Ill Literacy: Books with Benson

In this stirring episode about his new book -  A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand - Jonathan Hoenig demonstrates that most people have no idea what the United States properly represents, and that today's hyper partisan politics presents false choices and few answers. Does America follow the objectivist principles laid out by Ayn Rand? Have we lost touch with what real Americanism is? What would Ayn Rand think about Trump? Check out this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast to find out!

Historian and Author Larry Schweikart joins the podcast to talk about his new book “Reagan: The American President.” For his book, Schweikart used new and exclusively obtained administration documents from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, offering fresh insights on one of the greatest presidencies of the 20th century. Schweikart and Heartland Director of Communications Jim Lakely talk about some of Reagan’s greatest triumphs as president, how Reagan taught himself to be an intellectual, one of his greatest failures (Lebanon), and the similarities that are already obvious between Reagan, Donald Trump, and their presidencies.

The war on guns and individual rights has been raging for decades with the same recycled arguments. David Keene, former NRA president, discusses red flag laws and the issue of due process, weapon bans, election ramifications, the purpose of the Second Amendment, and the effect on limiting low-income people from protecting themselves.

In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Research Fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Mark Janus, a senior fellow with the Illinois Policy Institute and the successful plaintiff in Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME. Janus talks about the blockbuster lawsuit overturning decades of compulsory speech at the hands of public-sector unions, as well as what the future holds for setting workers free from the grips of Big Labor.

M.A. Taylor, director of the documentary The Creepy Line, joins the show to discuss his film. Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, The Creepy Line examines what is at risk when Facebook and Google have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data to manipulate society.

Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel and nationally syndicated host of “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” joins the Heartland Daily Podcast to talk about his new book Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans. The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely and Kilmeade talk about the recent midterm election, Donald Trump and his stem-winder of a post-election press conference, and then get into the history of our seventh president. Why are “popular history” books so important to our national conversation about what it means to be an American? Why has “Old Hickory” fallen into disrepute among modern historians and academia? Why was the United States and Britain again at war fewer than 30 years after the end of the American Revolution? What would have happened if America lost? Why was the Battle of New Orleans a “miracle”? What influence has Andrew Jackson had on American history, world history, and the presidents who followed him?

Get Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans at Amazon.com.

Learn more about author Brian Kilmeade and where to meet him on his national book tour.

In this episode of The Constitutional Sound Bites Podcast Series, hosts Lindsey Stroud, Chris Talgo, and Dave Shestokas discuss the Fourth Amendment. Searches and seizures, warrants, and police tactics are all explored in this installment.  How much power does the fourth amendment grant the police?  What did the founders envision when writing it?

In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s Constitutional Soundbites series, David Shestokas, Chris Talgo, and Lindsey Stroud continue their discussion on The Bill of Rights from Shestokas’ book Constitutional Soundbites. The three discuss the Third Amendment, which protects American citizens from being forced to quarter soldiers. While this amendment has had little traction in way of court cases, there have been periods where it has been violated, and there are issues on how this amendment is applicable to local law enforcement. As an amendment created directly by the acts of the British government, it is important to understand the history of the Third Amendment.