On Tuesday evening at Princeton University, Josh Hammer and libertarian comedian Dave Smith engaged in a Steamboat Institute-sponsored debate on whether the U.S.-Israel alliance serves America's strategic interests. The discussion explored whether Israel's policies benefit or undermine the U.S., as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'…

Josh Hammer explains how the real "constitutional crisis" isn't coming from the Trump administration—it's coming from left-wing activist lower-court judges. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer unpacks Donald Trump's unexpected recent comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explains why Pam Bondi's DOJ is correct to sue "sanctuary" jurisdictions Chicago and Illinois, and reviews how little the Democrats have learned since they got shellacked in the 2024 election. (Hint: It's not very much!) See Privacy Policy at https…

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy The first three weeks of Donald Trump's second administration have seen a flurry of vicious executive orders aimed at the federal workforce, trans people, government agencies, and others—all while Elon Musk and his deranged band of young sociopaths, otherwise kno…

Josh Hammer sits down with Rabbi Pinchas Taylor, director of the American Faith Coalition, for a wide-ranging discussion on Jewish-Christian relations, the importance of restoring biblical values, and the latest developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also analyze President Trump’s recent remarks on the Gaza Strip and what they mean …

Josh Hammer unpacks some of the latest remarkable wins for President Donald Trump and his MAGA coalition. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

An atheist, a radical for capitalism, a caricature of a greedy libertarian, a best-selling novelist, a difficult partner and passionate lover, and the self-proclaimed greatest philosopher since Aristotle: Ayn Rand was many things, and we talk about almost all of them in this epic episode. To do so, we called upon historian Jennifer Burns, whose int…

Josh Hammer explains how the Trump administration can keep up its blistering early momentum amidst slowly accelerating headwinds, analyzes Secretary of State Rubio's Western Hemisphere-centric "Americas First" foreign policy, opens up about God and the aviation disaster in the nation's capital, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv…

Josh Hammer explains how Donald Trump's opening stretch vindicates one of the longest recurring themes of our show: You must pick a side, and the only way out is through. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy A stock rhetorical trope on the right is to invoke ancient Rome when talking about American decline—often making direct comparisons between the Goth invaders and contemporary immigrants, obsessing over homosexuality and Rome's fall, and more. If their understandi…

Josh Hammer explains MAGA's victory for Team Civilizational Sanity in America's post-Obama cold civil war, unpacks the constitutional debate on birthright citizenship, eviscerates Trump's new Qatar-friendly Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/…

Josh Hammer reacts to the civilizational inflection point that is this second Trump presidential term, and especially Tuesday's remarkable executive order outlawing so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh Hammer continues to unpack the "America First" executive order flurry that has defined the earliest days of Donald Trump's second term. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a fascinating episode that takes up thinkers that the podcast has covered before—the Koch brothers, Austrian economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and others—but from a different angle: that of the entrepreneurial work ethic. Historian Erik Baker's superb book on the topic, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Eth…

Josh Hammer gives his take on President Trump's Second Inaugural Address and the first day of his second presidential term. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Your host Josh Hammer welcomes the show's newest radio affiliate (660 AM The Answer in Dallas-Ft. Worth), explains why Donald Trump must immediately lead on immigration following his swearing-in on Monday, unpacks the continuing heated debate over TikTok, blasts the weak ceasefire/hostage deal in Gaza, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.…

Josh Hammer explains how Joe Biden is actually correct in identifying American "oligarchy" as a real problem—he's just looking in all the wrong places for the solution. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Congressman Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) rejoins "The Josh Hammer Show" for a wide-ranging conversation about last summer's near-assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., the state of the U.S. Secret Service, and Trump's righteous Monroe Doctrine focus on both Greenland and the Panama Canal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California …

Josh Hammer analyzes yesterday's blockbuster Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's incoming secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains why immigration must be THE issue Donald Trump immediately focuses on upon retaking the White House this coming Monday. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Your host Josh Hammer weighs in on the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires, the appalling legacy of the wrongly lionized Jimmy Carter, the outrageous cover-up of the decades-long Muslim grooming/gang rape scandal in the U.K., and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do…

Josh Hammer gives his hot take on today's criminal sentencing of Donald Trump in NYC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A bunch of you requested that we un-paywall this recent bonus episode, which features some highly practical insights for organizers, volunteers, and public servants. So we have! (All the other bonus episodes are good too; please subscribe.) — Right wing movements thrive by cultivating fears of disorder. Conservatives depict blue cities as sites of …

