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Woody Holton, a professor of history at the University of South Carolina, and Phillip Magness, director of research and education at the American Institute for Economic Research debate the resolution, "The New York Times book The 1619 Project, and the Hulu video series based on it, are important contributions to our understanding of slavery and the role of African Americans in American history."

The debate was held at New York City's Sheen Center and hosted by The Soho Forum, which receives fiscal sponsorship from Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason.

Taking the affirmative was Holton, who is the author of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), which won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Social History Award; Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, a finalist for the National Book Award; Abigail Adams, which won the Bancroft Prize; and Liberty is Sweet: The Epic of the American Revolution, which Holton wrote as the Huntington Library's Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow and as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow.

Arguing against the resolution was Magness, the author of The 1619 Project: A Critique. He holds a Ph.D. and master's from George Mason University's School of Public Policy, and a bachelor's from the University of St. Thomas (Houston). Magness' work encompasses the economic history of the United States, with specializations in the economic dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the history of taxation, and measurements of economic inequality over time. In addition to his scholarship, Magness's writings have appeared in numerous venues including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Politico, Reason, National Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Forty years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform, a scathing indictment of public K-12 schools in America. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war," announced the report's authors, who included Nobel Prize–winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti. The report catalyzed massive increases in per-pupil spending, standardized testing, and "common core" style curricula. Yet by almost every measure, educational outcomes are no better than they were in 1983.

In Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today's Students, the Libertas Institute's Connor Boyack and the American Federation for Children's Corey DeAngelis outline what's wrong with the ways our public schools function—and they offer concrete solutions to improve outcomes for children.

In this podcast version of The Reason Live Stream, I talk with Boyack and DeAngelis about why they support maximizing parental rights through education savings accounts (ESAs), disagree with conservative Republicans who want to ban critical race theory and other controversial concepts, and believe that the end of "factory schooling" will vastly improve the civic life of the United States of America.

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Established in 1958 and peaking in influence and membership in the mid-1960s, the staunchly anti-communist John Birch Society quickly became a powerful force in conservative politics, with leading figures such as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan making appeals to its members without fully endorsing its paranoid vision of a country secretly controlled by Soviet agents. Indeed, the society's founder, retired candy magnate Robert Welch, denounced President Dwight Eisenhower as a "conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy."

The society also became a running punchline during its heyday, with Bob Dylan recording a song called "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" and the society's fixation on water fluoridation and vaccines finding its way into a character in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove who is obsessed with protecting "our precious bodily fluids."

In the new book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right, George Washington University's Matt Dallek puts the rise and fall of the Birch Society—which still exists and is based in Appleton, Wisconsin—into a larger Cold War context and argues that its influence on contemporary conservative politics remains as strong as it is unacknowledged.

"More than the most hard-line Goldwater, Nixon, or Reagan Republicans," he writes, "the Birch Society…bequeathed to subsequent generations an extreme antigovernment zeal and rhetorically violent appeal" that remains part and parcel of Donald Trump's MAGA movement. The Birchers' focus on ending the Federal Reserve; getting the United States out of the United Nations, NATO, and the World Trade Organization; and anti-interventionist foreign policy parallels many of the key elements of the political program articulated by libertarian Republican Ron Paul, who keynoted the group's 50th Anniversary Celebration. And the society's past antagonism toward integration and continuing attacks on feminism and gay rights—and emphasis on traditional Christian values and family structures—is widespread among contemporary conservatives.

Dallek's book is not a sneering attack on a backward-looking group but a deep dive into the context and personalities that made it so powerful, if only for a short period of time. He recaptures a sense of just how radical post-war America was, both on the right and the left, and how "conspiracism"—the idea that things are never simply what they appear to be but are really the result of hidden elite machinations—continues to inform how we all think about politics.

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Ep. 2142 - Trump HAMMERS…Ukraine?!

How legal is Trump's governing agenda? Just asking questions.

Today's guest is Randy Barnett, a Georgetown constitutional law professor who has argued before the Supreme Court, was part of a legal team that challenged the constitutionality of Obamacare, is a contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy blog hosted at Reason, and is the author of several books, most recently the memoir A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist. In this week's episode, Barnett discusses the legality of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the various federal injunctions and restraining orders issued against the Trump administration, and whether libertarians should celebrate or be concerned about President Donald Truamp and Elon Musk's methods for slashing government. He also explains why he thinks Trump's executive order rescinding birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized immigrants might triumph before the Supreme Court. 

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The Golden Age Of Republican Politics (Ep. 2428)

Matt Walsh sits down with Dr. Jacob Imam to discuss the issue of young men losing their way.

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Ep. 1541 - Every Young Man Who Feels Lost Should Listen To This

J. D. Vance asks Europe the Big Question as the president prepares to negotiate for peace in Ukraine.

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Ep. 1218 - Trump Gets Real

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, John Oliver delivered an epically long monologue in defense of quote-unquote “trans women” playing in women's sports. We will dissect his argument in detail. John Oliver is an insufferable, dishonest, intellectual lightweight, and it’s time that someone puts him in his place. Also, the Supreme Court says that Trump can continue deporting illegal immigrant gang members. And, there’s a major push now for laws mandating maternity leave. But I think these laws—and the conversation around them–miss the point entirely.

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Ep. 1571 - Debunking John Oliver’s Insane Defense Of Men In Women’s Sports

A Democrat senator flies to El Salvador to help a foreign criminal, the UK Supreme Court rules that men are not women, and the arsonist who tried to roast PA Gov. Josh Shapiro turns out to be a pro-Palestine Marxist.

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Ep. 1717 - Democrat Attempts to Bring Alleged Cartel Criminal BACK to America

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President Trump issues his most important executive order yet, AOC is running for president, and a liberal judge is arrested for housing Tren de Aragua gangsters.

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Ep. 1722 - Liberal Judge Arrested for Housing Gang Members

We have a new pope, and I actually called his name before it came out; President Trump hilariously makes fun of Pete Buttigieg, and Kanye West has a new song called “Heil Hitler.”

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Ep. 1732 - Pope Leo XIV Elected: Everything You Need to Know

A new Pope takes the throne of Peter... but who will take the throne of the deposed Popes of leftism?

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Ep. 1229 - CONKLAVAN

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a new book reveals the shocking new details about Joe Biden's mental decline. Of course these details are not shocking or new at all. And Karmelo Anthony stabbed and killed a fellow student, but that apparently won't stop him from receiving his diploma next week. Plus, David Hogg said that Democrats need to stop excommunicating men from the party. The next day he was excommunicated from the DNC.

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Ep. 1596 - Democrat Elites Are Playing A Giant Game Of “Cover Your A**” And It’s Hilarious

As Trump replaces globalism with nationalist trade, a failed elite is being shown the door — and they don't want to go!

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Ep. 1230 - Truth and Consequences

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