himself.Andrew Keen: One of the things that came up with Cooper, and he's certainly no defender of Marine Le Pen or Meloni in Italy, but he suggested that the Trump people are far to the right of Le Pen and Meloni. Would you agree with that?Jason Pack: Because they want to break down institutions, whereas Le Pen and Meloni simply want to conquer the institutions and use them. They're not full-blown, disordering neopopulists, to use the language of my disorder podcast. When Meloni is in power, she loves the Italian state and she wants it to function merely with her ideological slant. Whereas the Trumpians, they have a Bannonite wing, they don't simply wanna have a MAGA agenda, use the U.S. Government. No, they want to break the Department of Agriculture. They want to break the EPA. They simply want to destroy our institutions. And there's no European political party that wants that. Maybe on the fringe like reform, but reform probably doesn't even want that.Andrew Keen: But Jason, we've heard so much about how the Bannonites idealized Orban in Hungary. A lot of people believe that Project 2025 was cooked up in Budapest trying to model America on Orban. Is there any truth to that? I mean, are the Trump people really re-exporting Orbanism back into the United States?Jason Pack: That there is some truth, but it can be overplayed. It can go back further to Berlusconi. It's the idea that a particularly charismatic political leader can come to dominate the media landscape by either having a state media channel in the Berlusconi sense or cowing media coverage to make it more favorable, which is something that Orban has done geniusly, and then doling out contracts and using the state for patronage, say, Orban's father's construction business and all those concrete soccer stadiums. There is an attempt potentially in Trump land to, through an ideological project, cow the media and the checks and balances and have a one-party state with state media. I think it's going to be difficult for them to achieve, but Chuck Carlson and others and Bannon seem to want that.Andrew Keen: You were on Monocle recently talking about the Pope's death. J.D. Vance, of course, is someone who apparently had a last, one of the last conversations with the Pope. Pope wasn't particularly, Pope Francis wasn't particularly keen on him. Bannon and Vance are both outspoken Catholics. What's your take on the sort of this global religious movement on the part of right-wing Catholics, and how does it fit in, not only to the death of Francis, but perhaps the new Pope?Jason Pack: It's a very interesting question. I'm not a right-wing Catholic, so I'm really not in a position to...Andrew Keen: I thought you were Jason, that's why you could always come on the show.Jason Pack: I think that they don't have the theological bona fides to say that what they call Catholicism is Catholicism because obviously Jesus turned the other cheek, you know, and Jesus didn't want to punish his enemies and make poor black or Hispanic women suffer. But there is an interesting thing that has been going on since 1968, which is that there was a backlash against the student protests and free love and the condom and all the social changes that that brought about. And Catholics have been at the forefront, particularly Catholic institutions, in saying this has gone too far and we need to use religion to retake our society. And if we don't, no one will have children and we will lose out and the Muslims and Africans will rule the roost because they're having babies. And that right-wing Catholicism is caught up in the moral panic and culture wars since 1968. What I argued in the monocle interview that you referenced from earlier today is something quite different, which is that the Catholic Church has a unique kind of authority, and that that unique kind of authority can be used to stand up against Trump, Bannon, Orban, and other neopopulists in a way that, say, Mark Carney or Keir Starmer cannot, because if Mark Kearney and Keir Stormer say, you guys are not sufficiently correctly American and you're not following the American laws, blah, blah blah, the kind of Americans who support Trump are not convinced by that because they say, these are just, you know, pinko Brits and Canadians. I don't even care about Mark Kearny, but it's quite different if the next Pontiff is someone who comes not only from the school of Francis, but maybe more so is a great communicator vested in the real doctrines of the church, the Lateran Councils and Vatican too, and can say, actually this given thing that Trump has just said is not in line with the principles of Jesus. It's not inline with what the Vatican has said about, for example, migration or social equity. And I find that that is a unique opportunity because even the right-wing Catholics have to acknowledge the Pope and Christian doctrine and the ability of the Catholic hierarchy to say this is not in line with our teachings. So I think there's a very interesting opportunity right now.Andrew Keen: Perhaps that brings to mind Stalin's supposedly famous remarks to Churchill at Potsdam when they were talking about the Pope. Stalin said to Churchill, the Pope, how many divisions does he have? In other words, it's all about ideology, morality, and ultimately it doesn't really. It's the kind of thing that perhaps if some of the Trump people were as smart as Stalin, they might make the same remark.Jason Pack: That was a physical war, and the Pope didn't have divisions to sway the battles in World War II, but this is an ideological or an influence war. And the Pope, if you've just seen from media coverage over the last week, is someone who has tremendous media influence. And I do think that the new pontiff could, if he wanted to, stand up to the moral underpinnings of Trump and pull even the most right-wing Catholics away from a Trumpian analysis. Religion is supposed to be about, because Jesus didn't say punish your enemies. Don't turn the other cheek and own the libs. Jesus said something quite different than that. And it will be the opportunity of the new Catholic leader to point that out.Andrew Keen: I'm not sure if you've seen the movie Conclave, which was very prescient, made by my dear London friend, or at least produced by Tessa Ross at House Productions. But I wonder in these new conversations whether in the debates about who should the new Pope be, they'll mull over TikTok presence.Jason Pack: I hope they will. And I want to point out something that many people probably are not aware, which is that the College of Cardinals that constitutes the conclave does not have to pick one of their member to be pope. For the last six centuries, they have always chosen one of their own number, but they don't have to. So they could choose someone who has not only an ability to make great TikToks, but someone who can put forth a vision about climate change, about tax equity, for example, maybe about AI and what constitutes humanity from within the Catholic tradition, but reaching new faithful. And I think that they might actually consider we're doing this because in places like Western Europe, attendance is down, but in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it isn't. And in Africa, it's surging. So they may want to reach new millennials in Gen Z with a new message, but one which is rooted in their tradition. And I think that that would be a great counterbalance to what Trump and his ilk have done to how media coverage place things like climate change and migrants these days.Andrew Keen: Speaking of Trump and his ilk, Jason, lots of conversations here about the first cracks in his monolith. Speaking to me from London, I always look at the front page of The Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper. I refuse to give the money, so I never actually read any of the pieces. But I'm always curious as to the traditional conservative media attitude to Trump. What do not so much the Conservative Party, which seems to be in crisis in the UK, but what does Conservative media, Conservative thinkers, what's their take currently on Trump? Are you seeing a crack? Are people seeing this guy's absolutely insane and that the tariff policy is going to make all of us, everybody in the world poorer?Jason Pack: Well, Trump has always been a vote loser in the UK. So that even though Farage brags about his relationship, it isn't something that gets him more votes for reform. And whether it's Sunak or Badnak, and Badnak is the current leader of the Tory party, which is an opposition, she can't so closely associate herself with Trump because he's not popular in even right-wing British circles. However, the Tory media, like the telegraph and the spectator, they love the idea that he's owning the Libs. We talked about Schadenfreude, we talked about attacking the woke. The spectator has taken a very anti-woke turn over the last five to 10 years. And they love the ideal of pointing out the hypocrisies of the left and the effeminacy of it and all of that. And that gets them more clicks. So from a media perspective, there is a way in which the Murdoch media is always going to love the click bait, New York post bait of the Trump presidency. And that applies very much, you know, with the sun and the Daily Mail and the way that they cover media in this country.Andrew Keen: Although I was found in the U.S. That perhaps the newspaper that has been most persistently and usefully critical of Trump is the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch.Jason Pack: Yeah, but that's a very highbrow paper, and I think that it's been very critical of the tariff policy and it said a lot of intelligent things about Trump's early missteps. It doesn't reach the same people as the New York Post or the Daily Mail do.Andrew Keen: Finally, Jason, let's go back to Disorder, your excellent podcast. You started it a couple of years ago before this new Trump madness. You were always one of the early people on this global disorder. How much more disordered can the world become? Of course, it could become more disorded in terms of war. In late April 2025, is the world more disordered than it was in April 2024, when Biden was still in power? I mean, we still have these wars in Gaza, in Ukraine, doesn't seem as if that much has changed, or am I wrong?Jason Pack: I take your point, but I'm using disorder in a particularly technical sense in a way by which I mean the inability of major powers to coordinate together for optimal solutions. So in the Biden days of last year, yes, the Ukraine and Gaza wars may be waging, but if Jake Sullivan or Blinken were smarter or more courageous, they could host a summit and work together with their French and British and Argentinian allies. Put forth some solutions. The world is more disordered today because it doesn't have a leader. It doesn't have institutions, the UN or NATO or the G7 where those solutions on things like the Ukraine war attacks could happen. And you may say, but wait, Jason, isn't Trump actually doing more leadership? He's trying to bring the Ukrainians and the Russians to the table. And I would say he isn't. They're not proposing actual solutions. They don't care about solving underlying issues. They're merely trying to get media wins. He wants the Japanese to come to Washington to have the semblance of a new trade deal, not a real trade deal. He's trying to reorder global finance in semblance, not in reality. So the ability to come to actual solutions through real coordinating mechanisms where I compromise with you is much weaker than it was last year. And on the Disorder Podcast, we explore all these domains from tax havens to cryptocurrency to cyber attacks. And I think that listeners of Keen On would really enjoy how we delve into those topics and try to see how they reflect where we're at in the global system.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's a strongly, I would strongly agree with you. I would encourage all keen on listeners to listen to Disorder and vice versa if this gets onto the Disorder podcast. What about the China issue? How structural is the tariff crisis, if that's the right word, gonna change US relations with China? Is this the new Cold War, Jason?Jason Pack: I'm not an economist, but from what I've been told by the economists I've interviewed on my podcast, it's absolutely completely game changing because whether it's an Apple iPhone or most pieces of manufactured kit that you purchase or inputs into American manufacturing, it's assembled everywhere and the connections between China and America are essential to the global economy. Work and it's not like you can all of a sudden move those supply chains. So this trade war is really a 1930s style beggar thy neighbor approach to things and that led to and deepened the great depression, right? So I am very worried. I had the sense that Trump might back off because he does seem to be very sensitive to the markets. But maybe this is such an ideological project and, you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC was just saying, even though he's willing to back off if the T bill rate changes, he thinks that his strategy is working and that he's going to get some deals. And that terrifies me because that's not what's happening. It isn't working. And God forbid that they'll push this to its logical conclusion and cause a new recession or depression.Andrew Keen: I know you've got to run Jason. So final question, let's return to where we began with America and the changing nature of America. Your last episode of Disorder was with Corey Sharpe, who is a very, very good and one of Washington DC's, I think, smartest foreign policy analysts. She asks, what's America without allies? If this continues, what, indeed, I mean, you're happy in London, so I don't sound like you're coming back, whatever. But what will America become if indeed all these traditional allies, the UK, France, Germany, become, if not enemies, certainly just transactional relationships? What becomes of America without allies?Jason Pack: Wow, great question. I'm gonna treat this in two parts, the American cultural component and then the structural geopolitical component. I'm a proud American. Culturally, I work on Sundays. I don't take any holiday. I get angry at contractors who are not direct. I am going to be American my whole life and I want an American style work ethic and I wanna things to function and the customer to always be right. So I didn't move to Europe to get European stuff in that way, and I think America will still be great at new inventions and at hard work and at all of that stuff and will still, the NFL will still be a much better run sports league than European sports leagues. Americans are great at certain things. The problem is what if America's role in the world as having the reserve currency, coordinating the NATO allies. If that's eviscerated, we're just going to be living more and more in the global enduring disorder, as Corey Schacke points out, which is that the Europeans don't know how to lead. They can't step up because they don't have one prima inter Paris. And since the decline of the British Empire, the British haven't learned how, for example, to coordinate the Europeans for the defense of Ukraine or for making new missile technologies or dealing with the defense industry. So we're just dealing with a rudderless world. And that's very worrying because there could be major conflict. And then I just have to hope that a new American administration, it could be a Republican one, but I think it just can't be a Trumpian one, will go back to its old role of leadership. I haven't lost hope in America. I've just lost hope in this current administration.Andrew Keen: Well, I haven't lost hope in Jason Pack. He is an ally of ours at Keen On. He's the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason, it's always fun to have you on the show. So much to discuss and no doubt there will be much more over the summer, so we'll have you back on in the next month or two. Thank you so much. Keep well. Stay American in London. Thank you again.Jason Pack: It was a great pleasure. Thanks, Andrew. See you then. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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It's official. The American Dream is dead. And it's been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Americans should relocate. Compared with the United States, Kuper argues, Europe offers the three key metrics of a 21st century good life: “four years more longevity, higher self-reported happiness and less than half the carbon emissions per person”. So where exactly to move? The Paris based Kuper believes that his city is the most beautiful in Europe. He's also partial to Madrid, which offers Europe's sunniest lifestyle. And even London, in spite of all its post Brexit gloom, Kuper promises, offers American exiles the promise of a better life than the miserable existence which they now have to eek out in the United States. Five Takeaways* Quality of Life.:Kuper believes European quality of life surpasses America's for the average person, with Europeans living longer, having better physical health, and experiencing less extreme political polarization.* Democratic Europe vs Aristocratic America: While the wealthy can achieve greater fortunes in America, Kuper argues that Europeans in the "bottom 99%" live longer and healthier lives than their American counterparts.* Guns, Anxiety and the Threat of Violence: Political polarization in America creates more anxiety than in Europe, partly because Americans might be armed and because religion makes people hold their views more fervently.* MAGA Madness: Kuper sees Trump as more extreme than European right-wing leaders like Italy's Meloni, who governs as "relatively pro-European" and "pro-Ukrainian."* It's not just a Trump thing. Kuper believes America's declining international credibility will persist even after Trump leaves office, as Europeans will fear another "America First" president could follow any moderate administration.Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello everybody. It's Monday, April the 21st, 2025. This conversation actually might go out tomorrow on the 22nd. Nonetheless, the headlines of the Financial Times, the world's most global economic newspaper, are miserable from an American point of view. US stocks and the dollar are sinking again as Donald Trump renews his attack on the Fed chair Jay Powell. Meanwhile Trump is also attacking the universities and many other bastions of civilization at least according to the FT's political columnist Gideon Rachman. For another FT journalist, my guest today Simon Kuper has been on the show many times before. All this bad news about America suggests that for Americans it's time to move to Europe. Simon is joining us from Paris, which Paris is that in Europe Simon?Simon Kuper: I was walking around today and thinking it has probably never in its history looked as good as it does now. It really is a fabulous city, especially when the sun shines.Andrew Keen: Nice of them where I am in San Francisco.Simon Kuper: I always used to like San Francisco, but I knew it before every house costs $15 million.Andrew Keen: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true, but maybe there's some truth. Paris isn't exactly cheap either, is it? Certainly where you live.Simon Kuper: Cheaper than San Francisco, so I did for this article that you mentioned, I did some research on house prices and certainly central Paris is one of the most expensive areas in the European Union, but still considerably cheaper than cities like New York and San Francisco. A friend of mine who lives here told me that if she moved to New York, she would move from central Paris to for the same price living in some very, very distant suburb of New York City.Andrew Keen: Your column this week, Americans, it's time to move to Europe. You obviously wrote with a degree of relish. Is this Europe's revenge on America that it's now time to reverse the brain drain from Europe to America? Now it's from America to Europe.Simon Kuper: I mean, I don't see it as revenge. I'm a generally pro-American person by inclination and I even married an American and have children who are American as well as being French and British. So when I went to the US as firstly as a child, age 10, 11, I was in sixth grade in California. I thought it was the most advanced, wonderful place in the world and the sunshine and there was nowhere nice than California. And then I went as a student in my early 20s. And again, I thought this was the early 90s. This is the country of the future. It's so much more advanced than Europe. And they have this new kind of wise technocratic government that is going to make things even better. And it was the beginning of a big American boom of the 90s when I think American quality of life reached its peak, that life expectancy was reached, that was then declined a long time after the late 90s. So my impressions in the past were always extremely good, but no longer. The last 20 years visiting the US I've never really felt this is a society where ordinary people can have as good a life as in Europe.Andrew Keen: When you say ordinary people, I mean, you're not an ordinary person. And I'm guessing most of the people you and your wife certainly isn't ordinary. She's a well known writer. In fact, she's written on France and the United States and parenthood, very well known, you are well known. What do you mean by ordinary people?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I mean, it's not entirely about me. Amazingly, I am not so egomaniac as to draw conclusions on some matters just looking at my own situation. What I wrote about the US is that if you're in the 1% in the US and you are pursuing great wealth in finance or tech and you have a genuine shot at it, you will achieve wealth that you can't really achieve in Europe. You know, the top end of the US is much higher than in Europe. Still not necessarily true that your life will be better. So even rich Americans live shorter than rich Europeans. But OK, so the 1% America really offers greater expansion opportunities than Europe does. Anywhere below that, the Europeans in the bottom 99%, let's say, they live longer than their American equivalents. They are less fat, their bodies function better because they walk more, because they're not being bombarded by processed food in the same way. Although we have political polarization here, it's not as extreme as in the US. Where I quote a European friend of mine who lives in the American South. He says he sometimes doesn't go out of his house for days at a time because he says meeting Trump supporters makes him quite anxious.Andrew Keen: Where does he live? I saw that paragraph in the piece, you said he doesn't, and I'm quoting him, a European friend of mine who lives in the American South sometimes doesn't leave his house for days on end so as to avoid running into Trump supporters. Where does he live?Simon Kuper: He lives, let me say he lives in Georgia, he lives in the state of Georgia.Andrew Keen: Well, is that Atlanta? I mean, Atlanta is a large town, lots of anti-Trump sentiment there. Whereabouts in Georgia?Simon Kuper: He doesn't live in Atlanta, but I also don't want to specify exactly where he lives because he's entitled.Andrew Keen: In case you get started, but in all seriousness, Simon, isn't this a bit exaggerated? I mean, I'm sure there are some of your friends in Paris don't go outside the fancy center because they might run into fans of Marine Le Pen. What's the difference?Simon Kuper: I think that polarization creates more anxiety in the US and is more strongly felt for a couple of reasons. One is that because people might be armed in America, that gives an edge to any kind of disagreement that isn't here in Europe. And secondly, because religion is more of a factor in American life, people hold their views more strongly, more fervently, then. So I think there's a seriousness and edge to the American polarization that isn't quite the same as here. And the third reason I think polarization is worse is movement is more extreme even than European far-right movements. So my colleague John Byrne Murdoch at the Financial Times has mapped this, that Republican views from issues from climate to the role of the state are really off the charts. There's no European party coeval to them. So for example, the far-right party in France, the Rassemblement National, doesn't deny climate change in the way that Trump does.Andrew Keen: So, how does that contextualize Le Pen or Maloney or even the Hungarian neo-authoritarians for whom a lot of Trump supporters went to Budapest to learn what he did in order to implement Trump 2.0?