An insightful podcast that discusses the news of the day and cultural issues plaguing our society. The goal of the show is to bring logic and context to these topics and address solutions, something that is rarely discussed by mainstream pundits. The trio has a knack of approaching serious issues with tremendous wit, humility, and occasional humor but never from a place of anger and with absolutely NO BULL!
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Everything is broken. Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk, two jaded journos, interview people far wiser than themselves and ask: "now what?" uncertain.substack.com
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Caitlin Flanagan returns! The unapologetic author of On Thinking for Yourself (a selection of her excellent essays for The Atlantic) comes to talk to us about the fall of Western civilization, what happens when you let church-going go, what happened to universities, and why (though a Catholic herself) Caitlin has started wearing a Star of David. Ch…
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Karys Rhea, Epoch Times associate producer, discusses the current climate of antisemitism. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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The Agony of Abundance (w/ Nick Gillespie)
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Nick Gillespie — editor at large at the libertarian institution that is Reason Magazine (and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie) — comes on the pod for an IRL conversation about 'The Agony of Abundance,' the paradoxical state in which we’re more prosperous, yet more dissatisfied, than ever. We discuss the negative narratives peddled b…
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Denise is back to talk about the crazy political climate. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Physical Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss discusses her book, On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Will and Charles catch up with current events after a week off. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Our Friend Attended a Trump Rally — And Witnessed History
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PLEASE NOTE: We are releasing this episode in the immediate aftermath of the alleged assassination attempt on President Trump. Details and facts presented in this conversation are still being corroborated and are subject to be updated/corrected. Recurrent guest Misha Thomas (“The Liberal Who Voted for Trump” / “Blackness and the Other Side of Traum…
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Episode 152 - R. Barbara Gitenstein
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R. Barbara Gitenstein - President Emerita of The College of New Jersey, joins us to discuss her new book, Experience is the Angled Road. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Maud Maron joins us to talk about education, antisemitism, and her removal from the NYC parent-led school council, of which Charles is a councilmember. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Host Wilfred Reilly turns special guest to discuss his new book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Progressives Are Silly (w/ Nellie Bowles)
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Nellie Bowles is back! The journalist, writer of the TGIF newsletter, and co-founder of The Free Press (along with her wife Bari Weiss) returns to discuss her new book, Morning After the Revolution. In it, she chronicles the unfortunate series of events that led her to leave The New York Times in 2021. We get into that in this conversation, too (di…
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Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon joins us to talk about her latest book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Our favorite CA high school teacher, and author of, Hollowed Out, Jeremy Adams is back to discuss his Magnum Opus, Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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The Indoctrination of Elite Education (w/ Bill Deresiewicz)
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William Deresiewicz — author of (the newly updated) Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and The End of Solitude — returns to the pod! This time we dive into one of the institutions we love to hate: elite universities. We dwell on and debate the protests at Columbia (et al.), the reasons why it’s all gone so wrong, and whether or not the solut…
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Diane Yap joins us to talk about her social media persona, crime, culture and racism. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Publius PR CEO and Woking Dead author, A.J. Rice discusses culture and politics. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Down the Saddam Rabbit Hole (w/ Steve Coll)
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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author, and former Columbia Journalism School dean (to us!), Steve Coll, takes us deep into the conspiracy-plagued mind of Saddam Hussein, the subject of his latest book The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq. We go deep into the wonky journalism weeds — includ…
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Larissa Phillips, founder of the Volunteer Literacy Project, joins us to talk about her important piece in Quilette where she discusses how the feminist approach to rape is hurting women and victims. Link to her piece detailing her experience dealing with rape. https://quillette.com/2024/03/20/toward-ruin-or-recovery-celeste-marcus-liberties-journa…
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Corey Deangelis, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, talks about the problems in education and why he's fighting for school choice. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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This week journalist David Marcus returns to discuss his tweet about Gen X and racism. Fatimah Gilliam joins the conversation to offer an alternative to David's view on race relations in the late nineties and how they're different from today. The conversation ends on a heated debate about journalistic integrity and rape accusations in the Israel-Ha…
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Barrington joins Charles, Wilfred, and special guest Lou Perez to discuss social media. We dive into Twitter debates, influencers, racism, the real world, and if blacks are funnier than whites. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Three Drunk Jews Refuting Jonathan Glazer (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon & Eli Lake)
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With Vanessa off for the weekend to explore the world of psychedelics, the podcast has been hijacked by a cabal of furious, loud, and lubricated Jews. Adaam, 3 martinis and a Laphroaig in, is joined by Newsweek opinion editor and author of Second Class Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Free Press reporter and host of The Re-Education podcast Eli Lake. The th…
