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High Noon

141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 142 ratings

High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subjects of the day in a way that hopes to advance our common American future.


Hosted by Inez Stepman of Independent Women’s Forum.


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Episodes

After Dark – The Unbreakable Media Bubble and the Quiet Return of #MeToo

March 27, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

Emily returns for her monthly High Noon chat, this time about Ronna McDaniel’s quick exit at NBC and the media’s unshakable ability to only allow conservative voices into the discussion if they’ve already acquiesced to the Left on all meaningful priors. The ladies also talk about Christine Blasey-Ford’s return, due process, and a new kind of quiet resurgence of #MeToo accusations that have been avoiding backlash. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make po...

Timothy Carney – Family Unfriendly America

March 20, 2024 16:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB

Alienated America author Timothy Carney returns to the High Noon podcast to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than it Needs to Be. Tim lays out how our modern baby bust is more than economic, and instead is propped up by a series of cultural and policy defaults that make life for families much harder and more isolating. Tim and Inez discuss over-scheduled sports, helicopter parenting, and the total collapse of the village it takes to raise...

Rachel Bovard – On Making the Senate Work and the New Virtue Signaling Big Business

March 13, 2024 16:49 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

Rachel Bovard of Conservative Partnership Institute is back from a stint as Executive Director of the powerful Republic Steering Committee in the Senate. She explains why the Senate—and the legislative branch more generally—seems to function only as a clearing house to confirm and fund the activities of the other two branches, and how it can take back some of its power. Also, Rachel and Inez discuss the public-private nature of corporate power, and how cultural collusion and market share int...

Kira Davis – A Post-McConnell GOP, Institutional Entropy, and Real Tradwiving

March 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MB

Kira Davis, host of the podcast Just Listen to Yourself, joins this week to discuss the future of the Republican Party, why the DC Borg always assimilates newcomers, and how to have hard discussions about family formation and marriage. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subjects of the day in a way that hopes t...

After Dark – The Real Housewives of the Rubicon, IVF Ethics, and the Structure of Censorship

February 28, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

Emily Jashinsky is back to discuss the Maury-esque details of the Fani Willis trial, the bioethics of IVF, and the Netchoice big tech cases before the Supreme Court that may start building a legal structure to address what censorship looks like in the 21st century. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subjects of...

Tom Rogan – Breaking Down Vladimir Putin’s Interview with Tucker

February 14, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Tom Rogan, national security expert at the Washington Examiner, breaks down each part of Tucker Carlson’s two-hour-plus interview with Russian head of state Vladimir Putin. Tom and Inez discuss criticisms of Tucker’s journalistic endeavor, and then move to the substance of the interview, including Putin’s view of history, the motivations behind his geopolitical aggression, NATO expansion, China, American decline, and more. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations th...

Jeremy Carl – All You Need to Know About the Battle for the Border

February 07, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Jeremy Carl of the Claremont Institute joins High Noon podcast to discuss everything about our current border crisis, including what’s in the Senate “border security” bill, the standoff in Texas, and how the politics of immigration are likely to play out going forward. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subject...

After Dark – Big Tech’s Year Zero and RDS Campaign Autopsy

January 31, 2024 20:46 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

Emily Jashinsky joins High Noon podcast the last Wednesday of every month. This month, the ladies talk about Bryan Johnson’s Year Zero remarks, and whether the speed and specifics of technological change really have the potential to rearrange not just human affairs but human nature. They also talk about why Ron DeSantis failed to persuade Republican voters, and whether there’s hope for reforming the system or whether our institutions are a lost cause. -- High Noon is an intellectual downlo...

Peachy Keenan – Airplane Near-Catastrophes, the Competency Crash, and the Contraction of Civilization

January 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

Peachy Keenan, author of "Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War," joins the podcast to go through all the airline “incidents” lately. Peachy and Inez discuss the coming competency collapse when the last of the Boomers retire, and whether advancing AI can really make up for a population of illiterates. They also talk about the tradwife trend and its positives and negatives. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free ...

Libby Emmons – The End of the Primary, MLK Jr., and the Legacy of the '60s

January 17, 2024 17:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB

Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, joins High Noon podcast to talk about Trump’s resounding victory in Iowa and what we can expect from one of the least “normal” elections in U.S. history. Libby and Inez also discuss how the Right should think about Martin Luther King, Jr., and the broader legacy of the 1960s. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the...

