Latest Illiberalism Podcast Episodes
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
After Dark – The Real Housewives of the Rubicon, IVF Ethics, and the Structure of Censorship
High Noon - February 28, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsEmily 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 intellect...
S8 E2. Against the Wall
Democracy in Danger - February 28, 2024 13:00 - 27 minutesThis season we’ve adopted walls as our loose theme, and architectural historian Louis Nelson joins Will and Siva to help frame the idea. At the University of Virginia, wavy brick walls enclose beautiful gardens. But as Nelson explains those walls once served a more sinister purpose. Drawing on th...
Tom Rogan – Breaking Down Vladimir Putin’s Interview with Tucker
High Noon - February 14, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsTom 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, includi...
S8 E1. Living Memory
Democracy in Danger - February 14, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutesBefore the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists played a key role in fighting the Japanese during World War II. In the decades after, China’s role as an ally to the West was largely erased from its domestic politics — and all but forgotten everywhere else....
Jeremy Carl – All You Need to Know About the Battle for the Border
High Noon - February 07, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsJeremy 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 intel...
After Dark – Big Tech’s Year Zero and RDS Campaign Autopsy
High Noon - January 31, 2024 20:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsEmily 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 ta...
Peachy Keenan – Airplane Near-Catastrophes, the Competency Crash, and the Contraction of Civilization
High Noon - January 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsPeachy 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...
Libby Emmons – The End of the Primary, MLK Jr., and the Legacy of the '60s
High Noon - January 17, 2024 17:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsLibby 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., an...
Madeleine Kearns – Migrants and Protests in NYC vs the Lonely Lowly Citizen
High Noon - January 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsMadeleine 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 ...
After Dark – A Trepidacious New Year
High Noon - December 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsEmily 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 downloa...
Faith Moore – A Christmas Tale
High Noon - December 20, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsFaith 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...
Spencer Klavan – Morality, Art, and Modern Confusion
High Noon - December 13, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsSpencer 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 identi...
S7 E7. Keeping the Faith
Democracy in Danger - December 13, 2023 13:00 - 33 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. The essence of Walker’s plea has since taken shape in the...
Will Chamberlain – On the Future of Corporatism, Destroying Universities, and Henry Kissinger’s Legacy
High Noon - December 06, 2023 17:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsWill 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 secto...
After Dark – America’s Red Guard, Collapse of IRL Friendship, and a Pessimistic Assessment of Populist Backlash
High Noon - November 29, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsEmily 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...
S7 E6. Swift Country
Democracy in Danger - November 29, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutesAhead of some key state elections this year, 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. The pop star has been urging fans to get political. But can she — and other celebrities — move the needle on...
Batya Ungar-Sargon – On the Future of Antisemitism and of America
High Noon - November 22, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsOn 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 ...
Madeleine Kearns – Has Britannia Sunk Beneath the Waves?
High Noon - November 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsMadeleine 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 ...
S7 E5. Power Plays
Democracy in Danger - November 15, 2023 13:00 - 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...
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