The Seth Leibsohn Show

Dr. Tevi Troy, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Senior Fellow and at the Ronald Reagan Institute, and best-selling presidential historian, on big, positive things that have happened in 2025, his recent column at National Review, “2025: A Year in Reading,” and the success of 1960's and 1970's comedic television like Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian Faith, co-host with Galen Balinski of The Screwtape Letters Podcast, calls in to the show to talk about the inspiration behind the creation of the podcast, his recently-released devotional inspired by the C.S. Lewis book, Confronting Evil in Our Time, what happens when the truth hits you, the scary, real dangers of vice and the difficulty of convincing others of those dangers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seth’s own journey to conservatism. Producer David Doll has no New Year’s Eve plans. “Fake News” stories that were reported in 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Iran-born Erica Kasraie, Middle-East expert, human rights activist, and Executive Director of LIVING WATER Productions, joins the show to comment on the widespread social unrest and anti-government protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the history of the theocratic regime. Seth discusses hopes for a free Iran and democracy and freedom rising across the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Taylor, chairman of the Phoenix Salvation Army Advisory Board, joins Seth in studio for the full hour to talk about his past struggles with alcoholism and journey to recovery, and give advice to those who are early in their path to sobriety. Seek help today at thestopstartshere.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the movement within the country. Producer David Doll discusses the Twelve Days of Christmas. Have we entered an era in which a certain amount of drug use deaths are becoming ‘acceptable?’ A listener call-in on David Bowie’s 1977 duet with Bing Crosby on a Christmastime television special. The scandal in Minnesota just keeps growing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singer/songwriter Noel Paul Stookey, of the legendary group Peter, Paul and Mary, and as an independent musician who passionately believes in bringing the spiritual into the practice of daily life, joins the Seth Leibsohn Show for a discussion on the origins of the band, his spiritual journey, and other fun and memorable stories of interacting with famous musicians in the 1960's and '70's. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leftist mourning for Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur. Dennis Prager’s reflections on his career-ending injury a year later. John Stossel’s piece at Hot Air, “Socialism vs. Capitalism.” Seth’s use of “unique words.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The conservative constellation weeps those we lost in 2025, and looks forward to 2026. Remembering the life of Brigitte Bardot. The welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota just keeps growing. We're joined by John Dombroski, founder and president of Grand Canyon Planning Associates. Producer David Doll discusses the gift he gave Seth this holiday season and New Years’ resolutions. Quoting from William F. Buckley, Jr. on the need to pray more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

William Anthony Hay, associate director for public programs and professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University (ASU), on an upcoming ASU event with Wilfred Reilly on January 15th, 2026, 'Which Path Forward: The Two Options Facing the Black Community, and America, this MLK Day', Martin Luther King, Jr. and civics, Jacob Savage’s piece “The Lost Generation,” and the vast cultural changes that have transformed Europe and America since the 1960's.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.