Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Crime is running rampant across the nation. Why? Democrats' soft on crime policies are to blame. Even murderers are being released back onto our streets. For example in Texas, between September 2016 and September 2021, 133 capital murder suspects were bonded out of jail in Harris County alone. While crime trends are often very localized, there are some national trends as well that have unfolded recently. To help examine these trends, we are joined by an expert on criminal justice, Josh Crawford from the Pegasus Institute.

Rep. Garret Graves joins me to discuss an important pillar of the Republicans Energy, Climate, and Conservation task force: how to compete with China and Russia on energy production. America's key strategic asset is its geopolitical advantage in producing and exporting resources – whether that's food, energy, or materials, and American energy dominance is crucial to maintaining that advantage. Rep.

Garret Graves joins us to outline the Republican plan to protect American energy dominance and reduce global emissions as a result.

Follow Rep. Garret Graves on Twitter at @RepGarretGraves.

Pete Hegseth, New York Times bestselling author and the cohost of FOX & Friends Weekend, joins us to take a deep dive into our education system. It's no secret that Progressives hijacked our education system years ago, but how can parents regain control over their children's education once again?

Pete provided the game plan in this episode - how we can fight back, and what options we have to reclaim our education system.

Follow Pete Hegseth on Twitter at @PeteHegseth.

Author, comedian, and TV personality Dave Rubin joins us to take on some of the most complex and controversial topics in society today. Using his new book as a guide, Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia, Dave shares how he went from a left leaning progressive to using his platform to stand up against wokeism across the country.

Follow Dave Rubin on Twitter at @RubinReport.

Alex Epstein, author of Fossil Future and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, joins us for a reality check on fossil fuels. Many Americans have been convinced by radical environmentalists that fossil fuels are bad, if not inherently evil, and that supporting oil and gas is equivalent to supporting the environmental destruction of our planet. Alex joins us to explain why supporting fossil fuels and supporting the environment are not mutually exclusive, and how fossil fuels have contributed to human flourishing. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexEpstein.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People's Suicide, The Global Public Square, Last Call for Liberty, Carpe Diem Redeemed, and The Magna Carta of Humanity. His latest book is The Great Quest: Invitation to the Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning. Follow him on Twitter at @OsGuinness.

Psychologist Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the core human impulses that control our lives and decision making; along with their profound implications for our culture, politics, and policymaking.

Dr. Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His most recent book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning. He is also the author of the New York Post Best Book of 2016 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. Follow him on Twitter at @paulbloomyale.

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made headlines recently when he announced the creation of a new financial firm, backed by Peter Thiel, that would do something shocking in woke corporate America today: invest in companies that focus on profit and innovation, not taking political and cultural stances. Vivek joins us to examine the new iteration of corporate cronyism that he's fighting back against; where a small cartel of asset management firms like BlackRock manipulate free markets to implement progressive politics at the expense of companies, shareholders, and everyday citizens.

Vivek Ramaswamy is the author of the NY Times bestselling book "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam", a biotech investor and founder of the new fund manager Strive with investors Peter Thiel and Bill Ackman. Follow him on Twitter at @VivekGRamaswamy.

Michael Knowles joins us to talk about his new documentary, "Choosing Death: The Legacy of Roe" which just came out on the Daily Wire. We unpack all the moral arguments for abortion from the leftist and libertarian perspectives, and how they relate to modern society's broader, shifting views on the value of life and liberty.

Michael Knowles is the host of "The Michael Knowles Show" at the Daily Wire, "The Book Club" at PragerU, and co-host of "Verdict with Ted Cruz." His most recent book is "Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds." Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @michaeljknowles.

Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, walks us through Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v Jackson that made the left completely lose its mind, what it means for abortion in America, and what she expects from the Court in the coming weeks.

Carrie Severino is the co-author with Mollie Hemingway of the bestselling book "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Court." She was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Follow her on Twitter at @JCNSeverino.