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Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Matthew Continetti of the American Enterprise Institute and the Washington Free Beacon to discuss his new book, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. They discuss American conservatism’s evolution from the Progressive era through the present, the tensions between conservatism and right-wing populism, and where conservatism is headed in the future. Get the book here:  https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/matthew-continetti/the-right/9781541600522/ Show Notes: American Enterprise Institute: “The 100-year war for American conservatism: A book event with Matthew Continetti, Yuval Levin, and Paul Ryan” (VIDEO) https://www.aei.org/events/the-100-year-war-for-american-conservatism-a-book-event-with-matthew-continetti-yuval-levin-and-paul-ryan/ City Journal: Theodore Kupfer – “The Right’s Forever War” https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-the-right--the-hundred-year-war-for-american-conservatism Commentary: Matthew Continetti – “Is There a Right Left?” https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/conservative-factionalism/ C-SPAN: “Q&A with Matthew Continetti” (VIDEO) https://www.c-span.org/video/?519554-1/qa-matthew-continetti The Daily Beast: Matt Lewis – “What We Keep Getting Wrong About the Right” https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-we-keep-getting-wrong-about-the-right?ref=scroll Law & Liberty: George Hawley – “Surveying the American Right” https://lawliberty.org/book-review/surveying-the-american-right/ National Review: Matthew Continetti – “How the Right Misunderstands Its History” https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/16/how-the-right-misunderstands-its-history/ National Review: Ben Sasse – “Reminding the Right” https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/02/reminding-the-right/ The New York Times: Jonathan Rauch – “The Strange History of American Conservatism” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/books/review/matthew-continetti-the-right.html The Spectator World: Matthew Continetti – “Revenge of the populists” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/revenge-of-the-populists-populism/ The Wall Street Journal: Matthew Continetti – “The Return of the Old American Right” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-the-old-american-right-11649430434 The Wall Street Journal: Barton Swaim – “Grumbles Left and Right: Two Books on the Past and Future of Conservatism” https://www.wsj.com/articles/grumbles-left-and-right-review-two-books-on-the-past-and-future-of-conservatism-11649430043 The Washington Post: Carlos Lozada – “How insiders and true believers frame political history” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/democrats-conservatives-history/

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 344 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, Roe v Wade, a new Heartland/Rasmussen Poll that paints a dire picture for Joe Biden, and the Department of Homeland Security’s new Ministry of Truth.   PRIMARY TOPIC – SCOTUS TRUST BREACHED Politico - Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473 NYT - What Was the Strategy Behind the Supreme Court Leak? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/opinion/supreme-court-roe-abortion.html The Hill - House Democrats call for Supreme Court expansion in wake of potential Roe reversal https://thehill.com/news/house/3475890-house-democrats-call-for-supreme-court-expansion-in-wake-of-potential-roe-reversal/ NYP - Supreme Court leak is Democrats’ dirty May surprise for 2022 midterms https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/democrats-dirty-supreme-may-surprise/   SECONDARY TOPIC – JOE BIDEN IN BIG TROUBLE Heartland/Rasmussen – New Poll: Nearly Two-thirds of Voters Don’t Want Biden to Run for Re-election https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartlandrasmussen-poll-nearly-two-thirds-of-voters-dont-want-biden-to-run-for-re-election   TERTIARY TOPIC – MINISTRY OF TRUTH WSJ - Shut Up, the Disinformation Governance Board Explained https://www.wsj.com/articles/jankowicz-disinformation-governance-board-dgb-department-of-homeland-security-dhs-national-security-first-amendment-censorship-msinformation-11651526872?mod=opinion_featst_pos2 The Federalist - 6 Dystopian Things Biden’s ‘Disinformation Board’ Pick Nina Jankowicz Has Done https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/03/6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done/ [Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.]

