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Marco Visscher: The atomic bomb was designed to bomb the world to peace, not to pieces. It's worked fairly well."

Feb 27 2025 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsFor many decades after World War II, fears of nuclear war eclipsed all other fears, including overpopulation, climate change, and asteroids. Thousands of Hollywood movies, documentaries, and books raised the alarm. Images of devastation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and deathly images of mushroom clouds from

Matthew Feeney: “There is a panic over, ‘If we allow free speech, what will result?’”

Feb 23 2025 28 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsGreat Britain seems like a free nation. In recent years, there have been mass protests against everything from Israel’s war with Hamas to fossil fuels. Newspaper editorialists denounce the government in strong terms daily. The nation draws upon hundreds of years of demands for free speech from intellectu

AI Can't Solve Our Biggest Problems

Feb 19 2025 2 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsHi Friends,Please enjoy my talk from the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London!MichaelI love AI. I use chat GPT every day, and I encourage my students to do the same. I'm particularly excited about AI's potential to help doctors diagnose diseases before we could otherwise. At the

Jonathan Keeperman: “We need to reassert a healthy masculinity”

Feb 16 2025 16 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsPresident Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID were cruel, said Democrats and the media. Indeed, they argue, the underlying cause of most of society’s problems is lack of empathy. If only we were kinder and gentler with each other, they say, we would finally be able to end poverty, inequality, homelessness, wa

Jefferson Morley: “The people behind JFK’s murder had impunity”

Feb 02 2025 35 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsFor many, the Executive Order issued last month by President Donald Trump to declassify and release the remaining records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not that interesting or important. There’s little evidence to support the conspiracy theories that anyone other than Lee

Ben Schreckinger: On Biden’s Long History Of Shady Deals

Jan 19 2025 10 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsBen Schreckinger is an old-fashioned investigative journalist with Politico who wrote the best book on Joe Biden. Schreckinger’s book is called, simply, The Bidens. Hachette published the book in 2021. “It got a fair amount of attention in the conservative press,” he told me recently, “but in terms

Peter Schweizer: Biden Legacy Is Taking Tens Of Millions From America's Adversaries

Jan 18 2025 24 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsThe mainstream story about Joe Biden has long been that he would bring “adult supervision or gravitas” to political life, notes investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. As someone who had served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden ostensibly offered a “greater understanding of politics�

Jon Keeley: “L.A. Fires Not The Result Of Climate Change”

Jan 08 2025 4 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsTwo people are dead, and 80,000 have been forced to evacuate neighborhoods in Los Angeles thanks to fires raging out of control. According to the media and some scientists, climate change is causing the fires. “Researchers believe that a warming world is increasing the conditions that are conducive to wi

Brendan Carr: “There’s no question NBC knows” Saturday Night Live broke the law

Nov 03 2024 8 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsIn mid-September, NBC Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter that neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump would be on the show because doing so would be illegal. “You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,

Shellenberger And Gutentag: “The Dam Is Collapsing”

Oct 29 2024 30 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.newsFor as long as most of us can remember, the news media has reflected reality. Even many of us who felt the media was biased or deferential to the government and big corporations still believed that basic facts about what was happening in the world were getting out.Social media, the exodus of investigative