Podcasts

Fox & Friends co-host and New York Times best selling author Brian Kilmeade joins the Heartland Daily Podcast to discuss his new book, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul.

This is Kilmeade's third time on the Heartland podcast talking about his popular history books. Hosts Jim Lakely and Chris Talgo talk to Kilmeade about the relationship between Lincoln and Douglass, the development of their special friendship, the state of race relations in the 19th Century compared to today, the zealotry of abolitionist John Brown, the lack of proper history teaching in America's schools, the "calamity" of the assassination of President Lincoln, and what Douglass would have thought of the Black Lives Matter movement and riots in the summer of 2020.

In the wake of President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan, China is making a troubling push to seize greater influence over the war-torn country. Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal explain in this episode of Stopping Socialism TV.

To read The Hill article referenced in the video, go here: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/572932-china-seeks-to-extend-critical-minerals-monopoly-with-help-of

For more information about Justin, go here: https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/justin-haskins

To see Donald's past work, go here: https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/donny-kendal

For more great videos, visit the Stopping Socialism TV YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgZeFXOjOCNq7QMgTEKNgJQ

To learn more about socialism, go to StoppingSocialism.com: https://stoppingsocialism.com/

On Sept. 1, World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab interviewed Christine Lagarde, one of the leaders at the European Central Bank, which serves as the central bank for the 19 European nations that have adopted the euro. Both Schwab and Lagarde are two of the biggest supporters of the Great Reset movement. Their conversation, which touched on a number of important subjects, was nothing short of shocking. Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal break down the conversation in this episode of Stopping Socialism.

To read more about the conversation between Lagarde and Schwab, go here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/klaus-schwab-christine-lagarde-covid-19-climate-change-inequality

For more information about Justin, go here: https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/justin-haskins

To see Donald's past work, go here: https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/donny-kendal

Heartland's Tim Benson is joined by constitutional and administrative lawyer Jonathan W. Emord to discuss his op-ed on critical race theory as well as his new book The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present.

The government The Founding Fathers envisioned was a force for good. Its limited role was to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If alive today, they would balk at what our government has become. Rampant government intervention seen today skews markets and limits the freedom of the individual.

H. Sterling Burnett joins the Great Talks With podcast to describe how The Heartland Institute discovers, develops, and promotes free-market solutions to social and economic problems; fighting back against big government.

Find out how the free market has helped accelerate the economic development of western democracies in this podcast.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law that aims to protect social media users from being censored or de-platformed. Jim Lakely joins the Jeff Katz show to discuss how this law is a step in the right direction for protecting free speech online. Until now, big tech companies have had free rein to censor whomever they choose, with users having little to no recourse to fight back. The Florida law aims to change that.

Who is the most informed on key issues? Is it viewers of Fox News? How about CNN, MSNBC, or other left-leaning media? Many have hypothesized on this question, but it’s been impossible to quantify until now.

In conjunction with Rasmussen Reports, The Heartland Institute conducted a poll that asked participants key factual questions. These participants were also asked about where they receive their news. It became exceedingly clear that viewers of CNN are wildly misinformed about many issues, including the national debt, climate change, and police shootings.

Jim Lakely speaks with Tony Katz on the results from the poll.

Check out the poll here: https://heartland.org/news-opinion/news/rasmussenheartland-poll-news

H. Sterling Burnett joins Merrill Matthews from the Institute for Policy Innovation to discuss gun control.

President Joe Biden is, rather unsurprisingly, pushing for more restrictive gun control laws. Aside from calling for legislation to unconstitutionally limit the ownership and sale of firearms, he offered a series of executive orders he says are first steps to reduce "gun violence." His proposals amount to virtue signaling on the gun issue and will do nothing to prevent crimes committed with firearms. For instance, Biden is directing the DOJ to treat so-called ghost guns as machine guns, requiring taxes and registration with the government, yet no ghost gun has ever been linked to a crime.

There are many lessons we should take away from the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic shutdowns imposed by governments. First, lockdowns don't work. They didn't halt the spread of the virus, and any many ways resulted in unnecessary suffering and death. It turns out masks do work. The economy declined by a huge amount, yet because the cause was exogenous to the market, and the lack of spending meant people saved more than they ever had, the recovery has been quick and is likely to result in an economic boom. However, the way people work has likely changed forever.

Heartland Institute President James Taylor explains why we must all must fight to protect free speech on the internet. State legislators, too, have a role in protecting the right of their constituents to speak freely on line. As he said in a recent live Heartland Webinar, Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act does not address or preclude state action to protect political free speech on the Internet.

"Section 230 does not give the tech giants, the tech cartel, the right to censor political free speech. Again, this Section 230 explicitly says the purpose is to maximize user control -- not Facebook control, not Google control, not platform control," Taylor said.

