Dad Saves America

New York City is broke under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His socialist buddy, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, is turning off the crime detection system and letting violent offenders walk. LA Mayor Karen Bass is still dodging responsibility for mishandling the 2025 wildfires. This is the reality of progressive central planning.
Cities are the centers of civilization. Unfortunately, they’re also a breeding ground for bad ideas. Marx formulated his communist worldview while observing early industrial cities. The Soviet Union replaced organic neighborhood life with microdistricts engineered by bureaucrats who thought they knew best. Today, progressives dream of “15-minute cities” while failing to address the basic problems of urban life.
America’s greatest cities have been centrally planned into the ground. Luckily, we have a chance to retake control of our neighborhoods.
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I sat down with Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, to discuss her new book “Alito” about the underappreciated Supreme Court justice’s fight to restore the original meaning of the Constitution.
Justice Samuel Alito authored the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and as Mollie describes, he’s been the driving force behind the conservative majority on many important issues during his 20 years on the Court.
We also cover the rise of the administrative state, what really happened during Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, and the conservative movement’s 50-year crusade to retake the Court.
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[0:00] What makes Justice Alito special?
[4:16] How Roe v. Wade was overturned
[20:52] Woodrow Wilson and liberal fascism
[26:23] The value of “norms” in politics and on the Court
[32:14] What happened to Brett Kavanaugh?
[38:29] Chevron deference and the administrative state
[44:19] Will birthright citizenship be overturned?
[47:13] Originalism vs the “living constitution”
[51:39] Attacks on the First Amendment
[1:00:37] Propagandizing the American people
[1:05:24] Why journalists cheer for censorship
[1:07:04] The case against the Southern Poverty Law Center
[1:18:49] We need principled men of action
[1:22:57] What’s the deal with Ketanji Brown Jackson?
[1:26:58] The Europe Union’s censorship regime
[1:29:05] What happened to the ACLU?
[1:31:12] Lessons to learn from Justice Alito
[1:35:24] How the Federalist Society reshaped the Court
[1:37:10] Take responsibility for your kids’ education
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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was cut short last Saturday by yet another assassination attempt against President Trump. A Caltech-educated game developer armed with two guns charged the Secret Service checkpoint, ending in a brief shootout that injured one Secret Service agent.
This attack followed the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center over allegations of funding the very hate groups it fundraises against. A decade of radical rhetoric from celebrities, activists, and institutions like the SPLC has broken the brains of even relatively intelligent people. The same group that shaped FBI threat assessments, debanked homeschool moms, and labeled classical liberal thinkers as white supremacists was apparently running a grift the whole time.
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I sat down with Joel Kotkin to discuss how California’s utopian ideology and Gavin Newsom’s disastrous governance have the turned the state into a cautionary tale.
Joel breaks down how one-party rule became the norm in California, with the Democratic Party tying itself to both Silicon Valley oligarchs and public sector unions and leaving the middle class to fend for itself.
With welfare fraud scandals in the news and Newsom’s likely 2028 presidential run, Joel warns America about what’s at stake if California’s institutional and cultural failures go national.
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Outline:
[0:00] California’s ideology and culture
[9:43] How Republicans lost California
[21:45] Why can’t California have a sane election?
[27:41] Hollywood stopped trying to appeal to people
[34:43] Silicon Valley’s military origins
[39:38] Was Silicon Valley’s utopianism inevitable?
[43:46] The oligarchs and unions run California
[51:58] How Gavin Newsom failed up
[1:02:50] California’s fraud epidemic
[1:07:02] The feedback loop of radical politics
[1:15:49] Is there anything good about Newsom?
[1:18:53] Can we restore the political center?
[1:20:53] Is the Iran war worth the cost?
[1:24:54] Trump was necessary crazy
[1:35:26] Where’d the curious students go?
[1:42:26] Can we have freedom without religion?
[1:50:27] Community is physical, not abstract
[1:54:12] What makes Judaism different
[2:07:37] Are we in a civilizational clash with Islam?
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Communist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker stopped by the New York Times's "The Opinions" podcast to promote shoplifting, terrorism, and Chairman Mao. Joining him was staff writer for the New Yorker Jia Tolentino, who justified stealing from Whole Foods (rebranded as “micro-looting”) and banning private schools.
Of course, the same people who espouse Marx’s “labor theory of value” often went to private schools themselves and can easily afford Whole Foods prices. The New York Times has been running cover for communism since the 1930s, but they’re barely trying to sanitize the pitch this time around.
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