Heritage Foundation's Patty-Jane Geller joins us to examine the implications of China's escalating development of nuclear and hypersonic weapons. We also look at the nuclear capabilities of Russia, North Korea, and non-state actors.

Patty-Jane Geller is the policy analyst for nuclear deterrence and missile defense in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense. Follow her on Twitter at @pj_geller.

For this special Christmas episode, Pastor James Emery White joins us to help answer the most common questions and criticisms of Christianity and the Bible that you would hear from skeptics.

Pastor White is the author of "Christianity for People Who Aren't Christians". He is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church. Follow him on Twitter at @JamesEmeryWhite.

Mike Sommers is the President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, the largest national trade association for America's oil and gas industry. He joins us to examine the policies and propaganda from the Biden Administration which are causing record gasoline prices, crushing industry innovation, and (ironically) leading to greater carbon emissions.

Follow Mike on Twitter at @mj_sommers.

Tech and counterterrorism expert Kara Frederick joins us to discuss what she learned working at Facebook about the ideologies and incentives driving big tech to censor conservative voices, the controversial debate over children's access to social media, worthwhile policy reforms to protect free expression online, and the potential for decentralized social networks like Jack Dorsey’s Blue Sky to end the possibility of censorship forever.

Kara Frederick is a Research Fellow in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Kara helped create and lead Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program. She was a Senior Intelligence Analyst for a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command and spent six years as a counterterrorism analyst at the Department of Defense. Follow her on Twitter at @karaafrederick.

Scientist, author, and Member of the House of Lords Matt Ridley returns to share his findings from an investigation into the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis. We also talked about Britain's worsening energy crisis, the differences between American and British conservatism, and much more.

Lord Ridley is the co-author with scientist Alina Chan of the new book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19." Follow him on Twitter at @mattwridley.

Josh Holmes gets Dan Crenshaw’s uncensored take on the conservative movement, what it really means to “fight,” and much more in this special crossposting with Ruthless Podcast.

Josh Holmes is the co-host of Ruthless Podcast, president of Cavalry LLC, and former Chief of Staff for Senator Mitch McConnell. Follow him on Twitter at @HolmesJosh.

Elisabeth Braw joins us to discuss the tactics being used by China, Russsia, and other hostile nations. Non-military actions like cyber attacks, coercion of western companies, and disinformation campaigns may seem like minor nuisances that the United States just has to deal with - but for totalitarian regimes these are serious operations that take advantage of liberal democracies and undermine order.

Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Fellow at AEI, where she focuses on defending against emerging national security challenges. She is the author of "The Defenders Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression." Follow her on Twitter at @elisabethbraw.

Michael Samaritano is a sophomore at Yale and winner of the National Review's William F. Buckley Jr. essay contest. Are universities today really the hostile political battlegrounds we see playing out on social media? What are the consequences for conservatives who express their beliefs in the classroom? Who should control the class syllabus - students, professors, or administrators? How do conservatives break through the mental barriers that are holding back persuadable students from considering conservative arguments? Michael brings his experience at Yale to give us helpful insights into all these questions.

Read Michael's award-winning essay here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/conservatives-dont-give-up-on-yale/

Mike Solana joins us to look at the revolutionary impact of social media on culture, politics, and the future of civilization. Americans have always been divided roughly 50/50 on partisan and ideological lines. But what happened when it became possible for a single piece of information - true or false - to reach hundreds of millions of people in minutes? Mike also gives us an insider's perspective on the culture wars playing out in Silicon Valley and explains why conservatives can and should offer a more compelling vision of the future.

Mike Solana is a VP at Founders Fund, Editor-in-Chief of Pirate Wires, and host of the podcast Anatomy of Next. Follow him on Twitter at @micsolana.

Read "Jump" by Mike Solana here: https://www.piratewires.com/p/jump-23d06adb4cb7

Thanksgiving dinner is coming up. Which might mean you’re about to have your annual political debate with that liberal relative at the dinner table. We’d recommend avoiding any debate at dinner, but if you absolutely must, Dan Crenshaw put together some tips and facts for the most contentious issues. Timestamped guide below. Good luck and remember: if things get too heated, break out the tequila!

1:10 – General advice for winning debates against your liberal relatives

5:00 – Climate change

8:20 – Border crisis

12:05 – Critical race theory

14:50 – Guns

20:45 – Women’s healthcare/Planned Parenthood

21:55 – Wealth inequality

26:40 – Gender wage gap