Josh Hammer explains the idea of "national greatness conservatism" and why Donald Trump's most recent proposals fit the bill perfectly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent seeming about-faces can only be understood in their proper context: downstream of our Trumpian cultural moment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains how multiculturalism is killing the Judeo-Christian West—very much including the U.K. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer unpacks the horrific New Year's Day massacre on Bourbon Street and the metastasis of homegrown American jihadism, explains why SCOTUS must uphold the TikTok ban, previews some of the incoming Trump administration's major first actions across a host of areas, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac…

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy Right wing movements thrive by cultivating fears of disorder. Conservatives depict blue cities as sites of rampant crime, chaos, and iniquity. And often enough, it is progressives — with their overdeveloped empathy and concern for the poor and criminalized — who …

Josh Hammer unpacks all the sordid details of the latest horrific Islamic jihadist attack in the United States. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer sounds off on former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer excoriates the outspoken "tech bros," led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are now using their newfound clout within MAGA to push for anti-MAGA policies such as mass "high-skill" immigration. Also, the current state of anti-Trump lawfare, the serendipity of Christmas and Chanukah commencing on the same day for only the third time i…

Back in October, before the 2024 election, we had on our friend—and brilliant screenwriter and playwright—Dorothy Fortenberry to talk about gender and the presidential campaign. Amid all the postmortems and Democratic soul searching, we wanted to have Dorothy back on to revisit some of those questions, starting with the difficulties women face in r…

Josh Hammer excoriates U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer for her admission about taking "systemic racial disparities" into account in pardon and commutation recommendations. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh Hammer explains the symbolic significance of Christmas and Chanukah falling on the same day for only the third time in the past century. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains the Democrats' big choice in the aftermath of their recent electoral shellacking: Will they double down on their insanity, or will they try to become more mainstream? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh Hammer assesses the GOP's approach to political economy in light of the shutdown fight, excoriates the media for only now admitting that Joe Biden is a living corpse, opens up about being a new father, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh Hammer excoriates those, like MSNBC's "Joyless" Joy Reid, who not only downplay Daniel Penny's heroism but have the temerity to accuse him of racism. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer takes to task the Left's all-too-predictable reactions and not-very-hot "takes" that have followed the latest horrific school shooting in America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains the broader significance of ABC News' recent $15 million defamation settlement with President Donald J. Trump. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's been a while since we've had our friends from the 5-4 podcast on KYE, and we thought there was no better time to do so than the weeks before Donald Trump is inaugurated, again, as president. As listeners might guess, we wanted to talk to them about what opportunities Trump might have during his second term to reshape the federal judiciary—and …

David Hazony, director and senior fellow at the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities, joins to discuss his new edited essay collection, Young Zionist Voices: A New Generation Speaks Out. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh Hammer unpacks the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria by Islamist rebels, explains why Daniel Penny is a hero and Luigi Mangione is a villain, argues that DEI is actually unconstitutional, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.…

Josh is joined by Dr. Lee Jussim, a Rutgers University social psychologist, to discuss a new academic white paper from Rutgers' Social Perception Lab, "Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell…

Josh is joined by Sasha Kuhn, a native Syrian Kurd and policy advisor on Kurdish-Israeli relations, to discuss the demise of the evil Assad regime in Syria and the harrowing rise of Turkish-backed Islamists in Assad's stead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf…

Josh Hammer unpacks the rapidly unfolding developments in Syria and also offers his take on the Daniel Penny acquittal in NYC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gol Kalev, chairman of the Judaism 3.0 think tank, joins Josh to discuss his new book, The Assault on Judaism: The Existential Threat Is Coming From the West. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Josh Hammer explains why the Left cannot be permitted to prevail in their full-spectrum assault against Pete Hegseth, President Trump's pick for secretary of defense. Also, an updated look at the state of play in the Middle East, transgenderism is on trial at SCOTUS, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N…

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy We wanted to offer something of a palette cleanser for our subscribers, so we decided to watch the recent movie, Reagan, with our intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman. Even better, it's based on the 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, …

Josh Hammer argues that President Trump has to push embattled secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth's nomination across the finish line, while also analyzing yesterday's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in the transgender case of U.S. v. Skrmetti. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com…

Josh Hammer unloads on MSNBC's Symone Sanders for having the the temerity to assert that "Joe Biden has played by all the rules." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.