High Noon

On this episode of  High Noon , Claudia Rosett joins Inez Stepman to give her perspective on the ongoing war in Ukraine from her 37 years of experience reporting in uprisings and war zones all over the world. A former Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Rosett discusses how America and the West's weakness has led us to this point, what can or should be done about the devastation...

This week on  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Inez is joined by Boris Ryvkin, former national security advisor to Senator Ted Cruz and an indispensable voice of explanation on the Russian invasion of Ukraine that is putting the world into crisis. Combining Russian, Ukrainian, and English sources with his own prodigious knowledge of history and foreign relations, Boris talks listeners through th...

As always, the last week of the month is reserved for  High Noon: After Dark  with Emily Jashinsky. On the docket this month were some pieces and topics from writers such as Robert Pondiscio in  Commentary  and Richard Hanania, including the reasons why the current cross-ideological backlash has a long way to go in terms of dislodging or deterring the woke revolution, and what...

This week’s  High Noon  guest is popular author and commentator Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report. Given his own journey from the left, Stepman asked Rubin about whether the different parts of the non-left — classical liberals, traditionalists, the new right, etc. — could fit together into a cohesive pushback movement. The two also chatted about the ongoing attempts to cancel Joe Rogan, and...

On this episode of High Noon, Inez Stepman interviews David Azerrad, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government. Azerrad and Stepman discuss how to deal realistically with man’s inherent tribalism, how to balance the increasingly oligarchic power of our credentialed elites, and whether we need more democracy or better elites. They also di...

On  High Noon  this week: Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at National Review Institute, contributing editor, and author of  Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency . McCarthy served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and as a legal analyst on many of the controversies that have burst into mainstream news in the last decad...

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, which means another episode of  High Noon: After Dark  with Inez Stepman and  The Federalist  Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky. From the  Federalist  studio, Jashinsky and Stepman chat about how the GOP could blow the chance voters are giving them and consign us to a continued decline under incompetent and woke institutions. They al...

To celebrate National School Choice Week,  High Noon  welcomes Jeremy Wayne Tate to sketch out the contours of what is possible outside the current education system. Tate is the CEO of Classical Learning Test, an alternative to the SAT, and has become a hub for the increasing swell of families interested in returning to the classical idea of education. Stepman and Tate discussed what the...

The first  High Noon  guest of the new year is John Wood, Jr. Wood is a national ambassador for Braver Angels. He’s also a former congressional candidate, a musician, and a writer, speaker, and thinker. John and Inez talk about finding a balance between a constrained vision of human nature and the possibility of genuine reconciliation despite America’s very real racial divisions. Woods a...

At the end of every month,  The Federalist  Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky joins Inez Stepman to discuss a docket of stories.  This month, they discuss the class dynamics of the Omicron wave that is sweeping the nation, and who really has more political power in 2021, West Virginia because of a powerful Senator, or AOC’s Brooklyn, NY district. Emily and Inez also delve into disturbi...

This week on  High Noon,  Inez Stepman interviews Rod Dreher, senior editor at  The American Conservative  and author of the book  Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents . Live Not By Lies  is all about preparing yourself — mentally, spiritually, practically — for the possibility of living as a dissident in a hostile and totalitarian society. Each of Dreh...

This week on  High Noon,  Inez Stepman interviews Aaron Sibarium, associate editor at  Washington Free Beacon  and the reporter behind breaking the latest Yale Law School controversies. Stepman questions Sibarium about his focus on the bureaucratic mechanisms of implementing wokeness in institutions, how it became as ubiquitous as it seems to be, and what his reporting suggests...

This week on  High Noon,  Inez Stepman does a deep dive with  The American Mind’ s Seth Barron into the problems most urban Americans are increasingly contending with: rising crime, mentally ill and aggressive homeless people, intermittently closed schools, and more. Barron is a lifelong New Yorker and the author of the book  The Last Days of New York: A Reporter’s True Tale. S...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Madeleine Kearns,  National Review  columnist and contributor at  The Spectator . Madeleine and Inez discuss a range of topics related to the female experience in 2021, from Gen Z’s waning enthusiasm for sex-positivity to generational fragility and the regrettable sunset of the womanly slap. The discussion also delves into...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman formally introduces a new segment,  After Dark , with  The Federalist  Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky. The last week of every month, Emily and Inez will be chatting about the most under-covered stories of the month. This month, they talk about where moral responsibility for the disaster in Kenosha lies, and the duplicity of an establ...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of the new book  Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy . The  Newsweek  opinion editor outlines how journalism as a profession has transformed from the domain of the working-class hero to the credentialed bubble denizen. Stepman and Ungar-Sargon discuss the possibility of a left-right...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Tony Kinnett, the Indianapolis teacher and curriculum coordinator behind a viral video explaining how critical race theory makes its way into public school lessons. Kinnett is one of the founders behind the heterodox teacher hub  Chalkboard Review , as well as a guest columnist in a variety of outlets. Kinnett debunks the post-Virgi...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews National Review senior writer David Harsanyi, author of the new book  Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent . Harsanyi busts some common American myths about the superiority of European healthcare systems, welfare state payments, and tolerance of diverse newcomers with hard facts that compare apple...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Mary Eberstadt, novelist, playwright, essayist, columnist, and author of several books, including her most recent,  Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics . Eberstadt urges compassion for the “woke,” arguing essentially that many of us have been denied the natural family “habitat” to become psychological...

On this episode of  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Robby Soave, author of the new book  Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook or the Future . Robby is also senior editor at  Reason  magazine, where he has been at the forefront of reporting the truth about stories like the Covington protestors incident and the UVA rape hoax.  Robby and Inez discuss concerns about...

The Federalist  Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky returns to the podcast to talk through the most important issues of the month that might have flown under your radar. The ladies discuss how some of the policies inserted into budget-busting bills like the infrastructure package have huge culture war impacts that are not immediately clear from the normal dollars-and-cents analysis. Emily and Inez...

In this episode of  High Noon with Inez Stepman,  Inez interviews Professor Robbie P. George of Princeton University. Professor George outlines why he hasn’t given up on the academy, and how he and an ideologically diverse group of professors are fighting back against cancel culture. Stepman and Professor George also discuss the importance of seeking truth over victory, and the courage n...

In this episode of  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Helen Raleigh joins the podcast to offer her firsthand account of living under the Chinese Communist system before immigrating to America. Author of  Confucius Never Said  and  Backlash: How Communist China’s Aggression Has Backfired , Helen mingles lessons learned from her unique background with research and strategy to chart a...

In this episode of  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Inez interviews Timothy Carney, author of  Alienated America :  Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse,  a book about the sociological contours of the crisis of meaning and loneliness that drives our politics.   Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the senior columnist at  The Washin...

In this episode of  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Inez interviews Rebeccah Heinrichs. Heinrichs is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school for national affairs. She specializes in national security, international relations, arms control, and missile defense, and she has served as an expert in that capacity in the U...