High Noon
144 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsHigh 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
Justin Lee – Art, Horror, and Explaining the Longhouse
March 08, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 54 MBJustin 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 MBJennifer 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 MBIn 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...
Nate Hochman – On the Slow Divorce Between Republicans and Big Business
February 15, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBNRO Staff Writer Nate Hochman rejoins the podcast to talk through his extensive reporting on the influence of big business in red states and the mechanics of how lobbyists have overridden socially conservative voter interests in states with large GOP majorities. Inez and Nate then discuss what recent exposés and triumphs on popular issues — such as barring minor medical “transition” — mean about how that old dynamic is changing, and what that portends for both parties and the county. -- Hi...
Adam B. Coleman – On the Importance of Fathers and Building an "Immune Response to Life"
February 08, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBAdam B. Coleman, author of Back Victim to Black Victor and columnist for New York Post, Newsweek, and Daily Mail joins the podcast to talk about the enduring importance of the nuclear family and fatherhood. Adam and Inez talk about the child's eye view, both personal and statistical, of the sexual revolution and feminism, as well as how the ever-larger group of people coming from broken families can develop confidence, competence, and resilience. They also chat about how well-off people, bla...
Auron MacIntyre – On the Failures of Neutrality, Requirements of Patronage, and Future of a Broken America
February 01, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBAuron MacIntyre, popular YouTuber, podcaster, and columnist for The Blaze, joins the podcast to talk about the origin story of wokeness and how the center-Left's concept of neutrality cannot hold back the revolution. Auron and Inez also discuss the critical issue of patronage and how the Right might build as powerful a patronage network for its friends and supporters as the Left has for theirs, as well as what the future might hold for a country with two diametrically-opposed notions of the ...
Emily Jashinsky – Splits in the Populist Ranks, Unhappy Families, and That Horrible MLK Statue
January 25, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBEmily Jashinsky joins the pod for the last week of the month per usual. Inez and Emily chat about what the anti-establishment “MAGA” Republicans who won victory in the House have in common — and what they don’t. Inez poses a panel prompt about unhappy families to Emily, and the ladies discuss the masturbatory artistic choices of “The Embrace,” a new MLK memorial on the Boston Commons. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The po...
Aimee Terese – On the Psychology of the Left, Accountability, and Disappointing People
January 18, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBThis week on High Noon, Twitter-banned sensation and former What’s Left Cast co-host Aimee Terese joins the podcast to talk about the psychology of the left and how our representatives and institutions understand victimhood and power. Aimee also explains why, despite coming from the left originally, she doesn’t feel the need to reflexively condemn “both sides” and the necessity of being strong enough to disappoint people. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations tha...
Darel E. Paul – On the Labor Dynamics of Woke Capital
January 11, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBDr. Darel E. Paul is a professor of political science and the Chair of the Political Economy Program at Williams College. Darel and Inez talk through the labor mechanics of corporate wokeism and its connection to the advancement and power of the professional class. They also discuss the political implications of the therapeutic management style popular in big companies, and how the economic structures James Burnham predicted are changing the agendas of the left and the right. -- High Noon ...
James Zimmermann – On Cancellation, Artistic Merit, and the Enduring Value of Classical Music
January 04, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBProfessional clarinetist James Zimmermann joins the pod to discuss how he was canceled and fired for challenging woke ideology at the Nashville Symphony. James and Inez also discuss how ideological concerns and excessive catering to the lowest common denominator are eroding the beauty of classical music and undermining meritocracy in our nation’s symphonies. James defends the enduring value of classics by Dead White Men. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that...
After Dark – Christmas Episode
December 28, 2022 17:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBEmily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman chat about what holds up in Milton Friedman's classic Capitalism and Freedom — and what definitely doesn't. They also talk about Twitter 2.0 and the insulting and anti-democratic omnibus bill. Culture Editor Emily gives her best recs for cozy week-off binge watches, and both hosts share their Christmas and New Year traditions. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting...
Matthew Mehan – On Reviving Education That Teaches Us How To Be Free
December 14, 2022 17:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBDr. Matthew Mehan is the Director of Academic Programs for Washington D.C., and Assistant Professor of Government for the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College. He has been teaching and designing humanities curricula for twenty years, and has published not only academic and popular articles, but also two children’s books that prepare children to understand the intellectual heritage of the West. Matt and Inez discuss how children’s literature can rise above the uglines...
