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The U.S. effort to arm Ukraine starts in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The war in Ukraine has led to a huge surge in U.S. ammunition production.
The Universities Must Die (ft. Michael Gibson)
Michael Gibson, Co-Founder and General Partner at 1517 Fund, talks the failure of American universities, technological progress, and why college degrees aren’t always the right choice.
Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My Generation Wanted to be Offended’
Famous author and podcaster Bret Easton Ellis joined The UnHerd Club to talk Gen X vs. millennials, Kanye, wokeness, and more.
America Can’t Sit Out of the New Space Race
Paired with careful diplomacy and the expansion of a space-specific rules-based order, advancements in U.S. space capacity both deter and inhibit adversarial adventurism.
Getting Serious About Responsible Defense Spending
“Congress needs to take a Moneyball approach to our national defense,” writes Dr. Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation.
BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine
BlackRock will be creating a roadmap for reconstruction for Ukraine.
Iraq, Afghanistan Provide Lessons on US Weapons Flows
Will this latest batch of weapons headed to Ukraine finally win the peace? While this is possible, do we fully understand what we are giving up to do so? As history shows, no matter how advanced a weapon is, someone will eventually figure out a way to counter it.
George Kennan’s Warning on Ukraine
“If alive today, Kennan would note the danger of cornering the Russians to the point where they might lash out. He would also gesture toward the United States’ multiple problems at home and wonder how this exposed presence in Eastern Europe accorded with the long-term foreign and domestic interests of the American people.”
The Geopolitics of Microchips
The US and China are fighting a war. It’s a weird one that’s hard to see. It’s being fought in government offices, in company boardrooms. And it’s being fought over the most important technology in the world: Microchips.
Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun
French historian Emmanuel Todd says that the West is now in an existential conflict.
Make Birth Free
Too many feel they cannot start or grow their families because of our disordered politics and warped economy…But we can reorder our culture. And that starts by making birth free, write Catherine Glenn Foster and Kristen Day.
Higher Ed Reform in Red States
States and professional agencies should encourage paths to work around higher ed, so that they do not have a credentialing monopoly on tomorrow’s professional class, writes Scott Yenor in American Reformer.
Do We Really Need More Immigrant Workers?
We face a stark choice: Either we figure out how to get more working-age Americans back into jobs, or we allow more immigrants in and then try to deal with the social problems that low labor force participation exacerbates, writes Steven Camarota in The Washington Times.
20 Years of Main Street Conservatism (ft. Emile Doak)
In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh sits down with Emile Doak, Executive Director of The American Conservative and co-author of “Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right,” to discuss the history of The American Conservative Magazine, how they’ve been right from the beginning on hot button issues from the war in Iraq, to gay marriage, to illegal immigration and assimilation, and what’s at stake for the future of conservatism and the United States of America writ large.
Finance Means Betting on People—Not Numbers
To restore true wealth creation, we must believe in people, wrote Nate Fischer, Co-Founder and CEO of New Founding in 2019.
Trump Predicted European Energy Crisis
Flashback to 2018: President Donald Trump criticized Germany for paying “billions of dollars” to Russia, predicted Europe’s current avoidable energy predicament, and encouraged Germany to pay their fair share — eliciting laughs from German officials.
Capitalism Killed the American West
“In all of his writings he is resistant to the idea that settlers and small-time workers of the American West were the engines of the genocide and despoliation that came to the region in their wake.”
Richard Nixon, New Deal Nationalist
“Stability, security, authority, trust, balance—to the degree that the term “Burkean” means anything in the American context, surely it is in the restoration of these qualities in American public and society in the face of their precipitous decline. Where Moynihan and Nixon departed from the liberals of their time was in their modesty about policy’s ability to do anything about this.”
Why Russia Fell Flat (feat. Dr. Jon Askonas)
In Today’s episode of “Moment of Truth,” Saurabh and Nick sit down with Dr. Jon Askonas, Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University and Russia expert, to discuss the war in Ukraine, why Russia and the West overestimated Russia’s military capabilities, Putin’s next move, plus the future of AI, shipping, trade, China, and where the conservative movement went wrong.
The Collapse of Globalization and America’s Retreat
Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, joins The Realignment to discuss why 2019 may have been the world’s economic peak, which nations will rise and fall as globalization collapses, and why America’s lost interest in keeping the system going.
One Way Government
Any future leader on the Right serious about fixing our problems must start by aiming to dismantle the administrative state, clear out the entrenched bureaucracy and return power back to an executive who can actually govern the country.
