Podcasts
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A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln (Guest: Jonathan W. White)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Jonathan W. White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, to discuss his new book, co-authored with William J. Griffing, A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln. They chat about the excerpts of the more than 200 previously unpublished accounts written by […] -
COP 29: Inside the Disaster in Baku – The Climate Realism Show #136
Podcast -The latest annual United Nations climate conference, COP29, is about to wrap up in Baku, Azerbaijan – the second year in a row it has been held in a “petro state.” Add in the election of Donald Trump just before they convened, and it was a pretty grim affair if you are a global climate […] -
How Economics Explains the World (Guest: Andrew Leigh)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities, Treasury and Employment, and Federal Member for Fenner in the Australian Parliament, to discuss his book How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity. They chat about how ingenuity, greed, and desire for betterment have determined our past, present, and […] -
Maple Syrup and Hot Air: Debunking Canada’s Climate Hype – The Climate Realism Show #135
Podcast -While the political tide has shifted right in the United States – and away from the climate alarmist agenda – our neighbors to the north are still currently all-in for the economically ruinous and scientifically unnecessary Net Zero agenda. But climate realists in the Great White North are pushing back, and a new book released […] -
Everything Has Changed – In the Tank #473
Podcast -Since Election Night, doesn’t everything feel different now? Not just our politics. but the whole mood of the country. Yes, some of our fellow Americans are in a very sad state. Clips of people filming their misery and sharing it with the world are everywhere. But for the majority of the country, is feels like […] -
Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery (Guest: Cara Rogers Stevens)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the evolution of Jefferson’s views on race and slavery, his legislative attempts to put the practice on a pathway to extinction in Virginia beginning in […] -
Trump Causes Climate Activists to Melt Down – The Climate Realism Show #134
Podcast -Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has climate activists around the world melting down. Trump called measures to control climate change “one of the great scams” of the world, and said at one of his final rallies “who the hell cares?” if the sea levels rise. Trump will immediately get America out […] -
A Trump Victory & a Media Reckoning – In The Tank #472
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 472 of the In The Tank Podcast. Donald J. Trump has been elected as the 47th President of the United States. Trump’s victory comes after a years long campaign by the media to paint the President-elect as a racist, sexist, fascist, […] -
Tokenization Trap: How You Could Lose Everything on the Blockchain (Feat. Daylea Duvall Camp)
Podcast -Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show – the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are diving into a concept that is reshaping the financial landscape—“tokenization.” It’s being talked about as a way to give more people access to markets, but could […] -
“Not So Fast,” on Coal Closures, Its Still Vital To America (Guest: Matt Mackowiak)
Podcast -“Not So Fast,” is a campaign to make it obvious to the general public, regulators, and legislators alike that coal still plays a vital role to play in the U.S. electric power supply and in industrial production, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It is way too soo to put it […] -
Climate Change Policies, Killing the American Dream
Podcast -Climate change policy is often framed as a challenge to personal freedoms and choices, especially when policies seem to impose strict limits on individuals’ lifestyles and economic options. For example, regulations that mandate renewable energy or limit fossil fuel use can feel like a direct restriction on the American dream—the idea that with hard work, […] -
Exposing the Ranked Choice Voting Scam (feat. Brady Smith)
Podcast -Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show – the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are talking about a proposed overhaul to our voting system called Rank Choice Voting. Supposedly, this new voting system will allow for better representation and result in […] -
Bezos: Americans Don’t Trust The News Media – In The Tank #471
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Jack McPherrin present episode 471 of the In The Tank Podcast. The last vestiges of the media’s credibility are going up in smoke. From ghastly journalistic blunders to headlines that twist and turn like characters in a Hitchcock thriller, we’ll break down how the media […] -
Why War? (Guest: Richard Overy)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by renowned historian Richard Overy to discuss his new book, Why War? They chat about why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past, and indeed in the human present, and what are the major drivers and motivations for war, how each has contributed to organized conflict, […] -
Rhetoric and Reality – The Politics of Climate Change
Podcast -The whole world seems to be nervously awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, which is just 10 days away — perhaps no group more than the global climate cabal. Climate and energy policy is a topic barely mentioned on the campaign trail, and in the debates. But voters are going to decide in November […] -
Establishment Targets Elon: ‘This is War’ – In The Tank #470
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 470 of the In The Tank Podcast. When Elon Musk expressed interest in purchasing Twitter and making it a bastion for free speech, he simultaneously put a target on his back for the political elites. In a recent development, leaked documents appear to […] -
Climate Alarmist Education – The Climate Realism Show #131
Podcast -What is driving the push for shoving climate alarmism into every academic subject under the sun? -
Public Health Emergency Authority Act (feat. Kendyl Turner)
Podcast -Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show – the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we dive into what should be a very controversial piece of proposed legislation that could grant governors immense emergency powers over society, circumventing individual liberty in the name […] -
A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s (Guest: Anthony Eames)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Anthony Eames, director of scholarly initiatives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and professorial lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, to discuss his new book, A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, […] -
When Progressives Squash Progress – In The Tank #469
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 469 of the In The Tank Podcast. Over this past week, we witnessed an engineering breakthrough from Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The successful launch and recapture of the SpaceX Starship booster marks a pivotal moment in the future of space travel, showcasing advancements in […] -
To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power (Guest: Sergey Radchenko)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss his new book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power. They chat about how the Soviet struggle […] -
Breaking Down Hurricane Milton – The Climate Realism Show #130
Podcast -After a slow start to the 2024 Hurricane Season, it seems like Mother Nature wants to make up for lost time. -
Kamala Harris and the Media are Getting Desperate – In The Tank #468
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins present episode 468 of the In The Tank Podcast. As the election approaches, it appears as though the mainstream media industry is desperate to paint Kamala Harris in the best light possible. For example, it appears as though 60 Minutes selectively edited their interview with […] -
Talking Hurricane Milton and Common Climate Myths on the Shaun Thompson Show
Podcast -This week, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts was a guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM 560 the Answer in Chicago. He was asked on the program to talk about Hurricane Milton approaching the Florida Gulf Coast and what Shaun calls the “climate grift.” Anthony debunks a lot of climate myths in just […]