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Hosted by Matt Kittle and The Federalist’s team of fearless journalists, this is a podcast featuring engaging and in-depth conversations with reporters, scholars, authors, politicians, and thinkers of all stripes. Along with guest hosts Mollie Hemingway, David Harsanyi, and others, the show delivers smart and compelling dialogues on politics, culture, religion, and the news of the day. Support the show by subscribing, rating, and writing a review!Check out The Federalist's other coverage on our website. Follow The Federalist on X.
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Jul 19, 2022 • 44min
How Reproductive Technologies Often Put Parents Before Children
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Katy Faust, founder and director of Them Before Us, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the ethics of in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and third-party reproduction and how those practices affect children's natural rights.You can find Faust's book "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement" here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Them-Before-Us/Katy-Faust/9781642935967

Jul 18, 2022 • 1h 3min
Avik Roy On Inflation And Crypto
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and policy editor for Forbes, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to give insight into the relationship between cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and inflation.

Jul 15, 2022 • 41min
Newt Gingrich On GOP Leadership, Jan. 6, And His Roadmap To Ending ‘Big Government Socialism’
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky for a conversation about his new book "Defeating Big Government Socialism: Saving America's Future."You can find Gingrich's book here: https://www.centerstreet.com/titles/newt-gingrich/defeating-big-government-socialism/9781546003199/

Jul 14, 2022 • 45min
The Swamp Gave Us Biden And A Broken Culture
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor and RightForge Co-Founder Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why President Joe Biden is no longer useful to the corporate media and their Democrat allies who are on the hook for putting him in the White House. Read Bedford's article "As Democrats And The Press Turn On Biden, Remember: They Are The Regime That Empowered Him" here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/12/as-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him/

Jul 12, 2022 • 43min
Ari Fleischer Thinks The Media Is Broken
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong―And Just Doesn't Care."You can find Fleischer's book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/suppression-deception-snobbery-and-bias-ari-fleischer

Jul 11, 2022 • 47min
From Covid To The Security State, Abusive Emergency Powers Are Suffocating Us
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Clyde Wayne Crews, the vice president for policy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the case for curbing reflexive federal spending and the expansion of government power in the face of national crises. Read "The Case for Letting Crises Go to Waste" from Crews here: https://cei.org/opeds_articles/the-case-for-letting-crises-go-to-waste/

Jul 8, 2022 • 57min
Cartel Country: Emily And John Reflect On Their Trip To Northern Mexico
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky recount their recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and analyze how American immigration policies have contributed to the exploitation and misery at the border.

Jul 7, 2022 • 43min
Did The Dobbs Decision Go Far Enough?
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Hadley Arkes, the founder and director of the James Wilson Institute and professor at Amherst College, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision and evaluate whether the ruling went far enough.

Jul 6, 2022 • 39min
The Dobbs Victory Is More Fragile Than Many Realize
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why victories like Dobbs v. Jackson are fleeting and how the pro-life movement can protect itself against vulnerabilities that could be exploited in the future. Read Bedford's article here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/30/dobbs-victory-is-more-complicated-and-more-fragile-than-many-realize/

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 5min
Inside Brad Thor’s Remarkable Career As A Bestselling Novelist
On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new novel "Rising Tiger: A Thriller" which follows America’s top spy Scot Harvath on his latest assignment dealing with tensions between India and China. Thor also shares how he uses real-world experience and facts about global relations to inform his fiction writing. You can find Thor's book here: https://bradthor.com/books/#.YsR_WuzMJH0