Henry Olsen, RENOWNED for the accuracy of his election predictions, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. A true non-partisan politico, he writes a regular column for The Washington Post, and has also written for National Review, American Greatness, City Journal, and World Magazine. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and, of course, he has a podcast on Ricochet.com.

His books are:

• The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
• The Four Faces of the Republican Party and the Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination

In this interview, the poor man walked into a buzz saw, and held up admirably.

Nadine Strossen, legal scholar and civil liberties activist who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991 to 2008) returns to the podcast to talk free speech and the rise of anti-Semitism on University campuses.

(Note: This episode was taped prior to Claudine Gay's resignation at Harvard)

Articles mentioned:

• The unbearable allure of cringe. Why can’t you stop watching TV shows, movies or viral videos that make you cringe?.
• Mediaite: ‘Sean Hannity Does Stand-Up Set At Fox ‘Patriot Awards’ Show
• Bill Schulz, The Daily Beast, Happy Evacuation Day! Why It’s Time To Bring Back This Britain-Bashing Holiday
• Bill Schulz, The New York Times, Oktoberfest, All the Time
• Bill Schulz, The New York Times, From the Vault of the Museum at Fraunces Tavern: A Drinks Kit
• Bill Schulz, The New York Times, Hamilton, Burr and the Great Waterworks Ruse
• Book that describes William Dawes’s contribution to the Revolution: Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

This week Ann talks to actor amd podcaster Clifton Duncan.

• Clifton Duncan’s IMDb page here.
• Follow Clifton on Twitter here: @cliftonaduncan
• Clifton’s substack, The State of the Arts
• New York Times, 2018: Review: An Anthology of B-List Broadway in ‘Hey, Look Me Over!’"

"There are remarkable performances along the way, especially from Clifton Duncan singing the rangy arias of “Greenwillow” and Bebe Neuwirth snarling Elaine Stritch’s songs from “Sail Away.”

• The New York Times, 2010: Chicanery Abounds in a New ‘All’s Well’

"As Bertram, Clifton Duncan takes callowness and insensitivity to a new level while beguiling one and all with his sheepish grin. Only when his mother, the Countess of Rossillion, played elegantly by Tamara Tunie, slaps his face in disgust does he register horror at his actions. Why sweet Helena chose this creep remains a mystery.»

This week Ann interviews New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters on his new book, Insurgency: How the Republicans Lost their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.

Specifically, we zero in on the Fox News Channel - Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit and the discovery process that showed that what FNC stars were saying on-air hardly matched what they were saying to each other in private.

Show links:

• Jeremy Peters’ book, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
• The left’s Diebold Conspiracy Theory: Ann Coulter, November 11, 2020, The Democrats’ Guide to Losing Gracefully
• Jeremy W. Peters, Dec. 21, 2022, In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims
• Stuart A. Thompson, Karen Yourish and Jeremy W. Peters, Feb. 25, 2023, What Fox News Hosts Said Privately vs. Publicly About Voter Fraud
• Katie Robertson, March 8, 2023, 5 Times Tucker Carlson Privately Reviled Trump: ‘I Hate Him’
• Jeremy W. Peters and Katie Robertson, March 31, 2023, Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Defamation Case
• Ray Epps story: Alan Feuer, July 13, 2022, A Trump Backer’s Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory

Ryan Girdusky returns to the pod to talk about the third GOP debate before Tim Scott decided to bail.
Does Nikki Hayley have a foreign policy or has she just morphed into Carly Fiorina?

Show notes:

• The Tablet editorial: Stop Being Shocked—Once and for All

Other good ones:

• Editorial, Disinfo Dictionary: A helpful guide to America’s new ministry of truth
• Michael Lind, The End of Progressive Intellectual Life

“The centralized and authoritarian control of American progressivism by major foundations and the nonprofits that they fund, and the large media institutions, universities, corporations, and banks that disseminate the progressive party line, has made it impossible for there to be public intellectuals on the American center-left.”

• Blake Smith, The Woke Meritocracy
• How telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing system
• Armin Rosen, The Burning of Minneapolis

Jon Levine of the NY Post returns for a discussion on liberal Jews finding out exactly who their friends really are.

Show notes:

• David Cole, OY VEY! Stop With the Golems, Already!
• Cornell University professor calls Hamas terror attack ‘exhilarating’ and ‘exciting’
• Jon Levine, George Soros once slammed US, Israel for not working with Hamas
• Jon Levine, Progressives call for US to take in some of the expected 1 million Gaza refugees
• BLM Chicago under fire for pro-Palestinian post featuring paragliding terrorist: ‘Disgusting and disgraceful’

Show Links:

• Ryan Girdusky’s 1776 Project PAC
• Bloomberg: In 2021 94% of jobs with the S&P 100 went to people of color, only 6% to whites.
• Smart liberal pollster, David Shor: "People yell at me on Twitter about this. So working-class white people have an enormous amount of political power and they’re trending towards the Republican Party. In 2016, we didn’t lose because our get-out-the-vote lists were not sorted well enough. And it wasn’t that we had the wrong kind of digital targeting. We lost because, big picture, we ran a campaign that increased the salience of immigration at a time when marginal voters in swing states in the Midwest disagreed with us on immigration. That’s why we lost."
• My interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis before the first debate.The 6-week abortion ban may be unpopular, but DeSantis is right: That’s not why the GOP lost so many seats in 2022. It was Trump.

Lots of good ideas! I hope no Democrats listen to this.