Paul Rossi – On Getting Canceled and On the Ills of Our Elite
December 07, 2022 17:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBPaul Rossi, canceled math teacher and co-host of Chalkboard Heresy, joins the podcast to discuss the woke illness afflicting the nation’s elite and powerful institutions, and how to realign the institutional incentives currently overwhelming dissent. Paul and Inez also discuss whether the culture wars have reached a tipping point, and trade theories for why elite institutions have so enthusiastically grabbed onto their new religion. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conver...
After Dark – Musk vs. Woke Email Jobs & Whether Art Can Save Us
November 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBOn this After Dark episode, Emily and Inez discuss the threat Elon Musk’s Twitter gambit poses not just to the culturally hegemonic wokes through free speech, but to the large number of college-credentialed people with “email jobs.” They also talk about the slippery slope of corporate-endorsed euthanasia in Canada, and whether artists have finally had it with the dullness of regime-approved themes. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free s...
Ryan T. Anderson – On How to Keep Humanity and Reality Alive in the Age of Family Breakdown
November 23, 2022 17:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBThis week, Ryan T. Anderson joins the podcast. Ryan is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author or co-author of five books, including the just-released Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing as well as When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Ryan and Inez discuss the validity of slippery slopes, what has led us to a world in which it is controversial to distinguish male from female, whether religious liberty is a...
Terry Schilling – A Midterm Autopsy
November 16, 2022 17:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBTerry Schilling of American Principles Project joins High Noon to conduct an autopsy of the 2022 midterms, and what the results say about the future of the Republican Party as well as the country. -- 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. ...
Peachy Keenan – On How Gen X Will Save Us and How to Wrench Your Life Out of Default Mode
November 09, 2022 17:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis week Peachy Keenan, the internet’s favorite converted Gen X suburban wine mom turned based domestic queen (and contributing editor of The American Mind), joins the podcast. Inez and Peachy discuss religious conversion, feeling unmoored from trust in the institutions you once took for granted, and the brewing generational war between Gen X and Millennials. They also chat about Peachy’s soon-to-be-released book Domestic Extremist, Botoxed-up teens, and a few midterm predictions. -- Hig...
Helen Roy – On the End of the Girlboss and How to Revive Womanly Archetypes
November 02, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBHelen Roy, contributing editor at Claremont Institute’s The American Mind and host of the podcast Girlboss, Interrupted, joins the podcast. Helen and Inez discuss how the girlboss archetype went from lauded to reviled, and whether new womanly archetypes can be created and loved. They also chat about the Millennial vs. Gen Z divide and whether generational critiques of the modern woman have gone beyond the aesthetic. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that mak...
After Dark – On Midterm Predictions and Our Friendless Age
October 26, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBOn this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez discuss the likely shape of the coming midterm elections, the growing gulf between the priorities of the elites and the challenges of the rest of America, and whether a GOP win is likely to do much to improve the country’s path. They also discuss long-term survey results showing that Americans are increasingly friendless. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast f...
Kelsey Bolar – On Identity Crisis and How Institutions Are Going to War with Parents
October 12, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBThis week, IWF’s own Kelsey Bolar joins High Noon to discuss her documentary series Identity Crisis, which tells the stories of minors struggling with their identities in the age of gender ideology, their parents, and their later struggles as they “detransition.” Kelsey and Inez talk about the betrayal institutional actors inflict on vulnerable kids and families, and the difficult line between the personal and political. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that...
Louise Perry – On the Consequences of the Sexual Revolution and Reverting to Pre-Christian Norms
October 05, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBLouise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, joins High Noon to talk about the consequences — especially for women — of the 1960s ethos of individual sexual freedom. Louise and Inez also discuss the sexual state of nature between men and women and speculate on how it might be possible to arrest our slide into ancient or pre-Christian norms that harm women and children the most. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free soc...
After Dark – On Why the Alienating, Anti-Human Trends Making Us Miserable Don’t Make It Into Our Politics
September 28, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBEmily and Inez discuss how technological advancement is making it possible for larger and larger segments of the population to drop out of real life and settle for the facsimiles of porn, endless scrolling, Zoom calls, and junk food. Emily wonders where the Ralph Nader of Big Tech is in our politics. Inez gives two cheers for democracy in an era of elite failure. And both hosts comment on a post #MeToo study showing that young men think merely approaching a woman is “creepy.” -- High Noon ...
