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Ep 447: You Have No Right to Your Culture, with Bryan Caplan

Culture

Economist and author Bryan Caplan returns to discuss his latest book, You Have No Right to Your Culture. Bryan explains why genuine “cultural preservation” would require totalitarian control over children ...

Anti-ICE Protesters Should Learn from MLK Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

Culture

Watching the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and other major cities, it is striking how enraged and utterly unrestrained the protesters appear. So many target ICE agents with shouted profanities, obscene ...

Ep 438: A Bryan Caplan Christmas Grab Bag: The Cases Against Borders, Education, Populism, & Feminism

Culture

Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a New York Times bestselling author of thoughtful, persuasive, and contrarian books that challenge conventional wisdom on topics ...

Ep 433: Can James Lindsay Save Israel and Western Civilization From The Trap of Catharsis?

Culture

In this episode, Doug Stuart and Jacob Winograd sit down with James Lindsay to explore whether the West — and Israel by extension — can escape what Lindsay calls the ...

Defending Free Speech: A Response to Crisis

Christian Ethics

The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University shocked the nation, casting a stark light on the fragility of free speech in what feels like ...

Are Libertarians “Woke” (or is James Lindsay)?

Culture

Anti-woke provocateur James Lindsay has set his sights on libertarians. The Cynical Theories co-author had previously earned comments and retweets when he turned on some of his conservative supporters by accusing a ...

One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament law and prophets — was by reorganizing God’s followers from a nation into a church. He denationalized them, transforming them from a typical earthly kingdom into the transnational, interethnic, nongovernmental, nonviolent, geographically dispersed organization we call the universal church. For these reasons, Jesus was an anti-nationalist which makes Christian Nationalism antithetical to the Christian faith.

Why Christianity and Nationalism are Incompatible

Christian Worldview

What is nationalism and what does it mean to be a nationalist? Under nationalism, a ruling government uses its authority to promote and protect a nation’s identity behind a common ...

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Ep 22: The Cultural Context Of Politics

Culture

Summary – The Cultural Context Of Politics A discussion of “What Is Culture?,” Part 1 of the Reformed Libertarianism Statement. Other episodes are mentioned in which some points from episode ...

Ep 172: The Dark Side of American Christian Culture with Matthew Barber and Josh Williams

Culture

Ep 172: The Dark Side of American Christian Culture with Matthew Barber and Josh Williams In this episode I talk to my friends Matt Barber and Josh Williams about the ...

Privacy for Sale

Culture

Edward Snowden’s name will always be associated with one defining act—blowing the whistle on the United States government’s mass surveillance program. At the time of this writing, he is still ...

Is Football Worth All its Health Problems?

Culture

Football season has arrived in the U.S. But do fans who financially support the sport bear any responsibility for the fearsome health toll endured by far too many of the ...

Ep 376: After CRT: What Questions Should We Be Asking? with Ed Uszynski

Christian Worldview

Summary – After CRT: What Questions Should We Be Asking? with Ed Uszynski Doug Stuart sits down with Ed Uszynski, a seasoned ministry consultant, to navigate the complex waters of ...

Ep 137: Left vs. Right Libertarianism, Reason Magazine, Trump, and New Hampshire with Jeremy Kauffman

Culture

Ep 137: Left vs. Right Libertarianism, Reason Magazine, Trump, and New Hampshire with Jeremy Kauffman In this episode I talk with Jeremy Kauffman, an entrepreneur and libertarian activist from New ...

Do Most Americans Truly Believe in God?

Christian Worldview

Do most Americans still believe in God? Though polls continue to show most of us say we do, they also reveal far fewer claim to than ever before, and substantially ...

Ep 136: Reason Magazine, the Mises Caucus, and the Libertarian Party with Zach Weissmueller

Culture

Ep 136: Reason Magazine, the Mises Caucus, and the Libertarian Party with Zach Weissmueller  In this episode I talk with Zach Weissmuller, senior producer at Reason magazine and cohost of ...

Ep 375: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbors, with Caleb Campbell

Culture

Ep 375: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbors, with Caleb Campbell Doug Stuart sits down with Caleb E. Campbell, pastor and author of the provocative book, Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian ...

Ep 374: Deep Insights into Faith & Freedom, with Jim Babka

Culture

Summary – Deep Insights into Faith & Freedom, with Jim Babka Join Doug Stuart and guest Jim Babka as they delve into a thought-provoking discussion ranging from exploring the theological ...

Ep 128: The Truth About Public Schools with Karl Streitel

Culture

Ep 128: The Truth About Public Schools with Karl Streitel  In this episode I talk with Karl Streitel, a retired high-school English and finance teacher who now works as a ...

Individualist Libertarians, Collectivist Bibles: the Challenge of Being Libertarian and Christian

Christian Worldview

Libertarians are known for their embrace of the philosophy of individualism. We support merit-based selection over group identity as the criteria for determining who gets a coveted job or college ...

Race Mythology Redux

Culture

Have you ever heard any bizarre stories or conspiracy theories about race? I have a relative who believes that modern day Jews are only pretenders and that the “real” Jews–the ...

God, Pigs, and Private Property

Culture

Introduction The Judaic prohibition on pigs has puzzled scholars for centuries — so much so that certain atheist writers, such as Christopher Hitchens, have used this prohibition as evidence against ...

Ep 111: Progressive Christianity with Cody Cook and Doug Stuart

Christian Worldview

Ep Progressive Christianity with Cody Cook and Doug Stuart In this episode I talk with Cody Cook and Doug Stuart about progressive Christianity. We examine the rise of progressive Christianity ...

Savvy and Witty: A Review of Jimmy Failla’s Cancel Culture Dictionary

Book Reviews

Jimmy Failla’s Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun is a remarkably well-reasoned, witty, and surprisingly serious takedown of cancel culture. The book ...

Christian Nationalists Think God Wants to Keep Ethnicities Separate, But Does He?

Christian Worldview

The following is an excerpt from Cody Cook’s new book, Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Response. It addresses one of the dangerous assumptions of Christian Nationalism–that God wants to keep distinct ...

Wrestling the Culture Wars: A Book Review of Tyrus’s Nuff Said

Book Reviews

Nuff Said is the second book by Tyrus (George Murdoch), the professional wrestler, actor, and witty regular on the Gutfeld! late night show. While his first book, 2022’s Just Tyrus: ...

The Haunting of Christ in the Holy Land

Culture

The Israel-Palestine vortex of human suffering that has flooded eyes on social media over the last weeks has been stupefying. As a result, many people have been rendered numb to ...

Questioning the COVID Company Line with Laurie Calhoun

Ep 73: Questioning the COVID Company Line with Laurie Calhoun (Part 1)

Culture

Ep 73: Questioning the COVID Company Line with Laurie Calhoun (Part 1) This is the first of two installments of a long interview I had with Laurie Calhoun, senior fellow ...

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Ep 12: Is Civil Governance Without The State Plausible?

Culture

Summary – Is Civil Governance Without The State Plausible? A discussion of the main points of Kerry Baldwin’s article on the plausibility of stateless civil governance and the common difficulty ...

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Ep 10: Climate Alarmism and the Cornwall Alliance

Christian Worldview

Summary – Climate Alarmism and the Cornwall Alliance An interview with Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, President of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation about politically-concocted climate alarmism in ...

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Ep 9: Does Social Hierarchy or Economics Make The State Inevitable?

Culture

Does Social Hierarchy or Economics Make The State Inevitable? A discussion of the main points of Kerry Baldwin’s article on economics, social relations, and the question of the inevitability of ...

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