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I think Orban, in terms of his creating an authoritarian society where the universities have been reined in, where the courts have been rained in, in that sense is a model for Trump. His friendliness with Putin is more of a model for Trump. Meloni and Le Pen, although I do not support them in any way, are not quite there. And so Meloni in Italy is in a coalition and is governing as somebody relatively pro-European. She's pro-Ukrainian, she's pro-NATO. So although, you know, she and Trump seem to have a good relationship, she is nowhere near as extreme as Trump. And you don't see anyone in Europe who's proposing these kinds of tariffs that Trump has. So I think that the, I would call it the craziness or the extremism of MAGA, doesn't really have comparisons. I mean, Orban, because he leads a small country, he has to be a bit more savvy and aware of what, for example, Brussels will wear. So he pushes Brussels, but he also needs money from Brussels. So, he reigns himself in, whereas with Trump, it's hard to see much restraint operating.Andrew Keen: I wonder if you're leading American liberals on a little bit, Simon. You suggested it's time to come to Europe, but Americans in particular aren't welcome, so to speak, with open arms, certainly from where you're talking from in Paris. And I know a lot of Americans who have come to Europe, London, Paris, elsewhere, and really struggled to make friends. Would, for Americans who are seriously thinking of leaving Trump's America, what kind of welcome are they gonna get in Europe?Simon Kuper: I mean, it's true that I haven't seen anti-Americanism as strong as this in my, probably in my lifetime. It might have been like this during the Vietnam War, but I was a child, I don't remember. So there is enormous antipathy to, let's say, to Trumpism. So two, I had two visiting Irish people, I had lunch with them on Friday, who both work in the US, and they said, somebody shouted at them on the street, Americans go home. Which I'd never heard, honestly, in Paris. And they shouted back, we're not American, which is a defense that doesn't work if you are American. So that is not nice. But my sense of Americans who live here is that the presumption of French people is always that if you're an American who lives here, you're not a Trumpist. Just like 20 years ago, if you are an American lives here you're not a supporter of George W. Bush. So there is a great amount of awareness that there are Americans and Americans that actually the most critical response I heard to my article was from Europeans. So I got a lot of Americans saying, yeah, yeah. I agree. I want to get out of here. I heard quite a lot of Europeans say, for God's sake, don't encourage them all to come here because they'll drive up prices and so on, which you can already see elements of, and particularly in Barcelona or in Venice, basically almost nobody lives in Venice except which Americans now, but in Barcelona where.Andrew Keen: Only rich Americans in Venice, no other rich people.Simon Kuper: It has a particular appeal to no Russians. No, no one from the gulf. There must be some there must be something. They're not many Venetians.Andrew Keen: What about the historical context, Simon? In all seriousness, you know, Americans have, of course, fled the United States in the past. One thinks of James Baldwin fleeing the Jim Crow South. Could the Americans now who were leaving the universities, Tim Schneider, for example, has already fled to Canada, as Jason Stanley has as well, another scholar of fascism. Is there stuff that American intellectuals, liberals, academics can bring to Europe that you guys currently don't have? Or are intellectuals coming to Europe from the US? Is it really like shipping coal, so to speak, to Newcastle?Simon Kuper: We need them desperately. I mean, as you know, since 1933, there has been a brain drain of the best European intellectuals in enormous numbers to the United States. So in 1933, the best university system in the world was Germany. If you measure by number of Nobel prizes, one that's demolished in a month, a lot of those people end up years later, especially in the US. And so you get the new school in New York is a center. And people like Adorno end up, I think, in Los Angeles, which must be very confusing. And American universities, you get the American combination. The USP, what's it called, the unique selling point, is you have size, you have wealth, you have freedom of inquiry, which China doesn't have, and you have immigration. So you bring in the best brains. And so Europe lost its intellectuals. You have very wealthy universities, partly because of the role of donors in America. So, you know, if you're a professor at Stanford or Columbia, I think the average salary is somewhere over $300,000 for professors at the top universities. In Europe, there's nothing like that. Those people would at least have to halve their salary. And so, yeah, for Europeans, this is a unique opportunity to get some of the world's leading brains back. At cut price because they would have to take a big salary cut, but many of them are desperate to do it. I mean, if your lab has been defunded by the government, or if the government doesn't believe in your research into climate or vaccines, or just if you're in the humanities and the government is very hostile to it, or, if you write on the history of race. And that is illegal now in some southern states where I think teaching they call it structural racism or there's this American phrase about racism that is now banned in some states that the government won't fund it, then you think, well, I'll take that pay cost and go back to Europe. Because I'm talking going back, I think the first people to take the offer are going to be the many, many top Europeans who work at American universities.Andrew Keen: You mentioned at the end of Europe essay, the end of the American dream. You're quoting Trump, of course, ironically. But the essay is also about the end of the America dream, perhaps the rebirth or initial birth of the European dream. To what extent is the American dream, in your view, and you touched on this earlier, Simon, dependent on the great minds of Europe coming to America, particularly during and after the, as a response to the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt, for example, even people like Aldous Huxley, who came to Hollywood in the 1930s. Do you think that the American dream itself is in part dependent on European intellectuals like Arendt and Huxley, even Ayn Rand, who not necessarily the most popular figure on the left, but certainly very influential in her ideas about capitalism and freedom, who came of course from Russia.Simon Kuper: I mean, I think the average American wouldn't care if Ayn Rand or Hannah Arendt had gone to Australia instead. That's not their dream. I think their American dream has always been about the idea of social mobility and building a wealthy life for yourself and your family from nothing. Now almost all studies of social ability say that it's now very low in the US. It's lower than in most of Europe. Especially Northern Europe and Scandinavia have great social mobility. So if you're born in the lower, say, 10% or 20% in Denmark, you have a much better chance of rising to the top of society than if you were born at the bottom 10%, 20% in the US. So America is not very good for social mobility anymore. I think that the brains that helped the American economy most were people working in different forms of tech research. And especially for the federal government. So the biggest funder of science in the last 80 years or so, I mean, the Manhattan Project and on has been the US federal government, biggest in the world. And the thing is you can't eat atom bombs, but what they also produce is research that becomes hugely transformative in civilian life and in civilian industries. So GPS or famously the internet come out of research that's done within the federal government with a kind of vague defense angle. And so I think those are the brains that have made America richer. And then of course, the number of immigrants who found companies, and you see this in tech, is much higher than the number percentage of native born Americans who do. And a famous example of that is Elon Musk.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and you were on the show just before Christmas in response to your piece about Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid in South Africa. So I'm guessing you don't want the Musks and Thiels. They won't be welcome in Europe, will they?Simon Kuper: I don't think they want to go. I mean, if you want to create a tech company, you want very deep capital markets. You want venture capital firms that are happy to bet a few billion on you. And a very good place to do that, the best place in the world by far, is Silicon Valley. And so a French friend of mine said he was at a reception in San Francisco, surrounded by many, many top French engineers who all work for Silicon Valley firms, and he thought, what would it take them to come back? He didn't have an answer. Now the answer might be, maybe, well, Donald Trump could persuade them to leave. But they want to keep issuing visas for those kinds of people. I mean, the thing is that what we're seeing with Chinese AI breakthroughs in what was called DeepSeek. Also in overtaking Tesla on electric cars suggests that maybe, you know, the cutting edge of innovation is moving from Silicon Valley after nearly 100 years to China. This is not my field of expertise at all. But you know the French economist Thomas Filippon has written about how the American economy has become quite undynamic because it's been taken over by monopolies. So you can't start another Google, you can start another Amazon. And you can't build a rival to Facebook because these companies control of the market and as Facebook did with WhatsApp or Instagram, they'll just buy you up. And so you get quite a much more static tech scene than 30 years ago when really, you know, inventions, great inventions are being made in Silicon Valley all the time. Now you get a few big companies that are the same for a very long period.Andrew Keen: Well, of course, you also have OpenAI, which is a startup, but that's another conversation.Simon Kuper: Yeah, the arguments in AI is that maybe China can do it better.Andrew Keen: Can be. I don't know. Well, it has, so to speak, Simon, the light bulb gone off in Europe on all this on all these issues. Mario Draghi month or two ago came out. Was it a white paper or report suggesting that Europe needed to get its innovation act together that there wasn't enough investment or capital? Are senior people within the EU like Draghi waking up to the reality of this historical opportunity to seize back economic power, not just cultural and political.Simon Kuper: I mean, Draghi doesn't have a post anymore, as far as I'm aware. I mean of course he was the brilliant governor of the European Central Bank. But that report did have a big impact, didn't it? It had a big impact. I think a lot of people thought, yeah, this is all true. We should spend enormous fortunes and borrow enormous fortunes to create a massive tech scene and build our own defense industries and so on. But they're not going to do it. It's the kind of report that you write when you don't have a position of power and you say, this is what we should do. And the people in positions of power say, oh, but it's really complicated to do it. So they don't do it, so no, they're very, there's not really, we've been massively overtaken and left behind on tech by the US and China. And there doesn't seem to be any impetus, serious impetus to build anything on that scale to invest that kind of money government led or private sector led in European tech scene. So yeah, if you're in tech. Maybe you should be going to Shanghai, but you probably should not be going to Europe. So, and this is a problem because China and the US make our future and we use their cloud servers. You know, we could build a search engine, but we can't liberate ourselves from the cloud service. Defense is a different matter where, you know, Draghi said we should become independent. And because Trump is now European governments believe Trump is hostile to us on defense, hostile to Ukraine and more broadly to Europe, there I think will be a very quick move to build a much bigger European defense sector so we don't have to buy for example American planes which they where they can switch off the operating systems if they feel like it.Andrew Keen: You live in Paris. You work for the FT, or one of the papers you work for is the FT a British paper. Where does Britain stand here? So many influential Brits, of course, went to America, particularly in the 20th century. Everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Hitchens, all adding enormous value like Arendt and Ayn Rand. Is Britain, when you talk of Europe, are you still in the back of your mind thinking of Britain, or is it? An island somehow floating or stuck between America, the end of the American dream and the beginning of the European dream. In a way, are you suggesting that Brits should come to Europe as well?Simon Kuper: I think Britain is floating quite rapidly towards Europe because in a world where you have three military superpowers that are quite predatory and are not interested in alliances, the US, China and Russia, the smaller countries, and Britain is a smaller country and has realized since Brexit that it is a small country, the small countries just need to ally. And, you know, are you going to trust an alliance with Trump? A man who is not interested in the fates of other countries and breaks his word, or would you rather have an alliance with the Europeans who share far more of your values? And I think the Labor government in the UK has quietly decided that, I know that it has decided that on economic issues, it's always going to prioritize aligning with Europe, for example, aligning food standards with Europe so that we can sell my food. They can sell us our food without any checks because we've accepted all their standards, not with the US. So in any choice between, you know, now there's talk of a potential US-UK trade deal, do we align our standards with the US. Or Europe? It's always going to be Europe first. And on defense, you have two European defense powers that are these middle powers, France and the UK. Without the UK, there isn't really a European defense alliance. And that is what is gonna be needed now because there's a big NATO summit in June, where I think it's going to become patently obvious to everyone, the US isn't really a member of NATO anymore. And so then you're gonna move towards a post US NATO. And if the UK is not in it, well, it looks very, very weak indeed. And if UK is alone, that's quite a scary position to be in in this world. So yeah, I see a UK that is not gonna rejoin the European Union anytime soon. But is more and more going to ally itself, is already aligning itself with Europe.Andrew Keen: As the worm turned, I mean, Trump has been in power 100 days, supposedly is limited to the next four years, although he's talking about running for a third term. Can America reverse itself in your view?Simon Kuper: I think it will be very hard whatever Trump does for other countries to trust him again. And I also think that after Trump goes, which as you say may not be in 2028, but after he goes and if you get say a Biden or Obama style president who flies to Europe and says it's all over, we're friends again. Now the Europeans are going to think. But you know, it's very, very likely that in four years time, you will be replaced by another America first of some kind. So we cannot build a long term alliance with the US. So for example, we cannot do long term deals to buy Americans weapons systems, because maybe there's a president that we like, but they'll be succeeded by a president who terrifies us quite likely. So, there is now, it seems to me, instability built in for the very long term into... America has a potential ally. It's you just can't rely on this anymore. Even should Trump go.Andrew Keen: You talk about Europe as one place, which, of course, geographically it is, but lots of observers have noted the existence, it goes without saying, of many Europe's, particularly the difference between Eastern and Western Europe.Simon Kuper: I've looked at that myself, yes.Andrew Keen: And you've probably written essays on this as well. Eastern Europe is Poland, perhaps, Czech Republic, even Hungary in an odd way. They're much more like the United States, much more interested perhaps in economic wealth than in the other metrics that you write about in your essay. Is there more than one Europe, Simon? And for Americans who are thinking of coming to Europe, should it be? Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Madrid.Simon Kuper: These are all great cities, so it depends what you like. I mean, I don't know if they're more individualistic societies. I would doubt that. All European countries, I think, could be described as social democracies. So there is a welfare state that provides people with health and education in a way that you don't quite have in the United States. And then the opposite, the taxes are higher. The opportunities to get extremely wealthy are lower here. I think the big difference is that there is a part of Europe for whom Russia is an existential threat. And that's especially Poland, the Baltics, Romania. And there's a part of Europe, France, Britain, Spain, for whom Russia is really quite a long way away. So they're not that bothered about it. They're not interested in spending a lot on defense or sending troops potentially to die there because they see Russia as not their problem. I would see that as a big divide. In terms of wealth, I mean, it's equalizing. So the average Pole outside London is now, I think, as well off or better than the average Britain. So the average Pole is now as well as the average person outside London. London, of course, is still.Andrew Keen: This is the Poles in the UK or the Poles.Simon Kuper: The Poles in Poland. So the Poles who came to the UK 20 years ago did so because the UK was then much richer. That's now gone. And so a lot of Poles and even Romanians are returning because economic opportunities in Poland, especially, are just as good as in the West. So there has been a little bit of a growing together of the two halves of the continent. Where would you live? I mean, my personal experience, having spent a year in Madrid, it's the nicest city in the world. Right, it's good. Yeah, nice cities to live in, I like living in big cities, so of big cities it's the best. Spanish quality of life. If you earn more than the average Spaniard, I think the average income, including everyone wage earners, pensioners, students, is only about $20,000. So Spaniards have a problem with not having enough income. So if you're over about $20000, and in Madrid probably quite a bit more than that, then it's a wonderful life. And I think, and Spaniards live about five years longer than Americans now. They live to about age 84. It's a lovely climate, lovely people. So that would be my personal top recommendation. But if you like a great city, Paris is the greatest city in the European Union. London's a great, you know, it's kind of bustling. These are the two bustling world cities of Europe, London and Paris. I think if you can earn an American salary, maybe through working remotely and live in the Mediterranean somewhere, you have the best deal in the world because Mediterranean prices are low, Mediterranean culture, life is unbeatable. So that would be my general recommendation.Andrew Keen: Finally, Simon, being very generous with your time, I'm sure you'd much rather be outside in Paris in what you call the greatest city in the EU. You talk in the piece about three metrics that show that it's time to move to Europe, housing, education, sorry, longevity, happiness and the environment. Are there any metrics at all now to stay in the United States?Simon Kuper: I mean, if you look at people's incomes in the US they're considerably higher, of course, your purchasing power for a lot of things is less. So I think the big purchasing power advantage Americans have until the tariffs was consumer goods. So if you want to buy a great television set, it's better to do that out of an American income than out of a Spanish income, but if you want the purchasing power to send your kids to university, to get healthcare. Than to be guaranteed a decent pension, then Europe is a better place. So even though you're earning more money in the US, you can't buy a lot of stuff. If you wanna go to a nice restaurant and have a good meal, the value for money will be better in Europe. So I suppose if you wanna be extremely wealthy and you have a good shot at that because a lot people overestimate their chance of great wealth. Then America is a better bet than Europe. Beyond that, I find it hard to right now adduce reasons. I mean, it's odd because like the Brexiteers in the UK, Trump is attacking some of the things that really did make America great, such as this trading system that you can get very, very cheap goods in the United States, but also the great universities. So. I would have been much more positive about the idea of America a year ago, but even then I would've said the average person lives better over here.Andrew Keen: Well, there you have it. Simon Cooper says to Americans, it's time to move to Europe. The American dream has ended, perhaps the beginning of the European dream. Very provocative. Simon, we'll get you back on the show. Your column is always a central reading in the Financial Times. Thanks so much and enjoy Paris.Simon Kuper: Thank you, Andrew. Enjoy San Francisco. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Hugh Hewitt and bestselling author Douglas Murray talks about Murray's latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, which explores profound issues facing the West. Douglas Murray discusses the book's launch at Columbia University, the heroism and horrors of the October 7th attacks in Israel, and critiques the pervasive anti-Americanism and antisemitism among students, linking it to a broader ideological battle against death cults.

