High Noon

This week, Jesse Kelly of syndicated radio and First TV fame joins the podcast to talk about the forces destroying the U.S. military from the top down and bottom up, as well as President Biden’s angry speech. Jesse lays out an even more pessimistic than usual case against the country’s future, and Inez is forced to play optimist. Jesse and Inez discuss humor in the face of scary times. -- High Noo...

At the end of every month, Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman run through a docket of the past several weeks of news and analysis. This month, they discuss how the right should respond to the raid at Mar-A-Lago and the potential prosecution of political opposition, the rage the direct class politics of student loan bailouts has stirred up, and whether older millennial victims of the mainstreamed sex...

This week on High Noon, Inez speaks with Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, in some quarters better known by his initials, PEG. Gobry and Stepman discuss how free markets can be used as a tool for higher goods rather than an end in themselves, and whether atomization, aimlessness, and falling fertility rates are inevitable consequences of modernity or phenomena with a more proximate cause. They also chat abou...

After the Rubicon-crossing raid at Mar-a-Lago, Inez Stepman speaks to one of the lone voices in Washington who has consistently tried to starve and strangle the illegitimate administrative state, Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21). Congressman Roy and Stepman discussed what “making law” in the USA truly looks like in an age where Schoolhouse Rock’s Bill on Capitol Hill seems a fanciful notion, and how t...

This week on  High Noon , Inez Stepman interviews Chris Bedford, senior editor at  The Federalist , board member at YAF's National Journalism Center, and founding partner at RightForge, a new venture seeking to build the guts of an alternative to the Big Tech censored internet. Chris and Inez discuss why culture war concerns seem to always fall by the wayside in a Washington D.C. seeming...

This week,  High Noon with Inez Stepman  checks in on Russia’s war against Ukraine. It can be easy to forget, considering how many problems the United States faces at home, but the war has now been raging since February, heading into its sixth month. Stepman talks to the  Wall Street Journal’ s Jillian Melchior, who has done three on-the-ground reporting trips to the region since Fe...

As always, the last Wednesday of the month on  High Noon  is reserved for the docket episodes with Emily Jashinsky, wherein Inez and Emily chat about the stories that caught their attention over the past several weeks as deserving of a second look.  Stepman and Jashinsky discussed the legacy media’s emotionally satisfying freakout over Republican politicians finally acknowledging th...

This week's guest is former Senate staffer and Conservative Policy Institute Policy Director Rachel Bovard. Rachel and Inez discuss the contours of our new public-private partnership in tyranny, the novelty of the power woke tech companies wield across national borders, and whether there will ever be a revolt of the competent within the tech industry itself. They also talk about the influence of C...

This week on  High Noon , young conservative writer Nate Hochman of National Review comes on to discuss the future of the increasingly post-religious right. Inez and Nate discuss how decreasing religiosity is changing the contours of the right and its coalitions; the rifts issues like abortion could open up between newly recruited anti-woke factions like “barstool conservatives” and the tradi...

Madeleine Kearns of  National Review  joins Emily Jashinsky to discuss the  Dobbs  decision and the fall of  Roe v. Wade . They also discuss President Biden’s proposed revisions to Title IX policy and Emily’s recent reporting trip to northern Mexico. -- High Noon  is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast featur...

Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he directs the National Marriage Project, as well as a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and the author of numerous studies, articles, and books on family formation and its many consequences. Wilcox and Stepman discuss the consequences of f...

This week on  High Noon with Inez Stepman , the indefatigable Ian Rowe joins the pod. Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting fellow with the Woodson Center as part of their 1776 Unites project. He is the author of the new book  Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover their Pathway to Po...

This week on  High Noon , Alex Kaschuta, the host of the always-fascinating  Subversive Podcast  and author at her Substack  Garden of Earthly Delights , and one of the most courageous and interesting commentators on the internet, joins the pod. Alex and Inez talked about whether the vibe shift with regard to Sheryl Sandburg-style girlbossing is real, whether constraint is a ne...

This week on High Noon, James Esses, founder of Thoughtful Therapists, joins the podcast. A former criminal barrister from the UK pursuing a second career in therapy, Esses was unceremoniously expelled from his program for raising objections to gender ideology and concerns with encouraging troubled minors into irreversible medical “transition.” Esses and Stepman discuss the former's upcoming court...

The last week of every month,  High Noon: After Dark  features Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman on the news of the past weeks. This month, Emily and Inez discuss whether the attacks and accusations against Elon Musk are working or lifting the veil on a rigged system for ordinary Americans; if redpilled tech bros passed over by woke quota systems can revive a future for American innovatio...

This week on  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Libby Emmons joins the pod. Emmons is editor-in-chief of  The Post Millennial  and, prior to that, a canceled playwright. Stepman and Emmons have a wide-ranging conversation that includes everything from the defense of humanity against both transgenderism and transhumanism that got her exiled from her feminist theater company, to the compl...

Arthur Milikh is the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life in Washington, D.C. Milikh and Stepman discussed the ways in which the traditional right has failed, and what steps the new right needs to take to create real institutional pushback, as well as the pros and cons of the great “national sorting” now underway. -- High Noon  is an intellectual...

This week on  High Noon with Inez Stepman , Danielle Crittenden of  Femsplainers  fame, and author of  What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us  joins the pod to discus her wonderful essay, " When the Sexes Blur There’s No Sex ." Crittenden and Stepman talked about why young women find femininity and womanhood so unappealing to the point where ”transitioning” to the opposite sex is...

It’s that time again, the end of the month… which means it’s once again Emily time on the pod. Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky joins Inez Stepman on  High Noon  this week — in perhaps our most optimistic podcast to date — to talk about Elon Musk’s apparently successful bid for Twitter, Florida stripping Disney of certain special perks in the wake of the company’s political battles against...

This week, poet Joseph Massey joins  High Noon with Inez Stepman.  Massey has written movingly about his experience being canceled at the height of the Me Too era in  Quillette  and  The American Mind , and has now started a publishing company to publish his newest book of poems,  Rosary Made of Air . Massey’s poetry has a beautiful sense of place, austerity, and stil...

This week's  High Noon  guest is Oren Cass. Cass is the executive director of American Compass, a heterodox conservative think tank that looks at how our economy can or should be restructured to support family, industry, and the nation-state. He is also the author of a book,  The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America .  Cass and Stepman talked abou...

Andrew Klavan, novelist, screenwriter, satirist, political commentator, and host of  The Daily Wire ’s Andrew Klavan Show, was this week’s  High Noon  guest. He is also the author of, most recently,  The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus . Stepman and Klavan discussed his conversio...

The last week of every month,  High Noon: After Dark  features Emily Jashinsky and Inez Stepman on the news of the past weeks. Stepman and Jashinsky delve into the Right’s Chomskyite temptations with regard to what increasingly looks like the merging of wokeness and the American-led global order, as well as the limitations of that pessimistic domestic frame when assessing Russia’s war in...

This week's guest on  High Noon  is Eric Kaufmann. Kaufmann is a political scientist at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Manhattan Institute and the author of several books focusing on demography, religious and national identity, and cultural politics. The episode delves into some of the topics perhaps most strategically important for the righ...

This week, Dr. Carol Swain joins  High Noon with Inez Stepman . Dr. Swain has a long train of degrees, from (most recently) a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law, a Ph. D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master’s in Political Science from Virginia Tech, a BA in criminal justice from Roanoke College, and an associate degree from Virginia Western C...