Heard at Heritage
874 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFormerly the Heritage Events podcast.
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Events | Securing the Border and the Homeland: A Conversation with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green
July 13, 2023 02:37 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThe “Secure the Border Act,” the country’s most consequential border security bill to ever have passed the House of Representatives, did so in large part due to the efforts of the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by its new chairman, Mark Green, M.D. Join us as he and Heritage Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan discuss the policies needed to secure the border, next steps for this critical legislation and other border security measures, and the Committee’s recently launched over...
Events | The 2023 B.C. Lee Lecture: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance in the Indo-Pacific
July 11, 2023 17:44 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBThe Heritage Foundation is honored to host H.E. Ambassador Hyundong Cho, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Representative Young Kim (R-CA) for our signature event on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific. This year’s event celebrates the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance while looking forward to future challenges and opportunities in the relationship and the Indo-Pacific region. Heritage’s annual B.C. Lee Lecture on international affairs ...
The Power Hour| Coal’s Place in America’s Electricity Grid
July 11, 2023 14:53 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Michelle Bloodworth, President and CEO of America’s Power, to discuss the future of coal and the impact of energy policy on coal-fired power plants in the U.S. Coal provides low-cost and reliable electricity, but new federal regulations threaten to shut down America’s coal plants. Find out more by...
Stakeholder Capitalism, ESG, and the Grip of Statism
July 05, 2023 15:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBStakeholder capitalism promises a more ethical and egalitarian-oriented capitalism, but it places capitalism in the grip of social justice ideology and, ultimately, reduces corporations to state-directed entities. In this episode, Jeremy Kidd and George Mocsary, authors of a recent Heritage Report on stakeholder capitalism, discuss the movement’s philosophy and objectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Power Hour | Drop Net Zero and Get Yourself a Hero!
June 27, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher welcome Lou Pugliaresi, President of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. to discuss EPRINC’s new report A Critical Assessment of the IEA’s Net Zero Scenario, ESG, and the Cessation of Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields. Among other issues, we discuss the problem with the concept of Net Zero carb...
Events | The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him
June 22, 2023 16:26 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBFor thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the “cruelest justice,” a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In his new book, The People’s Justice, Judge Amul Thapar examines Thomas as a man and the jurist and rightfully demolishes this unfair caricature. Through a series of eye-opening stories, stripped of their legalese, Thapar recounts ordinary Americans whose struggles for justice reached the Supreme Court and shines new light on the heart and m...
Events | A New Playbook for Human Dignity with Former NFL Player Ben Watson
June 21, 2023 00:17 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBThe overturning of Roe v. Wade was one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions of our lifetime. We now enter a new era in the pro-life movement where policy decisions have been returned to our elected officials, but that’s not the endgame. In the midst of culture wars in America, conservatives must ask the question: How do we build a society that pursues true justice and human flourishing from womb to tomb? Don’t miss former NFL player Benjamin Watson as he sits down to discuss th...
The Power Hour | America’s Reemergence as a Commercial Nuclear Leader
June 20, 2023 19:46 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Todd Abrajano, President and CEO of the United States Nuclear Industry Council to discuss the American nuclear industry’s role in the reemergence of commercial nuclear power around the world. Once the undisputed global leader in the commercial nuclear energy game, the U.S. may have lost a step in ...
Events | Leading Change in a High-Stakes World: A Conversation with the Commandant of the Marine Corps
June 15, 2023 03:38 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBToday, America faces threats not seen since the height of the Cold War; but unlike back then, they come from an array of enemies and are more lethal thanks to emerging technologies. The war in Ukraine serves as a brutal example, but the threat posed by China takes this to a whole new level. What changes are needed to ensure our military can prevail when combat is required to protect our country’s core interests? How can those changes be affected when so many internal challenges stand in the ...
The Power Hour | How the Debt Limit Deal Disappointed on Energy Policy
June 14, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour - 58 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Richard Stern, Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation, to discuss the recent debt limit deal in Congress, its impact on American families, and the many ways the federal government uses energy and environmental policy to take away your wealth and ...