Madeleine Kearns – Migrants and Protests in NYC vs the Lonely Lowly Citizen

January 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

Madeleine Kearns of National Review joins the first episode of the year to talk about the migrant crisis expanding in U.S. cities by the hour and how American families are finding themselves holding the short end of the stick. Inez and Madeleine then discuss the chaos caused by illegal protests and what they think of the Chris Rufo strategy. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all...

After Dark – A Trepidacious New Year

December 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

Emily and Inez finish out the year by talking about the Trump indictments and our busy, busy Rubicon. They try to lighten it up afterward by doing a this-or-that for Christmas traditions and talking about and defending the much-maligned New Year holiday. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subjects of the day in...

Faith Moore – A Christmas Tale

December 20, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB

Faith Moore joins the High Noon pod to talk about her new novel, "A Christmas Karol," which retells Dickens’ classic as a story about an overworked mom too busy for her family. Faith and Inez also discuss the pandemic as a clarifying moment, women’s unique role as the keeper of family traditions, and chat about their own Christmases. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts o...

Spencer Klavan – Morality, Art, and Modern Confusion

December 13, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

Spencer Klavan, host of Young Heretics and author of the book How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises, rejoins the podcast to talk about the tricky relationship between art and morality. Spencer and Inez share a wide-ranging discussion about whether there's actually an identity between truth and beauty (with all due respect to Keats), what aesthetics reveal about "inner beauty," whether portraying the seductiveness of evil holds dangers for the viewer's heart, and the rel...

Will Chamberlain – On the Future of Corporatism, Destroying Universities, and Henry Kissinger’s Legacy

December 06, 2023 17:01 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

Will Chamberlain joins the High Noon podcast to discuss the future of the relationship between big business and the Republican Party, and whether the hopeful signs of corporate cold feet on wokeness are likely to continue. Will and Inez also talk about how to seriously reform the higher ed sector and what would really be necessary to form a conservative counter-elite. They wrap up with a nod to the passing and legacy of Henry Kissinger, and wonder where a balance between moralism and pragmat...

After Dark – America’s Red Guard, Collapse of IRL Friendship, and a Pessimistic Assessment of Populist Backlash

November 29, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Emily Jashinsky rejoins the High Noon pod to discuss the way “mostly peaceful” protestors can now be deployed for any hashtag cause de jour. This leads the ladies to a discussion of the downsides of low institutional trust and the rise of the autodidact. They also discuss a new survey that shows a complete collapse in time spent with friends IRL, and close with an assessment (if not quite an autopsy) of nearly a decade of populist backlash. -- High Noon: After Dark with Emily Jashinsky air...

Batya Ungar-Sargon – On the Future of Antisemitism and of America

November 22, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

On this episode of High Noon, Batya Ungar-Sargon and Inez Stepman start out discussing the extent and contours of the antisemitic threat in the USA, and whether it’s something American Jews should worry about, but end up talking about how public opinion is formed, and whether institutions truly shape our ideas. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectru...

Madeleine Kearns – Has Britannia Sunk Beneath the Waves?

November 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

Madeleine Kearns of National Review is back on High Noon podcast, explaining the chaos surrounding the massive anti-Semitic marches in the UK as well as the politics behind sacking Suella Braverman, and what they both mean for the future of her native isles. Inez and Maddy also discuss domestic politics and different theories as to why the GOP has underperformed in recent off-year and midterm elections. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a f...

Mary Margaret Olohan – 2020 Protest Redux and Our Media’s Ignorant Befuddlement About Religion

November 08, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

Daily Signal reporter and IWF fellow Mary Margaret Olohan joins High Noon as cohost to discuss how the “mostly peaceful” pro-Hamas protests are getting bolder and taking on new targets, like the same statues defaced during the 2020 riots. The ladies also talk about the ignorance of legacy media when it comes to basic religious knowledge and the long game for a conservative media that is currently ghettoized in a corner of the discourse despite breaking big stories. -- High Noon is an intel...

Erielle Davidson – Decolonization, Iconoclasm, and Revolution at Home and Abroad

November 01, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Erielle Davidson, attorney and Claremont fellow, joins High Noon podcast as co-host to discuss the war in Gaza, the protests at home and across the West, and the melting of the Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue. Erielle and Inez talk about the line between a nuanced understanding of history and losing your moral compass. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the poli...

