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Who Else Is There?
Edifice of Trust - July 02, 2024 16:28 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe fallout from Mr. Biden’s performance at last week’s presidential debate has resulted in many calls for him to withdraw from the race. But who else is there that can replace him? In this podcast the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, discusses some of the complexities in changing candidates...
Grate Debate Update
Edifice of Trust - June 28, 2024 18:16 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe results are in from last night’s debate and it doesn’t look good for Joe Biden. Here are the headlines.
The Grate Debate
Edifice of Trust - June 21, 2024 15:25 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday we are going to talk about the upcoming presidential debates and what you should expect to see and what you shouldn’t.
A Fox in the Henhouse
Edifice of Trust - June 10, 2024 14:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAfter the Second World War the victorious allies created a series of international organizations designed to reduce conflict and promote peace between the countries of the world. These organizations worked pretty well for a while but now seem ineffectual and counterproductive. In this podcast the...
He Must be Guilty of Something
Edifice of Trust - May 27, 2024 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe most recent of the many trials of former President Donald Trump by George Soros backed prosecutors will be going to the jury soon. But politically motivated show trials are usually associated with autocratic regimes, not with Western democracies. And if Democrats think that these trials have ...
I Applaud Civil Disobedience - As Long as it is Civil
Edifice of Trust - May 13, 2024 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCivil disobedience is an activity unique to modern Western Civilization. But disobedience of the law has consequences and many people protesting unjust laws or unwise policies have had to make sacrifices. The anti-Israel protesters are not only defying the tradition of non-violent civil disobedie...
Israel is not the Target
Edifice of Trust - May 09, 2024 13:05 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCity University of New York law professor Jeffrey Lax said it clearly in an interview with Stuart Varney on Fox Business news. He stated, referring to the anti-Israel protests, “This is not antisemitic, this is anti-American, this is anti-western culture, the jews are the low hanging fruit. Next ...
The Specter of Nationalism
Edifice of Trust - April 25, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNationalism is on the rise across the globe – and Yoram Hazony thinks that’s a good thing. Mr. Hazony, Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation is a promoter of national conservatism and rejects the universal values such as the unalienable rights described in the Declaration of Independence. In th...
Woke Pathology
Edifice of Trust - April 08, 2024 14:41 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmerican youth are in a mental health crisis. Rates of anxiety, depression and suicide are soaring ever since the introduction of the smart phone as documented by Jonathan Haidt in his new book, The Anxious Generation. Even worse, the pathologies of smart phone addiction mirror the pathologies of...
Why Slavery?
Edifice of Trust - March 27, 2024 15:52 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSlavery has existed throughout human history and prehistory. But why? It all comes down to energy. Ancient humans only had the energy of their own body. The energy of slaves gave the slaveholder more power to do things for the benefit of him and his family. But slavery in America was different. I...
They Just Don't Get It
Edifice of Trust - March 15, 2024 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPresident Biden’s State of the Union address was an angry, divisive campaign. He went on to propose massive increases in taxes along with massive increases in spending that combine for a massive deficit of $1.8 trillion. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, looks at how bot...
Our Only Hope
Edifice of Trust - February 29, 2024 16:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Founders of America thought that democracy was the best tool to secure the blessings of liberty to its citizens. And, although not perfect, our democracy did a pretty good job of doing that while also providing prosperity. But right now America appears to be heading in the wrong direction and...
NO LABELS' Fatal Flaw
Edifice of Trust - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe No Labels organization is trying to get on the ballot in all 50 states for a presidential candidate yet to be named. Such a candidate might be able to save us from another Biden or Trump presidency but will do nothing to save us from the increasing divisiveness and extremism of our mainstream...
Ameriphobia
Edifice of Trust - February 13, 2024 15:31 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal called the Michigan city of Dearborn a center of jihad and antisemitism. The mayor of Dearborn xed (tweeted) that the article was Islamophobic. The progressive left has changed the meaning of the word phobia and now uses it as a means to deflect criticism...
Understanding Diversity
Edifice of Trust - February 02, 2024 15:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA lot of people think that diversity is a good thing. But is it? People have to go out of their way to be diverse. Left to their own, people will self-segregate into groups with other people similar to themselves. Blue collar workers don’t want to hobnob with a bunch of chardonnay sipping, hors ...
