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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rikki Schlott was 14 years old when she and other students were herded into racial affinity groups to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. “That was my first moment of kind of doubting the environment around me,” she recalled. By the time she got to NYU, she was hiding books by Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, and other auth...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In the field of anthropology, it’s difficult to avoid talking about sex. For physical anthropologists, much of the field’s focus is on skeletal remains where body size, bone mineral density, and other sex differences are of utmost importance. For forensic anthropologists, determining the sex of remains is a crucial eleme...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news You no doubt saw the news that the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump cannot be on the ballot because he attempted insurrection on January 6. You might have paid little attention to it because you heard that the US Supreme Court would overrule the decision, and the holidays were coming up. But we should all pay atte...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Few members of the Senate have ever been stronger defenders of the First Amendment than Senator Rand Paul. For that reason, I was excited to sit down with him in Washington, D.C., to learn more about his proposal to prohibit federal government employees from talking to social media companies. Paul’s proposal is controver...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2020, The New York Times published an op-ed piece that put the lives of its black employees in danger, many of them said. Senator Tom Cotton had written the op-ed, and the New York Times gave it the headline, “Send In The Troops.” Cotton argued that President Donald Trump should deploy the National Guard to quell riot...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For more than one year now, we and others have been releasing internal emails and messages between social media employees and current and former government officials working for the White House, Defense Department, CIA, FBI, UK Ministry of Defense demanding and coordinating mass censorship of disfavored political and cul...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the last year, we and others have documented the leadership and participation of US military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in demanding greater censorship of legal speech online by social media platforms. Over the last two weeks, we have traced the creation of a mass, public-private censorship effort c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Our military, police, and intelligence officials exist to protect us from domestic and international danger, we were all raised to believe. Military, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals are not there to decide what we should think or how we should think. They are there to protect us from those who would try t...

It sounds like a "Black Mirror" episode: a small country announces a crackdown on hate speech to seize control over the entire Internet. Except it's not a "Black Mirror" episode. It's real life. And it's happening right now in Ireland. The so-called "Hate Speech" bill isn't what it seems. It's not a bill about protecting the Irish people from hate crimes. It's a Trojan Horse designed to control th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At United Nations climate change talks in Dubai, the Biden Administration’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, John Kerry, called for a halt to new coal plants worldwide. “There shouldn't be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world,” he said. “That's how you can do something for health. And the rea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At last Thursday's Congressional hearing, the lead witness for the Democrats, Olivia Troye, denied that she had called the evidence of government censorship a "conspiracy theory." Rep. Dan Bishop had asked her if she knew about the Missouri v. Biden censorship lawsuit headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And, if she was awa...

Nine months ago, I testified and provided evidence to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex, a network of government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, government contractors, and Big Tech media platforms that conspired to censor ordinary Americans and elected officials alike for holding disfavored views. I regret to inform the Subcommittee that the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news During the summer of riots that followed the death of George Floyd, a particular political belief among anti-police activists became a religious dictate among liberals: that the only possible explanation for racial disparities among the victims of police violence was racism. If you lived in a big metropolitan area in the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Toddlers unsnapping their onesies or pulling barrettes out of their hair are sending gender messages and could be transgender, says one expert in the field of gender medicine. Likewise, an adolescent with a long history of mental illness who suddenly announces a transgender identity is to be believed and immediately affi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We’ve all experienced it. You get in an argument with someone who knows little about the subject they’re talking about, but who is absolutely confident they’re right. Maybe it’s police violence, maybe it’s climate change, or school closures during the pandemic. They’re reciting tired progressive talking points that have...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For a person suffering from gender dysphoria, the prospect of medical transition can offer the tantalizing promise of a pathway to inner peace. The anticipation and excitement about starting cross-sex hormones or undergoing a mastectomy or genital surgery often become a focal point for the distressed mind, with individua...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The public debate on how to address America’s street addiction crisis has centered on two competing approaches: the “harm reduction” strategy of keeping addicts safe as they continue to use, and the “recovery” model, which advocates mandated treatment to get addicts off of drugs altogether. But there’s a dark reality tha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The World Economic Forum claims to be an impartial, independent organization dedicated to making corporations around the globe accountable to all sectors of society. In partnership with the United Nations, the WEF is shepherding private-public sector cooperation toward sustainable development goals that will be a “shared...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We must be kinder and more altruistic, progressives say. The contemporary Left lionizes empathy above all virtues as the basis for a just and equitable society.  But behind these pleas for selflessness can lie darker motivations of narcissism and authoritarianism, a growing body of psychological research suggests. A Swis...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The lack of affordable housing, not addiction and mental illness, is the main driver of homelessness, say the researchers behind a recent University of California, San Francisco study . Hailed as the “deepest look” at the subject in decades, the Benioff Center for Homelessness and Housing Initiative conducted a statewide...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news By Maddie Rowley On January 6th, 2021, the day that Congress was set to certify and confirm Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, thousands of Trump supporters swarmed the Capitol and took part in what mainstream media journalists and Democrats say was an insurrection and attempted coup. Just after 2 PM,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Julian Assange is such a threat to America’s national security that he should die in prison, according to the United States government. Joe Biden, when he was vice president, called Assange a “high-tech terrorist.” Secretary of State under President Donald J. Trump, Mike Pompeo, likened Assange’s Wikileaks organization t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news by Mia Ashton If your child comes to you out of the blue and tells you he or she is the opposite sex, you should affirm them, say experts in gender medicine. All of the major American medical associations say that if your child says he or she was born in the wrong body, you must agree with them, or you may cause them to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For most people, the struggle for gay and transgender rights are one and the same. It's the LGBT movement, not the ‘gay rights movement’.  But it wasn’t always this way. Until the 1990s, the two communities were largely separate, and it wasn’t until the 2010s that they officially joined forces.  At the time, many liberal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Progressivism appears to be about progress — it’s right there in the name. Progressives, liberals, and the Left more generally say they are advocating for social, racial, and economic progress.  And yet when you point out how much progress we have already achieved, many progressives deny it. Point out how much police bru...