David Gornoski

"If you don't have a family first society, you won't have the environment necessary for individual liberty to flourish." How do we create that family first society? Join David Gornoski as he explores this question while commenting on the government's decision to pay out stimulus checks. Is creating money out of thin air a viable economic solution? David asks. Do we imitate the government to get free from the government? Is economic liberty compatible with a virtue-driven community? Listen to the full episode to find out and more. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

Nuclear scientist Dr. Max Zamilov returns to the show to talk about the next Galileo and Renaissance moments in history. Why is it that we are not interested in innovation anymore? Is everything already solved? Dr. Max says that the biggest problem is an outdated educational system that "grounds its student to a pulp" and has largely become irrelevant. Instead of having theories presented as dogma, Dr. Max says, we should encourage students to express their creativity. How can we allow for the creativity to start flowing again? Listen to the full episode to find out and more. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

"Change doesn't happen by appealing to the crowd. Since when has truth won by appealing to the crowd?" Join David Gornoski as he dives deep into the magnetic nature of crowds and unravels the bind of groupthink that controls almost every part of our society. How do we break from this attraction of persecuting crowds? David argues that we must do the opposite of what violent crowds do, and because humans tend to imitate others, we must be role models that draw people into a different kind of magnetism. Listen to the full episode for an epic exposition on the nature of crowds and how to break free. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

Dr. Weiping Yu returns with Science and U and comments on the mystery surrounding dark energy and the universe's rate of expansion. Is Einstein's "cosmological constant" reliable? the physicist asks. Is the universe an isolated system? Is the second law of thermodynamics accurate in its conclusion? Mises Institute's Tho Bishop calls in to comment on the latest news reports from around the country. How can we tackle the left's larger agenda of centralization? How can we escape the state of mental-enslavement that is perpetuated by the nanny government? Listen to the full episode to find out and more. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

"The modus operandi of our time: If you want more power you have to look more vulnerable." David Gornoski argues that this is due to the haunting of Christ's crucifixion in American society. Without looking to Jesus as a model for imitation, David says, we will devolve into fighting over and weaponizing all external identity markers. "Without goodness behind the universe, the only thing left to cling to is power." David also cautions conservatives from imitating the left's fetish for control. Listen to the full episode for all this and more. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

Dr. Paul Axton, theologian and host of the Forging Ploughshares podcast, sits down with David Gornoski to talk about his experience of living in Japan, the idea of shame in death, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and seeing Japanese culture through Christian eyes. While pointing out that Romans 7 is absolutely essential for understanding what it is to imitate Jesus, Dr. Axton observes that death is "an orientation of violence and what we're continuously spreading as we go." Dr. Axton further explains that the problem of scapegoating is rooted in theological development and that we often mistakenly think that scapegoating is our salvation. The theologian highlights that refusal to scapegoat is resisting the enthroned sacrificial powers through an analysis of Shusaku Endo's novel 'Silence' and the historical persecution of Christians during the Tokugawa shogunate. Why is there such a high suicide rate in Japan? What can Japan teach the rest of the world in being both a high-functioning and scapegoating society? Listen to the full podcast for an intriguing conversation on culture, politics, and the juxtaposition between scapegoating and technological rise in modern Japanese society.

How do we build and model our relationships in a Triune way as opposed to the way of scapegoating? Rich Bledsoe, chaplain at Boulder Community Hospital, calls in to answer this pressing question. Bledsoe likens the activity of the Trinity to a network of human beings. "The first corporation in the world," Bledsoe says, "is the church, and the church is a body." Listen to the full episode as Rich Bledsoe describes how small things like praying for each other, as members supporting a larger body, can create cohesion and healing on a larger scale. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

Roy Barzilai, independent researcher and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis, joins David Gornoski to explain how the decrease in testosterone has correlated with the current crisis in our health, politics, and culture. Barzilai argues that exposure to solar activity is not only the key to fighting the coronavirus pandemic but also important in tackling the coddling of our culture. How important are solar cycles in the rise and fall of human societies? How crucial is testosterone in sustaining a strong and free society? Listen to the full episode to find out and more. Read Roy Barzilai's paper here. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

David Gornoski gives his opinion on the news report saying that the New York Times tried to dox Tucker Carlson. Should the New York Times be trusted after it, time and time again, lied us into wars and hid the truth? The host of A Neighbor's Choice also explains why parents should pull their children out of public schools and why wearing masks shouldn't be imposed with government coercion. Plus, returning to the show is James Kourtides as he discusses self-healing of the body, the effects of social media and its future, and Kanye West's presidential campaign. Visit James' YouTube channel. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

Curt Mills, Senior Reporter at The American Conservative, joins David Gornoski to provide some much-needed analysis of the 2020 election showdown between Biden and Trump. Is there any chance for Trump to excel without the massive rallies that were commonplace in 2016? Why has Trump lost his energy in the campaign and is there any possibility of him making a comeback? Also, David Gornoski reads the latest news reports and highlights the anti-freedom narrative of the media and how the press acts as the PR front for the Democratic party. The mask just falls off, David says, when you see how the media mocks people like Kanye West. Listen to the full episode for all of this and more. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Find David Gornoski on YouTube Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com