Bookworm Room's Podcast

This is an adjunct to my long-running blog at Bookworm Room. There, I talk about politics and social issues from a conservative perspective. My blog's motto is "conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts."

American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2025 11/18/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2025 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/39072575

American Thinker Takeaways November 12, 2025 11/13/2025

American Thinker Takeaways November 12, 2025 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/39016525

American Thinker Takeaways, November 2, 2025: Charles Murray interview 11/02/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, November 2, 2025: Charles Murray interview 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38876220

American Thinker Takeaways October 30, 2025 10/30/2025

American Thinker Takeaways October 30, 2025 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38838610

2025-10-28 American Thinker Video Podcast 10/27/2025

2025-10-28 American Thinker Video Podcast 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38800465

October 24, 2025 American Thinker Video Podcast 10/24/2025

October 24, 2025 American Thinker Video Podcast 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38764890

American Thinker Takeaways, October 19, 2025 10/19/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, October 19, 2025 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38638210

American Thinker Takeaways, October 16, 2025 10/16/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, October 16, 2025 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. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38612420

American Thinker Takeaways, September 30, 2025 09/29/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, September 30, 2025 Sizing up the proposed Trump peace plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/38402050

American Thinker Takeaways, February 14, 2025 02/14/2025

American Thinker Takeaways, February 14, 2025 The West's neo-paganism is worse than the original. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/35289810

American Thinker Takeaways, December 31, 2024 12/31/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, December 31, 2024 In this, the last podcast of 2024, I consider my movement to “ReclaimTheRainbow” for everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ crowd; the Biden military’s crazed focus on gender and climate change rather than national defense;* Islamified Europe; and the necessity of Biden’s presidency, along with my hope for the New Year. *This is the Naval War College video underlying my look at Biden’s military: /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/34664675

American Thinker Takeaways, December 15, 2024 12/15/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, December 15, 2024 A look at the eight factors that make American healthcare so expensive—and why socializing our medical care will not make things better. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/34459995

American Thinker Takeaways, December 10, 2024 12/10/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, December 10, 2024 This video-podcast covers why it was a good thing Biden was elected (yes, I really said that), how Biden corrupted the constitutional pardon power, the difference between conservative and leftist populism, and why I think that Trump is America’s Churchill. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/34370650

American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2024 11/17/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, November 17, 2024 This video/podcast discusses the illegal long count in Pennsylvania, the exodus from X, the La Leche League’s founder going out with a “transphobic” bang, the Antifa fan in the Secret Service, and how Britain is going pre-modern with Net Zero. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33963957

American Thinker Takeaways, November 12, 2024 11/12/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, November 12, 2024 · Jack Smith’s apparent retreat from the DOJ lawsuits against Trump, a tactic that is actually as slimy as the lawsuits themselves · The FEMA worker who was fired for instructing people to ignore Trump supporters’ homes, and the situation isn’t as obvious as you think. · The pathetic nature of today’s performers, which explains why it cost Kamala so much to bring them to her rallies (with a cameo from poor Britney Spears) · The overall cult-like nature of today’s leftism · A horrible development for women and girls in Iraq, something I lay squarely at Obama’s feet—along with a short rumination about how bad Democrats are for women generally · The New York Times’s despicable anti-Israel animus · A mass murder in China and what it says about guns and government /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33906562

American Thinker Takeaways, November 8, 2024 11/08/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, November 8, 2024 American Thinker's managing editor, Andrea Widburg, talks about: An important point about Civil Rights that too few Democrats understand. How the election spelled the end of the pernicious intersectionality that has dominated Democrat politics since the Obama era. The leftist overreach that spelled the Democrats’ doom. The Trump dividends that are already paying off in foreign policy, even though he hasn’t even been inaugurated. The American people’s verdict should mark (and seemingly already is marking) the end of the lawfare against Trump. Fear and loathing at the FBI’s headquarters now that there’s a new Trumpian sheriff in town. The jihad playing out in Amsterdam. Why Hollywood stars—and, maybe, some politicians—should are, or should be, running scared...or just running. The sad, funny story of the leftist who utterly fails to connect her political values to the frightening world that she inhabits. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33854942

American Thinker Takeaways, October 27, 2024 10/28/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 27, 2024 This video/podcast discusses a leftist European writer’s accurate—and depressing—take on the state of America under Harris and Biden, the fraud against Israel that’s taking place on Wikipedia, and the wonderful New York Times article that’s meant to dissuade people from supporting Trump but that reads like the perfect Trump campaign promotional material. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33634607

American Thinker Takeaways, October 15, 2024 10/16/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 15, 2024 This video/podcast discusses the Harris campaign’s and the Democrat party’s inherent racism, the joke on the Democrats regarding Trump’s upcoming Madison Square Garden rally (plus the usual defamation against Trump), Kamala Harris’s transgender policies, and a lovely pro-Trump message from Stanley Kubrick’s daughter. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33476697

American Thinker Takeaways, October 11, 2024 10/11/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 11, 2024 This video/podcast discusses the chains the Deep State has on its employees as viewed through a Secret Service lens, Donald Trump’s brilliant tax idea, yet another big lie about illegal immigration, lessons from a Trump rally, the positive trend that election polling is showing, and the war Israel faces. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33427217

