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The Lindsay Clancy trial has exploded into the latest social media gender war over postpartum mental health, the role of mothers in society, and the nature of moral responsibility. The defense says postpartum psychosis is to blame and that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible in the deaths of her three children. Now the jury is deciding whether they buy her story.
Videos of women excusing Clancy’s actions or promoting conspiracy theories implicating her ex-husband have spread like wildfire on TikTok. Hundreds of women showed up to her trial wearing pink in solidarity and her family has now raised over $1,000,000 on GoFundMe. Meanwhile, Massachusetts lawmakers just legalized abortion up until the moment of birth to great fanfare.
Both reflect the same moral drift: a culture that has grown increasingly comfortable letting mothers decide when they are, and aren’t, responsible for the lives of their children.
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I sat down with theoretical physicist Dr. Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled” and former Under Secretary of Energy for Science under President Obama, to discuss what he calls the “consensus trap.” He argues that the 2008 financial crisis, COVID policies, and climate alarmism all followed the same template, and the people who got it wrong faced no accountability while the costs fell on the poor. Institutions built policy on flawed models, manufactured an elite consensus, and punished the scientists who dissented.
We get into:
* Why Fauci saying “I represent science” was a betrayal of science
* How the RCP 8.5 climate scenario was used for propaganda
* Working as BP’s chief scientist and inside the Department of Energy
* Why the global energy transition hasn’t moved the needle on fossil fuel use
* Why wind and solar can’t be the backbone of the electric grid
* The real risks of EMP attacks and solar storms
* The state of nuclear power and small modular reactors
* How AI is reshaping energy reliability, affordability, and emissions
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Outline:
[0:00] Can science be “settled”?
[12:39] What is a scientific model?
[20:25] Human behavior is hard to predict
[25:36] Cause and effect in complex systems
[28:33] Why are scientists swayed by “consensus”?
[33:47] Working in the Obama administration
[42:59] Insane climate models were treated as sane
[53:41] Fossil fuels and power grids are life-saving
[1:03:38] The risk of an EMP attack
[1:12:38] AI data centers and energy reliability
[1:18:05] “But we need climate action!”
[1:26:53] The incentives inside scientific institutions
[1:31:56] How the military drives scientific research
[1:39:25] Should we worry about the Skynet timeline?
[1:51:27] Always check your opinions against real data
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Last week, Cambridge’s youngest ever black full professor was found dead, days after resigning under investigation for plagiarism and his fabricated life story. Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, couldn't speak until age 11, and still earned a PhD by 30. When the scrutiny finally caught up with him, Amnesty International's response was to call for censorship.
Meanwhile, MIT's black enrollment dropped from 13% to just 5% after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against affirmative action. Racial preferences in admissions have not achieved the supposed goal of closing educational disparities between black and white Americans, but instead have just papered over them.
The West has spent decades manufacturing token success stories to manage its own white guilt. Can we finally admit that meritocracy was the right answer all along?
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I sat down with Os Guinness, author of “Our Civilizational Moment,” to discuss how the West has become a “cut flower” civilization. Os argues that the slow secularization of the West has left its freedom, virtue, and sense of meaning disconnected from the foundation that sustained them for centuries.
We get into:
* Growing up in China during WWII and the rise of Mao
* Why the West is a “cut flower civilization”
* The golden triangle of freedom, virtue, and faith
* Why atheism conflicts with free will
* Whether Islam can adapt to Western norms
* The Hebrew Republic’s overlooked influence on America’s founding
* The rise of antisemitism on the left and right
* What it will take for the West to come home to its own roots
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Outline:[0:00] Growing up in China in the 1940s
[2:34] Eastern VS Western Civilization
[6:53] The roots of the West have been cut
[16:14] Freedom, virtue, and faith
[27:51] Civility and truth in public discourse
[36:59] Can people be equal without faith?
[40:19] Christianity is anti-utopian
[48:21] Is an Islamic Reformation possible?
[59:07] Are there limits to free speech?
[1:10:21] The Jewish influence on the Founding Fathers
[1:17:35] How can Christians and Jews work together?
[1:25:48] Why are Jews so influential in the West?
[1:35:53] The elitist-populist divide
[1:42:04] The role of entrepreneurship in freedom
[1:46:32] Man’s Search for Meaning
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This show began in response to the mental health crisis I saw emerging among my son’s peers. Then COVID lockdowns hit and turned my worst-case predictions into reality. Now, socialism is sweeping the Democratic Party and young women are marching in support of Hamas, all while social media continues to poison the minds of our kids.
As I like to say, the 1990s were the peak of Western civilization. The Cold War had been won, the economy was relatively stable, and our politics didn’t feel existential. Most importantly, both parties agreed that America was fundamentally good.
That consensus is dead. If the next generation no longer believes in the system that built the world they’ll inherit, what comes next?
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