The Ricochet Superfeed

Jace Lington speaks with Rupert Darwall about his new book, The Age of Error and the West's Undoing . In the book, Darwall argues that Western leaders doubled down on policies to fight climate change after the 2008 financial crisis, which led to a clash between environmentalism and geopolitics. He also makes the case that politicians became codependent on experts (central bankers, climate scientis...

Western civilization faces a growing crisis as immigration, assimilation, radical Islam and political leadership fuel tensions across Europe and the United States. From rising unrest and cultural divisions to the backlash against established political elites, the stakes extend beyond individual policies to the future of Western traditions, values and institutions. As Europe and America grapple wit...

Erick breaks down why Republican strategists are in full meltdown mode two weeks before the midterms after the New York Times/Siena College poll showed Democrats up 11 on the generic ballot, and why he thinks the polling, including the fake Wedgwood numbers, overstates the Democrats in key Senate races from Texas and Ohio to Iowa and Alaska. Then he rips Vivek Ramaswamy for doubling down on an ad...

Erick reacts to Volodymyr Zelensky telling Fox News he will accept a ceasefire that freezes the lines in Ukraine, while the White House, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Elon Musk each give a different story about why Starshield and Starlink service went down. Erick then takes calls on JD Vance's post-liberal worldview of American decline and spheres of influence with Russia and China, argues that d...

Erick, broadcasting from Louisiana, digs into the FBI's dumpster dive for DNA evidence in the Ilhan Omar investigation and Senator Elissa Slotkin's walkback of her comments about prosecuting Trump allies. He says corruption must be prosecuted on both sides, including the Trump family, Steve Witkoff, and Howard Lutnick. He also pitches a constitutional fix that suspends the presidential pardon powe...

On The Report Card , we talk a lot about schools, but in this episode we do something a little different and talk about one of the populations schools serve: adolescents. How are technologies such as social media, AI, and location tracking affecting teenagers? What are gender relations like among high school students? And how do teens today think about family, religion, politics, and America? On t...

In this special Chicks on the Right Midterm Mashup, we're revisiting some of our biggest conversations about the upcoming elections, border security, the economy, and the political battles shaping America's future. Political analyst Mark Halperin delivers a troubling midterm prediction, warning that Republicans could lose significant ground in both the House and Senate. Meanwhile, Scott Jennings c...

Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's bizarre deal with owners and operators of the the ship that knocked a bridge in Baltimore, Vivek Ramaswamy's very controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother, Russia freeing a U.S. hostage but the U.S. is way too kind in response, and another fake polling firm getting exposed. New episodes every wee...

Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they analyze the global implications of the communist and Muslim-fueled riots in France, discuss Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin's threat of political prosecutions, and evaluate 60 Minutes' latest attack on election integrity. Mollie also reviews You Can See Everything, Unabomber, and her recent e...

Do states have a constitutional right to nullify or ignore federal laws? Many in the South in the early 19th Century thought so, and argued against national tariffs on those grounds, even provoking a crisis between President Andrew Jackson and South Carolina. But the problem didn’t go away in the 1830s, rearing its head again during the Secession Crisis and in the last few years as states and citi...

Last week, Heritage Explains spoke with Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, Nile Gardiner, about the riots rocking France. In the few days since our interview, things have gotten way worse. Over the weekend, masked rioters broke into the historic 19th-century Town Hall in Limoges and set it ablaze. There is perhaps no better symbol of the war raging to...

Ryan Schinkel interviews journalist Charles C. Mann about his New Atlantis essay series “How the System Works,” which examines the four hidden systems that sustain modern life: food, water, electricity, and public health. Mann argues that progress, though heavily criticized over recent decades, deserves defending. Global malnutrition fell from roughly 40% in the 1970s to about 8% today, even as po...

