David Gornoski

Is economic freedom intrinsically opposed to love for the common good? The point of Jesus' entire life story, David Gornoski argues, is that He refuses to employ top-down control as a shortcut to heaven. Joining the show, in this episode, is Curtis Ellis of America First Policies. The former Trump campaign advisor highlights how shutting the economy down destroys all aspect of every-day life and h...

Esteemed New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop NT Wright joins David Gornoski to discuss the pandemic and Christ's role in shaping governance and justice. The iconic theologian puts the pandemic into perspective from what Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans. Dr. Wright points to how the early church revolutionized the way we think about our fellow human beings by caring for the poor and dow...

Angela Stanton-King, the Founder and President of American King Foundation, joins David Gornoski to discuss her interview on the Breakfast Club. "It's hypocritical to want others to value our lives when we don't even value our own offspring," Angela says as she points to how the Democratic party's abortion agenda destroys black families. The Republican candidate also discusses her congressional ru...

"Because we have Christian storytelling in our roots, we have to posture as dying, persecuted victims in our attempts to take power away from someone." David Gornoski explains how the social justice movement has hijacked the Christian aesthetic of defending victims from violent mobs; he urges us to reject the mirroring of the mob and get back to real justice concerned with the selfless defense of...

How did we go from being the nation of great manufacturers to the land of Walmarts? Investing legend and author of The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson, returns to the show to answer this question and discuss how socialist governments hinder innovative entrepreneurship. Also, David Gornoski comments on the racial-tension narrative that is being pushed upon us. "The Democrat party is marri...

Something that's considered to be taboo by the media today is the destruction of families. Marriese Jones joins David Gornoski to discuss fatherhood and how restoring families can heal our nation. Jones also talks about his ministry work in prisons and how community building from the ground up, and not top-down coercion, is the path towards reconciliation. Is Black Lives Matter really for race rec...

Zak Slayback, author of 'How to Get Ahead' and principal at 1517 Fund, sits down with David Gornoski to discuss Rene's Girard Mimetic Theory and how it explains the current socio-political turmoil in America. What happens when our society allows Jesus to infect our culture yet is reluctant to renounce violence as a means to sustain itself? Can modern identitarian movements redeem themselves withou...

On Science and U, Dr. Weiping Yu discusses the news of an Italian lab's dark-matter experiment and the discovery of a new particle. Why are the laws of physics unable to explain this phenomenon? Dr. Yu questions whilst arguing that this new particle may not be 'new' in the strictest sense. The physicist also comments on the discovery of a new class of neutrinos from the sun. Also, Mises Institute'...

Americans don't realize how much of our political system is tied to war profiteering, says Eric Garris, and whenever our government doesn't like anything that another country does, we starve their people by imposing sanctions. The founder of Antiwar.com also comments on the latest indictments on Julian Assange. Should Assange be punished for revealing the truth about our political system? Why is T...

TK Coleman, Director of Entrepreneurial Education at FEE and Co-Founder of Praxis, joins the show to discuss how he reconciles free-market economics with his faith. "Freedom has always seemed scary," Coleman says, "Whenever you talk about freedom you always strike a nerve on our desire to control other people." Is there a threat of governments like that of China's exploiting free markets, and if t...

Jerry Bowyer, economist and editor of Townhall Finance, joins David Gornoski to talk about the pandemic, conservatism, and the social justice movement. On the pandemic lockdowns, Bowyer observes that we far too often think politically on scientific issues and that top-down solution is not always the answer. This is a problem that exists in conservatism, Bowyer argues while urging conservatives not...

"Right now, we have rich communists and socialists--hand-in-hand with big corporations--hijacking people's justice." Host Gornoski compares socialism to the stiff crust of cheap pizza which nobody wants but big corporates. If the left are so concerned about green energy and environment why is it that nuclear fusion is never discussed among them? Do these folks even care about the real people langu...

In a time when liberalism has been attacked as the source of society's ills, what can be done to redeem it? Author, mathematician, and political commentator Dr. James Lindsay joins David Gornoski to discuss what liberalism really is. Dr. Lindsay describes 'wokeness' as a religion running rampant at Academia and claims that critical theory, the foundation of wokeness, is anti-liberal. "The key obje...