We’ve heard the saying that treatment can be worse than the disease. Sometimes too many choices and treatment options make health outcomes, worse, not better. Every treatment presents a risk. This includes over the counter, self-help measures. It is hard to measure the benefit of doing nothing versus seeking some sort of treatment. Sometimes, conditions resolve more quickly with no intervention. George Hosu, founding engineer of Eureka Health, joins the show to discuss his recent article on Medium, “Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?” Hosu cites the extensive work of Robin Hanson, presents several hypothesis on why spending more and increasing access may not improve outcomes, and explains how he personally determines the value of an intervention. The healthcare industry gobbles up 19.7 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the U.S. spends about $12,530 a person on health care. Yet there are gaps in outcomes. The U.S. ranked 18th in highest number of COVID-19 deaths.  Deaths from drug overdoses are on the rise. The U.S. has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Hosu and host AnneMarie Schieber discuss the value of placebos, the limitations of randomized control trials, and how the third-party payer system impacts personal health care decisions.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by historian Christopher H. Owen to discuss his new book, Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall. They chat about Kendall’s brilliance as a teacher and writer, his importance to William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review, the nascent conservative movement of the 1950’s as a whole, and what lessons we can learn from Kendall’s political philosophy and works. Get the book here:  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793624444/Heaven-Can-Indeed-Fall-The-Life-of-Willmoore-Kendall Show Notes: The American Conservative: Emile Doak – “The Right’s Philandering Sooner” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rights-philandering-sooner/ The Imaginative Conservative: Donald Devine – “The Brilliant Enigma That Was Willmoore Kendall” https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/12/heaven-can-indeed-fall-willmoore-kendall-christopher-h-owen-donald-devine.html The Imaginative Conservative: Tom Pauken – “A Willmoore Kendall Moment” https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/01/willmoore-kendall-moment-tom-pauken.html The National Interest: Jacob Heilbrunn – “How Willmoore Kendall Invented Trumpism” https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-willmoore-kendall-invented-trumpism-198739 National Review: Matthew Continetti – “Willmoore Kendall and the Intellectual Roots of the Populist Right” https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/15/willmoore-kendall-and-the-intellectual-roots-of-the-populist-right/

President Joe Biden recently unleashed a new "Disinformation Governance Board." (No, that's not a joke or a made-up agency from a dystopian movie.) Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal break down the mental state of the new "Disinformation" czar and discuss some of her (really annoying) writings in their latest episode of "Stopping Socialism." Don't miss it!  

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Benjamin H. Barton of the University of Tennessee College of Law to discuss his new book, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice. They chat about how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors, how they spend most of their adult lives in elite and cloistered institutions, how the Court lacks individuals who reflect differing kinds of professional and personal merit, and what can be done to return Justices to the Court with a wider range of legal and political experience. Get the book here: www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-cre…tialed-court/ Show Notes: C-SPAN: “Q&A – Benjamin Barton” (VIDEO) www.c-span.org/video/?518874-1/qa-benjamin-barton The Hub: Sean Speer – “Is ‘meritocracy’ most important?—Benjamin H. Barton on how a narrow set of American elites dominates the Supreme Court” thehub.ca/2022-03-08/benjamin-…s-the-supreme-court/ Law & Liberty: Mark Pulliam – “Ivy League Justice” lawliberty.org/book-review/ivy-league-justice/ Law & Liberty: Glenn Harlan Reynolds – “The Age of the Judicial Thoroughbred” lawliberty.org/book-review/the-a…ial-thoroughbred/ National Review: Dan McLaughlin – “How the Supreme Court Became the Province of Cloistered Elites” www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022…lite-justice/ The Spectator World: Benjamin H. Barton – “How the Supreme Court lost its real diversity” spectatorworld.com/topic/how-the-s…real-diversity/

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 343 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about Elon Musk buying Twitter, his promise to adhere to free speech, and the left’s collective meltdown. Also, they revisit the Section 230 debate.   OPENING CHIT CHAT MSN - Done Deal: Twitter Agrees to Sell Itself to Elon Musk https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/done-deal-twitter-agrees-to-sell-itself-to-elon-musk/ar-AAWA5DD?OCID=ansmsnnews11   PRIMARY TOPIC – MUSK BUYING TWITTER A CULTURAL INFLECTION POINT? (video) Elon On what he thinks Twitter should be and do: https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM?t=746 And Musk’s tweet explaining more his views on free speech. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376 (video) MSNBC’s Projection is Out Of Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOJc9zNsfUU   SECONDARY TOPIC – SECTION 230 REVISITED The Federalist - Democrats Waging A War On Twitter Don’t Want ‘Transparency,’ They Want Power https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/27/democrats-waging-a-war-on-twitter-dont-want-transparency-they-want-power/ National Review - Psaki Says Biden ‘Concerned’ about Social-Media Platforms’ Power after Elon Musk Acquires Twitter https://www.nationalreview.com/news/psaki-says-biden-concerned-about-social-media-platforms-power-after-elon-musk-acquires-twitter/ [Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.]

