The Elliot Resnick Show

We've heard it 1,000 times: Cops disproportionately shoot black Americans.  But what if there's a simple – and benign – explanation for this fact?  Heather Mac Donald, a crime expert and the bestselling author of such books as The War on Cops and The Burden of Bad Ideas , argues that such an explanation in fact exists and, in the process, reveals shocking crime statistics that the media...

"It's not our place to impose Torah values on American society."  This often-voiced argument is based on ignorance of American history.  America was built on Torah values (which explains why adultery is illegal in 16 U.S. states).  All we're doing is trying to preserve it.  It's the secular left – not the religious right – that imposes its values on the rest of America.

It's one thing when ordinary academics slam Israel.  It's another when those academics are ostensibly experts on "Jewish Studies."  Frustrated by these Israel haters, Prof. Adam Fuller, a professor at Youngstown State University, helped start the Jewish Studies Zionist Network this past summer.

"Progressive" Orthodox Jews hail self-esteem as a vital and necessary character trait that should be nurtured and developed.  Unfortunately, the Torah disagrees.   To read the article I mention at the beginning of the episode, click here: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357434.

Gavin Wax – president of the prestigious New York Young Republican Club – has had enough of right-wing fecklessness.  He wants a fearless Republican party and argues that we won't have one if Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker of the House.  How will the ongoing congressional showdown play out?  Wax offers his prediction.

Some frum Jews dismiss the transgender movement as not relevant to their lives.  But, as Pericles said 2,500 years ago, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you."  A scandal in a religious school in Givat Shmuel is proving Pericles right.

Lechi was an underground movement committed to expelling the British from the Promised Land in the 1940s.  But it was also much more than that.  It wanted a Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates and a Beis HaMikdash at its center.  And it was unyielding.  When Ben-Gurion shot at the Altalena, for example, Menachem Begin backed down; Lechi wanted to fight back.  In this interview, Zev Golan, ...

Josh Hammer, 33, is a conservative – and somehow also the opinion editor of Newsweek, one of the most famous and venerable news magazines in the country.  Why would a liberal publication hire a conservative for such a sensitive position?  Hammer discusses this question and much more (e.g., his Jewish journey, the perniciousness of the ADL, getting G-d back in the public schools) in this interview.

We're often told that "extremism" is bad, but what if one of the main messages of Chanukah is that extremism is vital to Judaism?

Kevin McCarthy and the Republican establishment killed Rep. Steve King's career.  His crime?  Ostensibly making racist comments.  But these allegations were obviously bogus.  His real crime was defending Western civilization.  In this interview, King recalls the series of events that led to his defeat in 2020 and discusses what we can do to save the West from internal decay.

"I'm depressed.  I'm anxious.  How do I overcome these feelings?"  Al Pacino and the Lubavitcher Rebbe have some down-to-earth advice for you.

Perhaps no one has done more to show the utter futility of mask and lockdown policies than Ian Miller.  Author of "Unmasked, The Gloal Failure of Covid Mask Mandates," Miller joins Elliot Resnick to discuss why the medical establishment told people to wear masks when years of pre-Covid research indicated that masks don't work; why surgeons wear masks; and what he learned from Florid...

Why do so many otherwise intelligent people allow their behavior to be determined by the loathsome editors and producers of mainstream media?

Terry Schilling heads an organization that fights for perhaps the most disenfranchised group in this country: the American family.   Hardly any normal American mother or father wants schools, for example, to promote transgenderism of for Internet pornography to be accessible to children.  Yet, politicians -- both Democrat and Republican -- largely ignore these basic family issues.  Schilling, a fa...

In recent weeks, Jews have responded angrily to several instances of anti-Semitism.  But is this reaction appropriate?  Haven't frum Jews and Zionists – especially Zionists –  always take it as a given that Jews don't really belong in foreign lands?  Besides, is anti-Semitism really a Jewish problem?   Or is it more of a non-Jewish problem?

A month after President Donald Trump recommended hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, Tony Fauci touted a different -- and much more expensive -- drug: Remdesivir.  The only problem is that Remdesivir has been known to kill people rather than cure them.  Attorneys Dan Watkins and Michael Hamilton are now suing three California hospitals who, they say, killed 14 people by giving them Rem...

Some people blame Trump.  Others blame mail-in ballots.  Both explanations lead to the same conclusion: We don't really have the numbers to win when everyone votes.  Which means that if we don't learn one of the central lessons of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and take (at least partial) control of the educational system, we're toast long term.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin – TV host, podcast host, bestselling author, and sought-after speaker – explains why he teaches Torah to Christians, why Hebrew has no word for "teenager," and why he views modern psychology with skepticism.  He also shares a touching memory of his great-uncle, Reb Elyah Lopian, and recalls the full-page ad his organization (Toward Tradition) placed in The New York Tim...

Why in the world does Israel continue to import an intermarriage problem?  This travesty can be solved with a simple amendment, and, thank G-d, Israel's religious parties are finally speaking up.

Who was Rabbi Meir Kahane?  Where would he be if he hadn't been assassinated in 1990?  Would he have approved of Itamar Ben-Gvir?  Is kicking out the Arabs possible today?  Lenny Goldberg – an author, a settler, the father of eight (including two who sat in Israeli jail), and a baal teshuvah thanks to Rabbi Meir Kahane – weighs in on these questions and more.

Is he the answer to Israel's problems?  I don't think so, and I exlain why.

The author of over 40 books, Theodore Dalrymple believes the welfare state harms the poor -- spiritually -- and that the the popularization of psychology has led to "cultural disaster" in the West.  Dalrymple is a retired physician and psychiatrist who used to treat people in a prison and slum hospital in England.

Paul Pelosi was likely not attackd by a Trump supporter.  But suppose he was.  After six years of leftist beatings and killings of Trump supporters, are we supposed to wring our hands in horror when one Trump supporter gives the left a taste of its own medicine?

Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Homnick -- the author of 23 sefarim on Shas and a longtime writer for The American Spectator -- passionately believed in Agudath Israel's mission.  But in 1980, he argues, the organization missed a historic opportunity to cut itself loose from government purse strings.  In the process, it began violating a Gemara whose penalty is nothing less than a delay in Moshiach's...

Let's suppose Kanye West is an anti-Semite.  So what?  Is that reason to cancel him?  Exactly what good will that do?  And why is it that secular Jews get so much more excited about anti-Semitism than religious Jews?