After Dark – What American College Students and Hamas Have in Common

October 25, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

On this month's High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez discuss the superficial contradictions and the deeper connections between the American college students and recent immigrants marching for Hamas in our cities and the terrorists slaughtering civilians in Israel. They also dig into the boundaries of free speech and the potential end of American hegemony. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting th...

Madeleine Kearns – Moral Clarity in the Middle East and at Home

October 18, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MB

In the first episode of Season 2’s new discussion format, co-hosts Inez Stepman and Madeleine Kearns discuss why moral clarity has been so elusive for so many in the West in the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Israel. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the most controversial subjects of the day in a way that hopes to advance...

After Dark – Resurgent MeToo and the Disconnection of Our Politics

September 27, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MB

On this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez discuss Russell Brand and how evaluating MeToo accusations has become impossible without participating in a politically charged humiliation ritual. They also chat about the announced Newsom v. DeSantis debate and how it might be more connected to the choices Americans face than our ostensible national politics. Also, Inez rants about WWII historical ignorance in the USA. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversation...

James Hasson and Jerry Dunleavy – American Leadership & Disastrous Disgrace in Kabul

September 20, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB

James Hasson, an army captain and Afghanistan veteran who participated in independent evacuation efforts in the 2021 withdrawal, and Jerry Dunleavy, an investigative reporter who now continues that job as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee (although he speaks here in a private capacity), have written a tough but necessary exposé about America’s disastrous withdrawal and evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan. Hasson and Dunleavy lay out unforgivable mistake after mistake and...

Andrew Hartz – On the Ideological Takeover of Psychology and Which DSM Tendencies Are Taking Over

September 13, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB

Andrew Hartz is a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. Andrew and Inez discuss how woke ideology is encouraging therapists to violate their professional obligations to patients and making them unable to work with the majority of Americans. Andrew also parries some of Inez’s objections to therapy as a concept, and the two discuss what negative psychological tendencies are encouraged by the culture. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring...

After Dark – New Media Disappoints, Carnegie vs Bezos, and How To Select an Elite

August 30, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

Emily Jashinsky rejoins the High Noon pod at the end of each month. This month, the ladies discuss the Tucker Carlson Trump interview and what it says about new media, then move on to talking about what qualities a good society ought to look for when selecting an elite. Compared to past American elite families, they find our current credentialed class wanting. Finally, they discuss ongoing media dereliction of duty in covering the fire disaster in Lahaina. -- High Noon is an intellectual d...

Tony Kinnett – Reporting Live from Lahaina

August 23, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

Tony Kinnett of The Daily Signal has been reporting from Maui, where a devastating fire has officially claimed the lives of 116, but local estimates put the number of lives lost at over 1000. Tony shares what he’s seen in and around Lahaina, what those affected need from the rest of the country, and what next steps are necessary to hold people accountable for unforgivable mistakes that may have cost lives. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible ...

Hadley Heath Manning – The Pill and Women’s Mixed Feelings About the Sexual Revolution

August 09, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 98.9 MB

IWF’s own Hadley Heath Manning joins High Noon podcast to talk about an essay she wrote for The New York Times about the birth control pill and sexual revolution. Her voice joins others’ on the Left and Right in expressing some of the downsides with which easy contraceptives and lax sexual mores have left women. Hadley and Inez also discuss hypernovelty and whether our culture can keep up with evolving technologies, and why sexual activity as a whole has declined among Gen Z. -- High Noon ...

Christopher Rufo – America’s Cultural Revolution and How to Fight It

August 02, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Christopher Rufo rejoins High Noon podcast to discuss his new bestselling book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Left Conquered Everything. Chris and Inez talk about which explanation for the roots of wokeness makes the most sense and how to recapture institutional power. They also answer a few of Rufo’s critics on the Left and Right. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all ...

After Dark – DEI Tipping Points, Lazy Girl Jobs, and Barbenheimer

July 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB

Emily Jashinsky is back for another docket episode. The ladies discuss whether independent media is finally breaking through, what the affirmative action SCOTUS decision is doing to the corporate DEI industry, the new trend of retiring the girlboss life for Lazy Girl Jobs, and of course, Barbenheimer. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discu...

Delano Squires - On Fatherhood, Family, and the Manosphere

July 12, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Delano Squires is a Research Fellow at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation. He joins High Noon to talk about fatherhood in our culture, the sex wars and who is to blame for them, and why he has a different view about restoring masculinity than the online manosphere. Delano Squires is also a contributor to BlazeTV’s Fearless with Jason Whitlock podcast. Delano's articles and essays on faith, family, and culture have been published by N...

