Entering Stage Right Podcast

Friends, Thanks for joining us in listening to Part 2 of our podcast from last week, Ibram X. Kendi—Exposed ! Our summation may be all you ever need to know about Mr. Kendi’s utopian vision. In his book, “How To Be An Antiracist,” the former Henry Rogers spells out his endgame, hoping “…that one day the flag of antiracism will fly over a world of equity.” Of course, the means to Kendi’s “world of...

Dear Listeners, Today’s podcast has been a long time coming. Reading through Ibram X. Kendi’s best-selling book, How to Be an Antiracist , is a challenging assignment. We’ve tried to do the hard work for you. We look at several definitions, mandates, and judgements that Mr. Kendi proposes and find them lacking at best. At worst, his conclusions are false, dangerous, and lack that touch of mercy al...

Dear Friends,  Though your co-hosts on  Entering Stage Right   have taken a little break between Christmas and New Years, I’ve asked D. Paul to read one of his short stories— The Mending — for our last podcast of 2022. It’s a story of healing, so pass it along to someone who may need an encouraging word this New Year’s season. As the year comes to a close,  a special thanks to all our listeners in...

Dear Friends, A very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! We’re podcasting on Friday to beat the proverbial “Christmas rush.” So, thank YOU for joining us on this Yuletide show as we take a trip down memory lane and recall a couple of our favorite Christmases. The frigid weather, crazy San Francisco, and the “language police” of Stanford U. engage us along the way, and some “brave” heroes (if we ca...

Dear Friends, Lies—it’s both a verb and a noun. Twitter lies about what is going on at corporate headquarters and now the lies (thanks to Elon Musk’s housecleaning) are coming out. Duh … would have thought? This week, Entering Stage Right highlights San Francisco’s funding for pregnant “people,” the ongoing Twitter exposé, and the “why” we buy into the lie, as delineated by writer/philosopher Davi...

Dear Friends, Seems like many on the Left are “in a twitter’ over the recently released “twitter files” by Elon Musk. At the directive of Twitter’s new CEO, it’s encouraging to see the tweets trickle out with the help of journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. May transparency and full disclosure be their guideposts as the process continues, informing Americans of the collusion between government...

Dear Listeners, While the “culture of death” is evident all around us, surrogate bureaucracies frequently carry out the Left’s agenda, allowing a “soft totalitarianism” to creep into the mainstream of our everyday lives. From child abuse operating under the euphemism of gender affirming care, to the perversity of pedophiles let loose on the streets of San Francisco, to Down’s children in the UK be...

Friends, We trust you had a joyous Thanksgiving Day and weren’t the recipient of the White House’s bullet points for your Thanksgiving dinner: “President Biden’s Top Accomplishments for when chatting with your Uncle at Thanksgiving. ” Uncle D. Paul and Uncle Philip give thanks for their many blessings in this sprightly podcast, and send out a few zingers along the way against the “progressive” pol...

Friends, With last week’s unsettling, midterm election results, we find ourselves asking that penultimate question, “Where do we go from here?” On the one hand, we’ve Nancy Pelosi stepping down from House leadership, only to have a more “progressive” Hakeem Jeffries waiting in the wings. To add to the drama, former president Donald Trump, “leader of the pack,” preemptively throws his hat into the...

Friends, Last week’s written post, which accompanied our podcast, said, “Working together, a political sea change is about to occur.” Doubtless, that was a bit optimistic. But, not surprisingly, the final votes are still coming in. While the House looks promising, the Senate is up for grabs. We discuss the reasons for these results, and several “bright stars” on the political horizon who will serv...

Dear Listeners, Sensing imminent defeat, the Democratic party is folding its “big tent” flaps, hunkering down, and resorting to hyperbolic, if not hysterical rhetoric. Take your pick, for this is your “one final warning:” “Democracy is on the ballot.” “Democracy is under threat.” “Democracy, as we know it, it’s over.” Or, better yet, “Democracy is over.” Forget the real issues—inflation, crime, th...

Friends, Actor, Martin Sheen, just sent out a fanciful, fundraising email for the Democrats, saying he is “…truly disgusted. Disgusted by Donald Trump and his Republicans…disgusted by their support of insurrectionists…blocking reproductive rights, restricting access to the ballot, and attacking our democracy.” Who’s kidding whom? With the economy tanking, a proxy war in Europe growing precarious,...

