Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," has had a fatwa on him for decades. Recently he was assaulted by a young Islamic man. Our Leftist regime and media, presumably disappointed that the perpetrator was not a white supremacist, refused at first to divulge his identity. There are two stories here: Islam's war on freedom of speech--and the …

The Left is obsessed with the idea of 21st century systemic American racism. Are they right? Or are they wrong? We go looking for the racism--and the white supremacists--in the American system. We will integrate into this examination discussion of artistic works on the theme of racism. For example, the great 1960 Western "The Unforgiven" was direct…

"How The West Was Won" is more than a great film. It is an American epic. Homer composed "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," the epic poems of Greek civilization. Virgil's "Aeneid" did the same for the Romans. This movie captures the essence of the distinctively optimistic nature of American heroism. Its focus is on conquering a continent, not on conque…

Distinguished actor Mark Pellegrino joins us to detail his life in Hollywood, any exciting developments in TV and/or film, and the general state of the culture. Join us--because this will be fun!By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

From both ends of the political spectrum, individual rights are under assault. Is one side worse than the other? Can Americans concerned to protect their rights legitimately support one or the other faction? Is there, in practice, a lesser of two evils? Attorney Nicholas Provenzo joins us to discuss these controversial questions.…

The essence of Americanism is the principle of individual rights. This principle, when acted on, is what makes the US the greatest nation in history. American conservatives, on some issues, uphold this principle. But, based on their religious beliefs, they deny to pregnant women the right to abortion. Further, Justice Clarence Thomas of SCOTUS, lon…

The essence of America is individualism. Therefore, the "great American novel" necessarily focuses on this theme. No novel has ever done this as brilliantly as Ayn Rand's epic, "The Fountainhead." It features one of the great heroes in world literature--Howard Roark; the most complex heroine--Dominique Francon; the most nefarious villain--Ellsworth…

No rational case for abortion rights can be made in the absence of the principle of individual rights. Leftists, who reject individualism for collectivism, make a very weak case for the right to abortion. Conservatives, who profess to embrace individual rights regarding other issues, reject it in this case. What is the rational case for the right t…

The question of gun control is: Does the rate of violent crime, including the homicide rate, go up or down after and because of gun control? To answer this question, we need two fields of knowledge: 1. the empirical data from gun-controlled areas and nations 2. the principles that explain the data. We need to get the answer right, and then found ou…

"Top Gun: Maverick" is more than just an exciting US Navy thriller. It is a significant event in the culture wars. It celebrates America and heroism; additionally, it repudiates toxic leftism and glorifies testosterone-coursing masculinity. In so doing, it has the triumphant feel of a John Wayne Western, where the good guys always pound the bad guy…

The Department of Homeland Security--a law enforcement agency--now has a new division to combat the spread of disinformation/misinformation. This means that the government now decides what is true and what is false, what can be spoken and what cannot be spoken, what voices may be heard and which ones are forbidden. The exact term for such a practic…

Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin take on the urgent issues of the day, including education, its problems and solutions, and Bernstein's forthcoming book, "Why Johnny Still Can't Read"; the disastrous war in Ukraine; increasing inflation; the "woke" Left's war on children and their parents; Fawstin's continuing battle for free speech; and a pletho…

In 1915, in the closing years of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks slaughtered a minimum of 1,000,000 innocent Armenian civilians. The term "genocide," an attempt to annihilate an entire ethnic group, was coined in reference to this atrocity. Today, more than a century later, the Turkish regime still denies culpability. What were the causes of this mas…

Liberalism properly means support for liberty, for individual rights. But the Left, intellectually captive to Marxism and Post-Modernism, has perverted the meaning of the term and opposes individual rights on all policy issues. How did this happen? What are the baleful consequences today and for the foreseeable future? What can liberty lovers do to…

Whether via elementary school classes, books, or Disney films, the Left insists on introducing young children to sexual content. What is the effect of teaching kids about sex long before they have reached puberty? Why insist on teaching young children about homosexuality? Is sex education the proper province of the schools--or should it be left to …

Robert Spencer, noted Islam scholar, joins us to discuss the war against Western Civilization fought by jihadists and their secular allies on the Left. This will be a brutally honest dissection of those who seek to destroy freedom and civilization--and of what rational human beings can do about it.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

