Dad Saves America

I sat down with Raymond Ibrahim, historian and author of “Sword and Scimitar” and “Defenders of the West,” to discuss what Christians need to know about Islam, the real history of the Crusades, and why the West keeps believing lies about both. We get into: * What the Quran and Hadith actually teach about Christians * Why Bin Laden told the West one story and Al-Qaeda another * The 500 years of Isl...

From mailers pushing trans kids to leave their families to an AI discovery that could break the internet, this Halloween is shaping up to be a scary one. And that’s before I start thinking about the midterms on Tuesday. Who's steering us through the chaos? A geriatric political class that can barely follow any of it, and a retiree generation that, per a new Cato poll, overwhelmingly backs higher t...

I sat down with comedian Ryan Long, who is featured in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to talk about how media and culture are changing in 2026. Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw We get into: * Moving from Toronto to NYC right before COVID * The personality differences between Americans and Canadians * Why culture is more interesting than politics * How wokeness...

France is still on fire. A town hall nearly 200 years old has burned to the ground, and police are now drawing the line at the Louvre. Back home, the Cornell 7 case has become a Rorschach test for what’s left of feminism. This week, I’m responding to your comments on both. From Paris to Cornell, the West has the same disease: a culture too permissive to judge anything, institutions no one can trus...

I sat down with comedian Bryan Callen, who directed and stars in our new comedy pilot, “The Experts,” to discuss why outrage pays better than nuance, how he found his way to God, and why boys need resistance to grow into men. Watch “The Experts” pilot episode: https://youtu.be/dc1B5aKNmKw We get into: * What it was like directing for the first time * The ruthless capitalism of Hollywood * What hap...

The Cornell 7 case has reignited the campus sexual assault panic of the mid-2010s. Jane Doe's own written statements described the events as consensual, but her story later transformed into a serious criminal allegation. Unlike the Duke lacrosse hoax, which turned out to be an outright fabrication, this case is more ambiguous in both the accusations made and the culture they emerged from. Even so,...

I sat down with Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the “The Counterrevolution”. Victor is a Stanford PhD who still lives on his family’s Central Valley farm that five generations of Hansons have called home, giving him a rare view of both the academic elite and the working Americans they look down on. We get into: * Trump’s counterrevolution against 50 years...

For the past three weeks, riots have spread across France. The corporate press is calling them mostly peaceful protests over school funding. Meanwhile, student rioters are singing jihadi rap. Second and third generation Muslim immigrants are radicalizing against the very country that raised them. At the same time, 800,000 French Catholics gathered in Paris for Pope Leo’s recent visit. Two Frances...

I sat down with Shelby Steele, an author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and his son Eli Steele, the filmmaker behind “What Killed Michael Brown?” Together, they’ve produced a new documentary, “White Guilt,” that brings Shelby’s 2006 book into the present political climate. Shelby has lived the whole story, from segregation to Black Power militancy to now decades as a fearless dissent...

On Tuesday, the CEOs of Nvidia, Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and more joined President Trump to discuss the development of AI, or, as the President has rebranded it, Super Intelligence. While they’ve signed a voluntary pledge to police AI safety, Democrats want Washington to step in instead, as if government standards do anything other than destroy innovation. Americans invented this technology,...

I sat down with Andrew Hartz, a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute. His organization is working to filter out the political bias that has become endemic in mental health care and connect patients with therapists they can trust. We get into: * The woke insanity inside the American Psychological Association * How to find a therapist who will actually help...

1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a dysfunctional public school as a political statement, and is now paying the price. For years, socialists like Hasan Piker have flirted with banning private schools altogether under the theory that enrolling rich kids in failing schools can magically fix them. Universal public schooling, once a safety net for those who couldn’t afford...

I sat down with Ben Slivka, an early Microsoft executive who led the team that built Internet Explorer, served 20 years on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees, and has spent decades since as an angel investor across biotech, space, and software startups. We get into: * How cowardice became the norm in university leadership * Why the public school model fails so many students * His 1995 Mic...

AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week and became a whistleblower, warning that the race toward superintelligent AI is "gambling with our lives." Another Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, backed him up, putting the odds of AI apocalypse within a decade at over 10%. Then, Anthropic published a 154-page AI safety report on all sorts of alarming ways the technology is evolving...

I sat down with historian of early Christianity Matthew Larsen, Ph. D., fresh off his shoot in the Middle East tracing the life of Paul the Apostle, to dig into the evidence for Jesus, the biblical canon, and the Catholic Church. We get into: * How historians actually know what’s true about the ancient past * Why the “Jesus never existed” theory keeps resurfacing online * Where Wes Huff’s viral ap...

Zohran Mamdani just appointed Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who once represented an Al Qaeda member, as New York City's chief legal counsel. This sparked outrage from 9/11 families and a petition demanding that he not attend this year’s 9/11 memorial collected more than 100,000 signatures. A hundred million Americans have been born since 9/11, and campus interviews reveal that many were never taught who...

I sat down with investigative journalist and author Richard Miniter to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Richard has spent decades reporting national security and foreign policy issues and has interviewed Islamist radicals, intelligence officials, and others across the globe. We get into: * Why political radicalism and terrorism attract elites * How Western life radica...

The bond market wobbled this week, and Secretary Bessent is now buying back government debt just to keep long-term interest rates from climbing further. Bond market volatility in the early fall has a bad history of signaling worse to come, from 1929 to 1987 to 2008. The national debt sets a new all time high every day, recently crossing the $40 trillion mark. The U.S. dollar's status as the world'...

I sat down with Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and author of “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City,” to talk about what adults are and aren’t willing to sacrifice for the wellbeing of children. Katy has spent her career defending children’s rights to their own mother and father, touching on adoption, gay marriage, surrogacy, and IVF. We also get into how she raised kids who think for th...

The Lindsay Clancy trial has exploded into the latest social media gender war over postpartum mental health, the role of mothers in society, and the nature of moral responsibility. The defense says postpartum psychosis is to blame and that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible in the deaths of her three children. Now the jury is deciding whether they buy her story. Videos of women excusing...

I sat down with theoretical physicist Dr. Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled” and former Under Secretary of Energy for Science under President Obama, to discuss what he calls the “consensus trap.” He argues that the 2008 financial crisis, COVID policies, and climate alarmism all followed the same template, and the people who got it wrong faced no accountability while the costs fell on the poor. I...

Last week, Cambridge’s youngest ever black full professor was found dead, days after resigning under investigation for plagiarism and his fabricated life story. Jason Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, couldn't speak until age 11, and still earned a PhD by 30. When the scrutiny finally caught up with him, Amnesty International's response was to call for censorship. Meanwhile, MIT's b...

I sat down with Os Guinness, author of “Our Civilizational Moment,” to discuss how the West has become a “cut flower” civilization. Os argues that the slow secularization of the West has left its freedom, virtue, and sense of meaning disconnected from the foundation that sustained them for centuries. We get into: * Growing up in China during WWII and the rise of Mao * Why the West is a “cut flower...

Thank you to all 500K+ subscribers to Dad Saves America! This show began in response to the mental health crisis I saw emerging among my son’s peers. Then COVID lockdowns hit and turned my worst-case predictions into reality. Now, socialism is sweeping the Democratic Party and young women are marching in support of Hamas, all while social media continues to poison the minds of our kids. As I like...

I sat down with Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress of Michaela Community School and the UK’s most outspoken voice on education, to mark the launch of our new YouTube collaboration, Strictly Education. Katharine runs one of the strictest schools in the UK, for mostly disadvantaged students from immigrant families, and gets some of the best results in the country. Her solution to the failure of mod...