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:Chris and Sean discuss tariffs, left-wing anti-Americanism, including their hatred of free speech, trans deployablity and Sean's airdhow experience. 

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The argument for international aid is in part a moral one, but it's also been about U.S. interests. As then-senator Marco Rubio put it in 2017: "I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism, anti-American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today."Now, as secretary of state, Rubio serves under a president who is deeply skeptical of the idea of international aid. "We're giving billions and billions of dollars to countries that hate us," President Trump said in a speech last month. His administration shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development. A federal judge said this week that move violated the constitution. What's left of the agency has been folded into the State Department.Trump has also moved to gut government-funded, editorially independent broadcasters like Voice of America, and attempted to effectively eliminate the congressionally-funded think tank the U.S. Institute of Peace.This sort of soft power has been a pillar of American foreign policy. Is the Trump administration walking away from it?We talk to former Democratic congressman and former secretary of agriculture, Dan Glickman, who sponsored the legislation that created the USIP. And NPR's Emily Feng reports on the legacy of Voice of America in China.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Today on America in the Morning   Hearing Today On Trump Deportations Justice Department lawyers have until noon Eastern Time today to explain to a federal judge why planes filled with alleged Venezuelan gang members flew to El Salvador despite the judge's order to have the flights return to America. The details from Correspondent Rich Johnson.    Weather Death Toll Rises Extreme weather, including dust storms and wildfires, along with tornadoes that moved through more than a dozen states have claimed the lives of at least 42 people, and more severe weather is expected before the end of the week. Correspondent Julie Walker reports on some of the hardest-hit areas of the nation.     Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Ends The ceasefire is over in the Middle East after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers that came from Israel, the US, Egypt, and Qatar. Israel's defense forces struck numerous locations in the Gaza Strip.    Trump-Putin Phone Call President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will talk together by phone to discuss the US-brokered ceasefire it offered Ukraine, and how both sides can proceed. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports that the Kremlin is expected to offer proposals of their own.   Lady Liberty Stays Although it sits proudly in New York Harbor, the White House is responding to a French politician who suggested the United States should return one of its most well-known monuments. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.    The Smallest St. Patrick's Day Parade Thousands packed a street in Arkansas for what's considered the shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade in the world. Lisa Dwyer reports.      Trump & Putin Call Expectations An important day in the White House that could lead to peace as President Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone today as the Trump administration pushes for a cease-fire in Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Correspondent Clayton Neville previews the meeting.     US Hits Yemen Again President Trump is again warning that Iran can face dire consequences if the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen continue attacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, saying Iran's leadership will be held responsible for every shot the Houthis fire. The US again struck targets in Yemen for the third straight night. Correspondent Donna Warder reports.    Biden Kids Secret Service Protections Ended President Trump has ordered that Secret Service protection be taken away from former President Joe Biden's two adult children.    Don't Use Our Song It was a song from the 1990's that became a signature hit for an alternative rock group called Semisonic that many felt was a “last-call” anthem for bars, but the group says they don't want their classic song being used to portray shackled people being deported. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports.    Willis Ordered To Pay Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay more than $54,000 for violating Georgia's open records laws in relation to the prosecution of President Donald Trump.     Deported Doctor A doctor and college professor was deported to Lebanon following her apprehension by ICE, despite having a valid US Visa, which came after the Department of Homeland Security said she supported terrorists, and attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Correspondent Haya Panjwani reports.    Not Buying American A wave of anti-Americanism is growing overseas. Correspondent Lisa Dwyer reports that some European nations are planning to boycott American products.    Finally   President Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files today about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