Leftist hysteria regarding the "insurrection" of January 6, 2021 never ends. And yet, more than a year later, none of the perpetrators have been charged with insurrection. Why? What is an insurrection? Do the perpetrators of the 1/6/21 event meet the criteria? What, in justice, should be done with them? What is the truth about this event? And is th…

King Midas had the golden touch--everything with which he came into contact turned to precious metal. Joe Biden has the opposite--he has the filth touch. Everything he touches turns to excrement. At the one year mark, his has been a regime of epic ineptitude. He makes Jimmy Carter, the previous doyen of fecklessness, look like General George Patton…

What is the story of the new movies, "American Underdog" and "Licorice Pizza?" Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin are your film critics on "Truth in Culture and Politics," a current day, Objectivist Siskel and Ebert. This will be a freewheeling discussion in which they branch out into other movies, comedy, politics, books, education, and love. Noth…

Marvel has lost its mind. It's made an un-woke super hero movie that abandons doctrinaire Leftist preaching for unadulterated superhero entertainment. What, did Marvel discover the idea that superhero movies are supposed to be fun? If so, what a concept! Join Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin for a lively discussion of the movie, of its money-maki…

Truth in Culture--but no politics tonight. We have movies to discuss, books to recommend, sports heroes to celebrate, comic books to glorify...and much more. All culture all the time. Tune in, comment, question, and join the show. This will be a freewheeling, unscripted episode and we look forward to sharing the love with our audience.…

There are many issues to discuss: Movies, education, sports, politics, crime, jury trials, audience questions, and more. Tune in and join the show by asking questions and/or raising comments. This will be a fun episode.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

The universities are often a cesspool of Leftist propaganda and of "cancel culture" that will harass and/or fire a professor for expressing dissenting convictions. But perhaps there is hope. A number of leading scholars plan to found the University of Austin. It will embody the peculiar idea that, in higher education, we should be free to ask any q…

There are many trials in which a defendant is acquitted of murder charges on the grounds of self-defense. But the Rittenhouse case created a furor. Why? Why so much outrage on both sides of this case? What was really on trial in this case? What is the meaning of it? These are the questions that Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin discuss on this epi…

Leftists utterly control American intellectual culture. They hate capitalism, seek to destroy it and replace it with socialism. Indeed they move regressively toward Communism. Does capitalism have a future? Mark Da Cunha, editor and publisher of "capitalismmagazine.com, joins Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin to discuss this critical question.…

What lessons can be learned from the election results? What do these results tell us about the popularity of Biden's policies? About the American people's reaction to Critical Race Theory and other Leftist claims? These are the questions to be discussed by Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

By means of which irrational policies did federal and/or state governments undermine the supply chain? And how do we fix this mess? Economist Dr. Richard Salsman, author of "Where Have All the Capitalists Gone?' joins Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin to examine these questions.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

There is so much to discuss regarding books, films, music, pop culture, politics, and more. Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin will conduct a free-wheeling discussion on myriad topics--and invite questions and comments from the audience. These kinds of shows are always fun!By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

Terry McAuliffe, candidate for Governor of Virginia, says parents should not tell schools what to teach their children. Some school boards label dissenting parents "domestic terrorists," and want them expelled from school board meetings. Joe Biden wants the FBI to investigate these parents as possible "domestic terrorists." Are we witnessing a war …

Perhaps the most exciting, important, and positive development in the world today is the privatization of space exploration and the race between brilliant entrepreneurs to explore the solar system--and, eventually, the stars. What are the great benefits that will follow from the new space race? What obstacles must be overcome? What objections might…

Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin conduct a freewheeling discussion of cultural and political trends--and answer questions from the audience. This will be a lively, fun, and wide-ranging discussion on a multitude of current topics.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

White supremacists are evil, they are still around, and they must be combated. But in 2021, how prevalent is this phenomenon? How widespread is the danger? Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin plunge into the thickets of research in search of white supremacists and discuss their findings.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin discuss the 9/11 atrocity, 20 years later.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

The Objectivist rapper, entertainer, and Renaissance Man--the gifted Rucka Rucka Ali--joins us to discuss this question. The thinking expressed by the hosts of this show is generally: 1. Trump is a morally flawed hero 2. Religious conservatives are a mixed case 3. The Left is evil. Rucka will challenge these beliefs--and a spirited but respectful d…

