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I sat down with investigative journalist and author Richard Miniter to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Richard has spent decades reporting national security and foreign policy issues and has interviewed Islamist radicals, intelligence officials, and others across the globe.
We get into:
* Why political radicalism and terrorism attract elites
* How Western life radicalized Mohamed Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
* Osama Bin Laden’s trajectory from construction tycoon heir to jihadist
* How terror cells use hazing intermarriage to lock in commitment
* The problem with Ron Paul’s “blowback” theory of Islamic terrorism
* How bureaucratic turf wars left America vulnerable on 9/11
* The PATRIOT Act and the limits of 4th Amendment rights
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Check out Richard Miniter’s work at Zenger News: https://zenger.news/
Check out Richard’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JOWHF2?ccs_id=dcb9f8b6-c904-4dfb-b199-cc8d15600bca
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Outline:
[0:00] Why do people become terrorists?
[7:56] Who was Mohamed Atta?
[17:48] Who was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
[26:58] Ramzi Yousef and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
[32:27] 9/11 wasn’t as ideological as we think
[36:00] Who was Osama Bin Laden?
[42:53] Work, terrorism, and a sense of purpose
[47:44] What really motivated Bin Laden?
[49:43] The psychology of terrorism
[1:03:29] The rise of the Red-Green Alliance
[1:11:47] Theology is the center of every civilization
[1:22:14] Terrorism is a political technology
[1:25:40] Living through 9/11 and turning to Ron Paul
[1:34:32] Did our government allow 9/11 to happen?
[1:48:29] The American and Soviet fight over Afghanistan
[1:52:33] America’s longterm conflict with Iran
[2:02:13] Bureaucratic tenure makes bad policy
[2:07:56] Is the PATRIOT Act unconstitutional?
[2:22:01] COVID permanently changed our society
[2:26:52] What did 9/11 mean for American society?
[2:33:03] Do young people really hate the country?
[2:39:39] Pragmatism, ideology, and incentives
[2:46:19] Can we avoid religious war?
[2:50:30] Utilitarianism contradicts human nature
[2:56:19] Can Islam be compatible with America?
[3:07:30] Immigration and assimilation in 2026
[3:12:31] Dad’s job is to tell kids the truth
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The bond market wobbled this week, and Secretary Bessent is now buying back government debt just to keep long-term interest rates from climbing further. Bond market volatility in the early fall has a bad history of signaling worse to come, from 1929 to 1987 to 2008.
The national debt sets a new all time high every day, recently crossing the $40 trillion mark. The U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has allowed us to kick the can down the road for decades, but interest payments on the national debt are reaching unsustainable levels and now the bond market is starting to push back.
Are we at the point of no return or can we still grow our way out of this mess?
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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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I sat down with Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and author of “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City,” to talk about what adults are and aren’t willing to sacrifice for the wellbeing of children. Katy has spent her career defending children’s rights to their own mother and father, touching on adoption, gay marriage, surrogacy, and IVF. We also get into how she raised kids who think for themselves even while attending Seattle public schools and her personal experience with the adoption system.
We get into:
* Why children are safer with their own married mother and father
* What the data actually says about stepparents and abuse
* How the sexual revolution reshaped our whole society
* Why legalizing gay marriage meant eliminating “mother” and “father” from the law
* The truth about IVF and the fertility industry
* Why adults’ desires are now put before children’s needs
* What Christianity requires of us when defending kids
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*Chapter: Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
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Follow Katy Faust on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Katy_Faust?s=20
Read Katy’s work on Substack: https://katyfaustofficial.substack.com/
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Outline:
[0:00] Raising conservative kids in a woke city
[12:06] The needs of children should come first
[16:23] Why stepparents are more abusive
[27:49] The misplaced empathy for Lindsay Clancy
[33:36] The sexual revolution deranged our culture
[46:56] Traditional values can work for everyone
[51:59] Is gay adoption better than nothing?
[1:04:12] Are people born gay?
[1:14:01] Legalizing gay marriage had crazy side effects
[1:29:07] Does IVF or surrogacy violate the rights of children?
[1:44:00] AOC’s egg-freezing stunt and the denial of tradeoffs
[1:52:19] Should we just ban it all?
[2:04:53] Parenting for future generations
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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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