     Trump's war on free speech escalates with the "Take It Down Act," a satire-slaying Trojan horse, as he targets the Constitution and Thomas Massie as well     Meanwhile, the CIA's satanic puppet masters arm jihadists to butcher Christians in Syria they supported with A-10 Warthogs inter alia     Enter Unreal Milk, a lab-grown climate con blessed by Trump's USDA cronies and Bill Gates' millions—no cows, all control!     The elder-killing scandal: midazolam and morphine as chemical executioners, courtesy of Hancock's stockpiles.     Peter McCullough's bird flu grift collapses under scrutiny, but real heroes—like a West Texas doc defying BigPharma & MMR's—shine through NBC's smear campaign.2:30 Trump Wants Massey Gone, Constitution Next, and Satire Outlawed“Continuing Resolution” is an oxymoron.  They CONTINUE to kick the can down the road expecting something different because they have no RESOLUTION, simply feckless cowards.  But the manufactured outrage is NOT about the CR or budget — just like the Canadian tariffs are NOT about fentanyl.  Meanwhile, Trump pushes the “Take It Down Act”, a trojan horse anti-speech bill to outlaw satire.  Heres how it could be fixed — but won't be fixed. 15:45 The Importance of Constitutional Government VS Trump Ego-nomicsA much needed lesson for our time. 25:59 The Who & Why  Behind Trump's Attack on Massie Promises Bought, Promises Paid — BOUGHT & PAID It's easy to see…follow the money.  42:07 Trump Violates Due Process & Law to Follow His Masters: ADL & GreenblattIsrael's shadowy influence looms large. Is this anti-Semitism or anti-Netanyahu-ism? 57:10 CIA's Satanic Shadow Government Unleashes Jihadist Hell: Christians ButcheredFrom Afghanistan to Syria, they've armed bloodthirsty jihadists—like the Al-Qaeda poster child now slaughtering thousands in Latakia—with A-10 Warthogs and heavy weapons, all to topple Assad and install a terrorist worse than ever. Door-to-door executions, women paraded naked and shot, kids forced to kill their families—these U.S.-backed monsters proudly post their atrocities online, screaming "Allah Akbar" over bleeding corpses. Meanwhile, geospatial intel tracks your every move, building AI lifelogs to hunt you by faith and politics 1:19:54 MegaChurch Sued Over “Money-Back Guarantee” on Tithing Are you suing for more when you're already rich in wonders? 1:22:27 Miracles or “Intentional Blindness”? Wake Up to the Divine Spectacle You're Ignoring Every Day!Life wouldn't be a bore, or a chore, if we lived with childlike curiosity to see the miracles permeating in our lives.  Be aware of “intentional blindness”.1:35:57 Trump's Censorship Bombshell: Take It Down Act Unleashes a Speech-Stealing Tyranny!Billed as a shield against nonconsensual deep fakes it will let the powerful zap satire, memes, and criticism with zero proof—just accusations!  With vague terms, no recourse, and tech giants caving to avoid feds, it's civil asset forfeiture for your words!1:50:15 Trump Lists 60 More Elite Universities to Have Grants Removed$400 MILLION from Columbia to start — except for the wrong reasons.  Why was the anti-Americanism of these Marxist universities ignored for decades and funding ONLY CUT for anti-semitism?  It shows what we can expect from a rebranding Dept of Education2:06:51 Will the New CDC Head Look at Vaccine-Autism Connection?Dave Weldon, a vaccine-autism crusader from Vaxxed fame, steps into the ring today for a confirmation showdown—will he strike a Faustian bargain with Senator Cassidy like RFK Jr. did?2:12:02 “UnReal Milk”: Lab-Grown Dairy for the Climate Con GameHailed by Forbes as a climate-saving marvel, this Boston-born Franken-dairy is a “solution” for a non-problem. But wait—who's in charge? The USDA, meant for farm-fresh fare, bizarrely claims jurisdiction over this petri-dish potion, while the FDA sits on the sidelines. Critics cry foul: no cows, no agriculture—yet Trump's crew, including Brooke Rollins, rubber-stamps it alongside mRNA jabs for livestock! Bill Gates and Israel fuel the frenzy, pumping millions into this “no-milk milk” to dodge methane-farting cows. It's an unreal saga that reeks of the climate MacGuffin BS2:30:41 Chemical Restraints Exposed: Midazolam & Morphine Used to Kill the Elderly During “Covid”A shocking revelation that'll turn your stomach!  Matt Hancock's UK midazolam stockpile and GlaxoSmithKline's Irish vaccine agenda hint at a sinister elder-cleansing scheme—pension relief by lethal injection 2:41:39 Peter McCullough's Bird Flu Grift Unravels He can't even make a coherent argument for his “lab leak” nonsense.  And other people are starting to point out his grift.  It's Alex Jones 2.0, spinning half-truths into a fear-fest to sell product.    But there are REAL wins with REAL doctors who have REAL character—like the West Texas family physician who's ditching vaccines.  NBC attacks him for their BigPharma masters but in doing so, they prove his point 2;57:37 What Happens to Gold When the Stock Market Drops by 10% or More?Historical data looks good for gold bugsIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

