Guests Dylan Pahman and Emily Zanotti join host Dan Hugger to discuss Trump's Georgia election indictments, mugshot controversy, and the Republican presidential debate. They explore the narrative of election interference, divisive opinions on Trump's social media prowess, and inequalities within the justice system. The panel also analyzes the performance and strategies of various candidates in the debate and discusses the changing landscape of campaigning and the role of social media in reaching voters.

This week, Eric and Dan are joined by Sarah Isgur, senior editor of The Dispatch, to examine whether there’s a crisis in masculinity. With the successes of feminism and the shift in gender roles and expectations, how do men grapple with society’s needing less of what they traditionally have provided? How is the internet and social media influencing this supposed crisis? Is it helping in any way, making things worse, or is it a mixed bag? Then the gang closes on two quickly minted internet celebrities: Oliver Anthony of “Rich Men North of Richmond” fame, and the “crazy plane lady” who appears to be rebranding herself after her “not real” meltdown.How to Bury a Billionaire | The Remnant with Jonah GoldbergRethinking Sex: A Provocation | Christine EmbaThe Man in Me: Versions of the Male Experience | Ross FirestoneThe Internet of Beefs | Venkatesh RaoThe Legal Academy, Episode 5: Eric PosnerThe Changing Face of Social Breakdown | Acton Line

James Patterson, politics professor at Ave Maria University, discusses whether the New Right is fascist. They explore the definition of fascism and its characteristics, controversies surrounding the Iraq war, manipulation and exploitation of fascist movements, rising political revolutionaries, tactics of the New Right, and learning ideologies through video games.

This week, Eric is joined by Daniel Baas and Titus Techera, Acton’s premier movie reviewer, to discuss all things cinema, including: the success of Oppenheimer (which Titus liked), the success of Barbie (which Titus did not like), and what it is that’s bringing people back to theaters. Also, is it really a big deal that Dune 2 will bump The Marvels out of IMAX theaters, since The Marvels wasn’t made for that format anyway? Is it all right that some movies hit you over the head with a message sledgehammer-like? And finally, what explains the surprise success of Sound of Freedom?Subscribe to our podcastsBarbie Is a Movie for Our Time. This Is a Bad Thing. | Titus Techera, Acton InstituteOppenheimer and the Last Great America | Titus Techera, Acton InstituteSound of Freedom Is a Clarion Call for More Christians in the Arts | Titus Techera, Acton InstituteOverload: Will any shows from the Golden Age of TV endure? | Sonny Bunch, The Weekly Standard

This week, Eric, Noah, and Emily are joined by Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the cover story in the Summer 2023 issue of RELIGION & LIBERTY entitled “The Death of Conservatism Is Greatly Exaggerated.” Why have there been so many attempts to declare American conservatism dead? Why do so many of them, and in particular a recent piece from Jon Askonas in Compact magazine, ignore the fact that so many of the criticisms the current “New Right” levels at conservatism and American life are not all that new? How should we grapple with the effects of technology on American life? And what is our politics supposed to be for, as opposed to what we’re using it for now? Next, they discuss an open letter primarily written by Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet calling for President Joe Biden to ignore Supreme Court rulings he doesn’t like. Does the left have a comprehensible legal philosophy? How much was the rise of the New Right derailed by the success of the Federalist Society and the Dobbs decision? And is this just a mirror version of what Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule is calling for? And finally, three members of our four-person panel have seen Oppenheimer. Was dropping the bomb on Japan the right decision?Subscribe to our podcastsThe Death of Conservatism Is Greatly Exaggerated | Christine Rosen, RELIGION & LIBERTYSubscribe to RELIGION & LIBERTYHarvard’s Mark Tushnet Wants Joe Biden to Become a Dictator | Charles C.W. Cooke, National ReviewOppenheimer and the Last Great America | Titus Techera, Acton Institute

This week, Eric, Dan, and Emily discuss the recent decision in the 303 Creative from the Supreme Court. Is bad journalism the major culprit in people misunderstanding both the holding in the case, as well as the very facts of it? How much does it matter that it’s a First Amendment speech case and not a First Amendment religious case? Next, they tackle the newly announced plan from the Biden administration to cancel a load of student loan debt and ask the question, this again? Then, they examine the story of Hunter Biden’s daughter who has not been accepted or acknowledge by President Biden. Is it fair to hold this against him when making a political analysis of his fitness for the office? And finally, they look at two stories – the elevation of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, who authored a book 30 years ago titled “Heal Me with Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing,” to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the statements by Bishop Américo Aguiar about not seeking to convert people at World Youth Day – and ask the question: what’s up with the Catholic Church?303 Creative LLC v. Elenis | SCOTUS BlogBiden Thumps Nose At Supreme Court, Still Plans to Forgive Student Debt— In a Big Way | The RootHunter Biden’s Daughter and a Tale of Two Families | New York Times‘Heal Me with Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing.’ An old book sparks a new controversy in the Vatican | Associated PressWorld Youth Day and Converting Everyone to Christ | Bishop Robert Barron, Word on FireBishop Robert Barron: The Philosophical Roots of Wokeism | Acton Line

