Latest Illiberal Podcast Episodes
S8 E10. The Struggle Continues
Democracy in Danger - June 26, 2024 12:00 - 41 minutesAt colleges across America this spring, thousands of students and many faculty called on their institutions to recognize Israel’s war in Palestine as a genocide, and to disclose their interests in arms, oil and violence. Administrators did not take kindly to the students’ demands or their tactics...
Faith, Politics, and the Rise of Authoritarianism: A Journey Through American Conservatism | Featuring Peter Wehner
How to Fix Democracy - June 20, 2024 19:59 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn this episode host Andrew Keen sits down with Peter Wehner to discuss the intersection of faith and politics and the rise of the Evangelical movement in the Republican Party. Pete reflects on his early caution of the dangerous intertwining on faith and politics, his concerns about the religiou...
Lethal Weapons [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger - June 19, 2024 12:00 - 29 minutesThere were 645 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Earlier this week, a gunman opened fire at a Detroit water park and injured nine people, including children. Today, we’re bringing you an episode from earlier this season, one we produced after the ...
The Poles Have Spoken [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger - June 12, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutesWith EU election results in, it looks like the forces of extreme nationalism will pull the continent’s politics rightward. But in Poland, the center has held after voters booted the far-right Law and Justice Party from power last fall. This week, we revisit our take on that election in Poland and...
S8 E9. Springing Back
Democracy in Danger - June 05, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutesNearly 80 years ago, Juan José Arévalo took office as Guatemala’s first democratically elected head of state. Only a decade later, the CIA engineered his successor’s ouster — and the end of the Guatemalan revolution. A vicious civil war ensued over the rest of the century, killing as many as 200,...
The Republican Thread: Conservatism in the Twentieth Century | Featuring Jacob Heilbrunn
How to Fix Democracy - June 04, 2024 12:55 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn conversation with Andrew Keen, the American historian Jacob Heilbrunn, outlines the continuous history of the close association of conservative views and the Republican Party in the early to Mid-Twentieth Century. He describes the party's support of strong anti-immigrant racial differences in...
No Good Reason – Bonus Interview with Karen Inkelas
Democracy in Danger - May 29, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutesIn this second follow-up to “No Good Reason,” we offer Siva’s full interview with Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas. She was a teenager when she first learned that her parents and their families had been incarcerated during World War II. It was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s dubious policy of c...
S8 E8. Modi’s Momentum
Democracy in Danger - May 22, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is an unabashed autocrat. He has jailed political opponents, gone after Muslims with violence and hateful rhetoric, and dismantled checks on his power. So what explains Modi’s continued popularity? As some 600 million Indians head to the polls, we explore th...
No Good Reason – Bonus Interview with Greg Robinson
Democracy in Danger - May 15, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesIn this follow-up to last week’s show, we offer Will’s full interview with Greg Robinson, about Japanese confinement during World War II. Robinson, a historian at the University of Quebec, has studied that tragic chapter and its implications for us today more deeply than just about anyone.
Pursuing Gay Rights in America’s Democracy | Featuring James Kirchick
How to Fix Democracy - May 08, 2024 13:07 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFor this episode, host Andrew Keen sits down with James Kirchick, journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Secret City: the Hidden History of Gay Washington. They discuss the historical exclusion of gay individuals within American democracy, with a particular emphasis on the challe...
S8 E7. No Good Reason
Democracy in Danger - May 08, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutesAfter the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, a racial panic took hold over the United States and its leadership. And President Franklin D. Roosevelt — otherwise known for the progressive policies of his New Deal — approved the mass removal and confinement of Japanese American families, on sca...
Power Plays [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger - May 01, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutesAfter a fraudulent election in August 2020, Belarusian riot police cracked down on massive protests. Then demonstrators started vanishing. Many of them would be tortured in custody. But a determined group of activists struck back, outing the names and faces of bad cops. We speak with one of those...
After Dark – Title IX Madness and Columbia Selma Envy
High Noon - April 24, 2024 16:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsOn this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez discuss the massive impact of the Biden administration’s disastrous Title IX changes, as well as the protests taking over Columbia University. They talk about the line between harassment and free speech, and how to think about antisemitism...
S8 E6. Undue Process
Democracy in Danger - April 24, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesFélix Maradiaga spent more than 600 days in a jail in Nicaragua. Held in solitary confinement for most of that time, he faced beatings and constant interrogation. Why? Because he stood up against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. Since 2007, Ortega has dismantled checks on his power. In 2018, hi...