As the Left rams its destructive agenda down the throats of Americans, conservatives increasingly blame the Democrats' failures on secularism, on a lack of God. Will America undergo a powerful religious backlash against the Left's vicious insanity? For many years, the brilliant philosopher, Leonard Peikoff, has warned that religion is the gravest l…

The FBI finally acknowledged that it does not have the evidence to claim that the January 6th events were an insurrection. It took them more than seven months to realize what to millions of Americans was obvious from the start--that it was a riot. How is this possible? What is wrong with the FBI--and with our intelligence community more broadly? Th…

According to the Department of Homeland Security, if American citizens oppose "COVID measures"--or uphold claims of election fraud and/or belief that Trump can be re-instated--or believe (something unstated) about "9/11 anniversary and religious holidays," this makes them "terror threats." The first two of these claims are manifest drivel and the t…

The mayhem at the Capitol on January 6th was clearly unjustifiable criminal violence. But was it an insurrection, as Leftists claim--or was it a riot? What are the facts as we know them? Why does the government not release many hours of security camera footage? Were Leftist terrorists involved in instigating the violence? Was the FBI involved? Seve…

"New York Times" reporter, Katie Benner, recently tweeted and then retracted the claim that Trump supporters are "enemies of the state" and should be treated as "national security threats." Is this claim accurate? Perhaps 70 million Trump supporters believe that Biden voters are "enemies of the state." If they do, is that claim truthful? Or, conver…

Do adult citizens of a free society have an inalienable right to voluntarily ingest any substance they want? Do they have the right to possess and/or sell such substances? Or should the government be granted the power to coercively restrain adult individuals from doing so? Ayn Rand showed us that the moral is the practical--and, conversely, the imm…

It is widely known that American universities are dominated by Leftist dogma. What happens to those students sufficiently independent to challenge the orthodoxy? What fate befalls those who stand up in support of capitalism, America, and color blind individualism? Are they encouraged to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy? Are they punished by Lefti…

Capitalism has brought unparalleled freedom and prosperity to billions of human beings around the world. Yet it is under ceaseless attack from intellectuals, moralists, and Leftist politicians. What will it take for capitalism to survive? What are the essential points to be made in its defense? Why does socialism, despite manifest and egregious fai…

One aspect of current Leftist orthodoxy is the claim that racism requires the power to systemically persecute an ethnic minority, and is not possible by members of a minority. Is this accurate? So when a non-white psychiatrist gives a lecture at Yale titled "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind," in which she states that white people are "out…

The U.S. government has not yet legally quashed freedom of speech. But Leftist intellectuals, journalists, and entrepreneurs outside of government engage in cancel culture to suppress the dissemination of ideas inimical to Leftist orthodoxy. Private individuals and companies are doing the dirty work that Leftist politicians like AOC speak of but ca…

Marxist intellectuals, "woke" corporations, Democratic politicians, and the Leftist media endorse totalitarian policies. They fire workers for criticizing Leftist orthodoxy, call for government agencies to regulate "misinformation" on social media, report only what supports a socialist agenda, and lie repeatedly about current issues. Dr. Nora Dimit…

Israel is a bastion of reason and freedom in a desert of Islamic irrationality and dictatorship. Hamas and her other jihadist enemies are murderous savages. Israel has an unimpeachable right to defend itself against murderous assault. Yet, as soon as she does, Leftist creatures around the world crawl from under their rocks to verbally abuse her. Wh…

Andrew Gutman pulled his young daughter out of the Brearley School, an exclusive all-girls prep school in New York City, because of its vicious racist indoctrination of students. He penned a brilliant letter to other parents, decrying the overt racism of the school's "educational" policies. Will this be the start of rational human beings, sick to t…

The venomous racism of "woke" mentalities has deeply penetrated American business, education, culture, and sports. Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin explore how the new racism has poisoned our culture, and the steps we must take to combat--and defeat--its pernicious influence.By Andrew Bernstein & Bosch Fawstin

Andrew Bernstein and Bosch Fawstin will interview James Valliant, co-author of "Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity." The questions: What is the actual provenance of the world's most popular religion? Is the conventional view mistaken? Was Christianity actually developed by the Roman state to pacify fanatically rebellious Jews…