Federalist Radio Hour

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Joel Davidson, editor-in-chief of the Alaska Watchman, joins Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson, his brother, and Federalist Senior Editor Christopher Bedford to explain how Alaskans were hoodwinked into a hopelessly complex ranked-choice voting scheme designed to benefit incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who is seeking a fourth full term in the Senate this November.

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist Senior Editor and RightForge Co-Founder Christopher Bedford and Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky share what they think you need to know about the upcoming midterm elections.

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Tristan Harris, co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology and co-host of the "Your Undivided Attention" podcast, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the dangers of persuasive technology and why Silicon Valley needs to abandon attention-grabbing control methods for more ethical practices.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Elbridge Colby, co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative and author of "The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss what is wrong with President Joe Biden's China strategy and what the U.S. should do to strengthen its defenses against the communist regime. You can find Colby's book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300268027/the-strategy-of-denial/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Rafael Mangual, the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jahsinsky to discuss his new book "Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most." You can find Mangual's book here: https://www.centerstreet.com/titles/rafael-a-mangual/criminal-injustice/9781546001539/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the upcoming anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and share his thoughts on the state of the Russia-Ukraine war. You can find Ondrasik's music here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSreAxv5LVttxSB1RrlDDg

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Daniel Turner, founder and executive director at Power the Future, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down the Democrats' tax increase bill and how new carve-outs for wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles will affect the U.S., which primarily relies on fossil fuels.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Russ Roberts, the John and Jean De Nault research fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of the EconTalk podcast, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book "Wild Problems: A Guide To The Decisions That Define Us."You can find Roberts' book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672977/wild-problems-by-russ-roberts/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky break down how the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's home Mar-a-Lago further hurts the agency's already damaged credibility and affirms Trump and Republicans' fears that the regime is using its bureaucratic power to target its political enemies.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka joins Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice to discuss her decision to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the upcoming Alaska primary election.

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Todd Bensman, the Texas-based senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the Biden administration's diplomacy opened up a "superhighway" of illegal immigration in South America and makes the U.S. southern border even more vulnerable to crime and crisis. Read Bensman's latest report "New Migrant 'Superhighway' Bringing the World from South America to Texas" here: https://cis.org/Bensman/New-Migrant-Superhighway-Bringing-World-South-America-Texas

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Clare Morell, a policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center where she works on EPPC’s Big Tech Project, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how social media is rewiring kids' brains and how our culture's premature embrace of Big Tech has hurt generations of Americans.You can find Morell's article "Parents, Are You Prepared for the Digital Dangers Your Kids Face?" here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/parents-are-you-prepared-for-the-digital-dangers-your-kids-face/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Michael Cunningham, a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why state legislatures should be on guard against communist China's attempts to infiltrate U.S. institutions such as schools, churches, and other community organizations. You can read Cunningham's report "Why State Legislatures Must Confront Chinese Infiltration" here: https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/why-state-legislatures-must-confront-chinese-infiltration

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, retired Lieutenant General Thomas Spoehr, director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense, joins Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice to discuss why every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to recruit new members and why that needs to change. Read Spoehr's commentary "Army Is Falling Dangerously Short on Recruitment. Here’s What We Can Do About It" here: https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/army-falling-dangerously-short-recruitment-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist Senior Editor and RightForge Co-Founder Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new reporting on Alzheimer's and how institutional failures have guaranteed that the science on the disease is far from settled. Read Bedford's article here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/28/inside-the-corrupt-world-of-alzheimers-science-and-what-its-failure-means-for-all-settled-science/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Kelsey Bolar, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum and senior contributor at The Federalist, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how a Chicago mom lost custody of her daughter for insisting she is a girl.You can find more about IWF's new documentary series "Identity Crisis" here: https://www.iwf.org/identity-crisis

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Adam Brandon, president of grassroots service center FreedomWorks, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "America in Perspective: Defending the American Dream for the Next Generation."You can find Brandon's book here: https://posthillpress.com/book/america-in-perspective-defending-the-american-dream-for-the-next-generation

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Aaron Sibarium, an associate editor at the Washington Free Beacon and co-host of the "Institutionalized" podcast, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the police failures in Uvalde and the dangers of both raising and lowering the qualified immunity standards for officers. Read his article "The Legal Precedents That Haunt Uvalde" here: https://freebeacon.com/courts/the-legal-precedents-that-haunt-uvalde/

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 47 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to codify same-sex marriage, how the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision ushered in a new era of cultural battles, and why Republicans on Capitol Hill should speak up about the importance of marriage and family.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Les Sillars, a professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College, and Mary Muncy, a breaking news reporter for WORLD, join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss their new podcast "Doubletake" and examine how technology is changing the future of journalism. You can find the Doubletake podcast here: https://doubletakepodcast.org/

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

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.

