The Michael Knowles Show

Happy Easter! To celebrate, Michael sits down with American Orthodox theologian and scholar David Bentley Hart to discuss his new translation of the New Testament. Then, after all that Good News, a bunch of politically bad news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The smash-hit return of Roseanne to television, which blew away ratings expectations this week, is great news for Donald Trump and the most important political opinion poll in years. We will analyze what Roseanne’s return means for Trump, “nostalgia TV,” and the American people. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices...

Are race relations getting better or worse under Donald Trump? The inimitable Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson joins to discuss race and sex in the Trump Era: all 56 genders and every race, from white to black to orange. Then, a word on Cambridge Analytica and the media blackout of Trump’s possibly denuclearizing North Korea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more a...

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has called for the repeal of the Second Amendment, and conservatives keep defending their Second Amendment rights on the Left’s terms. But even a cursory review of the numbers show America does not have a gun problem. Then, on this day in history in 1973, Marlon Brando ruins Hollywood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...

A $1.3 billion omnibus budget that preserves and expands Obama era initiatives has conservatives wondering: with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats? Is it time to turn on Trump? We analyze the budget and the state of conservative policy alongside Howie Carr, author of “What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton.” Then, three cheers for John Bolton! Learn m...

From the Umayyad invasion of Tours in 732 through the ISIS bombing of Paris just a few years ago, the West has faced a lot of violence from the Religion of Peace. We’re joined today by Brigitte Gabriel, author of “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It.” She discuss her firsthand account growing up in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War and the devastation that...

Lefties, desperate to point to a non-Muslim terrorist, are calling the Austin bomber a terrorist. But there's no evidence he was one. We discuss why and why the distinction matters. Then, Frank Furedi, author of “Populism and the European Culture Wars: The Conflict of Values Between Hungary and the EU,” joins the show to discuss another terribly abused “ism,” populism and what it means for the dem...

An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar. I only know that because they told everyone within two minutes. Bestselling author Anthony DeStefano joins to discuss his latest, “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God.” Then, why people are killing themselves on International Day of Happiness, Facebook is in trouble because conservatives used it be...

“12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” That’s the title of Jordan Peterson’s new book, and we’re lucky to have him on to cure the ample chaos on this show, which is an antidote to order. It’s a runaway bestseller. We will discuss why as well as how you can find order and meaning in this chaotic, desiccated, soy-boy culture of ours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

We’ve been talking a lot about China and of course about Russia. What about the Middle East, that place we've fought the longest war in U.S. history for the entirety of this century? We’ll be joined by Major Scott Huesing, a retired U.S. Marine infantry officer and author of “Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City.” He'll explain why he’s glad Tillerson is fir...

Students across the country are cutting class today, and the mainstream media couldn’t be happier! We will discuss the national student walkout to infringe on our civil rights in the broader context of the ignoble legacy of student activism in America. Then the most important takeaways from the special election last night in Pennsylvania and why I’m happy the Democrat won. Finally, I defend United...

Little Rocket is burning out his fuse out there alone. Sanctions, missile defense, and a CIA director as the nation’s new top diplomat. We will discuss President Trump’s eagerly awaited meeting with Kim Jong-un, Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, and how China fits into all of this with Steven Mosher, author of the upcoming book Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order. Then, some...

What Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh away. Big tech giants are clamping down on conservatives, with catastrophic results. We’ll discuss with Austin Petersen, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri who was just banned from Facebook for running an AR-15 campaign giveaway. That’s my kind of campaign. Then, my grand theory of Trump headlines, tariffs, the UK deporting that vicious terrori...

Happy National Women for Trump Day! We’re going to be joined by a wonderful national woman for Trump, Tana Goertz. Tana is a business woman, television star on The Apprentice, and Senior Advisor and Spokesman for the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Tana led President Trump’s campaign efforts in Iowa, which he won despite the state going twice in a row for Barack Obama. We’ll discuss the campaign, s...

How did the Parkland shooter slip through the cracks of the Broward County school district? We’ll discuss with Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden and then take on education policy more broadly. Finally, the news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Juanita Broaddrick joins the show to discuss her firsthand experiences, outlined in her new book, “You’d Better Put Some Ice On That: How I Survived Being Raped By Bill Clinton.” The Clintons, the #MeToo movement, feminist hypocrisy, and more. Then, the news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The South African parliament voted last week to steal white farmers’ land and redistribute it to black South Africans. The motion was brought by the radical leftist EFF party, whose leader promises to “cut the throat of whiteness.” The land theft was supported by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress party, leaving just one question: has South Africa just destroyed itself? We will discuss wit...

We’re joined today for the full half hour by Professor Alvin Felzenberg. Professor Felzenberg is the author of “A Man And His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. We will discuss the founder of the modern conservative movement 10 years after his death, what WFB might have thought of President Covfefe one year in, and what the conservatives of today can learn from our forebea...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students return to school today, two weeks after the horrific shooting. We will talk with one of them, Kyle Kashuv, not about guns, not about his thoughts on public policy, but rather about his experience of media outlets like CNN and Hollywood celebrities preying on his community. Then, we expose the real forces behind gun control efforts in Parkland and why t...

"Shall not be infringed." Seems simple enough, but nevertheless Democrats persisted in trying to rob words on their meaning. Fortunately we’re joined today by Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA to discuss what the Second Amendment means. Then, CNN invents a new class of firearms, Sheriff Scott Israel vindicates Jeff Sessions, and the Heritage Foundation says Tru...

Cynical Democrat politicians who failed at every level to prevent the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are now excusing everybody who had anything to do with preventing the shooting and placing all of the blame on the NRA, a civil rights organization that had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. This is par for the course for Democrats, who have long pushed gun control to oppress...

CNN and mean girl Jake Tapper last night pimped out traumatized kids to hurl vile and dishonest insults at Republicans and supporters of the U.S. Constitution for a fact-free hour on national television. Meanwhile, Republicans and conservatives resort to their evil facts and data and logic to point out that there is no gun homicide crisis in America. Those monsters. We will discuss the current sta...

What should conservatives want in the age of Trump? We will discuss with the great Mike Franc, research fellow and Director of D.C. programs at the Hoover Institution, former policy director and counsel for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and from 1997 to 2013 VP of government relations for the Heritage Foundation, where he managed all of the think-tank’s outreach with Capitol Hill and the W...

Michael Moore colluded with the Russians! Or at least he was a useful idiot exploited by them. And we have photographic evidence. None of this should surprise us, however, as the American Left has been working with Moscow for over a century to undermine American institutions and culture. We will analyze this latest episode and the long history of Democrats’ colluding with Russia. Then, on This Day...

Statue-toppling, shrieking girls, white supremacists, safe spaces, trigger warning, and English degrees without Shakespeare. Somehow one institution has become a focus point for all of these atrocities. We ask: is the Ivy League destroying America? Then, Washington's Birthday on This Day In History! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choic...