Liberty Chats

This week  on Liberty Chats, we speak with Will Witt, who is  a national best-selling author,  podcaster and online creator for PragerU. He recently published "How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies: Taking on Liberal Arguments with Logic and Humor."    Will is a Colorado native and the host of Will and Amala Live for PragerU. He is a frequent speaker on issues of freedom and conservat...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Lily Kate, a young conservative influencer who works with PragerU, TPUSA and more. Lily-Kate has a popular YouTube channel and hosts "The Lily-Kate Show" podcast. She also has highly followed Instagram and TikTok accounts, where she shares unabashadly conservative opinions and thoughts on issues of the day. Lily-Kate is not afraid to speak...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with James Lindsay, a mathematician and political commentator. Dr. Lindsay has written multiple books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory, including "How to Have Impossible Conversations," which we read this year. He is the co-founder of New Discourses, a website intended as "a ho...

On this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Dr. Carol Swain. Dr. Swain is an award-winning political scientist, a former professor of political science and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, and a lifetime member of the James Madison Society, an international community of scholars affiliated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Bef...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, Emerging Leaders' Council Member Anastasia Ratcliff speaks with Carrie Sheffield, the Steamboat Institute's 2021-2022 Tony Blankley Fellow. Carrie is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum, columnist and broadcaster in Washington, D.C. She earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University and a B.A. in communications at Brigha...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Marc Morano, an award-winning producer, writer and host of Climate Hustle — a film released in 2016 to hundreds of U.S. theaters — is one of the highest profile voices of climate realism in the world today. He currently serves as executive editor and chief correspondent for CFACT’s award-winning ClimateDepot.com, a news and information service he fou...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Corey DeAngelis, the national director of research at the American Federation for Children.  Corey is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at Reason Foundation. He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award...

Saurabh Sharma is the President of American Moment and co-host of Moment of Truth. As the former Chairman of Young Conservatives of Texas and a nationally recognized activist, Saurabh is a proven talent at organizing, and inspiring young conservatives to impact public policy.  In this episode, Emerging Leaders' Council Member Zachary Rogers speaks with Saurabh about his role at American Momen...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Tim Brown. Tim is  a retired, decorated 20-year FDNY firefighter, a survivor of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a first responder to the 1993 terrorist attack on the WTC, and a veteran of the New York Urban Search & Rescue Task Force team that responded to the 1995 terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, Emerging Leaders' Council member Christina Eastman speaks with John Yoo, the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.   His most recent book is Defender-in-Chief: Trump’s Fight f...

This episode of Liberty Chats takes a turn into pop culture! Emerging Leaders' Council Member Lindsey Martin speaks with Garrett Powell, who was on the 15th season of The Bachelorette. Powell is now a PGA Assistant Golf Professional and public about his faith as a Christian and politics as conservative, for which he has been criticized. He recently spoke at Turning Point USA's Student Ac...

This week on Liberty Chats, we speak with Oren Cass, the executive director of American Compass , whose mission is to restore an economic orthodoxy that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity.  He was formerly a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where his work on strengthening the labor market addressed issues ranging from the so...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Carrie Lukas, President of Independent Women's Forum.  She is the co-author of Liberty Is No War on Women , and the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism , from Regnery Publishing. In this conversation, Carrie speaks about government childcare proposals under the latest infrastructure plan and why federal governme...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, Emerging Leaders Council Member Christina Eastman speaks with Bob Woodson. He is the founder of the Woodson Center , an organization created to help residents of low-income neighborhoods address the problems of their communities. Mr. Woodson is a civil rights activist who has led the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice, and been a resident fellow...

This week on Liberty Chats, we speak with Evita Duffy! Evita is a junior at the University of Chicago studying American History and writes regularly for the Federalist.  She is the co-founder and managing editor of The Chicago Thinker, an online newspaper dedicated to "challenging the mob's crusade against free speech by publishing thoughtful conservative and libertarian commentary, in a...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Jorge Galicia, a Christian, lawyer and freedom fighter from Venezuela.  Before socialism devastated his country, Jorge lived a life not unlike that of middle-class Americans. He is now one of 4 million Venezuelans who have fled their country following its economic, social and political collapse. Since then, he has been speaking out about the very rea...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Matthew Spalding,  the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government at Hillsdale College and the Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus. As Vice President for Washington Operations, he also oversees the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship and the academic a...

On this episode of Liberty Chats, Emerging Leaders Council member Christina Eastman speaks with Katie Pavlich, an editor at Townhall.com and Fox News contributor.  Katie regularly joins special coverage on Fox News,  co-hosting the daytime show Outnumbered and The Five, and has served as a guest host on Fox News Primetime, The Ingraham Angle, Hannity and Fox and Friends.  Reporting for Townhall.co...

Rachel Bovard is the Senior Director of Policy at former Senator Jim DeMint's Conservative Partnership Institute. Previously, she served in both the House and Senate in various roles including as legislative director for Senator Rand Paul. Rachel has also worked for Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), where she advised  on strategy and policy. In the House, she worked as se...

Welcome to Episode 5 of "Liberty Chats" podcast from the Steamboat Institute. In this episode, Emerging Leaders' Council Member Lindsey Martin speaks with Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA.  Turning Point is a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets, and limi...

In this episode of Liberty Chats, Zachary Rogers speaks with Arkansas Congressman French Hill who is a Ranking Member of the National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Subcommittee. Prior to his work in Congress, Congressman Hill was actively engaged in the Arkansas business community for two decades as a commercial banker and investment manager. He was founder, chairman, an...

Our guest today is Amber Athey, the Washington Editor for Spectator USA and a Senior Tony Blankley Fellow at the Steamboat Institute.  Prior to her work at Spectator, Amber was a White House correspondent for the Daily Caller and a reporter for Campus Reform. She was President of the College Republicans when she attended Georgetown University and has always been honest about her political leanings...

In this episode of "Liberty Chats," Zach Rogers speaks with Russ Vought, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget and founder of the new Center for American Restoration. The new Center exists to restore an American consensus of a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending that flow from its people, institutions, and history, where individuals’ enjoyment...

In the first episode of Liberty Chats, Charlotte Whelan, a member of Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council, interviews Tony Blankley Fellow Patrice Onwuka, a senior policy analyst the Independent Women's Forum.  In this episode, Patrice talks about her family's immigration to the United States when she was a baby and why she believes in liberty-based policies that benefit both w...