John Daniel Davidson – Is Post-Christian America Reverting to Paganism?
High Noon - April 17, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsJohn Daniel Davidson, senior editor at The Federalist and author of "Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come," joins the High Noon podcast. John and Inez discuss some of the similarities and differences between pre-Christian paganism and what we observe as the last th...
Keeping the Faith [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger - April 17, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutesIn 1829, the abolitionist David Walker published a stunning, poignant appeal to “to the colored citizens of the world.” He urged them to fight against a system of racial slavery and oppression, and to expose that system’s moral bankruptcy. Walker’s plea has since taken shape in the work of some o...
Helen Roy – The Trouble with Boomers (and Millennials)
High Noon - April 10, 2024 18:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsHelen Roy, host of the podcast Girlboss, Interrupted, joins the High Noon podcast to talk about her recent piece on the relationships between Boomers and their Millennial adult children. Helen and Inez discuss the '60s as a kind of generational firewall that failed to pass on both tradition and ...
S8 E5. El Loco
Democracy in Danger - April 10, 2024 12:00 - 38 minutesArgentina’s new president is a libertarian populist and, by his own account, an anarcho-capitalist. To tackle his county’s deep economic troubles, Javier Milei wants to dismantle state institutions, implement severe austerity measures and strip protections for workers. He also wants to outlaw abo...
Madeleine Kearns – How Our Gender Battles Leave Out Truth and the Inadequacies of New Atheism
High Noon - April 03, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsMadeleine Kearns, staff writer at National Review and senior fellow with IWF, comes back on the High Noon pod to discuss the emerging patchwork landscape of laws around gender “transition” in the U.S. and how they compare to the landscape in her native Scotland, which is currently going through ...
How the Constitution and the Law Can Save American Democracy | Featuring Jeffrey Rosen
How to Fix Democracy - April 03, 2024 13:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn this episode we delve into Jeffrey Rosen's latest work The Pursuit of Happiness. As the President of the National Constitution Center and a Professor of Law at George Washington University, Rosen brings a unique perspective on America's democratic foundations. Through an exploration of classi...
Swift Country [Rebroadcast]
Democracy in Danger - April 03, 2024 12:00 - 51 minutesLast September, Vote.org and other advocacy groups saw a massive spike in new voter registrations on a one-day nationwide drive. The main reason: Taylor Swift, who has been urging fans to get political. But can she — and other celebrities — move the needle on core matters of social justice, and m...
After Dark – The Unbreakable Media Bubble and the Quiet Return of #MeToo
High Noon - March 27, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsEmily 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 Blase...
S8 E4. The Plight of Pakistan
Democracy in Danger - March 27, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutesLast May, protestors took to the streets in Pakistan to support Imran Khan, the populist prime minister tossed from office and into the slammer. Now, in a rebuke to the military and political establishment, voters put more candidates from Khan’s circle in parliament than from any other party. But...
Timothy Carney – Family Unfriendly America
High Noon - March 20, 2024 16:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsAlienated 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 a...
James Traub
How to Fix Democracy - March 15, 2024 15:42 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsTesting American Liberalism in the Cold War Years In this episode journalist and historian James Traub delves into the paradoxical nature of liberalism in the post war years. The continuation of New Deal social and economic reforms charactarized a society of consensus in fulfillment of democra...
Testing American Liberalism in the Cold War Years | Featuring James Traub
How to Fix Democracy - March 15, 2024 15:42 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsTesting American Liberalism in the Cold War Years In this episode journalist and historian James Traub delves into the paradoxical nature of liberalism in the post war years. The continuation of New Deal social and economic reforms charactarized a society of consensus in fulfillment of democra...
Rachel Bovard – On Making the Senate Work and the New Virtue Signaling Big Business
High Noon - March 13, 2024 16:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsRachel 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 activ...
S8 E3. Lethal Weapons
Democracy in Danger - March 13, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesLast year, there were 645 mass shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In the latest major tragedy, at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade, one person was killed and 22 others — half of them children — suffered gunshot wounds. But here’s something you may not know: si...
Kira Davis – A Post-McConnell GOP, Institutional Entropy, and Real Tradwiving
High Noon - March 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsKira 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 convers...
Sarah Snyder
How to Fix Democracy - March 04, 2024 12:57 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn conversation with Prof. Sarah Snyder, an historian of Cold War international relations, Andrew Keen examines the relationship of democratic goals with the realities of American foreign policy. As the world's great post-war democratic and capitalistic power, the U.S. opposed Russia and China t...
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