Jeremy Carl – On Tech Utopianism and Difficult Project of America
September 21, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, Jeremy Carl joins High Noon. With a background that starts in the Utopianism of the early internet and winds through policy in the Trump administration, Carl tells the story of American crisis, including the devastating close of the frontier, our more complicated relationship with immigration post Ellis Island, and the disappointed dreams of tech oligarchs. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features in...
Nicholas Eberstadt – On the Rising Non-Working Class and What Their Despair Says About Us All
September 14, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBNicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and is the author of the book Men Without Work, in which he chronicles the story of the growing group of prime-age men who are neither trying to find work nor in training or education. Eberstadt’s work challenges some of the underlying assumptions populist narratives of the last six years have relied upon, and paints a picture of how this group in many ways is the canary in the coal mine for the existential crisis fac...
Jesse Kelly – On Purging the U.S. Military
September 07, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week, Jesse Kelly of syndicated radio and First TV fame joins the podcast to talk about the forces destroying the U.S. military from the top down and bottom up, as well as President Biden’s angry speech. Jesse lays out an even more pessimistic than usual case against the country’s future, and Inez is forced to play optimist. Jesse and Inez discuss humor in the face of scary times. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The p...
After Dark – On Crossing the Rubicon, Bad Vibes Loan Forgiveness, and the Post-Religious Sexual World of Andrew Tate
August 31, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBAt the end of every month, Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman run through a docket of the past several weeks of news and analysis. This month, they discuss how the right should respond to the raid at Mar-A-Lago and the potential prosecution of political opposition, the rage the direct class politics of student loan bailouts has stirred up, and whether older millennial victims of the mainstreamed sexual revolution will become Cassandras for the next generation, or drag them down the same path. ...
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry – On Free Markets as a Tool Rather Than an End
August 24, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBThis week on High Noon, Inez speaks with Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, in some quarters better known by his initials, PEG. Gobry and Stepman discuss how free markets can be used as a tool for higher goods rather than an end in themselves, and whether atomization, aimlessness, and falling fertility rates are inevitable consequences of modernity or phenomena with a more proximate cause. They also chat about differences between his native France and the United States, the home team gets in a little Fr...
Representative Chip Roy – On Slaying the Weaponized Administrative State
August 17, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBAfter the Rubicon-crossing raid at Mar-a-Lago, Inez Stepman speaks to one of the lone voices in Washington who has consistently tried to starve and strangle the illegitimate administrative state, Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21). Congressman Roy and Stepman discussed what “making law” in the USA truly looks like in an age where Schoolhouse Rock’s Bill on Capitol Hill seems a fanciful notion, and how to combat the many-headed hydra of the public-private regime. -- High Noon is an intellectual d...
Christopher Bedford – On Institutionalized Culture War and Why Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart
August 10, 2022 16:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBThis week on High Noon, Inez Stepman interviews Chris Bedford, senior editor at The Federalist, board member at YAF's National Journalism Center, and founding partner at RightForge, a new venture seeking to build the guts of an alternative to the Big Tech censored internet. Chris and Inez discuss why culture war concerns seem to always fall by the wayside in a Washington D.C. seemingly resistant to realignment politics, and why everything from the rule of law to supply chains seems to just ...
Jillian Kay Melchior – A Report on the War in Ukraine
August 03, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBThis week, High Noon with Inez Stepman checks in on Russia’s war against Ukraine. It can be easy to forget, considering how many problems the United States faces at home, but the war has now been raging since February, heading into its sixth month. Stepman talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Jillian Melchior, who has done three on-the-ground reporting trips to the region since February. Stepman and Melchior spoke about how to sort out live-time digital war propaganda from fact, and how our $4...
After Dark – On Feminism as Cope, Why SSRIs are Becoming Controversial, and the Terrifying Void of Modernity
July 27, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBAs always, the last Wednesday of the month on High Noon is reserved for the docket episodes with Emily Jashinsky, wherein Inez and Emily chat about the stories that caught their attention over the past several weeks as deserving of a second look. Stepman and Jashinsky discussed the legacy media’s emotionally satisfying freakout over Republican politicians finally acknowledging that they’re closer to opposition party than free press. They follow up with a deeper and more self-critical conve...