Jennifer Braceras – SCOTUS Term Roundup and Preserving the Legitimacy of the Court

July 06, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

Jennifer Braceras of Independent Women’s Law Center joins High Noon podcast to discuss the blockbuster Supreme Court term and how the headlines are getting a lot of the cases wrong. Inez and Jennifer talk through the legal and political issues involved in the court striking down racial preferences in admissions, upholding freedom of speech for small businesses, and enforcing separation of powers in Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. They close by confronting multiple attacks on the le...

After Dark – On Who’s Going to Jail and Paglia Reprised

June 28, 2023 16:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB

On this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez kick it off by talking about America's two indicted and/or indictable front runners for 2024, and then move on to putting the bow on the Pride backlash. The ladies also discuss why the number of high schoolers answering yes to the question “I do not enjoy life” is skyrocketing. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts o...

Paula Scanlan – A UPenn Swimmer Speaks Out About the Truth of Sex Differences

June 21, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

This week, Paula Scanlan, college athlete and former teammate of Lia Thomas, speaks out about what it was like for the girls competing alongside and sharing a pool and locker room with a man. Paula and Inez also discuss the psychological effects of the silencing tactics used by institutions that refuse to acknowledge even the most obvious truths about sex differences. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features in...

Alexis Carré – Why Our Politics Is Not Political Enough

June 07, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 92.3 MB

Alexis Carré is the 2022-23 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His work deals with war and liberal democracy, and both are exactly what he joins the High Noon pod to talk about. Carré explains how, far from being too polarized, our politics have gotten too far away from the natural consequences of disagreement between citizens, and how the degradation of our discourse is more like dogs barking at each other from behind a fenc...

After Dark – The 2024 Agenda, The Prophetic Christian Right, and the Long-Term Possibility of Tolerance

May 31, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 121 MB

Emily and Inez (reluctantly) talk through the latest in the 2024 race and what sort of primary competition mud-slinging could be good vs. bad for the Right. They discuss how the prophetic Christian Right called the slippery slope in advance, and how a new culture war coalition ought to mediate between that faction and newly-arrived moderates who believe there’s a hard break between social liberalism and wokeness. The ladies close the episode by exploring the balance between tolerance and cel...

Hans Fiene – An Atheist and a Pastor Walk Onto a Pod

May 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB

Reverend Hans Fiene is a Lutheran pastor, host of the channel Lutheran Satire, and a contributor to The Federalist. Hans and Inez wade through their sometimes-similar and sometimes-different perspectives on Christian nationalism, the role of religion in the public square and affairs of state, wokeness as religion, “new atheism,” therapeutism vs. theology, suffering, and more. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast fea...

Gail Heriot – How Legal Changes to the Civil Rights Act Turbocharged the Woke Regime

May 17, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

Gail Heriot, professor at University of San Diego School of Law and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins the podcast to explain how legal changes made to the Civil Rights Act in the 1990s forced radical politics and easy offense out of academia and directly into corporate America. Gail convincingly explains how concepts like microaggressions, racial identity politics, and respecting the 87 genders took off in the '90s thanks to a combination of malincentives written int...

Ted Frank – Jordan Neely, Political Prosecution, and the Attempt to Delegitimize SCOTUS

May 10, 2023 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB

This week, Ted Frank joins the podcast. Frank is the director of litigation at the conservative public-interest law firm he founded, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, and has argued and won cases in front of the Supreme Court as well as several federal courts of appeals. Stepman and Frank talk through the legal and public opinion contours of the Jordan Neely case in New York, and set it in context of the rising crime and disorder in American cities and the ideological commitment against enfor...

Heather Mac Donald – How Racial Preferences Are Destroying Merit in America

May 03, 2023 16:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

Heather Mac Donald rejoins High Noon podcast to discuss her critical book When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. Heather and Inez discuss how unfair racial preferences have jumped from the courtroom to private institutions, and how they’ve seriously undercut scientific progress and artistic accomplishment. They also talk about how the inability to speak frankly about group differences in culture or accomplishment endange...

