Will the Great Barrington Declaration become the gold standard for dealing with a pandemic? Might it replace lockdowns, at least, as a response to Covid?  Back again is Phil Magness, from the American Institute for Economic Research, AIER.org, which sponsored the Declaration. Magness discusses the event held in Great Barrington, Massachusetts this month, and the ideas it has propelled to the forefront, on this week's What Divides Us.

Tom Shattuck, newspaper editor and radio commentator from Massachusetts, is an astute observer of the presidential race who favors the president's reelection. For those who wonder at the intelligence and thinking of Trump voters, we offer this conversation with Tom.

We all know those who are said to be the top couple of presidents in American history - folks like Abe Lincoln or FDR... but what are the criteria for these ratings? Author Robert Spencer has created his own list of presidents - best to last - based on putting America First. The book is called "Rating America's Presidents: An America-First Look at Who is Best, Who is Overrated, and Who Was a Disaster." Spencer is our guest on this week's What Divides Us.

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We learn more about the anti-American left and how it is using race to convert the notion of American Exceptionalism into American Racism as the fundamental, enduring premise of the nation, led by the New York Times and its "1619 Project." Joining us is Phil Magness, author of "The 1619 Project: A Critique." Phil is from AIER at AIER.org.

One of our favorite guest, Jeffrey Tucker of AIER.org, returns to discuss the ongoing saga of COVID. Check out his latest piece, "In this Red Dawn, Who Invaded Whom?"

On my Connecticut radio shows, we have prisoners as guests on a regular basis in order to get insights into their lives and their insights into ours. In particular, because they live inside a dysfunctional government bureaucracy, they offer a perspective that extrapolates easily into better understanding of government in general - how it operates for the benefit of those who work within it rather than in support of we the people. On this episode of What Divides Us, we talk with Michael Liebowitz about how the CT Department of Corrections managed the Covid crisis, and the anecdotes shared by Mike are quite stunning. Liebowitz is a 23 year veteran of the system, and is co-author of Down the Rabbit Hole: How the Culture of Corrections Encourages Crime. Learn more at PrisonerMike.com.

The recent police shooting in Kenosha Wisconsin led to an elevated response from professional athletes, particularly in the NBA. This week on What Divides Us, Todd talks with Producer Mike about the issues behind those moves and the ones that followed. And, we talked about where things might go from here.

Is the health care industry too under the thumb of government to repair through the power of markets? Not according to Dr. Lee Gross, President of the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation and Owner of Epiphany Health in Florida. He says he adopted a "Direct Primary Care" model at Epiphany a decade ago, and now he's marketing the money saving, care improving model that empowers patients while allowing doctors to do their jobs better in a more relaxed atmosphere. It works by creating patient-focused incentives instead of following ones controlled by insurance companies. Gross is our guest on this week's What Divides Us.

We discuss the internal narratives - the way we look down upon each other - that divide liberals from conservatives from libertarians, with Arnold Kling, author of The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides. Kling believes that we have a devotion to our team in modern political fandom that is a whole separate thing from our analytical, political sides. On this week's What Divides Us.

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What is going on? Last week's Hydroxycholoroquine fiasco reveals a scary crumbling of the ability of key structures of our public discourse - the political class, the media, information distributors like YouTube and Twitter - to behave with any responsibility. Everyone seems to have an agenda, all players are playing for themselves. We discuss with Jeffrey Tucker from AIER.org, who offers a compelling, and tragic, assessment. With a note of optimism, on this week's What Divides Us.