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InfluenceWatch Podcast #258: How to Save the West with Spencer Klavan
Are America and broader Western Civilization in crisis? Today’s guest, author Spencer Klavan, says yes, and he has written How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises to…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 2, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #257: Labor Questions
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 17, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #256: The Right to Self-Defense
The recent U.S. Supreme Court case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that curtailed a state’s ability to infringe on Americans’ right to carry publicly for their…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 10, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #255: COVID Relief Racism in Oklahoma and Georgia
Equal treatment under the law, regardless of race: One would think that all could agree on that principle, but in states and localities across the country—even in Republican-controlled states—that principle…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 3, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #254: The State of School Choice
In 2022, Arizona passed one of the most comprehensive school-choice programs in the nation. But later that year, the state elected Katie Hobbs, a governor who is backed by the…
by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson on January 27, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #253: George Soros and the Media
It is well known that George Soros and his Open Society Foundations are major funders of left-wing advocacy, but a new report from Media Research Center shines the light…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 20, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #252: Gas Stoves We’ll Defend
If you believe Axios and the Washington Post, this is just the latest GOP and conservative culture war: A ban on gas stoves proposed by the Biden administration-controlled…
by Parker Thayer, Ken Braun, Michael Watson on January 13, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #251: The Patron Saint of Bad Science, Paul Ehrlich
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich claimed that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over” and that mass starvation was imminent. He was completely, utterly, and totally wrong. But because…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on January 6, 2023

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #250: Abraham’s Missing Child with the Philos Project
The Near East is the place of origin of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Unfortunately, political developments in that region have led to declines in inter-religious pluralism…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on December 26, 2022

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InfluenceWatch Podcast #249: The Lawsuit Lobby
Few professions have earned as low approval ratings as lawyers—in Gallup polling on the public’s perceptions of professions’ ethics, lawyers are underwater, alongside journalists, business executives, and non-federal politicians. But…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on December 19, 2022