When the Daily Wire laid off about fifty employees last week, Candace Owens told her millions of followers it was over fifty percent of the workforce. Then sixty. "Absolute bloodbath." None of it was true. But in 2026, lies are fast and the truth gets there last.

Jeremy Boreing exposes a much bigger story behind the layoffs: we are now living inside an information environment that structurally rewards being first to a frame over being right about a fact, and that the personality-driven podcast economy has done nothing to fix the failures of legacy media. In many ways, it has made them worse.

He walks through the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; the actual journalistic codes on the books since 1924 that we've simply stopped following; the Obama-era pivot from truth-telling to change-making in the newsroom; Billy Wilder's 1951 film Ace in the Hole that saw the whole thing coming; Russiagate, the lab-leak theory, and the Hunter Biden laptop as the prelude; the rise of what he calls the "grift industrial complex" — where cynicism stops being a tool and becomes the thing you serve; Candace Owens's audacious public claim that the George Farmer arrested in Nashville is not her husband George Farmer; Tucker Carlson's Dominion lawsuit, his on-the-record willingness to lie when a lie helps him win, and his recent New York Times interview where he accused unnamed neoconservatives of "treachery" and admitted, on the record, that he couldn’t confirm what he was talking about; Gresham's Law of bad journalism driving out good; and Alcuin of York's eighth-century warning that the voice of the crowd is always close to madness.

Not a defense of legacy media. Not a brief against new media. An argument that the answer to the failures of the institutions is to build better institutions — not to abandon the model of journalism altogether for crowd-sourced certainty — and that all of us, audiences and creators alike, have to be willing to question ourselves before we question the headline.

00:00 The Truth Behind the Daily Wire Layoffs 

04:23 Gell-Mann Amnesia (and the Lies You’ve Heard About Me)

07:06 When Journalism Had Real Standards

13:02 Billy Wilder Saw This Coming in 1951

15:36 The Grift Industrial Complex

20:33 George Farmer's Arrest

22:19 Tucker Carlson's Casual Lies

25:35 Gresham's Law and the Path Forward

Anti-Zionism on the left and the right in America today is a kind of envy — envy of a country that still has permission to define itself, defend itself, and have a future. That's the opening claim Alana Newhouse makes to Jeremy Boreing in this two-hour conversation about Zionism, American identity, and the cultural project of believing in tomorrow.

Jeremy sits down with Alana Newhouse — founder and editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine, author of the breakout essays "Everything Is Broken," "Brokenness," and "Zionism for Everyone" — for a wide-ranging conversation that uses Israel as a lens for diagnosing what's wrong with America.

They get into culture as a "mixing board" (race is loud in Japan, irrelevant in Israel — every culture calibrates differently); America's twin tethers of capitalism and covenant; the four questions Alana says every country has to be able to answer (are your people happy? do they have babies? can they defend themselves? are they future-oriented?); Tucker Carlson's truth-and-lie about Israel and the black pill industrial complex aimed at demoralizing Americans; the Artemis splashdown, the F-15 weapons officer rescue in Iran, and "what are the machines for?"; Alana's four-bucket framework for any institution (conserve, reform, destroy, build new); why she's drawn to leaders like Modi and Milei but skeptical of Orban and "Make America Great Again"; the original meaning of ethnos (it's not bloodline, it's the music a people make together); why anti-Semitism is a symptom and not a cause; and the fertility hiccup, the Gen X reckoning, and the case that creation itself is an act of optimism.

Not a defense of Israeli policy. Not a brief against the contemporary right. A clinical, hopeful argument that the formula that built Israel — particularism plus pragmatism plus idealism — is exportable, and that the future belongs to whoever shows up to build it.

00:00 Anti-Zionism Is Just Envy

05:14 America's Twin Tethers — Capitalism and Covenant

12:22 The "Mixing Board" — Why Cultures Have to Be Different

25:17 The Zionism Formula and the 4 Questions Every Country Must Answer

31:59 What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong About Israel

36:30 The Black Pill Trap and the Lost Faith in the Moon Landing

45:00 Why Alana Built Tablet — Creation as an Act of Optimism

56:35 The Right's Failure on Social Media (and Why AI Is Next)

1:03:22 The 4 Buckets: Conserve, Reform, Destroy, Build New

1:21:39 When Ethnos Goes Wrong — and Why the Nation-State Still Wins

1:28:11 Modi, Milei, Orban — Looking for Joy in World Leaders

1:34:05 The Artemis Diver and the F-15 Rescue: "What Are the Machines For?"

1:46:09 Anti-Semitism Is a Symptom, Not a Cause

1:49:02 Fertility, Gen X, and the Hiccup We Have to Correct

Politics is entertainment now. So is the news. The Right finally figured out how to use that — and so did the grifters who came in right behind them.

