High Noon

In the first episode of Season 2’s new discussion format, co-hosts Inez Stepman and Madeleine Kearns discuss why moral clarity has been so elusive for so many in the West in the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Israel. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the poli...

On this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez discuss Russell Brand and how evaluating MeToo accusations has become impossible without participating in a politically charged humiliation ritual. They also chat about the announced Newsom v. DeSantis debate and how it might be more connected to the choices Americans face than our ostensible national politics. Also, Inez rants about WWII hi...

James Hasson, an army captain and Afghanistan veteran who participated in independent evacuation efforts in the 2021 withdrawal, and Jerry Dunleavy, an investigative reporter who now continues that job as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee (although he speaks here in a private capacity), have written a tough but necessary exposé about America’s disastrous withdrawal and evacua...

Andrew Hartz is a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. Andrew and Inez discuss how woke ideology is encouraging therapists to violate their professional obligations to patients and making them unable to work with the majority of Americans. Andrew also parries some of Inez’s objections to therapy as a concept, and the two discuss what negative psychologica...

Emily Jashinsky rejoins the High Noon pod at the end of each month. This month, the ladies discuss the Tucker Carlson Trump interview and what it says about new media, then move on to talking about what qualities a good society ought to look for when selecting an elite. Compared to past American elite families, they find our current credentialed class wanting. Finally, they discuss ongoing media d...

Tony Kinnett of The Daily Signal has been reporting from Maui, where a devastating fire has officially claimed the lives of 116, but local estimates put the number of lives lost at over 1000. Tony shares what he’s seen in and around Lahaina, what those affected need from the rest of the country, and what next steps are necessary to hold people accountable for unforgivable mistakes that may have co...

IWF’s own Hadley Heath Manning joins High Noon podcast to talk about an  essay she wrote  for The New York Times about the birth control pill and sexual revolution. Her voice joins others’ on the Left and Right in expressing some of the downsides with which easy contraceptives and lax sexual mores have left women. Hadley and Inez also discuss hypernovelty and whether our culture can keep...

Christopher Rufo rejoins High Noon podcast to discuss his new bestselling book,  America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Left Conquered Everything . Chris and Inez talk about which explanation for the roots of wokeness makes the most sense and how to recapture institutional power. They also answer a few of Rufo’s critics on the Left and Right. -- High Noon is an intellectual download feat...

Emily Jashinsky is back for another docket episode. The ladies discuss whether independent media is finally breaking through, what the affirmative action SCOTUS decision is doing to the corporate DEI industry, the new trend of retiring the girlboss life for Lazy Girl Jobs, and of course, Barbenheimer. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free s...

Delano Squires is a Research Fellow at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation. He joins High Noon to talk about fatherhood in our culture, the sex wars and who is to blame for them, and why he has a different view about restoring masculinity than the online manosphere. Delano Squires is also a contributor to BlazeTV’s Fearless with Jason Whitlo...

Jennifer Braceras of Independent Women’s Law Center joins High Noon podcast to discuss the blockbuster Supreme Court term and how the headlines are getting a lot of the cases wrong. Inez and Jennifer talk through the legal and political issues involved in the court striking down racial preferences in admissions, upholding freedom of speech for small businesses, and enforcing separation of powers i...

On this episode of High Noon: After Dark, Emily and Inez kick it off by talking about America's two indicted and/or indictable front runners for 2024, and then move on to putting the bow on the Pride backlash. The ladies also discuss why the number of high schoolers answering yes to the question “I do not enjoy life” is skyrocketing. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversa...

This week, Paula Scanlan, college athlete and former teammate of Lia Thomas, speaks out about what it was like for the girls competing alongside and sharing a pool and locker room with a man. Paula and Inez also discuss the psychological effects of the silencing tactics used by institutions that refuse to acknowledge even the most obvious truths about sex differences. -- High Noon is an intel...

Alexis Carré is the 2022-23 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His work deals with war and liberal democracy, and both are exactly what he joins the High Noon pod to talk about. Carré explains how, far from being too polarized, our politics have gotten too far away from the natural consequences of disagreement between citizens, and...

Emily and Inez (reluctantly) talk through the latest in the 2024 race and what sort of primary competition mud-slinging could be good vs. bad for the Right. They discuss how the prophetic Christian Right called the slippery slope in advance, and how a new culture war coalition ought to mediate between that faction and newly-arrived moderates who believe there’s a hard break between social liberali...

Reverend Hans Fiene is a Lutheran pastor, host of the channel Lutheran Satire, and a contributor to The Federalist. Hans and Inez wade through their sometimes-similar and sometimes-different perspectives on Christian nationalism, the role of religion in the public square and affairs of state, wokeness as religion, “new atheism,” therapeutism vs. theology, suffering, and more. -- High Noon is...

Gail Heriot, professor at University of San Diego School of Law and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins the podcast to explain how legal changes made to the Civil Rights Act in the 1990s forced radical politics and easy offense out of academia and directly into corporate America. Gail convincingly explains how concepts like microaggressions, racial identity politics, and res...

This week, Ted Frank joins the podcast. Frank is the director of litigation at the conservative public-interest law firm he founded, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, and has argued and won cases in front of the Supreme Court as well as several federal courts of appeals. Stepman and Frank talk through the legal and public opinion contours of the Jordan Neely case in New York, and set it in context o...

Heather Mac Donald rejoins High Noon podcast to discuss her critical book  When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives . Heather and Inez discuss how unfair racial preferences have jumped from the courtroom to private institutions, and how they’ve seriously undercut scientific progress and artistic accomplishment. They also tal...

On the 100th episode of High Noon, Emily Jashinsky is back on the pod to take a step back and think about some of the news items that have been firehosing the media for the last month. Emily and Inez discuss some of the positive and negative possibilities regarding Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News and what it might do to the media landscape. They also dive back into the uncynical world of...

Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent at The Federalist and adjunct professor at Notre Dame, joins the podcast to expose the scandal no one is talking about: the lawfare being waged against lawyers who step out of line politically. Margot outlines how lawyers who worked for Donald Trump, or even on behalf of controversial issues like abortion or gun control, are being targeted for professio...

Amber Athey, Washington editor of The Spectator and author of  The Snowflakes' Revolt: How Woke Millennials Hijacked American Media , joins the pod to discuss how the cultural inquisition has hit legacy media from the entry level up. Amber and Inez also chat about how legacy media outlets gatekeep access to the president, as well as Amber’s own multiple attempted cancellations. -- High Noon&n...

Manhattan Institute scholar Rafael Mangual joins the podcast to talk through what's actually going on with the awful crime spikes in most of America's cities and how soft-on-crime decarceration policies have endangered Americans. Rafael and Inez also discuss the original crime explosion in the late '60s and how broken families and a permissive culture collide in early childhood to produce people l...

Emily Jashinsky rejoins High Noon: After Dark, the recurring month-end episode, to talk about the kickoff to the 2024 primary season, what new polls showing collapsing patriotism and connection mean for the digital generation, and whether casting a black actress as the Queen of England has artistic merit or is just a gaslighting political move. -- High Noon is an intellectual download featuri...

Young Heretics host and  The American Mind  editor Spencer Klavan rejoins the pod to discuss his new book  How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises . Klavan sets hot-button culture war battles like gender ideology and the Metaverse in context of some of the most important philosophical questions grappled with by the greatest minds of the West: questions about real...