     Trump's war on free speech escalates with the "Take It Down Act," a satire-slaying Trojan horse, as he targets the Constitution and Thomas Massie as well     Meanwhile, the CIA's satanic puppet masters arm jihadists to butcher Christians in Syria they supported with A-10 Warthogs inter alia     Enter Unreal Milk, a lab-grown climate con blessed by Trump's USDA cronies and Bill Gates' millions—no cows, all control!     The elder-killing scandal: midazolam and morphine as chemical executioners, courtesy of Hancock's stockpiles.     Peter McCullough's bird flu grift collapses under scrutiny, but real heroes—like a West Texas doc defying BigPharma & MMR's—shine through NBC's smear campaign.2:30 Trump Wants Massey Gone, Constitution Next, and Satire Outlawed“Continuing Resolution” is an oxymoron.  They CONTINUE to kick the can down the road expecting something different because they have no RESOLUTION, simply feckless cowards.  But the manufactured outrage is NOT about the CR or budget — just like the Canadian tariffs are NOT about fentanyl.  Meanwhile, Trump pushes the “Take It Down Act”, a trojan horse anti-speech bill to outlaw satire.  Heres how it could be fixed — but won't be fixed. 15:45 The Importance of Constitutional Government VS Trump Ego-nomicsA much needed lesson for our time. 25:59 The Who & Why  Behind Trump's Attack on Massie Promises Bought, Promises Paid — BOUGHT & PAID It's easy to see…follow the money.  42:07 Trump Violates Due Process & Law to Follow His Masters: ADL & GreenblattIsrael's shadowy influence looms large. Is this anti-Semitism or anti-Netanyahu-ism? 57:10 CIA's Satanic Shadow Government Unleashes Jihadist Hell: Christians ButcheredFrom Afghanistan to Syria, they've armed bloodthirsty jihadists—like the Al-Qaeda poster child now slaughtering thousands in Latakia—with A-10 Warthogs and heavy weapons, all to topple Assad and install a terrorist worse than ever. Door-to-door executions, women paraded naked and shot, kids forced to kill their families—these U.S.-backed monsters proudly post their atrocities online, screaming "Allah Akbar" over bleeding corpses. Meanwhile, geospatial intel tracks your every move, building AI lifelogs to hunt you by faith and politics 1:19:54 MegaChurch Sued Over “Money-Back Guarantee” on Tithing Are you suing for more when you're already rich in wonders? 1:22:27 Miracles or “Intentional Blindness”? Wake Up to the Divine Spectacle You're Ignoring Every Day!Life wouldn't be a bore, or a chore, if we lived with childlike curiosity to see the miracles permeating in our lives.  Be aware of “intentional blindness”. 1:35:57 Trump's Censorship Bombshell: Take It Down Act Unleashes a Speech-Stealing Tyranny!Billed as a shield against nonconsensual deep fakes it will let the powerful zap satire, memes, and criticism with zero proof—just accusations!  With vague terms, no recourse, and tech giants caving to avoid feds, it's civil asset forfeiture for your words! 1:50:15 Trump Lists 60 More Elite Universities to Have Grants Removed$400 MILLION from Columbia to start — except for the wrong reasons.  Why was the anti-Americanism of these Marxist universities ignored for decades and funding ONLY CUT for anti-semitism?  It shows what we can expect from a rebranding Dept of Education 2:06:51 Will the New CDC Head Look at Vaccine-Autism Connection?Dave Weldon, a vaccine-autism crusader from Vaxxed fame, steps into the ring today for a confirmation showdown—will he strike a Faustian bargain with Senator Cassidy like RFK Jr. did?2:12:02 “UnReal Milk”: Lab-Grown Dairy for the Climate Con GameHailed by Forbes as a climate-saving marvel, this Boston-born Franken-dairy is a “solution” for a non-problem. But wait—who's in charge? The USDA, meant for farm-fresh fare, bizarrely claims jurisdiction over this petri-dish potion, while the FDA sits on the sidelines. Critics cry foul: no cows, no agriculture—yet Trump's crew, including Brooke Rollins, rubber-stamps it alongside mRNA jabs for livestock! Bill Gates and Israel fuel the frenzy, pumping millions into this “no-milk milk” to dodge methane-farting cows. It's an unreal saga that reeks of the climate MacGuffin BS2:30:41 Chemical Restraints Exposed: Midazolam & Morphine Used to Kill the Elderly During “Covid”A shocking revelation that'll turn your stomach!  Matt Hancock's UK midazolam stockpile and GlaxoSmithKline's Irish vaccine agenda hint at a sinister elder-cleansing scheme—pension relief by lethal injection 2:41:39 Peter McCullough's Bird Flu Grift Unravels He can't even make a coherent argument for his “lab leak” nonsense.  And other people are starting to point out his grift.  It's Alex Jones 2.0, spinning half-truths into a fear-fest to sell product.    But there are REAL wins with REAL doctors who have REAL character—like the West Texas family physician who's ditching vaccines.  NBC attacks him for their BigPharma masters but in doing so, they prove his point 2;57:37 What Happens to Gold When the Stock Market Drops by 10% or More?Historical data looks good for gold bugsIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