Tucker Reshapes Media, a Look Back at 2000s-Era Naïveté, and an Actually Serious Convo About School Shootings and the Devils of Our Age

April 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

On the 100th episode of High Noon, Emily Jashinsky is back on the pod to take a step back and think about some of the news items that have been firehosing the media for the last month. Emily and Inez discuss some of the positive and negative possibilities regarding Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News and what it might do to the media landscape. They also dive back into the uncynical world of the early 2000s, and wonder whether the same limitless impulse that put Americans on the moon an...

Margot Cleveland – The State of Lawfare

April 19, 2023 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent at The Federalist and adjunct professor at Notre Dame, joins the podcast to expose the scandal no one is talking about: the lawfare being waged against lawyers who step out of line politically. Margot outlines how lawyers who worked for Donald Trump, or even on behalf of controversial issues like abortion or gun control, are being targeted for professional sanction, as well as how the politicization of the law and cutting off half the country from...

Amber Athey – Generational Warfare in America’s Newsrooms

April 12, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Amber Athey, Washington editor of The Spectator and author of The Snowflakes' Revolt: How Woke Millennials Hijacked American Media, joins the pod to discuss how the cultural inquisition has hit legacy media from the entry level up. Amber and Inez also chat about how legacy media outlets gatekeep access to the president, as well as Amber’s own multiple attempted cancellations. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast fea...

Rafael Mangual – Criminal Injustice

April 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB

Manhattan Institute scholar Rafael Mangual joins the podcast to talk through what's actually going on with the awful crime spikes in most of America's cities and how soft-on-crime decarceration policies have endangered Americans. Rafael and Inez also discuss the original crime explosion in the late '60s and how broken families and a permissive culture collide in early childhood to produce people likely to become dangerous criminals. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conver...

After Dark – Trust, Collapse in Patriotism, and Person-Shaped Holes in the Soul

March 29, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Emily Jashinsky rejoins High Noon: After Dark, the recurring month-end episode, to talk about the kickoff to the 2024 primary season, what new polls showing collapsing patriotism and connection mean for the digital generation, and whether casting a black actress as the Queen of England has artistic merit or is just a gaslighting political move. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from ...

Spencer Klavan – Applying the Wisdom of the West to Modern Crises

March 22, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

Young Heretics host and The American Mind editor Spencer Klavan rejoins the pod to discuss his new book How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises. Klavan sets hot-button culture war battles like gender ideology and the Metaverse in context of some of the most important philosophical questions grappled with by the greatest minds of the West: questions about reality, the relationship between body and soul, God, morality, and organizing the best regime. -- High Noon is an in...

Ben Weingarten - How the Regime Colludes with Private Companies to Silence Americans

March 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

Ben Weingarten, editor at large at RealClearInvestigations and Senior Contributor to The Federalist, joins the podcast to run through his reporting on revelations about January 6th, the Twitter Files, and Covid origin hearings. Together, these three stories, with smoking guns revealed through public documents and testimony, represent three different bases - domestic terrorism, foreign interference, and public health, respectively - to turn law enforcement and a public-private censorship appa...

Justin Lee – Art, Horror, and Explaining the Longhouse

March 08, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 54 MB

Justin Lee, associate editor of First Things magazine and horror writer, joins the pod to explain the dissident art scene that is forming outside the boundaries of woke institutions. Justin and Inez discuss the need for both destructive art aimed at the regime and constructive art that points towards truth and beauty. They also discuss the reaction to First Things publishing an article by a Twitter anon, and the content of L0me3’s piece about the longhouse — the feminine bureaucracy that sti...

Jennifer Braceras and Emma Waters – Women Against the “Equal Rights” Amendment

March 01, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Jennifer Braceras of Independent Women’s Law Center and Emma Waters of the Heritage Foundation join High Noon podcast to discuss why they oppose the Equal Rights Amendment. This recording took place directly after a Senate Judiciary hearing on the ERA, in which Jennifer was a key witness. The ladies chat about the consequences of the ERA, the amendment process, and the importance of recognizing biological differences between men and women. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring...

After Dark – Against the Fake Victory of 90s Liberalism

February 22, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

In this monthly After Dark episode, Emily Jashinsky and Inez discuss whether we've reached "peak woke," and whether pragmatic alliances with centrists and TERFs on the consensus of the 90s and Aughts are ultimately hollow. They also dissect a Ross Douthat column pointing to the iPhone revolution as proximate — but not ultimate — cause of an entire generation's very real mental fragility and examine the first shots fired in what may be a politically defining Gen X v. Millennial generational w...

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