Podcasts
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The Government Is Coming for Your Stove (Guest: Stuart Saulters)
Podcast -Proposals floated by the Biden administration to ban various natural gas appliances rob consumers of choice for no real benefit. -
Biden’s Gas Stove Ban – In The Tank, ep380
Podcast -The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 380 of the In The Tank Podcast. The Biden administration announced this week that it was considering a ban on gas stoves, supposedly because it causes asthma in kids – a claim not backed up by science. -
From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology (Guest: Donald L. Drakeman)
Podcast -In Episode 101 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Donald L. Drakeman, co-author of “From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology.” -
Clean Energy Crisis: The Impossibility of Replacing Fossil Fuels (Guest: Donn Dears)
Podcast -In his book “Clean Energy Crisis,” Donn Dears explains why it’s a horrible idea for society to pursue net zero carbon emissions. -
Medicaid Expansion Moves Low-Income Children to the Back of the Line (Guest: Charles Blahous)
Podcast -The Medicaid expansion in Obamacare has proven to remove health care access for low-income children compared to free-market reforms. -
Population Doomsday on 60 Minutes – In The Tank Podcast #379
Podcast -With the start of a new year, climate alarmism has been given center stage. 60 Minutes recently ran a segment about the looming population doomsday. The segment, featuring noted doomsayer Paul Ehrlich, promoted dire warnings like "humanity is unsustainable," and how we are "in the midst of sixth mass extinction." -
Paul Ehrlich Predicts Climate Doomsday
Podcast -Paul Erlich, who recently joined 60 Minutes, has built a living wrongly predicting catastrophe due to climate change and the growing human population. -
Klaus Schwab’s Creepy Interview with Chinese TV: “Systemic Transformation of the World”
Podcast -Klaus Schwab revealed his disdain for the regular working population during his recent live interview with Chinese TV. -
Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party (Guest: F.H. Buckley)
Podcast -In Episode 100 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with F.H. Buckley, author of “Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party.” -
Streaming In Decline? Avatar, Top Gun, Star Wars – In the Tank ep 378
Podcast -In what is becoming an annual tradition, the In the Tank crew end the year talking about the state of pop culture with veteran movie reviewer and culture writer Christian Toto, proprietor of the HollywoodInToto.com website. -
How Can We Solve Big Environmental Problems? Think Small! (Guest: Todd Myers)
Podcast -In his book "Time to Think Small," author Todd Myers explains why big government efforts usually fail to fix the problem at hand. -
Republican Controlled House Must Fix These Health Care Policies (Guests: Brian Blasé and Drew Keyes)
Podcast -Republicans are set to take the U.S. House next month. Here’s the four key health care policy errors they need to fix. -
In The Future, You’ll Own Nothing – In The Tank Podcast #377
Podcast -ased heavily on articles and rhetoric from the World Economic Forum - the biggest advocates of The Great Reset - the ITT crew talks about a world in the not-too-distant-future where people no longer own anything. Sounds crazy, but we may be well on our way to realizing that scenario. -
In Defense of German Colonialism (Guest: Bruce Gilley)
Podcast -In Episode 99 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Bruce Gilley, author of “In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West.” -
CO2 Is Not a Pollutant: The Benefits of Rising CO2 (Guest: Will Happer)
Podcast -The blatant politicization of climate science has hidden the tremendous benefits rising carbon dioxide concentrations have on the Earth. -
Veterans Affairs Is Failing on Suicide Prevention (Guest: Sally Pipes)
Podcast -The VA highlights why Americans should fear transitioning towards a single-payer health care system. -
Our Dystopian “Green” Future – In The Tank, #375
Podcast -From high energy prices and energy shortages to dictates about how you should live your life and whether you should have kids, climate alarmists seem to have no shortage of bad ideas. -
Data Is the Cure to Climate Change Anxiety (Guest: Rob Bradley, Jr.)
Podcast -The media loves to report on "climate change anxiety" as a serious concern. While overblown, there is some truth to this. However, the media should push blame on the true culprits, themselves. -
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland (Guest: Troy Senik)
Podcast -In Episode 98 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Troy Senik, author of “A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.” -
Is Long COVID the Next Excuse for Expanding Government and Mask Mandates? (Guest: Rik Mehta)
Podcast -Reports have a knack for becoming public policy, and the latest report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Long COVID could be the next case in point. -
China Erupts, Elites Side with Regime – In The Tank Podcast #374
Podcast -The ITT crew starts off talking about a new analysis from the Socialism Research Center. Then they discuss the ongoing protests that are boiling over in China due, in large part, to the country's strict zero-COVID policies. -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville (Guest: Olivier Zunz)
Podcast -In Episode 97 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Olivier Zunz, author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. -
North Korean Escapee’s Dire Warning for America
Podcast -Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea into China when she was only 13 years old. She didn’t do it for freedom. North Koreans don’t know what freedom is. Yeonmi did it for a bowl of rice. While she was fed in China, human traffickers sold her for $200 into a life of physical abuse. Thus, […] -
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II (Guest: Paul Kennedy)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, to discuss his new book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. They chat about the six major naval powers of the war and their individual strengths, weaknesses, and challenges, and how the war was won and lost in the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. They also talk about how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered by the war and the rise of American economic and military hegemony.
Get the book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300219173/victory-at-sea/
Show Notes:
Engelsberg Ideas: Lincoln Paine – “A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material”
https://engelsbergideas.com/books/a-marriage-of-the-geopolitical-the-military-and-the-material-victory-at-sea-naval-power-and-the-transformation-of-the-global-order-in-world-war-ii-by-paul-kennedy-review/
Foreign Policy: Alexander Wooley – “The Navy Made America a Superpower Once. Can It Again?”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/30/us-navy-victory-at-sea-review-paul-kennedy-history/
The New Criterion: Jeremy Black – “A new ruler of the waves”
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/a-new-ruler-of-the-waves
The Sunday Times: Max Hastings – “Victory at Sea by Paul Kennedy review — did the navy win the Second World War?”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victory-at-sea-by-paul-kennedy-review-did-the-navy-win-the-second-world-war-bd7tft0l9
Wall Street Journal: Brendan Simms – “‘Victory at Sea’ Review: Ruling the Waves in World War II”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/victory-at-sea-book-review-ruling-the-waves-in-world-war-ii-11650634290
Washington Free Beacon: Mike Watson – “How We Achieved Naval Supremacy—And How We Could Lose It”
https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-we-achieved-naval-supremacy-and-how-we-could-lose-it/
Washington Post: Robert D. Kaplan – “How the naval battles of World War II reshaped the global order”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/20/how-naval-battles-world-war-ii-reshaped-global-order/