Over the weekend, Ben Shapiro delivered a blistering rebuke of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and others during his speech at the Turning Point AmericaFest 2025 event. Tucker Carlson then used his speech to respond to Shapiro. In this episode I share my thoughts, my frustrations, and my sense of who won this round of the civil war playing out on the US right.

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Katy Faust - founder and president of Them Before Us, and advisory board member for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship - joins me to discuss the profound importance of Christian anthropology for human flourishing and humane societies.

Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. Katy publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy and co-author Stacy Manning detailed their philosophy of worldview transmission in their second book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City.

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US researcher and author Rachel Roth Aldhizer joins me to discuss the shocking untold story about the development, questionable FDA approval, and serious ongoing safety issues with the abortion pill - which has now become the primary method of abortion in many countries (including here in New Zealand). We also discuss the abortion pill reversal procedure, whether the current policies from the Trump administration are still pro-life, AND MORE!

Rachel's reporting and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Rachel’s commentary has featured on NPR, MSNBC, and other national outlets. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a recent recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship.

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Earlier this week a NZ Judge ruled that a mother had been the victim of a treatment injury and was entitled to compensation because she chose not to abort her baby after antenatal screening failed to detect her daughter’s Down syndrome. In this episode I unpack five important things that strike me as being worthy of our deeper contemplation in light of this ruling.

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In this episode I discuss a tragic incident involving a group of New Zealanders whose deaths are connected to a global euthanasia case. In particular, I explore some serious questions raised by key details that are missing from the media coverage, and the deeper metaphysical realities that are at play in this awful case.

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In this episode of The Dispatches we take a deep dive into the goodness, truth, and beauty of Mary Shelly, specifically three different passages from her literary masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The first passage offers deep insights about human friendship, the second about death and grief, the third about science and morality. 

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Dieuwe and William join me to discuss the fierce civil war that is currently raging on the right of politics in the United States. We share our views on why we think Nick Fuentes has become such a popular voice for a lot of young people in the US, why his appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show ignited such a vitriolic reaction from some on the right, and what we think needs to happen next. We also talk about the implications of the shocking public scandal involving the top echelons on the NZ Police that has just exploded in the media.

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In this episode I discuss three profoundly important theological truths which play an essential role in the plot of Guillermo del Toro’s majestic new cinematic reimagining of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.

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Earlier today the NZ media published an article raising the alarm about increasing numbers of social media influencers speaking negatively about hormonal birth control while promoting the use of natural fertility methods instead. In this episode of The Dispatches I unpack the many truly fascinating ways that this media coverage unintentionally offers some very important insights into the dominant ideologies and secular dogmas of our age.

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In this episode of The Dispatches podcast I share my thoughts on the suspension of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, in particular, why this isn’t cancel culture, and what the authentic conservative approach to freedom of expression looks like.

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