American Thinker Takeaways, October 6, 2024 10/06/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 6, 2024 This podcast discusses FEMA, the media’s ugly euphemisms, the government’s latest policies affecting our food supplies, and giant rats. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33349862

American Thinker Takeaways, October 3, 2024 10/03/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 3, 2024 This video discusses a NeverTrumper who came home; JD Vance’s masterful answer re abortion; the burgeoning FEMA scandal in NC; Israel does immigration and assimilation right; election interference from the DOJ; and how the left abuses religion for political ends. 0:00 - Intro 01:00 - A NeverTrumper comes home 03:34 - JD Vance’s masterful answer re abortion 06:37 - The burgeoning FEMA scandal in NC 11:03 - Israel does immigration and assimilation right 13:47 - Election interference from the DOJ 15:03 - The left abuses religion for political ends /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33321212

American Thinker Takeaways, October 2, 2024 10/02/2024

American Thinker Takeaways, October 2, 2024 Insights from American Thinker about the debate, Iran's attack on Israel, and Doug Emhoff's allegedly striking a woman. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/33306712

21st-century neo-paganism is worse than the original 09/17/2023

21st-century neo-paganism is worse than the original Everyone recognizes that our dominant American culture marks a return to the pagan, but they don't see that, at a profound level, it's worse than the original. I've been writing over the last decade about our culture's return to the pagan -- and, indeed, I'm not the only one making this point. A lot of people are. In this video podcast, I examine the many ways in which we are abandoning the Biblical worldview in favor of paganism. That's bad, but I argue that the West's neo-paganism, which has made huge headway in America, is even worse than the original. That's not just because we're killing people; it's because the goals are different. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/28054905

2023-08-20 Bookworm Video Podcast: Maybe the good guys will win after all 08/21/2023

2023-08-20 Bookworm Video Podcast: Maybe the good guys will win after all A cheerful look at problems with the Georgia RICO indictment, within China, and for the leftists in Marin County. The three stories I recount in this podcast give me hope. Whether it's the fact that even a stalwart NeverTrumper recognizes how horrible Fani Willis's RICO case against Trump is, the deep doo-doo into which China is sinking, or the fact that Marin's leftists are discovering that the piper inevitably must be paid, all of these are reports that will hearten you. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/27804246

2023-07-20 Bookworm Video Podcast 07/21/2023

2023-07-20 Bookworm Video Podcast I've kept it short this time, focusing on one issue, which is the real -- and very weird -- beneficiary of the left's forced existential crisis. No matter how you look at it, every one of the left's policies is intended to decrease dramatically the number of humans on earth. This is a very bizarre and horrible experiment. More than that, the ultimate intended beneficiary isn't who (or what) you think it is. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/27526785

2023.06.29 Bookworm Video Podcast 06/30/2023

2023.06.29 Bookworm Video Podcast This is an unusually short video podcast (for me, at least) because it addresses just one issue: The schism between Republicans and conservatives. Not only do I identify the issue, but I also offer suggestions for addressing what I see as a very serious problem in American politics. Plus, I want you to know there is reason to hope in America. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/27331161

2023-06-07 Bookworm Video Podcast 06/08/2023

2023-06-07 Bookworm Video Podcast It's another thrilling ride through the flotsam and jetsam of my mind as I examine the social and political scenes in America today. It's all here: following the money behind transgender madness in women's sports, Biblical morals, Hunter Biden as an unlikely 2nd Amendment warrior, reefer madness, Republican candidates who have gone to the dogs, the American institution that is the root of all of today's evils, and one Democrat judge who got what he voted for. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/27078420

2023-05-18 Bookworm Video Podcast 05/19/2023

2023-05-18 Bookworm Video Podcast On this podcast, gay activists v. gay men, crazy leftist ladies, why I don't trust RFK, Jr., a little secret behind so-called "white" crime, and a love letter to Pete Buttigieg. The most important thing to note is that it's not <em>my</em> love letter to Pete Buttigieg. But that comes last. Before I get there, I discuss what makes gay activists different from men who are gay, why we'd have fewer crazy leftist women if men weren't marginalized, the problem (as I see it) with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and one of the statistical lies behind the wave of white crime Biden insists is terrifying the nation. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/26887275

2023-05-07 Bookworm Video Podcast 05/08/2023

2023-05-07 Bookworm Video Podcast It's late at night, and my dyslexic tongue is stumbling, but I think I made sense with my look at some of the week's news. As always, there's a lot to talk about: The failed efforts to destroy Tucker, the problems for the left with Hispanic mass murderers, words that shall not be spoken, the things that leftists see and don't see (and how that drives policy), and a remembrance of a very good judge. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/26771604

2023-04-27 Bookworm. Video Podcast 04/27/2023

2023-04-27 Bookworm. Video Podcast The gal suing Tucker is very much an avatar for the modern left, so I spend a bit of time discussing her (which also allows me to demonstrate my growing proficiency in embedding video clips). But before I touch upon Tucker, I have a few quick things to say about the "fascist" label, evil Republicans, and the fact that Don Lemon is also an avatar of sorts. /episode/index/show/bookwormroom/id/26679774

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