Events | The Big Government Car Theft
June 12, 2023 18:15 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBAre you ready for the government to take away your car? New proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency would require new car sales to be 60% electric by 2030, compared to fewer than 6% in 2022, so you might not be able to buy your preferred car. These regulations would make cars more expensive, reduce safety, and cause America to give up energy independence to China. Experts join us to explain how you can fight back. Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage...
The Power Hour | Take Your Stinking Paws off My Gas Stove
June 07, 2023 19:25 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher, and Rachael Wilfong invite Stuart Saulters, Vice President of Government Relations with the American Public Gas Association to discuss how local, state, and federal regulation are reducing consumer choice and increasing prices for appliances and other large-household goods. And it’s about to get much worse...
Defining Conservatism | Gender Ideology and the Destruction of the Human Person
June 02, 2023 15:43 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBCarl Trueman, author of the Heritage Report “Gender Ideology and the Future of the Human Person,” unpacks the elements of gender ideology and connects them to the grand project of undermining the embodied person in favor of a transgender and transhumanist future. Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Listen to podcasts fro...
The Power Hour | The Straight Scoop on Climate Change
May 31, 2023 15:35 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher, and Rachael Wilfong invite Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, former Senior Scientist for Climate at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and author of Climate Confusion, to discuss the facts about global warming and climate change. This important conv...
Events | End of the Line or a New Birth? The Future of Marriage and Family in the West
May 25, 2023 15:18 - 2 hours - 137 MBIndustrialized nations have faced declining marriage and birthrates for decades. What are the implications for Western Civilization if this trend is not reversed? Is there an obligation on federal and state governments to address this problem? If so, what policy levers are available, how effective are they, and what are the tradeoffs? The Heritage Foundation has convened policy experts and social scientists to engage in a dialogue on these vital, complex questions to reveal their causes and...
The Power Hour | When it Comes to Energy Policy, More Government Means More Problems
May 23, 2023 15:33 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher, and Rachael Wilfong invite Nick Loris, Vice President of Public Policy at C3 Solutions to discuss how government intervention into energy markets leaves Americans with fewer choices, higher prices, and often, worse environmental outcomes. We cover an array of issues in this episode, ranging from government...
Events | Keeping the Lights On in America: Looking Ahead at Power Grid Reliability
May 17, 2023 21:23 - 53 minutes - 49 MBEver-changing electricity policies from federal and state policymakers are putting the squeeze on power grid reliability. Some claim climate change is to blame for our weak grid; the truth is that it’s a direct result of poor policymaking. Without serious overhauls, dangerous – and often deadly – blackouts will become commonplace in America. FERC Commissioner James Danly joins Heritage’s Travis Fisher to dig into the details of what we know about power grid reliability, what the impact of e...
Events | Naval Statecraft and Power in the 21st Century
May 17, 2023 21:04 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBFor too long, U.S. statecraft has not delivered needed results, nor has it deterred the worst in our adversaries. A new global framework is needed to contest China’s designs to re-order the world to its interests. Naval statecraft does this, playing to the United States’ strengths and China’s weaknesses. It is resilient enough to handle crises a world away while remaining focused on the principal threat—the Chinese Communist Party. Join us to learn more as Heritage’s Tom Spoehr moderates a ...
The Power Hour| What You Need to Know About Biden’s Cryptocurrency Energy Tax
May 16, 2023 21:13 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher, and Rachael Wilfong chat with cryptocurrency expert, Nicolas Anthony of the Cato Institute about President Biden’s latest absurd idea to empower Washington at the expense of us: taxing the energy used to produce cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin. We begin the conversation with a discussion about what exactly i...
Events | Saving Medicare: Now and for the Future
May 12, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThe status quo of the Medicare program not only threatens seniors’ continued access to high-quality care, but also guarantees large and growing financial burdens for seniors and taxpayers alike. Join us as experts discuss the future of Medicare in ways that rise above the rhetoric of Washington-based beltway battles. Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: ...