On Earth Day, Heartland Senior Fellow Anthony Watts was a guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM560 The Answer in Chicago. Anthony and Shaun talk about how the radical environmentalists have been lying about the state of the planet for decades. They discuss the greening of the globe, how miniscule human CO2 emissions are, and more on the show.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by historian Neil Lanctot to discuss his new book, The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future. They chat about how the country’s three most prominent progressives—Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jane Addams—approached the outbreak of the Great War and what they thought America’s role in the conflict should be. Get the book here:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539530/the-approaching-storm-by-neil-lanctot/ Show Notes: Atlanta History Center: Author Talks | Neil Lanctot (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdiD9rQ9I Free Library of Philadelphia: Neil Lanctot | The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, & Their Clash Over America’s Future (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iVoeUSWi8 New York Journal of Books: Steven Nathans-Kelly – “The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future” https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/approaching-storm-roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Center: Erik Johnson – “Interview with author Neil Lanctot, on his new book The Approaching Storm” https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/The%20Approaching%20Storm

Throughout the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Education, and school districts claimed ordering children to wear masks would keep schools open.  Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, along with Emily Burns and Josh Stevenson, looked back to see if that was actually the case. The researchers examined school closure in 500 of the nation’s largest school districts to find out if mask mandates kept schools open more often. What they found was the opposite. The report, “No Masks Don’t Help Keep Kids in School” can be found here. The most pernicious mask mandates existed in the nation’s public schools.  If schools were open, in many school districts, children were ordered to mask-up. Kerpen has a hypothesis as to why masked schools closed their doors more often than those that made masks voluntary. Kerpen also discusses the work he did on the latest analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research, A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID 19, that ranked states on economic, health and education outcomes during the pandemic.  At the top of the list, were states that had the least heavy handed COVID policies.

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo are joined by the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr for episode 342 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the end of mask mandates. Jim responds to Twitter. And the big question of the day: Is the Biden Administration returning to energy sanity?   OPENING CHIT CHAT Jim Promotes a Tweet on Twitter https://twitter.com/HeartlandInst/status/1514717380433391618   TOPIC ONE – MASK MANDATES NYP - Judge’s decision to void mask mandate prompts mid-flight cheers among fliers https://nypost.com/2022/04/19/judges-decision-to-void-mask-mandate-prompts-mid-flight-cheers-among-fliers/ AP News - Feds will appeal mask ruling only if mandate still needed https://apnews.com/article/judge-strikes-down-mask-mandates-1fccaa750b6d42b6b609ef75d3c14c26 Paul Krugman Makes a Ridiculous Prediction https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1516424571439792146   TOPIC TWO – ENERGY SANITY? ABC News - Infuriating climate activists, Biden expands oil drilling on public land https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/infuriating-climate-activists-biden-expands-oil-drilling-public/story?id=84148098 The Hill - Biden announces $6B to bail out nuclear plants at risk of closure https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3273536-biden-announces-6b-to-bail-out-nuclear-plants-at-risk-of-closure/ Watts Up With That - ‘We’re all in trouble’ – Wind turbine makers selling at a loss https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/14/were-all-in-trouble-wind-turbine-makers-selling-at-a-loss/ The Blaze - The cost of lithium — a metal used to make electric car batteries — is up nearly 500% since last year: 'Supply is simply nowhere near enough to feed this demand surge' https://www.theblaze.com/news/lithium-cost-skyrockets-amid-electric-vehicle-demand Reuters - Special Report: U.S. solar expansion stalled by rural land-use protests https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-solar-expansion-stalled-by-rural-land-use-protests-2022-04-07/ [Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at this link.]

