Where Liberty Dwells

Tom Jacobs is a practicing architect in Chicago. A politically minded person and self-described progressive, he and discuss how conservatives and progressives view the world differently in today's America. We have plenty to disagree on and an encouraging amount of agreement as well.

Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential elections and will become the 47th president of the United States. I give you my take on the election and the social media overload that has followed.

I explore the causes for the trend of violent mass shootings in America and what the proposed solutions are.

In this installment of Where Liberty Dwells I had the pleasure of speaking with architect and professor Tom Jacobs. Tom and I discuss the precarious state of American democratic values, how we got here and where to go now.

This podcast features my opinions on the recent supreme court cases about concealed carry and abortions.

In this welcome back installment of Where Liberty Dwells I explore the erosion of American Values. ***The trump quote comes from a recorded phone conversation between former president Trump and John Daly.

After just a couple days in class this semester, I realized just how bad things have become on campus. Also, the situation in Afghanistan is abhorrent and President Biden and his administration is to blame.

On July 29th, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chancellor, Robert Jones, sent out an email dictating that as of the following day every person, regardless of vaccine status, would need to resume wearing masks inside university buildings. I'll break down why this policy is not based in scientific data and is more about control.

The massively popular social media platform TikTok has become a parasitic addiction to children and adults alike, all with the looming threat of the Chinese government petitioning for data on hundreds of millions of users.

The nation is a mere four months into Biden's administration and he has already provided mass inflation, an underperforming labor market and terrible handling of the recent Israeli Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile the media try to cover up his already apparent failures.

America is not a racist country. For centuries and even to this day we fail in some ways to live up to our countries ideals. However, if those ideals were never written in the first place, we wouldn't be anywhere close to where we are today. 

I take the popular online political compass test. It asks questions on politics and general society.

I talk about the gender pay gap and the ways that politicians play the numbers game to play into what is popular.  Here is the link to the referenced study :    https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144209/1/862651492.pdf

My friend and former guest Mr. Charlie Robling returns to the show. We talk about the craziness in the stock market these last couple weeks with Gamestop stock soaring after a reddit community blew up the stock price. Everything from Robinhood, the popular user friendly trading platform to Dodgecoin is covered. 

I cover the last two horrific weeks and what it means for the future of the republic.

As the one term presidency of Donald Trump comes to a close I take a look back at the last four years, outlining the highs and lows of this tumultuous presidency.

The legacy media and giant social media companies are not your friend, that is, if all you want is objective fact based news. Instagram has flagged a WLD Instagram post for false information (nothing about the post is false). Joe Biden is as old as usual and Raphael Warnock earns this episode's Nonsense.

Is it really a good Idea to use the Hammer and Sickle? Is it AOC or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez?

Post election analysis and thoughts on the future.

The first of three presidential debates is in the books. If we learned anything, it's that this will be the longest October in history. Listen in for my thoughts on the night as well as my COVID-19 experience at the University of Illinois.

Most people can easily call out when the political right, goes too far in their ideology. Why is it so much harder for us too see the same on the radical left?

Is defunding the police a good Idea? What does BLM stand for? Should we let history be rewritten?

Recapping the last few months of protests over the Corona Virus and racial injustice.

China has been a hub for human rights violations for decades and it's time we all stand up against it. **In the episode, I refer to the Spanish Flu as a disease that is named by origin region, when in fact, the origins are unknown. As supplement, I offer the Zika Fever, originating from the Zika Forest in Uganda.**

This episode I had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend Jack. We talked social media, depression, morality and religion in one of the more intellectual conversations I've had.