Saturday night's third assassination attempt on Donald Trump produced a thirty-second video of Erika Kirk weeping and asking to go home — and split the country in two. Half saw a young widow retraumatized seven months after Charlie Kirk's public assassination. The other half decided she was performing. Same pixels. Two opposite perceptions. Like 2015's viral "Dress”—except what's implicated isn't visual perception. It's moral perception.

Jeremy Boreing makes the case that the cruelty being directed at Erika Kirk is not "trolling." It is the natural, predictable output of a fifty-year cultural project that elevated, organized, monetized, and amplified toxic femininity — the negative feminine of gossip, exclusion, and reputational destruction — while systematically dismantling positive masculinity and every institution that previously held those instincts in check. The result is an emergent matriarchy that Candace Owens once called "hellish" — but Candace is now its main promulgator, running the most flagrant toxic-feminine pile-on in modern conservative media: a gnostic conspiracy ritual dressed up as a true crime docuseries called Bride of Charlie.

Jeremy walks the data: women's self-reported happiness in continuous decline since the 1970s; the lowest U.S. fertility rate in recorded history; 70% of divorces initiated by wives, almost none for cause of abuse; female-majority institutions — K–12 education, HR, higher education — becoming dramatically less tolerant of dissent; the FIRE study showing male students are more tolerant of their political enemies than female students are of their own allies. He works through the literary archetypes — Medea, Jezebel, Lady Macbeth, Dolores Umbridge — and the academic research on relational aggression that confirms what those stories already knew. He names the men who've built the manosphere economy on the rubble (Andrew Tate, Dan Bilzerian) and explains why neither feminism's emergent matriarchy nor the trad movement's larped patriarchy is the answer.

Not a call to disenfranchise women. Not a defense of toxic masculinity. An argument that the answer to a bad cultural project is the slow, voluntary recovery of complementary masculine and feminine virtues — and that wicked men can only ever be constrained by good men.

Chapters

00:00 The Video That Divided the Country

02:40 This Is the World Feminism Has Wrought

06:48 Medea, Jezebel, and the 6th Grade Slut Code 

10:27 Fifty Years of Declining Female Happiness

13:07 70% of Divorces and the Christian View of Marriage

17:33 Dolores Umbridge in Power

20:18 No, Erika Did Not Kill Her Husband

24:19 Candace Owens and "Bride of Charlie"

29:22 You're Being a B*tch

32:54 Wicked Men, Good Men, and the Trad Movement LARP

36:03 A New Technology

38:15 Leave the Grieving Widow Alone

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Jeremy sits down with Lauren Southern — the woman who went viral on feminism and immigration as an impressionable 19-year-old, got permanently pigeonholed as alt-right, lived the trad wife life she'd been preaching, watched her marriage fall apart on the internet, and is now trying to figure out what Christianity looks like when public Christianity is almost entirely performance. Jordan Peterson twice told Jeremy he should hire her, but that never happened before Jeremy departed the company. This is their first conversation.

They get into the “redemption arc industrial complex” and the cinematic Culture War universe. Whether anyone can actually be a Christian online. Why Jeremy thinks uploading your soul to the cloud is a category error, and what a night at a bar at 3 a.m. really tells you about a person (and what it does not). The two right-wing media spheres — Prager and Peterson as the example on one side, Shaffer and Tate and Milo on the other — and the symbiosis between them. Why Lauren found Destiny more honest than the “trad” friends cheating on their wives while posting Christ Is King. How conservatism became so graceless there's no path back for anyone who fails the trad life. Chinese spies, Russian honeypots, and the economy of paid tweets nobody sees. And why Boromir is the best character in Lord of the Rings.

Jeremy is joined by three men who've each built their work around a different answer to the same question: what does masculinity actually look like when it isn't being sold to you by manosphere grifters? John Lovell (Warrior Poets Society) brings a decade of teaching men to be fully warrior and fully poet. Gates Garcia (We The People) brings the view from college campuses and the millennial mirror. Pavel (Be a Man With Me) brings the voice of an immigrant who noticed something was missing from American masculinity— and occasionally carries a machete.

They get into the manosphere and why Pavel calls it “porn for masculinity.”; toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, and the generation of Gen Z men caught between them; why men need male friends (and why your wife can't be one of them); the 15-degree phenomenon; Pavel's machete at the gas station; the institutional collapse that makes Gen Z the hardest generation in American history to date in; and the practical advice none of these guys are monetizing: ask a woman on a date, show up early to work, get off social media, and find out what “Till We Have Faces” actually means.