Rachel Bovard – On the Shape of Our Public-Private Tyranny
July 20, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week's guest is former Senate staffer and Conservative Policy Institute Policy Director Rachel Bovard. Rachel and Inez discuss the contours of our new public-private partnership in tyranny, the novelty of the power woke tech companies wield across national borders, and whether there will ever be a revolt of the competent within the tech industry itself. They also talk about the influence of China on American companies, and whether today's Millennials and Gen Z might be the last America...
Nate Hochman – On the Future of the Post-Religious Right and Why Young Conservatives are More Radical Than Their Elders
July 06, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week on High Noon, young conservative writer Nate Hochman of National Review comes on to discuss the future of the increasingly post-religious right. Inez and Nate discuss how decreasing religiosity is changing the contours of the right and its coalitions; the rifts issues like abortion could open up between newly recruited anti-woke factions like “barstool conservatives” and the traditional religious right; and the possibility that a broader secular right focused on culture war issues ...
After Dark – Dobbs, Title IX, and the Southern Border
June 29, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBMadeleine Kearns of National Review joins Emily Jashinsky to discuss the Dobbs decision and the fall of Roe v. Wade. They also discuss President Biden’s proposed revisions to Title IX policy and Emily’s recent reporting trip to northern Mexico. -- 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 tha...
Brad Wilcox – On Fatherhood, Happiness, and the Class Divide Over Family Formation
June 22, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBBrad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marriage Project, as well as a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and the author of numerous studies, articles, and books on family formation and its many consequences. Wilcox and Stepman discuss the consequences of fatherlessness, whether the pandemic may have shifted women's priorities, and the sociological d...
Ian Rowe – On Agency and Finding a Middle Ground Between Atomization and Blaming the System
June 15, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week on High Noon with Inez Stepman, the indefatigable Ian Rowe joins the pod. Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting fellow with the Woodson Center as part of their 1776 Unites project. He is the author of the new book Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover their Pathway to Power, and runs a new set of charter schools in the Bronx based on the four cardinal virtues. Ian and Inez dis...
Alex Kaschuta – On the End of the Girlboss, Eastern Europe Between Spent Liberalism and Russian Tanks, and the Anti-Narcissistic Transformations of Motherhood
June 08, 2022 16:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBThis week on High Noon, Alex Kaschuta, the host of the always-fascinating Subversive Podcast and author at her Substack Garden of Earthly Delights, and one of the most courageous and interesting commentators on the internet, joins the pod. Alex and Inez talked about whether the vibe shift with regard to Sheryl Sandburg-style girlbossing is real, whether constraint is a necessary precondition for freedom, and the tragic but captivating position of Eastern European countries trapped between t...
James Esses – On Gender Ideology in Psychology, Pathologizing the Normal, and Why the Anglosphere Has Gone So Woke
June 01, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThis week on High Noon, James Esses, founder of Thoughtful Therapists, joins the podcast. A former criminal barrister from the UK pursuing a second career in therapy, Esses was unceremoniously expelled from his program for raising objections to gender ideology and concerns with encouraging troubled minors into irreversible medical “transition.” Esses and Stepman discuss the former's upcoming court case suing the university for discrimination and how gender ideologues have managed to so thor...
After Dark – On Elon Musk vs. The System, Redpilled Tech Bros, and the Consequences of Mass Incompetence
May 25, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBThe last week of every month, High Noon: After Dark features Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman on the news of the past weeks. This month, Emily and Inez discuss whether the attacks and accusations against Elon Musk are working or lifting the veil on a rigged system for ordinary Americans; if redpilled tech bros passed over by woke quota systems can revive a future for American innovation and competence; and the left’s uncomfortable relationship with democracy. -- High Noon is an intellectua...
Libby Emmons – On What Got Her Canceled in the Theater World and the Complicated Relationship Between Morality and Art
May 18, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis week on High Noon with Inez Stepman, Libby Emmons joins the pod. Emmons is editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial and, prior to that, a canceled playwright. Stepman and Emmons have a wide-ranging conversation that includes everything from the defense of humanity against both transgenderism and transhumanism that got her exiled from her feminist theater company, to the complicated relationship between morality and art. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations th...
Arthur Milikh – On National Sorting and Humiliating Woke Institutions that Don’t Deserve Our Respect
May 11, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBArthur Milikh is the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life in Washington, D.C. Milikh and Stepman discussed the ways in which the traditional right has failed, and what steps the new right needs to take to create real institutional pushback, as well as the pros and cons of the great “national sorting” now underway. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interestin...