Events | A Watchman in the Night: Cal Thomas’ 50 Years Reporting on America
May 12, 2023 15:21 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBIn his latest book, A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes readers on a “road trip” through over 50 years of journalism and American life, serving as a “watchman” on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes. As one of America’s most popular syndicated columnists, Thomas offers a living history of our times, of who we were then and who we are now, and of who we might become (for better or worse) in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Events | China’s Influence in the Pacific Islands: A Conversation with Daniel Suidani of the Solomon Islands
May 12, 2023 15:10 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBIn April 2022, the Solomon Islands became the first of the Pacific Islands to sign a security pact with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), setting off alarm bells in Washington. However, China’s influence in the Pacific Islands has been steadily growing for years. In 2019, China succeeded in persuading the Solomon Islands to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the PRC. Not everyone in the Solomon Islands welcomed these decisions. Daniel Suidani, the former Premier of the Solomon...
The Power Hour Special | Talking Trade, Energy, and the Environment with Shanker Singham and Alden Abbott
May 11, 2023 16:51 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this special episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Rachael Wilfong sit down with trade experts Shanker Singham and Alden Abbott to talk about their new book, Trade, Competition, and Domestic Regulatory Policy: Trade Liberalization, Competitive Markets and Property Rights Protection. The guests not only explain how energy trade helps American consumers and indu...
The Power Hour | Why You Should Care About America’s Oil and National Gas with Western Energy Alliance President, Kathleen Sgamma
May 09, 2023 15:54 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this week’s episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong talk with Kathleen Sgamma, oil and natural gas expert and President of the Western Energy Alliance. As President Biden works to impose his green dreams on us, the men and women of America’s gas and oil industry continue to provide American families and businesses with the energy t...
Defining Conservatism | Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements
May 09, 2023 15:49 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBAlex Salter discusses his new paper for the Heritage Foundation that weighs the relationship between free markets and the common good and the framework it provides for thinking about economics, the human person, and community. Read Alex Salter's report here: Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements | The Heritage Foundation Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lo...
Events | Income-Driven Repayment Overhaul: The Backdoor Student Loan “Forgiveness” the Media Isn’t Talking About
May 02, 2023 20:52 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBEven with the Supreme Court poised to potentially strike down the Biden administration’s blanket student loan cancellation plan, the Biden Education Department has proposed a consequential, expensive, and regressive regulation in the Title IV student loan program, “Income Driven Repayment” (IDR). Proposed regulatory changes to IDR would reduce a borrower’s required monthly payments from 10% to 5% of discretionary income, increase the amount of exempt income from 150% to 225% of the federal p...
The Power Hour | Diving Deep into Nuclear Safety and Regulation with American Nuclear Society CEO, Craig Piercy
May 02, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this week’s episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong talk with Craig Piercy, nuclear energy policy expert and CEO of the American Nuclear Society. We carry forward our nuclear energy conversation this week with deep dives on nuclear safety and regulation. If you want to know the truth about nuclear energy safety and how the industry...
Defining Conservatism | The Education that Americans Need
May 01, 2023 13:46 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBWhy do Americans need an education in leisure? Rachel Alexander Cambre discusses the foundation of education and how it leads to a true understanding of freedom and flourishing. Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Listen to podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative n...
Going Nuclear: The Benefits of Nuclear Regulatory Reform
April 27, 2023 14:55 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBFor decades, nuclear power has provided Americans with safe, clean, and affordable energy. Significant public and private investments in the industry have resulted in an increasing number of enterprises committed to bringing Americans even better and more affordable options. Despite this, nuclear energy expansion in the U.S. is occurring at a frustratingly slow pace, with those in its favor calling for major regulatory reform. What happened that made building new reactors so difficult? What...
Heritage Events | Reactionary Feminism: Sex and the Market
April 25, 2023 21:36 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBWomen’s liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We’ve now left the industrial era for the age of AI, biotech, and all-pervasive computing. As a result, technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. Although this shift benefits a small class of successful professional women, it also makes it easier to commodify women’s bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abiliti...
The Power Hour | Electricity and Your Home: The Shocking Details!
April 25, 2023 18:21 - 1 hour - 56 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this week’s episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong talk with Dan Dolan, electricity market expert and President of the New England Power Generators Association. We cover everything from how resources like coal and natural gas are turned into electricity for our homes, to the challenges that electricity producers face in today’s po...