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Shelby Steele, author, filmmaker, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins us to talk race, antisemitism, and algebra. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Former Olympian and candidate for Congress Claston Bernard talks about acceptable blacks. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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This week, we talk to Fatimah Gilliam, author of Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Historian Larry Schweikart discusses his new book, A Patriot's History of Globalism. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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What the Left Gets Wrong About Black History (w/ Charles Love & Wilfred Reilly)
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Authors and co-hosts of the Cut the Bull podcast, Charles Love (Race Crazy) and Wilfred Reilly (Taboo, Hate Crime Hoax) join us for a lively conversation/debate about race, history, and K-12 education — and Vanessa gets put in the hot seat. Questions covered include: Should Black history be separate from American history? Are we over-indexing on se…
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Brian Mullins joins us to discuss big city problems, specifically Chicago, and why the left isn't helping the black community. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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We talk race, resilience, and solutions with Woodson Center and 1776 Unites founder Bob Woodson. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Charles and Wilfred discuss the annual debate around Black History Month with Lou Perez and David Sypher. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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The host of The Reason We Learn joins us to explain her radical views on education. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Lenore Skenazy joins us to talk about promoting independence in kids and the dangers of safetyism. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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West Point grad, combat veteran, and ER doctor, John Hughes, joins us to talk about his new book, American Doctor: Coming Home To War. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Charles and Wilfred talk past guests, 2024 predictions and are visited by the OG Cut the Bull star. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Artist and animator (canceled) and Heterodorx co-host Nina Paley joins us to discuss gender issues, liberalism, and the death of the gender critical movement. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Zionism and the Refugee Machine (w/ Dr. Einat Wilf)
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Dr. Einat Wilf is an Israeli writer, speaker, former (and future?) politician, podcaster (We Should All be Zionisists), and co-author of The War of Return. In this episode, we dive into some historical context for the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Vanessa asking all the ignorant questions you were too afraid to ask: What/who was there in Israel b…
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The Cruel Philosophr brings his blunt analysis to CTB audience. He poses a question: In 2023, who is holding back Black America; the white liberal, the black female voter, the black father, or the black elite? We discuss this, then Charles and Wilfred add a couple additional options. Support the Show.…
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We talk comedy with comedian and frequent co-host Lou Perez. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Iranian historian and writer Arash Azizi comes on the pod to share his perspective on the Israel-Hamas conflict today — and why he believes ceasefire is the only viable path forward for Israel’s war with Hamas. Along the way, Azizi gives us on an overview of Iran’s politics since the Revolution of 1979 (i.e. how Soleimani became The Shadow Commande…
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New Jersey black republican David Sypher discusses the critique of black republicans, BLM, GOP outreach, Kathy Barnette, and voting patterns of blacks. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Hosts Wilfred Reilly and Charles Love have a casual chat about the topics of the day without a guest. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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On the heels of his Genspect controversy, Phil Illy joins us to talk about his book, Auto-Heterosexual: Attracted to BEING the Other Sex. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Diaspora Palestinian to Hamas Apologists: Debate Me, Bro (w/ John Aziz)
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John Aziz is a British Palestinian musician who has come into the public spotlight since October 7th for tweeting out for peace and against Hamas. In this conversation, we unpack why it’s so controversial for a Palestinian like John to be pro-peace, the trauma both sides aren’t acknowledging or addressing, and the overly-simplified, ironic, Star Wa…
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Episode 124 - Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton
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We talk racism and compassion with Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton, authors of The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author of several books including The War on Cops and The Diversity Delusion. She joins us to talk about her latest book, When Race Trumps Merit. Support the Show.…
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Disgusting 'Journalists' (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
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Friend of the pod Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor for Newsweek and author of Bad News, returns for a deep, contentious conversation about the responsibility of journalists covering the Israel-Hamas war, the people worth expending energy on (versus relegating as enemies), and the uncomfortable embrace of moral certainty. While much vitriol…
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Here we continue our discussion of the Hamas attack and the complications of the region with Aryeh Tepper and David Bernstein. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Inez Stepman, senior policy analyst at IWF and host of the High Noon podcast and Adaam James Levin-Areddy, senior producer at the Dispatch and host of the Uncertain Things podcast join us to talk about the 10/7/2023 Hamas attack. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Kenneth Kim discusses the dangers of general anesthesia, surgery, and the importance of finding a skilled physician. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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Episode 119 - Robert Cherry - The State of Black Family
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Professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, AEI fellow, and 1776 Unites Scholar Robert Cherry discusses his latest book, The State of the Black Family. Support the Show.By Charles Love and Wilfred Reilly
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