In this episode of The Learning Curve , co-hosts Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools and Prof. Albert Cheng of The Ohio State University speak with Dr. Melodie Wyttenbach , Executive Director of Boston College’s Roche Center for Catholic Education. Dr. Wyttenbach reflects on her career in Catholic schools leadership across the country and how Catholic education’s commitment to th...

With the midterm elections approaching, the stakes extend far beyond gas prices, inflation and the war with Iran. The political divide between red and blue states, the exodus from Democratic-led states and the ideological direction of the Democratic Party raise deeper questions about the future of the United States. As voters prepare to head to the polls, the debate centers on competing visions fo...

Two weeks before the midterms, Erick sizes up the Senate map: Abdul El-Sayed's Muslim Brotherhood baggage and shrinking lead over Mike Rogers in Michigan, Angie Nixon's police abolitionist closing argument against Ashley Moody in Florida, and why early voting numbers in Georgia, Texas, and Florida cannot be read yet. Then Republicans from Ashley Hinson in Iowa to Mike Rogers break with Donald Trum...

Erick blasts Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for an Ohio governor race ad that puts Amy Acton's estranged mother on camera, calls it a sign of a campaign in a bunker, and argues the White House paid for short-circuiting primaries in Ohio and North Carolina with Michael Whatley. Erick also takes on the Wired story of left-leaning Americans regretting their moves to the UK, Germany, and Poland, plus Jon...

Erick makes the case that district attorneys, sheriffs, school boards, and city councils shape your daily life more than Washington does—Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner and George Soros-backed progressive prosecutors are discussed as Exhibit A. Erick also takes on the Cornell fraternity case, arguing that the Judeo-Christian moral ethic, chivalry, and self-control got tossed out long before anyone g...

The guys are joined by the scientist who led the Human Genome Project and, more recently, the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Epistemological humility is key to public policy and science; the laboratory is a cathedral; the future of medicine looks wildly different thanks to unique gene-based treatments; and there's COVID blame to go around. Come for the faith and science, stick arou...

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour , McLaughlin & Associates CEO and professional pollster John McLaughlin joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the strategies left-wing polling outlets use to skew their results in favor of Democrats, and how corporate media uses these polls to suppress the votes of conservatives. They also forecast the results of the...

Join Greg and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch , as they dissect Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin's comments about deterring future Trump administration staffers, Virginia's truly radical constitutional amendment proposals, midterm election integrity concerns, and why the 2025 election results in Virginia should be a warning to the rest of the U.S. headin...

It seems like everywhere you look around the world, political extremism—of forms Islamist, radical-right/ultranationalist, and radical-left/neocommunist—is on the rise. Why is this so and what can be done about it? At Capital Research Center, we’re debuting a new program, the Counter Extremism Research Center to track and expose the forces promoting, funding, and engaging in extremist activity. Le...

Guest: Matthew Mehan Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Mehan, associate dean and associate professor at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., about building character in K-12 education, the growing movement to reform education, and his contribution to the upcoming book of essays, The Phoenix Principles: Toward a Rebirth of American Education . To...

Riots across Europe are exposing deep divisions over immigration, assimilation and national identity. From mounting cultural tensions to economic pressures and security concerns, Europe faces difficult questions about its borders, its values and its future. As similar debates intensify in the United States, Europe’s struggles raise serious questions about the consequences of failed integration and...

Broadcasting live from St. Francisville, Louisiana, Erick opens with a CNN clash between Scott Jennings and Ashley Allison over Islamophobia and AIPAC, then connects Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood to the French riots, the Palestinian flag as the new "omni cause" banner, and the red-green alliance of the secular left and Islamists. Then he turns to the midterms: a nine-point Democratic g...

Erick says the Omni Cause has come for CBS News after Bari Weiss pushed reporters to dig into Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his family's Muslim Brotherhood ties. Erick plays Joy Reid and Hasan Piker as the perfect example of secular progressives and Islamists believing they are on the same team. He then breaks down the federal search of Ilhan Omar's home, the New York Times report o...