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Maria Bartiromo is suddenly out at Fox News, and questions are already swirling about what really happened behind the scenes. The Chicks break down the reported dispute involving coverage of China election interference, Donald Trump’s reaction to Bartiromo’s departure, and JD Vance’s response when reporters asked whether she could be headed to the White House. […]

AI has many amygdalae flooding nervous systems with warnings; a rising share of Americans look toward digital technology with deep suspicion; and a data center revolt is underway. The worries are increasingly apocalyptic. But it’s not that America has never experienced a transformation of comparable scale, only that no living American is old enough to […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Friday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into much better-than-expected job numbers in August, the many bizarre facts and twists in the Lindsay Clancy case, Fox News dismissing Maria Bartiromo, and what we’ll be doing for our Labor Day special. New episodes every weekday. 👉 Subscribe to the show […]

Further reading: Darel E. Paul, “Jason Arday and the Therapeutic Academy”  (First Things) Carl R. Trueman, “How the Therapeutic Killed Academic Standards” (First Things) Bethel McGrew, “Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie” (First Things) Tyler Austin Harper, “Why I Quit the Tenure Track” (The Atlantic) R. R. Reno, “The Failed 9/11 Memorial” (First Things)

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the political gap between American workers and the radical leaders of the worker’s unions, the traps used by unions to force membership and payment, and how states […]

Guests: Matthew Spalding and J. A. Jackson Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., about the ideological capture of the National Museum of American History and his recent essay, “Make American History National Again .” And J. […]

With all due respect to grammarians, when we at Beyond the Polls think of New Hampshire, hard facts and rock-solid political analysis from our friend Dante Scala are foremost in mind. In anticipation of Tuesday’s Democratic primary, he and Henry discuss the tectonic political shift in the Granite State now that Jeanne Shaheen is retiring—along […]

I think a good description of 2026, culturally, economically, socially, and politically, is that we are in a modern medieval world. One part of our society is advancing at lightning speed into the future and progressing. But the other part is regressing, and regressing at a phenomenal pace back to what I would call the […]

Erick opens with a hot dog stand anecdote from New Way Weiners in Macon that matches the polling data: a Trump voter who is not angry, just disappointed, with diesel over six dollars a gallon. He walks through Karl Rove’s Wall Street Journal warning that a Trump rally a day in October and an ad […]

Erick tracks the Iran war as Brent hits 95 dollars and West Texas crude hits 91, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claiming the Strait of Hormuz is flowing and the regime is finished while Iranian missiles hit Kuwait and possibly a hotel in Jordan. He then reports the growing revolt […]