"[Online speech] must be sexually obscene or excessively violent, otherwise you do not have blanket authority to play God in terms of what you do or don't allow on the Internet. Yes, we do have the right to insist that we can speak freely, especially on political topics and cultural topics, on the Internet," he said.

H. Sterling Burnett joins Dr. Merrill Matthews on Point of View radio to discuss gun legislation in the Joe Biden era. Joe Biden has promised to enact more strict legislation regarding gun ownership. As a supporter of the 2^nd amendment, H. Sterling Burnett discusses why this legislation will fail to end gun violence but will encroach upon the freedoms America was founded on.

Justin Haskins joins the Morning Show with Preston Scott to discuss government policies threatening the US economy. Justin starts by describing how the lockdowns are destroying live. People are losing their businesses, their jobs, and their savings. More, there's little evidence to show the lockdowns effectively stopped transmission of COVID-19.

Haskins continues by describing how the national debt requires the government to keep interest rates low, benefiting those who can borrow money while further pushing normal people down the totem pole. Haskins and Scott conclude by discussing how government cannot simply cancel student loan debt. The money has to come from somewhere.

Dan Pilla, executive director at the Tax Freedom Institute and policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, joins Dr. Merrill Matthews on Point of View radio to discuss the dark money circulated throughout Washington DC. They discuss possible dark money ties to the riots seen in the capital.

Pilla also discusses how taxes have changed throughout the insanity that was 2020. How did the coronavirus change the tax code? How does the stimulus money factor in? What does the Joe Biden administration plan to do on taxes? Pilla discusses these questions and more.

Christina Herrin, government relations manager of health policy, interviews Justin Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project on reckless federal spending. The discussion focuses on federal agency spending, transparency, and the need to end tax payer dollars going to government run experiments on animals. 

Learn more at: 

https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/

Christina Herrin, government relations manager of health policy, discusses the state of Iowa’s legislator during the COVID-19 pandemic with Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver. The conversation focuses on the legislative agenda for 2021. Sen. Whitver explains how Iowa has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefits of school choice for Iowa, and how conservative tax policies benefit the state.

To stay up to date on Sen. Whitver, follow:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jwhitver

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackwhitver

Big social media companies driven not by profit and the good of their shareholders but by the leftist ideology are colluding with Democrats to suppress political speech and deplatform conservatives. This poses a huge threat to the continuation of a free constitutional republic. Conservatives must become more involved as shareholders to push balanced corporate policies and to refocus corporations on maximizing profits for their shareholders rather than pursuing liberal social and economic goals.

Three famous economists - Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D., Stephen Moore, and Erwin J. Antoni, Ph.D - present their new paper for The Heartland Institute titled "Will the Last Taxpayer in Illinois Please Turn Out the Lights: An Economic Assessment of the Illinois ‘Fair Tax’." The report:

www.heartland.org/_template-assets…airTaxReport.pdf

The economists’ research says passage of the so-called "Fair Tax" ballot initiative, which voters will decide on November 3, would:

 hit small businesses with annual profits as low as $250,000;

 slow job growth by an estimated 566,000 over the next decade, effectively eliminating about one in 10 current jobs;

 result in 1.4 million people leaving Illinois for better economic opportunities, setting outmigration from Illinois at about nine times faster than the current alarming rate;

 reduce the state's GDP by $20.5 billion over the next decade;

 reduce home value appreciation by about 10.4 percent over the next decade;

 make Illinois one of the five highest tax jurisdictions in the world, with only New Jersey and some Third World nations having a higher tax on corporations.

In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Ed and Heartland Institute Vice President Jim Lakely discuss the importance of celebrating human ingenuity, some of the giants of human achievement, the conditions that allow both to thrive, and the importance of teaching that to America's youth.

Visit: https://humanachievementalliance.org/

With the rise of K-12 history curricula that fail to teach children about American history and the foundations of Western Civilization and often actively undermine students’ appreciation of their national heritage, the authors of a new report propose a 490 B.C. Project to redress the balance.

Morgan E. Hunter, research fellow at the Independent Institute, joins Jenna Robinson, president at The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, to discuss the shortcomings of modern education. Hunter addresses two issues. First, that teaching content, in general, has been pushed aside in favor of focusing on skills in our K-12 schools. And second, the high school history curriculum includes very little Greco-Roman history or reading in the classics.

Read more here: https://heartlanddailynews.com/2020/10/scholars-offer-490-b-c-project-to-bolster-history-education/

Tm Benson explains the benefits of School Choice. Private school children are less prone to drug abuse and violence problems. Benson also talks about how tax credit programs help parents and even public schools. The conversation also veers towards the gas and oil industry and how it produces good paying jobs for non-college graduates.