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In 2021, Xi Van Fleet spoke out at a Loudoun County, Virginia School Board meeting against Critical Race Theory. Her video went viral and ignited national media attention. Xi lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years later, Xi disturbingly sees signs of the same Cultural Marxism that ravaged her birth country of China threatening to destroy the America she now calls home. Her new book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning is her dire warning to the citizens of the United States.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. Newt’s guest is trail-blazing TV journalist, Bill O’Reilly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism, Alan Dershowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars, explains why the horrific attack of October 7th and Israel’s just response changes everything. Newt’s guest is Alan Dershowitz. He is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism is available for pre-order now on Amazon.com and will be published on December 5th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What role should legislators play in assessing the role of artificial intelligence in both the private and public sector? What are the dangers of artificial intelligence? What regulations does the United States need, if any? Newt guest is James Broughel, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of CEI’s new report on artificial intelligence: “Rules for Robots: A Framework for Governance of AI”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Toffler’s were perhaps best-known for their innovative books, “Future Shock” and “The Third Wave.” Alvin and Heidi Toffler had a daughter, Karen, who died in 2000 at the age of 46 after more than a decade of suffering from Guillain-Barré Syndrome. After her death, the Toffler’s established the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, to help fund neurological medical research breakthroughs. Newt’s guests are: Deborah Westphal, Executive Advisor of the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, and two of the Trust’s Toffler Scholars and grant recipients; Adithya Gopinath, Postdoctoral Neuroscience, University of Florida and Vijaya Kolachalama, Associate Professor, Boston University. Learn more at https://tofflertrust.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This October marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that has shaped the modern Middle East. The war was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the Arab oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order. The Jewish State came shockingly close to defeat. After the war, Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and the senior leadership of the nation were forced to resign in disgrace. Newt’s guest is Uri Kaufman. In his new book, “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East”, he describes how a straight line leads from the battlefields of 1973 to the Camp David Accords of 1978 and all the treaties since.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, humanoid robots, radical life extension, and space colonies. Science fiction would become fact. But as we moved into the late 20th century, we grew cautious, even cynical, about what the future held and our ability to shape it. Newt’s guest is James Pethokoukis. His new book, “The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised”, presents groundbreaking ideas, sharp analysis, and provides a detailed roadmap to a fantastic future filled with incredible progress and prosperity that is both optimistic and realistic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

George Washington was central not only to winning the Revolutionary War, but to the tumultuous convention that gave birth to the Constitution, the turbulent ratification process, and the preservation of the young republic during its perilous first years. In his new book, “TO RESCUE THE CONSTITUTION: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment”, Bret Baier offers a riveting portrait of a towering figure and describes America’s unsettled early days and how our nation’s foundational document became what many have called the one piece of paper protecting us from tyranny. Newt’s guest is Bret Baier, Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Being a political spouse can upend anyone’s best laid plans, and Karen Pence’s unforeseen career as wife of a Congressman, Governor, and Vice President has been filled with both joy and unexpected changes. In her new book, “When It’s Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God’s Grace in His Calling for Your Life” she shares heartwarming and relatable stories about being thrust into the role of leader and how she tackled the unpredictable places to which God called her. Newt’s guest is Karen Pence. She is a former congressional spouse, first lady of Indiana, and second lady of the United States. She worked as a schoolteacher for more than thirty years. She is also the mother of three married children and a grandmother.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Saturday, sirens rung out across the country just before dawn and citizens soon realized it was not a false alarm. A surprise attack on Israel was being waged by Hamas militants from the air, sea and ground. Newt talks about how the attack happened and what the United States response to Hamas should be.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.