Theodore Roosevelt once warned that "hyphenated Americanism" represents "moral treason to the republic." In this soul-stirring episode, we explore how this century-old warning speaks directly to our modern crisis of divided loyalties and fractured identities.Do you approach your faith with the same intentional planning you bring to other important areas of life? Most successful people don't simply wake up and "see what happens" - they have detailed plans and disciplined routines. Yet when it comes to our spiritual lives, we often take a casual, unstructured approach. Drawing from both Scripture and historical wisdom, we examine how creating intentional habits around prayer, Bible study, and spiritual reflection can transform our relationship with God.The heart of this episode centers on the complete forgiveness offered through Christ. Reading from Colossians 2, we discover the liberating truth that Christ has "canceled out the certificate of debt" and "nailed it to the cross." Through a vulnerable personal story about a pastor who repeatedly responded to altar calls because he couldn't believe his past was truly forgiven, we confront the struggle many Christians face in accepting the completeness of God's grace.Roosevelt's powerful 1916 speech provides a framework for examining how our various identities - political, denominational, cultural - can sometimes undermine our primary commitments to Christ and country. When we place any identity above our identity in Christ or allow group loyalties to override our commitment to America's founding principles, we engage in a form of moral treason that weakens both our faith and our nation.This episode challenges you to examine where your primary loyalties lie and to embrace John Quincy Adams' wisdom: "Duty is ours, results are God's." By measuring your spiritual growth against your own past rather than comparing yourself to others, you can focus on steady progress in your relationship with Christ rather than perfectionism or spiritual competition.Join us for this thought-provoking exploration of faith, identity, and national purpose that will leave you reconsidering how you approach both your spiritual journey and your role as an American citizen.Support the showThe American Soul Podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe

Theodore Roosevelt's prophetic warning against "hyphenated Americanism" takes center stage as Jesse Cope explores the dangerous fragmentation of American identity. Drawing from Roosevelt's powerful 1916 speech, Jesse examines how the modern obsession with divided identities—whether African-American, Asian-American, or any other hyphenated designation—ultimately leaves us belonging nowhere completely, neither fully American nor fully connected to our ancestral heritage."You're either American or you're not," Jesse asserts, challenging listeners to consider how political forces use these divisions to separate us along racial, ethnic, and cultural lines while simultaneously promoting a false unity based on the notion that all values, principles, and beliefs are equally valid. This two-pronged attack undermines the foundations of American identity and the Judeo-Christian principles upon which the republic was built.The episode weaves this national identity crisis with spiritual lessons from the Book of James, particularly its warnings about the misuse of wealth and our responsibility to care for those in need. Jesse shares a transformative piece of wisdom received during Marine Corps training: "Find somebody that's struggling more than you and help them." This simple yet profound advice reminds us that focusing on others not only benefits them but also lightens our own burdens—a principle that applies equally to our spiritual lives and our national unity.Through a surprising comparison between cats and dogs, Jesse offers marriage insights that parallel our relationship with God and country. While cats make you feel like they're doing you a favor by accepting your affection, dogs make you feel like your attention is the greatest gift in the world—a lesson in selflessness and genuine appreciation that marriages desperately need.Whether examining our identity as Americans or as Christians, Jesse argues that our primary allegiance must be undivided. Just as we are Christians first before any denomination, we must be Americans first before any hyphenated identity. Join the conversation about faith, identity, and the path toward true unity in both our spiritual and national lives.Support the showThe American Soul Podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

George M. Cohan was one of those rare Broadway figures who was a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor. He could, quite literally, do it all. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. Cohan's songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism.  Elizabeth Craft's Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage (Oxford University Press, 2024) is not a conventional biography. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his life and career including Cohan's approach to American nationalism, Irish American identity, celebrity, and the entertainment business along with defining what made Cohan's shows unique. Craft finds songs and shows that serve as exemplars for each theme she highlights. The book ends with an examination of the 1942 biopic on Cohan and his enduring legacy. Yankee Doodle Dandy offers not only a fuller understanding of Cohan's shows and career, but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Liberal Party brass are openly rigging the Liberal leadership race to ensure that Mark Carney becomes Canada's next Prime Minister. Worse still, they're using the CBC as their propaganda machine and openly telling the public about their cynical agenda.  On today's episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice walks us through the disqualification of Liberal leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla. On Thursday, a senior Liberal strategist went on CBC and told viewers she hopes the party “finds a legitimate reason to disqualify Dhalla” stating that she threatens Carney and would turn the debates into “a circus.” Lo and behold the next day, during a live CBC interview with host David Cochrane, Ruby Dhalla learned that she had been disqualified from the race.  Candice is joined by law professor Bruce Pardy to discuss the mirage of democracy in Canada. They discuss the serious challenges with Canada's political system, how anti-Americanism and President Trump's rhetoric is helping the Liberal Party, and how our country is in serious trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Often times Australians will initially adopt Americanisms ironically but after a while the irony disappears and those words and phrases become part of our everyday language. 

February 20, 1939. Thinly disguised as “a mass demonstration for true Americanism”, a Nazi rally takes place in Madison Square Garden, where 20,000 people cheer the rise of Adolf Hitler and spout anti-Semitic rhetoric.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Canadian hockey fans in Montreal booed the American national anthem on Saturday night… then the Americans came out fighting mad and beat team Canada 3-1. FOFA.  Candice states that the anti-Americanism sweeping Canada right now is a mere distraction – designed to pit Canadians against our American friends and allies rather than focusing on how the Trudeau Liberals broke our country.   On today's episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by True North crime reporter Alex Zolton. They discuss the Trump tariffs and butt heads over the validity of Trump's claims about fentanyl coming from Canada. They also discuss Mark Carney's claims that he's a globalist and elitist and the latest polls showing that Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives maintain a significant lead over the Liberals – even with Carney leading the party.  They also discuss the deranged reaction from legacy media journalists to Candice's recent interview with Pierre Poilievre, and Alex's latest reporting on a lawsuit to stop the prorogation of Parliament.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The anti-deportation protests and anti-Americanism. A clip from the telvision program The West Wing. We're joined by Johnny Estes, Vice President of Operations at CMI Gold & Silver, and his daughter Sarah. Historian Victor Davis Hanson's column piece "Mythologies About Musk." Paul Stookey's "Wedding Song (There Is Love).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 1810, Jack and Miles are joined by actor, educator, and creator of the podcast Caucus: After The Fall, Teja Arboleda, to discuss… DEI Is To Blame For Everything That’s Wrong…? Because Marginalized People Control It All? Oh Thank God, An Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2032 and more! Rubio accuses South Africa of ‘anti-Americanism’ and snubs G20 meeting Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Public health group alarmed by online ‘DEI Watchlist’ targeting federal staff Oh Thank God, An Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2032 LISTEN: Ice Cream by Winston Surfshirt WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's Recovery Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and Fundraiser Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:     First, we'll discuss reports that the Trump administration is preparing to unveil their long-anticipated peace plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine at a security conference in Germany next week. Later in the show, Ukrainian officials say they have observed a marked improvement in the accuracy of North Korean ballistic missiles fired on their cities, suggesting the hermit kingdom is using the conflict to successfully test and improve their missile technology. Plus, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces he will be skipping the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa later this month over their controversial land seizure bill, while accusing leaders in Johannesburg of pushing "anti-Americanism." In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, President Donald Trump turns his ire on another foreign institution, signing an executive order Thursday imposing sweeping sanctions on the controversial International Criminal Court for targeting the U.S. and Israel. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.     YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Murray and Ian Dennis are joined by Jacqui Oatley to lift the lid on life behind the microphone. Jacqui reveals how she got into football media and the pressure that came with being the first female commentator. Jacqui takes on John in a one-off Clash of the Commentators exhibition match. Will any of Jacqui's Americanisms make the Great Glossary of Football Commentary? And rugby union correspondent Chris Jones joins the pod to talk about commentating at the Six Nations.04:45 How Jacqui got into football media? 11:40 Facing pressure as a female commentator 19:10 Clash of the Commentators 25:00 Americanisms for the Great Glossary? 37:20 Rugby's Chris Jones joins the podBBC Sounds / 5 Live FA Cup commentaries this weekend: Fri 7 Feb 2000 Man Utd v Leicester, Sat 8 Feb 1215 Leyton Orient v Man City, Sat 8 Feb 1215 Leeds v Millwall on 5 Sports Extra, Sat 8 Feb 1500 Wigan v Fulham, Sat 8 Feb 1500 Everton v Bournemouth on the BBC Sport website, Sat 8 Feb 1745 Birmingham v Newcastle starting on 5 Sports Extra, Sat 8 Feb 2000 Brighton & Hove v Chelsea, Sun 9 Feb 1230 Blackburn v Wolves, Sun 9 Feb 1735 Aston Villa v Tottenham Mon 10 Feb 1945 Doncaster v Crystal Palace.