This week, Eric, Dan, and Noah Gould, Acton’s Alumni and Student Programs manager, are joined by Jane Clark Scharl. Jane is the author of the essay “Blood of a Thousand Christs: The Violent Faith of Cormac McCarthy,” which appears in the Summer 2023 issue of RELIGION & LIBERTY. What are we to make of McCarthy’s style and the prevalence of violence in his works? Where is God in McCarthy’s work? How much is obscured by McCarthy’s unique and stripped down style? Then, Eric, Dan, and Noah discuss two of the recent big rulings by the Supreme Court: overturning affirmative action policies at elite universities and tossing out President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program. Subscribe to our podcasts About Jane Clark ScharlBlood of a Thousand Christs: The Violent Faith of Cormac McCarthy | J.C. Scharl, Religion & LibertyStudent Debt Cancellation, Canceled | The Morning DispatchSupreme Court Guts Affirmative Action | The Morning Dispatchphoto credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS

This week, Eric, Dan, and Dylan discuss the coup attempt in Russia over the weekend, as the Wagner Group paramilitary organization marched from its position in Ukraine toward Moscow before suddenly calling off the revolt. What does this mean for Russian president Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine? Do we have reason to believe this was an actual revolt or coup attempt—or something orchestrated by Putin for his own purposes? Then the guys recap the tragic story of the OceanGate Titan submarine, which imploded while on a trip taking people to view the wreck of the Titanic. Is this, like the story of the Titanic itself, the high cost of hubris? Why do so many people so quickly retreat into making jokes about an awful tragedy?Subscribe to our podcasts Taking Putin Down a Peg | The Morning DispatchDoes Britain Have High or Low State Capacity? | Alex Tabarrok, Marginal RevolutionReal estate is China's economic Achilles heel | Noah Smith, NoahpinionOn Differences Between Urban & Rural China | Dan WangThe Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for FreedomTitan sub implosion: What we know about catastrophic event | BBC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Jonah Goldberg joins Eric, Dan, and Dylan to discuss his newly released review of Patrick Deneen’s book, "Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.” Following on the success, or at least the popularity, of his last book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” does Deneen have solutions to the problems he sees in modern society? Does his scholarship hold up under scrutiny? And is that the odor of Marxism exuding from the book—or is it just the choice to name the final chapter after the famous speech by Lenin? Is there more to it than that? (Narrator: “There’s more to it than that.”) To close out, the guys comment on the passing of the novelist Cormac McCarthy and how his books understood and demonstrated the grotesque violence of man in a state of nature.Subscribe to our podcasts Patrick Deneen’s Otherworldly Regime | Jonah Goldberg, Acton Institute Liberalism Isn't Rule by Elites | Stephanie Slade, Reason Magazine ‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’ | Politico Magazine Episode 150: Define Your Terms | The Editors Podcast, National Review Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy | Jonah Goldberg Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory | Daniel E. Burns, National AffairsFrom Peak Oil to Peak Liberalism | D.G. Hart, Journal of Markets & Morality What I Saw at the National Conservatism Conference | Dan Hugger, Acton Institute National Conservatism One Year Later | Dan Hugger, Acton Institute Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 | New York Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Eric and Dan are joined by Emily Zanotti, a new contributing editor at the Acton Institute, as they tackle the latest indictment of former president Donald Trump. Again we ask: Does the act of indicting a former president and current candidate for president alone render America a banana republic? What’s the difference between this case and cases of other prominent politicians—such as Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton—mishandling classified information? If there is a double standard at play, how do we rectify that situation to make it a single standard going forward? Next, the group examines comments by Bishop Athanasius Schneider that Catholics can’t suffer from depression. How should we think about the power of faith in the context of mental illness? How much of this is an overreaction to the seeming obsession with mental health problems in the modern world? And finally, we take a look at the lives of two very different people who passed away this week: Christian TV broadcaster and founder of Regent University Pat Robertson and the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.Subscribe to our podcasts Indictment of former president Donald Trump Trump Indicted Over Documents | The Morning Dispatch Catholics cannot be depressed | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Twitter Died: Pat Robertson, Broadcast Pioneer Who Brought Christian TV to the Mainstream | Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81 | New York Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.