The Power Hour: You Have Questions. We Have Answers!
April 18, 2023 21:32 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBThe Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this week’s episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong address some listener questions from The Power Hour inbox. Tune in for discussions on the federal government’s latest land use grab, electric grid reliability, and OPEC. And don’t fret - If we didn’t get to your topic, just shoot us an email at [email protected] and we jus...
The 2023 Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture
April 12, 2023 21:28 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBLady Margaret Thatcher—along with her great ally, President Reagan—fought and won a crucial battle of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s. Ten years after her death, it now falls to a new generation in the Western world to fight a new raft of ideological battles which will determine whether the cherished values of freedom and democracy will continue to thrive in the 21st century. Reducing the size of the state and rejecting leftist orthodoxy are also crucial to delivering the prosperity that will e...
The Power Hour: An Insiders View of Energy Policy with Mike McKenna
April 11, 2023 15:52 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBWelcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues with top national experts. This week’s guest is long-time energy policy insider and President of MWR Strategies, Mike McKenna. With experience working in the private sector and in government at both the state and...
Restoring the Military’s Focus on Warfighting
April 05, 2023 18:24 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThe National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness was formed in October 2022 and tasked with identifying policies or practices in the Defense Department that reduce military readiness and recommending remedies. After months of review and research, the eight-member panel is today releasing their findings that conclude that issues of low recruiting and retention can be traced in part to the increasing politicization in the military, to include a sweeping embrace of a diversity, ...
The U.S. Coast Guard: Opportunities and Challenges to Enhancing Maritime Security
April 05, 2023 18:07 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThe U.S. Coast Guard is a vital and unique instrument of national power, protecting American lives and interests in the maritime domain. It is responsible for a wide range of missions, from peacetime activities like search and rescue and policing our waters against illegal fishing to enforcing U.S. laws and supporting the Navy during wartime. This versatility makes it a key tool in America’s national security apparatus, whether in competition with China, protecting U.S. interests in the Arct...
The Power Hour: What’s Up with Nuclear Energy
April 04, 2023 17:17 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBWelcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, the Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues top national experts. Our guest this week is nuclear energy expert, Paul Dickman from Argonne National Laboratory. In this week’s episode we discuss why nuclear energy is critical to America’s energy future, some ...
Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China
April 03, 2023 19:41 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBThe Chinese Communist Party is the most persistent and consequential threat facing the American people today. Our homeland is not secure, and the consequences for Americans will be severe if our country does not soon take action. To that end, The Heritage Foundation is releasing its most comprehensive set of policy recommendations for how America should respond to the threat from Communist China, Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China. Join Senator Marco Rubio, Asian Studies ...
The Ticking Clock on TikTok: How to Protect Our Kids Online
April 03, 2023 17:52 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBThe rise of social media has unleashed a wealth of new threats on America’s children. Platforms like TikTok bombard and brainwash our kids with inappropriate, dangerous, and, in some cases, deadly content. On March 23, the day TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress, join Heritage’s Kara Frederick and founder of Libs of TikTok Chaya Raichik to discuss how parents can protect their children from internet threats and what U.S. policymakers must do to prevent spying from the Chinese ...
The District of Disorder: Crime and the District of Columbia
April 03, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBThe crime problem in our nation’s capital seems to grow worse by the day. Unfortunately, D.C. Council members have bought into the same radical policies that have wreaked havoc in cities across the country. After the D.C. Council defunded the police force in 2020, a rise in robberies, carjackings, shootings, and other violent crimes followed suit. At a time when violent crime was rising, the D.C. Council decided to overhaul the criminal code, eliminating most mandatory minimums and lessenin...
The Power Hour: Costly New Jersey Wind Turbines Won’t Lower Global Emissions
March 30, 2023 15:17 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBWelcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, the Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues with top national experts. We are joined this week by Heritage Foundation Chief Statistician and Data Scientist, Kevin Dayaratna to discuss his (and Power Hour host Travis Fisher’s) new research showing why New J...