We all know that British and American English have their differences, but where do you stand? Do you say film or movie? Got or gotten? Autumn or fall?In the latest episode of English & Beyond, I explore how US culture shaped my language growing up and why my parents (big fans of the USA) absolutely hate certain Americanisms. Plus, did you know that some of these so-called "American" words actually originated in Britain centuries ago?I also put César to the test in a fun British vs. American English quiz—see if you can get them right too!

Send us a textIn this heretical hot take of the Christian AF Podcast, Jesse, Jen, and Evan crack open the tangled world of heresy—what it is, why it's a big deal (or is it?), and how we've all probably dabbled in a little heresy ourselves. From universalism to fundamentalism, Americanism to the infamous "alien Jesus" theory, this episode is a chaotic deep dive into the beliefs we question and the ones that might actually define us.We explore the allure of universalism (because who doesn't love warm fuzzies?), the trap of American comfort as a heresy, and the weird obsession some people have with end-times theology.If you've ever wondered if your personal theology might be grounds for heresy, this episode has got you covered. Bring your questions, your doubts, and maybe a drink or two because we're questioning it all.EPISODE DRINKING NOTES:Pig Minds Brewing – Southy Bitch SlapMachesney Park, ILPale Ale | 5.5% ABVJen's CoffeeSupport the show––––––––BUY US A DRINKhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ChristianAFPodcastBE A MONTHLY SUPPORTERhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1019536/supportLINKS AND SOCIAL MEDIAWebsite • Facebook • InstagramEmail: christianafpodcast@gmail.com

51st U.S. State! America's interest in incorporating Canada, in some fashion, is as old as our Republic. In those early days and continuing until almost the end of the 19th century, our relationship with Canada was defined by recurring borders raids and wars, our distrust of Canada and our various plans to gobble up our northern neighbor, which was then an extension of the British Empire. And even though our relationship with Canada began to slowly and positively change after 1903, WWI and certainly WWII, Canada's identity was and, arguably, continues to be shaped in opposition to America. In this interview, my guest, a dual national of U.S. and Canada, tells us about the important differences between Canada and America, and explains "Canadian anti-Americanism". We also talk about Canada's foreign policy and how climate change is dramatically changing Canada's geopolitical importance in the world - this all about the Northwest Passage!

Jim Geraghty, Senior Correspondent for the National Review, joins CCV President Aaron Baer and Communications Director Mike Andrews on this week's episode of The Narrative to discuss Justin Trudeau's resignation as Canada's Prime Minister. Jim shares how Trudeau's resignation is actually related to the leftist initiatives that have consistently failed US citizens, including the current disastrous mismanagement of LA's wildfires. Before the discussion with Jim, Aaron and Mike respond to yet another CCV hit piece by The New Yorker. Co-published with ProPublica, their latest effort was to "uncover" our strategy to expand Ohio's school voucher program so that more students can attend Christian schools. Click here to read an article by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, combatting the myths in The New Yorker article. You won't want to miss this week's episode! More about Jim Geraghty Jim is the senior political correspondent of National Review. He is a conservative blogger and is the author of National Review’s The Campaign Spot blog and The Morning Jolt newsletter. Jim spent two years in Ankara, Turkey, working as a foreign correspondent and studying anti-Americanism, democratization, Islam, Middle East politics, and U.S. diplomacy efforts. His work appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Sun, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. In 2008, Best Life Magazine called Jim one of “the 10 most important voices to listen to this election cycle,” and the London Times praised his “killer insight” in that election cycle. Jim lives with his wife and children in Fairfax County, Virginia.

This is a personal story about a beautiful neighborhood, with kind and supportive neighbors. A beautiful neighborhood that's no more! And this episode is also about the history of coastal Los Angeles, particularly Malibu. My guest explains the legal ramifications of the LA fires and explains how real estate investors will assess and support the huge rebuilding efforts after the fires.

January 7, 2025 episode.Upcoming Events --> Event in Naples, FL on Jan 31-Feb 2 -- https://randsday.com/2025.htm Outline00:00 Intro 02:00 Upcoming Events & Shows04:00 Charlie Hebdo19:25 American Expansionism31:45 DJT is talking about invading mexico and buying greenland can you explain wtf this moron is even doing?40:20 Meta 44:58 Nvidia50:50 Nippon Steel 52:50 IranLive Questions: 1:03:02 Do you think people should try to be careful when dealing with other people's personal tastes? I guess the nature of the relationship between the people involved matters here; teasing between close friends might be fine?1:04:41 Not the western gaming industry, unfortunately, apearet from some small indei developers. However, gamers by and large to their credit are anti woke thougths on why?1:06:17 Until it stops being woke, the US is the evil Empier, gets back to the Ragen Era and get rid of the radical egalitarian progressivismfirst, then it won't be an evil.1:08:46 Do you think the protagonist in the movie Whiplash was largely second handed and altruistic? Placing the approval of the abusive teacher above himself and his own happiness?1:14:08 Hello Yaron, What are your thoughts on living in Portugal?1:15:45 Or one can think that he does so for selfish purposes. He wants to be great, and he knows the abusive teacher will help him get there?1:16:06 We all should have been protesting, carrying pictures of Mohammed, but there wouldn't have been any police protection.1:17:58 I never liked San Francisco. Very cold, unfriendly lefties, filth everywhere.1:18:58

Eyal Yakoby is a twenty two year old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a student at MIT dedicated to combating anti-Americanism. He has been seen on CNN, FoxNews, Washington Post and more.

Live from Sydney, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos join me on stage to discuss capitalism, liberty, personhood, energy policy, Israel and antisemitism and much more. Rough timestamps are here: 00:00 Brett's welcome and introduction 02:32 Nikos on “What is Capitalism?” 04:21 Yaron on “What is Capitalism?” 07:33 Brett on the relationship between personhood and capitalism. 10:02 Nikos on why progress is not inevitable. 12:06 Yaron on humans vs other animals 15:14 Yaron on why capitalism is retreating in the West. 19:56 Brett on the self similarity of the mind 25:40: Yaron on Israel and her allies 32:33 Brett on protectionism and nationalism 33:17 Nikos on defending your allies and nihilism. 37:01 Yaron on faith, collectivism and nationalism. 42:13 Brett on “concentrated losses, dispersed gains”. 43:50 Yaron on free trade and tarrifs 49:52: Yaron's iPhone 54:52 Brett invokes Deutsch's pattern, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism. 56:01 Nikos on Marx's role as an antisemitic anticapitalist and “secondhandedness”. 1:02:21 Brett on environmentalism and anti humanism 1:05:22 Nikos on energy policy 1:07:25 Yaron on saving the planet. 1:11:21 Brett on the death trap that is planet Earth  1:13:15 Question 1: What is an Objectivist foreign policy? 1:18:21 Question 2: Is democracy necessary for protecting individual human rights? 1:25:31 Question 3: What explains the anti-ANZAC phenomenon in Australia? 1:30:01 Question 4: Should the government protect individual property rights? Remarks on “the minimum wage”. 1:32:53 Question 5: Should we be pessimistic about “woke”, “DEI” and the state of universities? 1:41:33 Question 6: Has China managed to achieve a beneficial separation of their political and economic systems? 1:47:02 Question 7: What is the role of the Fed in the USA? Is it necessary?