Friends, The Left seems to have a genius, albeit a twisted one, for making up words and phrases as they go along. With their weaponization of language in hand, the Left has weaponized our trusted institutions—the DOJ and the FBI. In so doing, they’ve cast an ever-widening net, hoping to catch those on the Right whom they purport to pose a “threat to democracy,” from concerned parents (aka domestic...

Dear Listeners, Coming to you soon may be the “Woke Oath,” a cultish, political pledge imposed upon the incoming students at the University of Minnesota Medical School. From academia to the judiciary to the media, freedom loving people are being asked to sign and speak oaths and pledges that go against their core principals and religious convictions. It’s dangerous territory. We explore all of thi...

Friends, In this week’s podcast, we focus in on the ban from leftist groups at the University of California, Berkeley, who are targeting pro-Israel speakers. Ironically, the home of “free speech” now supports those campus organizations who want to cancel the voices with whom they disagree. From Berkely to Vanderbilt Divinity School to New York University to the DOJ, the hunt is on to “investigate...

Friends, Highlighting our podcast this week is the election of Italy’s first woman Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, already the recipient of “the slings and arrows” coming out of the White House and mainstream media. “Fascist,” or some variant thereof, seems to be the Left’s new buzzword. With nothing of real accomplishment to run on in the November elections, slurs and slanders have become their d...

Friends, It’s hardly arguable that the mainstream media is in collusion with the woke ideology of our culture. With little exception, the media and high-tech communities operate in concert with the Biden Administration and it many surrogates throughout our ever-expanding bureaucracy. This lively podcast explores the White House’s collusion with Facebook, the trans-craze promoted by the local press...

Friends, Drawing “liberally” from a brilliant article by Liel Leibovitz found in tabletmag.com, the September 7th edition, entitled “The Plot Against Jewish Education,” we discuss The New York Times’s “hit job” into the yeshivas of the Hasidic communities in Brooklyn, etc. Along the way, San Francisco citizens decry their lack of safety, fearful that their city’s “glory,” like Rome’s, “is of anoth...

Friends, After taking a brief hiatus, we’re back in the saddle this week with an assortment of offerings on Podcast #76, ranging from a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II to President Joe Biden’s divisive speech at Independence Hall. Along the way, we have some “California gone crazy” highlights, the pleasures of the Penrod Arts Fair in Indianapolis, and the continued malfeasance of the BLM organizatio...

Dear Listeners, As promised, here is a repeat of one of our earliest podcasts, Paul Rossi’s Letter, never before posted on Substack The show centers around the courageous Paul Rossi, a math teacher who had the temerity to challenge the teaching of Critical Race Theory at the Grace Church School in Manhattan, an elite Episcopal school, with a Junior Kindergarten through 12th grade program. In a con...

Friends, With little compunction for their actions, we are living in a time when freedom of conscience and speech are under assault. We see it all about us, from the suppressive statutes of the Biden White House to the obsequious Facebook minions who suppressed the Hunter-Biden laptop story at the bequest of the FBI. After technical difficulties yesterday, we are back up today with a lively show a...

Friends, After taking some time last week to discuss the Mar-a-Lago raid, we’re back on track as we highlight individuals Stopping the Runaway Trans Train that is barreling through our educational, medical, and governmental institutions. Among others, we focus in on Sue Evans, the nurse at the Tavistock Clinic in London who blew the whistle on a team that was recklessly prescribing puberty blocker...

Dear Friends, We’re pivoting this week and saving Stopping the Runaway Trans Train—Part Two, until next week. This week’s RAID on former President Donald J. Trump’s compound, Mar-a-Lago, occupies the heart of our podcast. While there is still much to be known, we know enough to address the dangerous precedent set in motion by the DOJ’s action. Can you imagine the blowback if President Trump had or...

Friends, This week’s podcast focuses in depth on the trans madness that has swept through our nation in recent years. Drawing upon a diverse group of thinkers and authors (Christopher F. Ruffo, Lisa Selin Davis, Andrew Sullivan, etc.), it is apparent that a comprehensive discussion on the care of transgender persons has been hijacked by political activists with an overriding, personal agenda. Whil...

Friends, This week we highlight several leftists who disagree with the extreme agendas being pushed by their over-the-top, radical colleagues. In the process, we focus in on Romano Bessinger, who was reinstated after blowing the whistle on the “new,” CRT curricula being taught at the school where she teaches in Providence, Rhode Island. Along the way, we look at “gays against groomers” (bravo!), a...