Food prices were rising fast in the United States before Russia launched its war in the Ukraine, but the war has exasperated the food shortage problem. People in developing countries are going hungry and shoppers in the U.S. are seeing empty shelves and higher prices. Daren Bakst of the Heritage Foundation explains that the Biden administration's climate and energy policies are at fault. They are making it harder and more expensive for farmers to farm and to get food from fields to shelves. Biden claims to care about the poor, but his policies are making their lives harder by bringing hunger into the U.S.

In wake of the opioid epidemic (overdose deaths in 2020, 91,799), doctors and patients are turning to a FDA cleared, non-drug approach to treating pain called photobiomodulation (PBM). PBM uses red and near-infrared light to stimulate cell growth and reduce inflammation. It is increasingly being used at cancer centers, on veterans, and on individuals who want non-drug alternatives. Scot Faulkner is a senior advisor to the PBM Research Foundation. He discusses how there have been over 800 randomized clinical trials showing the effectiveness of PBM and how the treatment is changing the lives of millions of patients. PBM has been around for about 60 years. It is now getting more attention as patients and physicians seek alternatives to prescription pain medication which can lead to chronic dependence. Since its inception, PBM has been used on 100 million people. Patients can get treated at centers or self-treat at home using FDA approved devices. Faukner discusses how PBM provides a long-lasting solution to pain by repairing the cell structures that lead to pain, how much the treatment costs, how long it takes to be effective, and training providers to use PBM, including a new center that opened at Shepherd University in West Virginia.   For more information: https://pbmfoundation.org Clinical trials: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=Photobiomodulation&cntry=&state=&city=&dist

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, to discuss Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. They chat about how German unification came about, the world-historical figure that is Otto von Bismarck, how the Second Reich collapsed, and whether it achieved anything for Germans to admire. Get the book here:  http://pegasusbooks.com/books/blood-and-iron-9781643138374-hardcover Show Notes: Berliner Zeitung: Maurice Frank – “Blood and Iron - a new look at Germany's Second Empire” https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/blood-and-iron-a-new-look-at-germanys-second-empire-li.162169 The Critic: Zareer Masani – “The making of a maelstrom” https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2021/the-making-of-a-maelstrom/ The Daily Telegraph: Saul David – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer review: was the German Empire doomed to fail?” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/blood-iron-katja-hoyer-review-german-empire-doomed-fail/ The Daily Telegraph: “Anchorless Germany is yet to find its place in the 21st century | Katja Hoyer interview” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gge14wZPURU Dublin City Libraries: “Blood and Iron: Katja Hoyer in Conversation with Roger Moorhouse - Dublin Festival of History 2021” (VIDEO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQXpd2AESA Financial Times: Tony Barber – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer — conflicted Germany” https://www.ft.com/content/b257bb76-aa06-49d6-b98a-521fd8819e2e Literary Review: Maurice Frank – “High Prussia Environment” https://literaryreview.co.uk/high-prussia-environment National Review: Sean Durns – “Germany, Born in Blood and Iron” https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/germany-born-in-blood-and-iron/ The Times: Oliver Moody – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer review — Germany: glued together by enemy blood” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blood-and-iron-by-katja-hoyer-review-crn5bm3sl Washington Examiner: Robert Gerwarth – “Imperial restraint” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/imperial-restraint Washington Post: Gerard De Groot – “One man, three wars and the creation of Germany” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/one-man-three-wars-and-the-creation-of-germany/2022/01/07/0d4d840e-5787-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ignoring its legal mandate to ensure corporate transparency, accurate reporting, and the prevention of fraud and insider trading, has proposed rules mandating every publicly traded corporation adopt woke climate standards and goals accounting for the carbon dioxide emissions throughout its supply chain. Then, the corporations must set goals to reduce them. Steve Milloy explains how this is a new government approach to fighting climate change. It is the culmination of a decades long effort by the left to take over all major institutions. These actions by the SEC will harm investors, retirees, and consumers alike. In addition, Milloy discusses shareholder resolutions he has offered to make specific corporations disclose their vulnerabilities to China and their reliance on slave labor.