Join Mark Levin and Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, in episode four of "Liberty and Learning" as they explore the profound impact of the Northwest Ordinance on American history. Discover how this pivotal legislation laid the foundation for the expansion of free government across the continent, addressed slavery, and promoted education. Delve into the legacy of James K. Polk and the concept of manifest destiny, as well as how these historical principles contrast with today's educational system. Tune in for a deep dive into Americanism and the enduring importance of self-governance. Liberty and Learning with Mark Levin and Larry Arnn is a 10-part series, hosted by veteran broadcaster and constitutional law expert, Mark Levin, and his good friend, Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, dives deep into the founding principles of the U.S., as Americans face both crisis and opportunity. Levin and Arnn take listeners on a journey forward, as they unpack the country's basic foundations and the self-government they require. Mark Levin and Dr. Arnn bring their knowledge and wisdom to bear in a candid conversation between lifelong friends on today's latest news events. They will touch on the points of crisis in America, addressing each in light of our constitutional government, and tackling the pressing issues of our time to see how they fit into the grand tapestry of American history. The discussion will delve deep into the issues at the forefront of our nation's concerns, like education, borders, citizenship, separation of powers, state and local government, and much more. To learn more about Hillsdale College, go to https://www.hillsdale.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Mark Levin and Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, in episode four of "Liberty and Learning" as they explore the profound impact of the Northwest Ordinance on American history. Discover how this pivotal legislation laid the foundation for the expansion of free government across the continent, addressed slavery, and promoted education. Delve into the legacy of James K. Polk and the concept of manifest destiny, as well as how these historical principles contrast with today's educational system. Tune in for a deep dive into Americanism and the enduring importance of self-governance. Liberty and Learning with Mark Levin and Larry Arnn is a 10-part series, hosted by veteran broadcaster and constitutional law expert, Mark Levin, and his good friend, Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, dives deep into the founding principles of the U.S., as Americans face both crisis and opportunity. Levin and Arnn take listeners on a journey forward, as they unpack the country’s basic foundations and the self-government they require. Mark Levin and Dr. Arnn bring their knowledge and wisdom to bear in a candid conversation between lifelong friends on today’s latest news events. They will touch on the points of crisis in America, addressing each in light of our constitutional government, and tackling the pressing issues of our time to see how they fit into the grand tapestry of American history. The discussion will delve deep into the issues at the forefront of our nation’s concerns, like education, borders, citizenship, separation of powers, state and local government, and much more. To learn more about Hillsdale College, go to https://www.hillsdale.edu/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop our MERCH: https://shop.remnantnewspaper.com/ This video can be watched RIGHT NOW and ADS FREE on our independent platform: https://remnant-tv.com/v/1286?channelName=RemnantTV As Joe Biden “helps Ukrainians prepare” on his way out of the oval office, Putin warns that "America is pushing the world into global conflict." So much for a peaceful transition of power, eh? Undaunted by the threat of nuclear chastisement, Pope Francis further provokes the wrath of God by appointing a new preacher of the Papal Household who ACTUALLY suggests that Jesus and Lazurus were in a homosexual relationship… God. Help. Us!Also, Trump's new Defense Secretary Pick, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, promises to lead on the fundamental principles of “Americanism and Zionism”. Just words, maybe, but both are heresies condemned by the Catholic Church and orthodox Judaism, respectively. So, lots to unpack here!Plus, Our Lady appeared three times in recent years, each time with a warning more dire than the last: “Fire from heaven… Rome will become the seat of the anti-Christ… annihilation of nations…”But Our Lady always left a message of hope, as well. In fact, she promised that if the children of Light fought for her, she would fight for them! It's all here. Jump in and let's discuss! Sources: OUR LADY of LA SALETTE: “I will fight for you!”: https://remnant-tv.com/v/914?channelName=RemnantTV GUARDIAN of TRADITION: https://remnant-tv.com/v/712?channelName=RemnantT VAKITA: Another Conspiracy to Silence the Mother of God: https://youtu.be/6MGMx5uVRQg?si=5ZN32o-4eEZY6tJL Ukraine on Fire (2016) by Oliver Stone (English version): https://youtu.be/ywdtmpK_AP0?si=xxu6mcYLhXv4dvlP Sign up for Michael Matt's Weekly E-Letter: https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/subscribe-today/free-remnant-updates Follow Michael Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Michael_J_Matt Subscribe to The Remnant Newspaper, print and/or digital versions available: https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/subscribe-today Listen to Michael Matt's podcasts: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1AdkCDFfR736CqcGw2Uvd0 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-j-matt-show/id1563298989

Back in 2019, Tim Nash and David Blower sat down with Brian Zahnd to explore the toxic entanglement between Church and Empire, and the resulting religion Zahnd calls "Americanism." From rethinking how we read Scripture to the deeply political implications of the cross, Zahnd offers a vision of living as citizens of God's kindom amidst worldly empires. With Donald Trump, whom Zahnd identified as emblematic of "Americanism," once again elected President, we felt this conversation deserved to be revisited. Following the interview, a 2024 Tim Nash and Nick Thorley share their thoughts and feelings about the re-election of Trump, and where they are seeing signs of hope.  Interview starts at 10m 15s Books, quotes, links → The creation of Nomad's thoughtful, wonderfully ad-free content is entirely funded by our equally thoughtful, wonderful listeners. Supporting us gives access to Nomad's online communities through the Beloved Listener Lounge, Enneagram Lounge and Nomad Book Club - as well as bonus content like Nomad Contemplations, Therapeutic Reflections and Nomad Revisited. If you'd like to join our lovely supporters head to our Patreon Page to donate and you may even be rewarded with a pen or Beloved Listener mug! If you're hoping to connect with others who are more local, you can also take a look at our Listener Map or join our Nomad Gathering Facebook page. Additionally, we share listener's stories on our blog, all with the hope of facilitating understanding, connection and supportive relationships.  

Julie shares some classic D+J moments: first they discuss Julie's senior speech at Harvard. She spoke about condemning anti-Americanism. Leftism reduces America to its ugliest moments. We must stand up and fight, as President Reagan said: "If not us, who? If not now, when?"; second, they discuss Christians and slavery - confronting reality; and finally, we have macro-ized feelings - discomfort in life is a feature not a bug - one of the great ambitions one can have… is to be easy in other people's lives.Music: Straight to the Point c 2022Richard Friedman Music Publishing 100%Richard Friedman Writers 100%ASCAP (PRO)IPI128741568RichardFriedmanMusic.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It used to be that Britons would complain about Americanisms diluting the English language. But in fact it's a two-way street. By Ben Yagoda. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

This week on the Mark Levin Show, this is an election between those who believe in Americanism and the corrupt America-hating ruling class, establishment elite. That's why you see people like Liz Cheney and Chris Christie back Kamala Harris. The ruling-class establishment Republicans would be perfectly fine with a Republican president who wants to transform America. Later, Israel was getting ready to attack and the Iran spies in this administration leaked their intel to an Iranian front group. Also, the media continues to work on behalf of Kamala Harris, Harris had an interview with NBC News. Kamala Harris and her supporters will do anything but run on her record and what she really believes. It's not a mistake that Gen John Kelly, Gen Mark Milley, and Liz Cheney all oppose Donald Trump. Kamala Harris doesn't know why she's running for President - except she wants power. The left wants Kamala to win so they can put Trump in prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, this is an election between those who believe in Americanism and the corrupt America-hating ruling class, establishment elite. That's why you see people like Liz Cheney and Chris Christie back Kamala Harris. The ruling-class establishment Republicans would be perfectly fine with a Republican president who wants to transform America. Also, Donald Trump is right, we do have enemies from within. We have a political party that wants voter fraud and wants to eliminate the Electoral College. A party that doesn't believe in parental rights - that's the enemy from within. The Democrat Party fears that Trump represents We The People - our interests and our desires.  You need to vote like your lifestyle depends on it because it does. Later, Iran has all of Israel's classified information as a result of the Biden-Harris-Blinken-Sullivan regime. This ruins America's credibility in the world. Afterward, Washington Examiner's Gabe Kaminsky calls in to discuss his deep dive investigation into George Soros' purchase of over 200 radio stations which was fast-tracked by the FCC. There is concern because we don't know how much foreign ownership is involved in this purchase. Finally, Bernie Moreno calls in to discuss his Senate race against Sen Sherrod Brown. No matter what Brown says he is no moderate. If Brown ran on his actual record and actual beliefs, he would be defeated quickly. The only choice he has is to lie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this exclusive episode of The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano sits down with bestselling author and media icon Bill O'Reilly to discuss his latest book, Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. O'Reilly delves into the triumphs and failures of America's presidents, offering insights from newly uncovered historical documents. From George Washington's hidden struggles to the modern-day presidency, this no-spin conversation reveals how each president shaped the nation. Together, they also address America's diminishing historical literacy, the growing anti-American sentiment in education, and the stakes of the 2024 presidential election.   Episode Highlights: The uniqueness of the American presidents and the flaws they battled behind the scenes. O'Reilly's take on the most underrated and overrated presidents, and which leaders veered furthest from the Founders' vision. A critical discussion on the alarming rise of historical ignorance and anti-Americanism in today's society and education system.   Be sure to subscribe and tune in to stay informed on the critical issues affecting America!   More Information If you enjoyed this episode and found it useful, please give The P.A.S. Report Podcast a 5-star rating and take 30 seconds to write a review. Make sure to hit the follow button so you never miss an episode. Please share this episode on social media and with your family and friends. Support The P.A.S. Report Podcast by Visiting Our Advertisers Don't forget to visit https://pasreport.com. Visit The Wellness Company for 10% off your order by using code PAS at check out, visit https://www.twc.health/PAS *PA Strategies, LLC. may earn advertising revenue or a small commission for promoting products or when you make a purchase through any affiliate links on this website and within this post.

Vivek Ramaswamy is an American business leader, New York Times bestselling author, and former Republican presidential candidate whose standout performances on the debate stage and the campaign trail have made him a mainstay commentator on topics ranging from the latest electoral trends to the economy, Big Tech, and higher education. In his latest book, "Truths: The Future of America First," Vivek criticizes the Republican Party's shortcomings and lays out a positive vision for the future of American conservatism. In this episode of the Sunday Special, Vivek and I discuss how the Trump campaign can win this election season, the failures of neoliberalism, and the need to redefine ‘Americanism' in support of our country's founding ideals. - - -  Today's Sponsors: Tax Network USA - Seize control of your financial future! Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://www.TNUSA.com/Shapiro Balance of Nature - Get 35% off Your Order + FREE Fiber & Spice Supplements. Use promo code SHAPIRO at checkout: https://www.balanceofnature.com/

On today's episode of the Sunday Special, I sit down with the man, the myth, the fearless leader of the Sweet Baby Gang, The Daily Wire's very own Matt Walsh. Walsh's knack for revealing lies with satire has been captured once again in "Am I Racist?”, where the toxicity of racial equity is on full display. In the film, Matt infiltrates a “White Privilege Grief Workshop,” disguises himself as a DEI consultant to the queen of the anti-racists, Robin DiAngelo, and all while threads the needle for us as viewers on the profound anti-Americanism that undergirds it all. All of us at The Daily Wire cannot wait for the rest of the nation to see the film, and grapple with the reality of the DEI industry. Don't miss this inside look at "Am I Racist?", out in theaters September 13th. Welcome back to another episode of the Sunday Special.  - - -   Today's Sponsors:  International Fellowship of Christians and Jews - To give to IFCJ, visit https://benforthefellowship.org/