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/

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/

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

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/

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.

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.

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/

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

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Naomi Schaefer Riley, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, joins Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice to discuss her book "The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians."You can find Riley's book here: https://www.naomiriley.com/books/the-new-trail-of-tears/

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Megan Basham, a culture reporter for The Daily Wire, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why the corporate media's coverage of the sexual assault allegations within the Southern Baptist Convention is wrong.Read Basham's article "Southern Baptists’ #MeToo Moment" here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/southern-baptists-metoo-moment

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist D.C. Columnist Eddie Scarry joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky and Senior Editor Christopher Bedford to discuss his new book "Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone."You can find Scarry's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone/dp/1637584350

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, The Federalist's younger female staffers Jordan Boyd, Elle Reynolds, Kylee Griswold, and Madeline Osburn join Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky in a roundtable about the end of Roe v. Wade and what that means for women and the future of American culture.

Author and producer Michael Pack joins culture editor Emily Jashinksy to discuss the life and work of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They also discuss the left's attacks Thomas and his wife, Ginni. Pack is the co-author of "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words."

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling and discuss what is next for the pro-life movement.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, track and field athlete Chelsea Mitchell, her mother Christy Mitchell, and Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Christiana Kiefer join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss their ongoing battle to save women's sports and preserve the meaning of "on the basis of sex."

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Geoff Shepard, author of "The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the Watergate break-in, the cover-up, and how everything after, including President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, became politicized thanks to the corporate media. Read Shepard's article "Americans Aren’t Getting The Real Watergate Story From John Dean And CNN" here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/15/americans-arent-getting-the-real-watergate-story-from-john-dean-and-cnn/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss why young men and society need attentive fathers. Read the Institute for Family Studies report "‘Life Without Father’: Less College, Less Work, and More Prison for Young Men Growing Up Without Their Biological Father" here: https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-less-work-and-more-prison-for-young-men-growing-up-without-their-biological-father

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor and RightForge Co-Founder Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to recap how Republicans flipped Texas District 34, analyze whether congressional Republicans and Democrats will use their legislative power to rein in Big Tech, and discuss why some Republicans' push to restrict guns should bar them from being in GOP leadership.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Nate Hochman, an ISI Fellow at National Review, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his article "What Comes After The Religious Right?" and what the rapid decline of religiosity in the U.S. means for the conservative movement.You can read Hochman's article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/republicans-religion-conservatism.html

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, authors Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss their new book "Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation" and how secularization has changed the way K-12 government schools operate.You can find Hegseth and Goodwin's book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-battle-for-the-american-mind-pete-hegseth/1140521394

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 the corporate media downplayed the assassination attempt on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ahead of the court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty."You can find Lee's book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saving-nine-mike-lee/1140407441

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jorge Galicia, an outreach fellow for The Fund for American Studies, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how socialism under Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro ravaged Galicia's home country and explain how President Joe Biden has emboldened Maduro's regime.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Managing Editor Madeline Osburn joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss what Sheryl Sandberg's departure from Facebook’s parent company Meta says about feminism and the end of the "girlboss" era.Read Osburn's article "The ‘Lean In’ Era Is Over, And That’s Good For Everyone" here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/08/the-end-of-the-lean-in-era/

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Justin Goodman, senior vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how to hold the government accountable for spending millions of taxpayer dollars on dangerous experiments, like the ones conducted using coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that put animals and maybe even humans at risk.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, author Bill Rivers joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "Last Summer Boys: A Novel," the fictional story of a young Appalachian teen who spends the summer of 1968 trying to make his older brother famous to keep him from getting drafted. You can find Rivers' book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-summer-boys-bill-rivers/1140803017

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, the husband-wife duo of gun store owner Trevor Boyd and Federalist Staff Writer Jordan Boyd discuss and debunk some of the lies used by Democrats to push anti-gun legislation.

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist Senior Editor and RightForge Co-Founder Christopher Bedford joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the Democrats are scrambling to pass leftist legislation before they are predicted to lose ground in the House and Senate in November.