Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi react to Pam Bondi’s explosive testimony, weigh in on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and argue over which state would be most libertarian if it seceded.
Plus: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson embraces warrantless ICE searches, the Super Bowl halftime culture war, and Trump continues funding the Department of Education
Plus: Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison, endemic fraud in federal welfare, Ghislaine Maxwell won't talk to Congress, and more...
Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)
Former U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan discusses the importance of preserving presidential records and the challenge of maintaining public trust in an era of partisan conflict.
Huntington Beach's elected officials are pursuing performative MAGA policymaking and keep losing in the courts.
Progressive censors failed to suppress our political demons. It's finally time to confront them.
Progressive censors failed to suppress our political demons. It's finally time to confront them.
Tradwives are fighting the cultural stigma that still remains around being a homemaker. That makes them damn good feminists.
Novelist Lionel Shriver explains why Americans overinterpret tragedies, compares today’s partisan divisions to the conflicts she witnessed in Northern Ireland, and argues that political manias are driving the country toward destructive extremes.
From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.
The pronatalist movement is selling bad policies and rigid ideas about gender. There is a better way.
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and how political violence is reshaping the national climate.
The company's value was plummeting long before it nixed the "Old Timer" from its logo.
Universities’ internal culture wars threaten free speech and inquiry, but political attacks on research funding and infrastructure are crippling U.S. scientific leadership.
Nearly three weeks in, it's getting difficult to remember what everybody was so mad about—or if more than a handful were ever mad at all.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown joins Nick Gillespie to discuss the rise of MAHA, RFK Jr.’s influence on wellness politics, and how the culture war came for your diet.
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins Nick Gillespie to discuss toxic identity politics, the rise of grievance-based thinking, and why true self-actualization requires moving beyond victimhood.
Some conservatives are embracing the very trends they once mocked—including victimhood, cancel culture, and even struggle sessions.
“I am here to break the law,” Marcy Rheintgen said after being given a trespass warning.
Historically, many ideas that once seemed to be elite fixations eventually became mainstream.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion sound good. But DEI programs divide people more than they empower.
Texas A&M's Board of Regents voted to ban drag shows on the grounds that they objectify women and violate state and federal policies against promoting "gender ideology."
How well-intentioned laws created new cultural conflicts—and eroded personal liberty
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
As tensions rise on campus and in board chambers, districts dish out more for security, lawyers, and staff turnover.
The Coddling of the American Mind, a new documentary based on the book of the same name, makes the case that destructive ideas in higher education are making people anxious.
Portions of a law, struck down last week, would have subjected individuals to misdemeanor charges for providing "harmful" materials to minors.
Political scientists Hyrum and Verlan Lewis discuss the 2024 election and the power of self-narratives in American politics.
National Review's Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the differences between conservatives and libertarians on the issue of immigration.
Liberals spent the last decade moving leftward on questions of race and sexual orientation—and so did conservatives.
An aging comedian wrestles with woke campus culture in the new season of the Max series.
Disney said they wanted to "avoid reinforcing stereotypes." The company's solution was to take away roles from a group that has almost no opportunity in Hollywood.
Libs of TikTok is blasting out screenshots of random people's offensive posts to her millions of followers in hopes of claiming their scalps.
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
Kliph Nesteroff's book Outrageous turns into a screed against conservatives.
Exciting new AI tools are still being shaped by human beings.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he says he opposes.
Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
After blaming the state's bathroom law, The New York Times says "it has never been clear" whether gender identity figured in the fight that preceded Nex Benedict's death.
"You need meat, OK? We're going to have meat in Florida," DeSantis said during a press conference.
That's bad news for Americans.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to end America's greatest success in private governance.
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