Can DEI Be Saved?
Edifice of Trust - January 26, 2024 16:43 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecent commentaries in the Wall Street Journal set forth competing visions on whether Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs can be saved or should be eliminated. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host, Victor Bolles, compares the two viewpoints and draws conclusions on which viewpoin...
An Age of Agency
Edifice of Trust - January 22, 2024 17:46 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIan Rowe, an educator in the Bronx, writes that developing a sense of agency is essential in liberating poor and minority kids from a dreary future of poverty. More than that, he has been on the streets providing kids with liberating education and teaching them American values for more than a dec...
Urgent Priorities 2024
Edifice of Trust - January 09, 2024 17:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOnce again, while our so-called political leaders are completely absorbed by their campaigns for reelection, they ignore the urgent national priorities that need to be addressed, or worse, use those issues as political levers to galvanize their base at the expense of the American people. In this ...
Mislabeled
Edifice of Trust - December 15, 2023 15:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratinghow mislabeling political beliefs and governmental policies creates confusion and contributes to the divisiveness wracking our country.
The Attraction of Victimhood
Edifice of Trust - December 07, 2023 15:49 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy do so many people in America identify as victims, the victims of an oppressive system? What is the source of this feeling? Why do so many people believe that they have no ability to live their lives as they see fit but look to the power of government to solve their problems? In this podcast, ...
Dr. - not Mr. - Spock
Edifice of Trust - December 01, 2023 16:58 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingScientific inquiry is the process where we learn more and more about our universe through experimentation to support or disprove our theories. But increasingly, we are asked to make drastic, expensive and irreversible decisions based on a consensus of scientists as if there were no more need for...
War in the Levant
Edifice of Trust - November 15, 2023 18:24 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIf you call the swath of land east of the Mediterranean Sea the Levant instead of Israel and Palestine, you can see the recent conflicts in the region with a new perspective. The part of the Levant that is now Israel was settled by Jewish refugees from Europe who defeated Arab Muslims in the regi...
The Slippery Slope of Fairness
Edifice of Trust - November 06, 2023 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPoliticians are always promoting new laws and government programs to make things more fair. But fairness is not a good standard on which to base laws and programs because fairness is subjective and different people have different, and often completely opposite, ideas on what is fair. In this pod...
Making Sense of Irrational War
Edifice of Trust - October 24, 2023 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTo our Western minds the horrific attack on Israel by the Hamas terror group was irrational and incomprehensible. But even more irrational and incomprehensible have been the protests in support of the genocide espoused by Hamas across Europe and America. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust host...
Shared Values and Common Goals Part One
Edifice of Trust - October 17, 2023 17:31 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmerica has not been this divided since the Civil War. But poll after poll show that Americans left, right and center share many of the same values. So what is driving us apart. It is in the narrow self-interest of our political leaders to drive us apart for their political advantage. In this pod...
Deficit of Hope
Edifice of Trust - October 11, 2023 13:57 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom the dark days and widespread pessimism of the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s optimistic speeches gave American reason to hope for a better future. We are again living in dark days but today’s politicians give us little reason to hope for a better future. In this podcast, the Edifice of Trust h...
Numbers Guy
Edifice of Trust - September 22, 2023 13:57 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs America suffering from a plague of psychic epidemics? Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote that man has no adequate protection from psychic epidemics which can be more devastating than anything in nature. The divisive nature of American politics is creating psychic epidemics on both the left and...
BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST
Edifice of Trust - September 12, 2023 16:25 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingClimate activists, parroting Bernie Sanders, hold up signs declaring “BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST” to justify vandalizing the property of rich people. But if billionaires did not exist we would be lacking many of the modern products and services we have come to rely on, like smart phones, flat ...
Peak China?
Edifice of Trust - September 08, 2023 14:32 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHas China reached its peak of economic power as many talking heads and think tank fellows are writing and podcasting about? The reality doesn’t matter, only the perception of strength or weakness matters, and how that affects the thinking of Xi Jinping. And if President Xi believes that China has...
Our Precarious Liberty
Edifice of Trust - September 01, 2023 15:20 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Declaration of Independence states that we all are endowed with the right to pursue happiness and the things that make us happy are usually in our self-interest. Government often makes policies that are supposed to serve the common good but that do not match the self-interest of everyone. It ...
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