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, 40 Years Later
March 28, 2023 15:20 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBForty years ago on March 23, President Ronald Reagan announced to the world his plans to develop a missile defense system that would make Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete,” an effort in which The Heritage Foundation played a significant role. Yet, since Reagan established this Strategic Defense Initiative, plans for a comprehensive homeland missile defense system have deteriorated. Today, the U.S. only maintains about 44 ground-based interceptors meant to address the rogue st...
The Power Hour with Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and special guest Bernie McNamee
March 23, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of The Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher, the Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s top energy and environment policy issues with the nation’s top experts. Our special guest this week is energy lawyer, former Department of Energy Official and former FERC Commissioner, Bernie McNamee. We start this week with a discussion about energy policy ...
Defining Conservatism: Rebuilding Community, Rebuilding Freedom
March 22, 2023 17:16 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBLuke Sheahan discusses his new Heritage Report “Restoring Civil Society” where he argues that while political and economic institutions receive a great deal of attention, the social realm is arguably the most important of these three because it is more fundamental to individual development than any government or employer. Individuals are citizens and workers but central to human flourishing is the process of socialization in the family, school, and neighborhood and the continuing sustenance ...
The 2023 Russell Kirk Lecture Featuring Bishop Robert Barron
March 16, 2023 15:13 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThe Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies is honored to announce that the Most Reverend Bishop Robert Barron of the diocese of Winona-Rochester will deliver the 2023 Russell Kirk Lecture for his speech titled, “The Breakdown of the Tocquevillean Equilibrium.” The namesake of the lecture—famed scholar Russell Kirk—was a pillar of the conservative movement, bringing like-minded individuals under the very name conservative. Through his well-known books, The Conserv...
Shattering China’s Energy Dominance in African Minerals
March 16, 2023 14:22 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBChina’s lending activities in Africa have increased significantly in the past decade. This strategy might result in China having privileged access to minerals in Africa, especially if some debt repayment is made in exchange for minerals. This would give China a monopoly over key minerals, including those needed for the batteries that operate our cell phones and electric vehicles. This would put America at a serious competitive disadvantage and, as a result, put the strength of the U.S. econo...
China and Ukraine: A Time for Truth
February 17, 2023 18:47 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBAmericans should hear a truth that few in Washington will acknowledge: If China invades Taiwan, it will likely succeed. For decades, America has pursued a foreign policy of bad trade deals, forever wars in the Middle East, and now overspending on Ukraine. And America’s position in the Pacific has suffered. In his speech, Senator Josh Hawley will chart a new defense policy that prioritizes our biggest threat, challenges the consensus on Ukraine, and safeguards Americans at home. Hosted on Ac...
The Revival of Original Intent
February 10, 2023 22:10 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBSince the 1980s, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation that focus on the intent of the lawmaker have been on the decline, especially among originalists. But over the last decade, there has been a revival of interest in intentionalism. Originalism, though, is really a collection of arguments about what the words could mean, what the words should mean, and what we’d like the words to mean. Have we missed something more fundamental in this debate? Intentionalism recovers somet...
The Iran Threat: What to Expect in 2023
January 27, 2023 20:05 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBIran’s Islamist dictatorship has been rocked by widespread popular protests calling for its overthrow, but it remains a dangerous threat to the United States and many of Iran’s neighbors. Tehran’s nuclear efforts have accelerated, and the regime continues to orchestrate proxy militia attacks, drone strikes, and terrorist attacks against U.S. forces, allies, and partners in the Middle East. Outside the region, Iran is supporting Russia militarily in its unjust war on Ukraine. Join us as expe...
The Supreme Court’s Pending WOTUS Decision: Is Clarity Finally Coming for Property Owners?
January 23, 2023 20:51 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBWhat waters can be regulated as “navigable waters” under the Clean Water Act? This seemingly simple question has been anything but simple, with decades of federal overreach by the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers. As property owners, from farmers to homebuilders know all too well, there is massive confusion. This confusion is largely due to the government applying vague and subjective definitions of regulated waters, including what is meant by “waters of the United States” or WOTUS. In many in...