Danielle Crittenden – On Disappearing Feminine Allure, the Heated Battle Between the Sexes, and Whether Feminism Has Always Been Out of Touch
May 04, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBThis week on High Noon with Inez Stepman, Danielle Crittenden of Femsplainers fame, and author of What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us joins the pod to discus her wonderful essay, "When the Sexes Blur There’s No Sex." Crittenden and Stepman talked about why young women find femininity and womanhood so unappealing to the point where ”transitioning” to the opposite sex is an attractive option, and how dating norms have accelerated to a point nearly everyone agrees is broken. They also chat about so...
After Dark – On Our Billionaire Champion, Florida Striking Back Against Disney, and How the Pandemic May Have Killed off the Girl Boss
April 27, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBIt’s that time again, the end of the month… which means it’s once again Emily time on the pod. Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky joins Inez Stepman on High Noon this week — in perhaps our most optimistic podcast to date — to talk about Elon Musk’s apparently successful bid for Twitter, Florida stripping Disney of certain special perks in the wake of the company’s political battles against a parental rights bill in the state, and how the pandemic may have killed off girl boss ambition. -- Hig...
Joseph Massey – On Poetry, Power Games, and Advice for the Canceled
April 20, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week, poet Joseph Massey joins High Noon with Inez Stepman. Massey has written movingly about his experience being canceled at the height of the Me Too era in Quillette and The American Mind, and has now started a publishing company to publish his newest book of poems, Rosary Made of Air. Massey’s poetry has a beautiful sense of place, austerity, and stillness. His poems have become a little breath of loveliness for many on Twitter, including Megyn Kelly. Massey and Stepman discuss the...
Oren Cass – On Economic Nationalism, the Mistakes of the Smart Set, and Democratic Accountability
April 13, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBThis week's High Noon guest is Oren Cass. Cass is the executive director of American Compass, a heterodox conservative think tank that looks at how our economy can or should be restructured to support family, industry, and the nation-state. He is also the author of a book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. Cass and Stepman talked about how economics and culture intertwine, the future of the right and left with regard to economic issues, and the pressu...
Andrew Klavan – On Religion, Art, and Opting Into Being Human
April 06, 2022 16:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBAndrew Klavan, novelist, screenwriter, satirist, political commentator, and host of The Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan Show, was this week’s High Noon guest. He is also the author of, most recently, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus. Stepman and Klavan discussed his conversion from Jewish agnostic to Christian, the crisis of meaning that pushed him there, and the questions that both drive human...
After Dark: On the Right’s Chomskyite Temptation, Vacuum of Leadership, and SlapGate
March 30, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThe last week of every month, High Noon: After Dark features Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman on the news of the past weeks. Stepman and Jashinsky delve into the Right’s Chomskyite temptations with regard to what increasingly looks like the merging of wokeness and the American-led global order, as well as the limitations of that pessimistic domestic frame when assessing Russia’s war in Ukraine. Additionally, they turn homeward to discuss a disturbing development slipped into the Violence Aga...
Eric Kaufmann – On the Power of Bureaucracy, Generational Turnover, and Demographic Perception
March 23, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis week's guest on High Noon is Eric Kaufmann. Kaufmann is a political scientist at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Manhattan Institute and the author of several books focusing on demography, religious and national identity, and cultural politics. The episode delves into some of the topics perhaps most strategically important for the right (or anyone who hopes the country will take a sharp detour from its current trajectory): the power of burea...
Dr. Carol Swain – On the Collapse of Academia and What it Would Take to Hold America Together
March 16, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 87.7 MBThis week, Dr. Carol Swain joins High Noon with Inez Stepman. Dr. Swain has a long train of degrees, from (most recently) a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master’s in Political Science from Virginia Tech, a BA in criminal justice from Roanoke College, and an associate degree from Virginia Western Community College. Swain taught as a tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt, from where she retire...
Claudia Rosett – On What Can Be Done in Ukraine and America's Crisis of Decadence in a Dangerous World
March 09, 2022 17:00 - 56 minutes - 92.2 MBOn this episode of High Noon, Claudia Rosett joins Inez Stepman to give her perspective on the ongoing war in Ukraine from her 37 years of experience reporting in uprisings and war zones all over the world. A former Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Rosett discusses how America and the West's weakness has led us to this point, what can or should be done about the devastation in Ukraine now, and whether or not America is still the land of freedom as juxtaposed to authoritarian ...