Screen Epics For The Human Soul
More modest historical films often feel incomplete, insufficient; they demand scope. We intuitively understand that we cannot be part of history unless we are part of it together—part of a crowd, an infantry division, a graduating class, or even a protest.
War and Industrial Policy
War means industry. Wars cannot be fought with supply chains that crisscross a globalized world, where production happens on faraway, little islands in the South China Sea, from where chips can be transported only if airspaces and straits remain open.
The Town That Charles Built
Before King Charles III inherited Britain’s throne, he was a prince with strong views on architecture. Poundbury is where he tried to put them into practice.
Globalism Failed to Deliver the Economy We Need
“We don’t yet have a new unified field theory for the postneoliberal world. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to question the old philosophy.”
Diversity, Debate, Decline: A Conversation With Prof. Amy Wax
Amy Wax joins Richard Hanania for a conversation about anti-White racism, immigration, growing racial diversity, and whether higher education is worth saving.
How TSMC Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy
At a time of shortages and superpower competition over new technology, the company is dominant in chip production.
Who Killed Nuclear Energy and How to Revive It
If we can commit to confronting today’s so-called environmentalists on the political and cultural fronts while preparing the transition from fossil to fission, then a radiant tomorrow awaits us.
What We Build Over Boomer Infrastructure (feat. Dr. Matthew J. Peterson)
Matthew J. Peterson joins Moment of Truth to talk his work at New Founding, education, startups, and how conservatives can build innovative new systems.
Breaking Down New Tech Export Controls On China
The US Commerce Department just dropped 100+ pages of new export control regulations that have the potential to reshape the future of the global semiconductor industry.
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
Germany’s Apokalypse Now
The worst nightmares of Europe’s sleeping giant are coming true all at once.
The Mineral Conflict Is Here
The Ukraine War is resulting in the biggest shock to the global energy system since the 1973 crisis.
Sex and the Academy
“Psychologists and other social scientists have been studying human sex differences for 100 years, and in recent decades have demonstrated that many of the differences that emerge in Western cultures are found in every other culture in which they have been studied.” ~Dave Geary
Our Fake Economy (feat. Julius Krein)
Julius Krein joins Moment of Truth to talk the financialization of the US economy, industrial policy priorities, the housing market, ESG, and more!
The Institutions Deserved It (feat. Dr. Yuval Levin)
Yuval Levin joins Moment of Truth to talk the loss of public faith in institutions, the future of bioethics, and much more.
Common Good Originalism After Dobbs
Now is the time to go on the offensive, says AM Board of Advisors Member Josh Hammer, in his full speech at the NatCon III conference in Miami.
The American Security State Comes Home
After 21 years, it appears we have gone full circle: the War on Terror’s “you are either with us or against us” mentality has come home.
Affirmative Action as a Magic Bullet
Why Republicans should run on opposition to race and sex preferences
Saving The American Family (feat. Patrick T. Brown)
Patrick T. Brown joins Moment of Truth to talk about marriage, family formation, birth rates, what the right should do post-Dobbs, and more
The End of Industrial Society
The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is not a clean and developed world, but lost knowledge and civilizational decline.
NATO Delenda Est (feat. Dr. Sumantra Maitra)
Dr. Sumantra Maitra joins Moment of Truth to talk NATO, foreign policy, realism, and more!
Institutional Failure: Why Civilizations Collapse
We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely peruse the body of theories handed down to us.
Lean Out: Why Women Can’t Have It All
“It’s no coincidence that the vast increase in female workforce participation has coincided with the reappearance of something that the more egalitarian America of the early 20th century did not have, and that is a servant class.”
Where the Chips Fell
Julius Krein offers his thoughts on the CHIPS Act, and an explanation of the process that birthed the final form of the Semiconductor legislation.
The BLM Riots — Two Years Later (feat. Julio Rosas)
Julio Rosas talks about his book ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful,’ his experience covering the 2020 riots, and more on Moment of Truth!
Lighthizer Wins the Long Game
Once a voice crying out in the wilderness, the GOP trade expert has seen his ideas enter the mainstream.
State Capacity in Short Supply: Assessing the Biden Administration’s Industrial Strategy
The federal government has not yet recovered the clarity and confidence necessary to address industrial decline. There must be a reckoning with past decisions as well as a reorganization of the executive.
Will Great Powers War Once More? (feat. Elbridge Colby)
Elbridge Colby talks U.S.-China competition, Taiwan, geopolitics, and more on Moment of Truth!
The Chips Act debate shows how far the Republicans have moved
Rebuilding America’s industrial base is superseding traditional economic doctrine.