00:00 Introducing Pavel, Gates, and John — Three Actual Men

04:43 Warrior AND Poet: 100% Both, Not 50/50

10:08 How We Got Here — 9/11, MeToo, the iPhone, and Covid

14:00 Lion of Judah vs. “Gay Jesus” — How the Church Went Soft

20:23 Toxic Masculinity, Male Suicide, and the Silent Heroes

24:00 Why a Man Needs Male Friends (The Waitress Problem)

34:15 Sports, Wrestling, and the Missing Rites of Passage

42:00 Toxic Femininity Is the Bigger Problem — And the Paradox That Fixes It

48:40 Pavel, the Machete, and the Gas Station Story

01:04:30 Why Gen Z Actually Has It Worse Than Any Generation Before

01:12:26 The 15-Degree Phenomenon: Why Women Need to Look Up

01:18:30 Practical Advice: Ask Her Out, Show Up Early, Get Off Social Media

A lot of people believe they independently "woke up" to the truth about Israel, the Jews, and who really runs the world over the last two years. Jeremy Boreing makes the case that they didn't — they were sold a worldview using the same rhetorical machinery that's fueled every social contagion from eugenics to the population bomb to Covid-era hysteria.

James Lindsay — author, mathematician, and the man who coined the term "woke right" — joins Jeremy Boreing for a wide-ranging conversation on what's really happening inside the conservative movement.

Is the cultural "immune system" of the right holding? Or has a subversive faction — what Lindsay calls the woke right — successfully dressed up leftist methodology in trad clothing and insinuated itself into MAGA? Jeremy and James dig into the methodology, the ontology, and the history: from Marx and Rousseau to Alfred Rosenberg's "Myth of the 20th Century," from Catholic integralism to Carl Schmitt's unbound executive, from the paradox of tolerance to the principle of reciprocal tolerance.

Jeremy presses Lindsay on the question dividing the right: is he rooting out subversives, or is he burning down coalitions the movement can't afford to lose? They spar over Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, Tucker Carlson, and JD Vance — and where the line sits between exposing bad actors and alienating potential allies.

They also get into James's positive vision: a high-trust society, Federalist 51, divided powers, stewardship of power rather than the wielding of it, and why loving America — warts and all — is the only foundation a real coalition can be built on. And in a rare personal turn, James opens up about faith, agnosticism, the Book of James, and why he doesn't particularly want to be remembered.

A vital conversation for anyone trying to understand the realignment happening on the right in 2026.

00:00 Intro: Has the conservative movement been co-opted?

03:05 What is the "Woke Right"?

11:15 Looking Backward: Marx, the Fascists & the Return to Eden

25:05 Lindsay's Vision: Federalist 51 and the High-Trust Society

42:00 Power, Stewardship, and the Limits of Government

57:00 An Age of Miracles: The Case for American Optimism

01:10:45 The Online War: Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo & Coalition Politics

01:34:19 Tucker, JD Vance, and Building a Positive America

01:41:40 Faith, Legacy, and the Book of James

JD Vance flies to Islamabad for the highest-level US-Iran talks in nearly fifty years. Trump blocks the Strait of Hormuz. And Joel Berry says the war is probably nowhere near over.

Jeremy, Joel, Jon Lewis, and Ryan Chase also debate whether freedom can actually be exported, why Christians who disengage from politics have bad theology, the time Jeremy told a room full of progressive Christian do-gooders he was using government money to kill the gays, and why Project Hail Mary is a rebuke of everything Christian filmmakers are doing wrong.

00:00 Intro: Artemis Splashdown, Iran Ceasefire & Project Hail Mary 

01:43 Is the Iran War Actually Over? 

03:29 Trump's Strategy: Blocking the Strait of Hormuz 

05:45 American Reassertion: Cuba, Venezuela & China 

07:19 The Man in the Arena (The House Buying Analogy) 

10:51 Congress Is Vestigial: The Problem with Governing by Executive Order 

12:54 Trump's Legacy: Mopping Up Reagan's Evil Empire 

14:13 Can You Actually Export Freedom? 

17:41 Joel's Iraq War Story: Watching Saddam's Execution 

20:05 Freedom Requires Institutions Built Over Generations 

22:24 The Pilgrims Were Proto-Communists 

27:33 Does the Constitution Shape People, or Do People Shape the Constitution? 

29:04 The "Moral Decay" Psyop 

33:23 Catholic Integralism and Left-Wing Economics 

39:50 AI and the Next Attempt at Communism 

41:14 "We Are the Joke": Humans Trying to Build Utopia 

42:30 Jeremy's Restoration Theology Story 

52:47 Eschatology: When End Times Theology Makes Christians Quit Politics 

57:13 The Miracle of the Modern State of Israel 

1:13:04 Does Jeremy Support Israel for Eschatological Reasons? 

1:19:32 Project Hail Mary: A Rebuke of Christian Filmmaking 

1:29:47 Q&A: Who Would You Have Dinner With? Who Would You Punch?

Tucker Carlson calls on American soldiers to refuse orders from their Commander in Chief. Candace Owens demands the 25th Amendment: "He's a genocidal lunatic." And Marjorie Taylor Greene says everyone in the administration needs to "fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God."