American Thinker Takeaways, December 19, 2025
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Today, there’s only one topic: Singapore. I spent 12 days there and have opinions (plus, if you’re watching the video, photographs).
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American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2025
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Today’s topics are tariffs, and why Trump’s tariffs are good, not bad; the divisions (perhaps good ones) that come from our siloed media world; and the reason that medical costs are so high and—sorry—will never go down.
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American Thinker Takeaways November 12, 2025
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Today’s topics are why the shutdown’s end was inevitable, why New York City doesn’t matter anymore, the problem of rogue judges, a (good) cultural shift and the evidence supporting it, a bad shift in South Korea, the Palestinian “fatocide” (and why, inevitably, the absence of starvation genocide is the Jews’ fault), and whether God serves man or man serves God.
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American Thinker Takeaways, November 2, 2025: Charles Murray interview
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This is a special edition of the American Thinker Takeaways podcast. I had the opportunity to interview Professor Charles Murray about his new book, , about his intellectual journey to faith.
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American Thinker Takeaways October 30, 2025
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Today’s topics are a little insight into some of the people on food stamps and Governor Tim Walz’s deeply dishonest accounting; Karine Jean Pierre’s victim-centric mindset and the dirty little anti-democratic secret her interviewer gave away; and the serious problem with elected politicians who were not born in America and have roots in cultures utterly alien to our own.
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2025-10-28 American Thinker Video Podcast
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Today’s topics are scary ideas from Google’s AI (and their intersection with the climate changista and environmentalist worldview), Europe’s problematic African and Middle Eastern immigrants (and the coming purification), how one leftist member of the media defines “racism” to attack Timothy Mellon (we’re all racists now), and the demise of Napoleon’s Army.
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October 24, 2025 American Thinker Video Podcast
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Today’s topics are what Obamacare has done to ERs, the drop in fuel prices, WaPo journalists who dare not speak “their” truth, what Google AI is alleged to have done to Robby Starbuck, and the fall of John Cleese, the avatar for all bad things from the “intellectual” left.
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American Thinker Takeaways, October 19, 2025
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Today’s topics are the leftist obsession with animal costumes (and what Biblical proscription I think it violates); the antisemitic madness in England and the general problem of unlimited, mostly Islamic, immigration to Europe, the Pope’s obsession with immigrants over his own flock; and, lastly, Zohran Mandami’s open embrace of the same pro-Islamic ideas that Barack Obama and his supporters are believed still to be hiding.
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American Thinker Takeaways, October 16, 2025
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This episode looks at the peace plan in Gaza, Kamala Harris’s ignorance (whether willful or natural), dhimmitude in America’s prison system, the slaughter of Christians in Africa, the Blue state and city insurrection when it comes to illegal immigration, Jack Smith’s serious misstatements about national security law, and the return to gender sanity.
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American Thinker Takeaways, September 30, 2025
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Sizing up the proposed Trump peace plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
info_outlineHelp me develop a polite, persuasive argument to challenge a young friend of mine who has bought into the media narrative about right-wing extremism.
I have a young friend — my children’s age — who is an extremely bright, thoughtful, and (so he believes) informed young man who wants to pursue a graduate degree in politics and terrorism. His biggest concern is “right-wing extremism in America.”
When I first heard this, my initial impulse was to say, “That’s just wrong. It’s a stupid Leftist lie. You’re being brainwashed. If you want to make a difference in the world, tackle left-wing extremism.”
Fortunately, I’ve finally figured out that insulting people is not the way to get them to agree with you. There are better persuasion techniques. Because I respect my young friend’s intelligence, I want to take some time to assemble an argument that will present data in a way that challenges his beliefs without insulting his intelligence. This post represents the first draft of that email.
Maybe it’s my legal training, but I believe that one of the best ways to challenge an argument is to start by identifying bias, both my own and the bias of the person(s) advocating the opposite view. I’ve been open with my friend about my bias. My problem is to convince him that the media from which he gets his ideas about right-wing extremism is biased too. Very biased.
The other day on his podcast, Andrew Klavan played two videos, one of the media celebrating Trump’s anticipated downfall and the other celebrating Obama’s allegedly scandal-free presidency. In both videos, raw partisanship is on display. The video below is Andrew Klavan’s show, which I’ve queued up to those back-to-back videos, starting at 19:15:
[To read the rest, rather than listening to the podcast, please go here.]