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A Virginia school system is forcing teachers to ignore biology and call students by the pronouns of their choosing. Peter Vlaming, a highly respected teacher, dissented. He was willing to compromise and just his student’s name. But Vlaming was not willing to call a girl a boy. The school system told him he could not compromise. It was all or nothing and his decision to only use nouns and not prono...

I love doing radio on Fridays because instead of keeping topics strictly tied to the news cycle, I open up the phone lines and talk about whatever. This past Friday a caller sparked a monologue I want to share with you about worship. Whether you realize it or not, every single one of us worships something. Who or what you worship says a lot about who your God is. Take a moment and listen to this....

Late yesterday, with national fanfare and push alerts from major media outlets, Stacy Abrams announced she will run again for Governor of Georgia.  The man who beat her, Governor Brian Kemp, is seeking a second term.  He does so with an organized effort by Donald Trump and progressive activists all to defeat him. But he also does so with Georgia outperforming most of the nation on economic growth....

Rich McCormack joined the show to discuss the new COVID variant and how Washington is responding. Rich is an ER doctor and recounted his time working in a hospital when COVID first hit. Before becoming a doctor, Rich served as a Marine and is now a candidate in Georgia’s 6th district. Take a moment and listen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

There are no notes beyond Hour 1 because it thereafter became about the Rittenhouse trial. I said I wouldn’t send out any more of these, but I lied. Sorry. I wasn’t going to, but I want to send this because it will save me from additional writings. I want to make a very basic point. I’ll put it in big letters. If you are concerned about the rise of vigilantism, stop rioting. Stop burning down buil...

We’re doing something new. For Substack subscribers, you’ll get the podcast RSS feed the full show with no commercials and also the daily outline I prep for myself to build the show around. Now, full disclosure, I never wind up going fully off the outline. Today, for example, I hit about half the stuff I wanted to talk about. But for paying subscribers, this will appear in the podcast feed that on...

This is a transcript from my radio show. You can subscribe to my premium newsletter for $7/month or $70/year. It’s a great way to stay current and support the show. We need to discuss critical theory. I'm going to do it as succinctly as I can. I feel very strongly that you need to know what it is. It is important to me that you understand it. The reason it’s important that you understand critical...

This is a transcript from my radio show. You can subscribe to my premium newsletter for $7/month or $70/year. I'm going to delve into a very, very boring topic and I'm going to try to make it interesting, educational and titillating so you don't fall asleep. We need to talk about tax law. I took tax law when I was in law school and was very good at it. Two of my highest grades in law school were c...

This is a transcript from my radio show. You can listen to the podcast clip above. Debbie Dingell is a Congresswoman from Michigan. She was on television this morning talking about the infrastructure bill. Debbie Dingell: Jake, I'm going to approach this differently than you are. The fact of the matter is, the speaker is working very hard. And there is nobody I know ... I'm a seasoned soul around...

A research paper out the other day showed people who are vaccinated are more prone to anxiety during this phase of COVID. It is weird, but it seems to be real. We see it all the time with people freaking out over their unvaccinated neighbors, etc. But anxiety is running deeper than that. A lot of people are anxious right now for a lot of reasons. A person who struggled with anxiety for a while and...

Lila Rose joined the program for an update on the recent advertising ban her organization, Live Action , received from Google. Did Planned Parenthood get the same treatment? Of course not. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ewerickson.substack.com/subscribe

Yesterday, I spoke with Brigadier General Larry Dudney (Ret.). He was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, watching the television news of planes hitting the World Trade Center. He went to answer the phone and a friend on the other side of the Pentagon told him it had to be a terrorist attack. About that time, the walls caved in around him. This is my conversation with him. This is a public epis...

Robyn Walensky was the Associated Press reporter at the bottom of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, as Americans thought a small plane had flown into one of the towers. She was there as the second plane hit and the world changed. I sat down this morning and talked to her about that experience and want everyone to have access to our conversation. This is a public episode. If you'd like...

Joshua Youssef, President of Help The Persecuted, joined me on radio to share what his team is doing in Afghanistan. You can help Joshua and his team here . They have 200 families they are trying to get out of Afghanistan. Even though the US government has given up, Help the Persecuted has not. But they need your help. This is the transcript from the interview. Erick: Joining me by phone, an organ...

This is the transcript from my radio interview with Latham Saddler. You can get more exclusive content by subscribing below for $7/month or $70/year. Erick: Now look, I've got to caveat this one coming out of the gate here because I've got a guest on with me. He's also a candidate for office, and I know how this works. I put a candidate for office on and every other candidate running for that offi...

There’s a lot of misleading headlines out there today about Apple’s latest initiative to prevent child pornography. Here’s what you need to know. Catch my full show here . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ewerickson.substack.com/subscribe

I sat down with Sean Clifford to discuss his company’s brand new approach to keeping kids safe online. His company has developed software that not only blocks access to pornography but also to otherwise innocuous websites that have explicit content. In addition, Canopy has the ability to block sending and receiving explicit messages through various messaging platforms. Learn more about Canopy comp...

I sat down with the 70th Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo. I asked him about China and the virus, but I also asked him about UFOs and whether he thinks China or other nations have leaped ahead of us technologically. He was, naturally, very diplomatic in his UFO answers. Secretary Pompeo also now has a new group, CAVPAC, which is engaging in political races around the country do...

Social media companies are snooping on you. There’s a conspiracy theory that they’re listening to you. They aren’t. That has been thoroughly debunked. But some people still believe the conspiracy theory because the advertising is so precise. The reality is that social media companies and advertisers do not need to listen in on your conversations. They have access to way more information and better...

Dr. Victoria Coates is a long time friend and a former Trump national security official. She helped both with energy deals and various deals in the Middle East. She has advised multiple presidential candidates before working for President Trump. She also helped former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld write his memoirs. She’s one of the coolest people you’ll meet with one of the most interestin...

This is the transcript of a radio monologue from my morning show. You can listen live weekdays from nine to noon  here  or catch the podcast  here . I referenced this story in the New York Times when I talked to Lila Rose from Live Action this morning on my radio program. “The front door of the Hidalgo County Republican Party’s office is covered with photographs of high-profile politicians in the...

This is a transcript of my opening monologue on the State of the Union address last night. You can listen live weekdays from nine to noon  here  or catch the podcast  here . If you're a Republican, you’ve got to be scratching your head over last night. All of us on the right are wondering what exactly is Joe Biden going to do? Is he really going to fundamentally transform America while bankrupting...

Theologian Tim Keller, in his new book Hope in Times of Fear , points out that when English translations of the Bible talk about hope, the word doesn’t do justice to the Greek word being used, elpida . A better choice would be “profound certainty.” Christians have profound certainty in the resurrection — the only event in human history that profoundly changes a person when they accept it as a true...

This is a bizarre story that I want everyone to hear. The kid-toucher protecting Lincoln Project has managed to use a leftwing mob to oust Georgia State Senator John Albers (R-Roswell, GA). Albers’ crime? Bipartisanship. John Albers authored Georgia Senate Bill 62, which has been one of only two measures in the Georgia General Assembly to get bipartisan support for election integrity reform. The l...

Ryan Anderson worked at the Heritage Foundation and just recently became the new president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank that brings Christian orthodoxy into the public square to help shape conservative and national policy. Anderson is also a noted scholar and three years ago wrote a book called When Harry Became Sally . The book addresses, as its subtitle says, “the transge...