"If marijuana is a gateway drug, so are alcohol and cigarettes," says Amy Povah. The founder of CAN-DO Clemency returns on this episode with Rufus Rochell to talk about the recent compassionate releases and the others in waiting. One of many imprisoned for non-violent offenses is John Bolen who received 9 life sentences for a drug-related crime. John's wife June calls in to discuss her husband's s...

Dr. Darrell Scott, pastor of New Spirit Revival Center and CEO of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, joins the show to discuss police and criminal justice reform. Dr. Scott believes that we should be sensitive to both sides of the current issue over police reform; excessive force should be dealt with but we have to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The Pastor from Ohio also...

Former NYPD detective John Baeza calls in to comment on the disbanding of plainclothes officers in New York City and the Wendy's police shooting in Atlanta. Detective Baeza believes that the disbanding has nothing to do with reform and more to do with pandering to certain interest groups. On the Rayshard Brooks shooting, Baeza brings some attention to what would have happened if the stolen taser w...

Contrary to the claims of the SJWs of corporate McWokeism, we have a real justice issue in this country which involves actual flesh and blood. Rufus Rochell returns to the show to shine a light on this pressing issue of our time. Holli Houghton, public defender and author of True Injustice, is another victim of the criminal justice system who joins David Gornoski and together they discuss the grim...

Dr. Weiping Yu comments on an article at UC Berkeley that says aquatic bacteria uses magnetic properties to navigate underwater. Dr. Yu also addresses the claim that physicists may have solved the long-standing mystery of matter and antimatter. The physicist believes that antimatter is 'science fiction' and instead proposes that particles have both positive and negative charges. Also, Craig Cesal,...

Why do conservatives continue to lose both politically and culturally? The answer, David Gornoski says, is that the left has successfully monopolized the art of story-telling. "The right doesn't have its story right." David challenges the right to understand what 'Holy Spirit' means. Paul describes Satan in the New Testament as a system of government; the Holy Spirit--the defender--is juxtaposed t...

We've lost so much of our freedoms and yet we've become more libertine than ever before. "Because we cling to power and refuse to obey our conscience we have stagnation," David Gornoski says. The key to having a non-violent and self-sacrificial society is freedom, David argues. "Non-violence and freedom are almost synonymous." Reject the naysayers who malign freedom! We must reject living by the s...

David Gornoski explains why we should reject media-perpetuated fake 'social justice' issues and instead focus on real people suffering from real oppression. "Political correctness is all about pretty speech codes while bombing the ever-loving daylights out of innocents around the world." Like the issues of mass incarceration and wars abroad, David also brings some much-needed attention to the gove...

David Gornoski explains how we are forced into mimetic-rivalry by the media and their establishment handlers. How do we escape this divisive culture imposed on us? David argues that we have to voluntarily imitate good role models who exercise self-restraint. "Economic liberty, love of family, and love of culture go hand in hand," David says, "they don't have to exist in dialectical opposition towa...

David Gornoski reflects on the joyous news of Craig Cesal coming home and the long road that lies ahead for setting the captives free. Also, anthropologist and economist Mark Sunwall calls in to discuss the work of French philosopher Jacques Ellul. Sunwall brings attention to Ellul's work on propaganda and how an understanding of Ellul's thinking helps us in comprehending and dealing with our info...

Michael Rectenwald, author of Beyond Woke and Springtime Snowflakes, calls in to discuss political correctness in modern academia and the postmodern scholars that gave rise to 'woke' culture. Rectenwald talks about his experience of fighting SJWs at New York University; the scholar likens Woke culture to a religious movement, devoid of reason, and obsessive of collective identities. "The more they...

Motivational speaker, law enforcement officer, and author, Edie Darling joins David Gornoski to talk about her book and the George Floyd murder. Edie draws some fascinating insights from growing up in a segregated society. "What oppresses one group of people, oppresses all," she says whilst challenging us to change our divisive way of thinking into concern for all. Also, James Bovard returns to up...