Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at National Review and the music critic for The New Criterion, sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new title, 'Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.' During the interview, Jay and Ben discuss a variety of topics, including what motivated Jay to study the family's of the world's most ruthless tyrants, his fascinating findings on the Stalins and Mussolinis, the admirable Amini son, the West's frequent romanticization of dictators, and a great deal more.

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Why Does the West Have a Penchant for Romanticizing Dictators?

On Idi Amin's Admirable Son

How Stalin's Daughter Became a Part of Frank Lloyd Wright's Family

Jay Cost of The Weekly Standard sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new Broadside, "What's So Bad About Cronyism?" During the interview, Jay and Ben discuss the history of the cronyism and the fundamental battle between Hamilton and Madison, the surprising death of the patronage system, egregious examples of cronyism, some contrarian methods for combating it and much much more.

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The Case for Increasing Congressional Staff Size and Pay

Why Jay Cost is Embracing a Reform Normally Championed by "Ralph Nader Style" Liberals

The Most Egregious Example of Cronyism in Recent Memory

Educating the American People on the Imperceptible Costs of Cronyism

Jay Cost Full Interview on What's So Bad about Cronyism?

Author Robert Curry sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new book "Common Sense Nation." During the interview, Ben and Bob discuss a variety of topics including the gargantuan debt America owes to the Scots for its founding, the single most influential college course in American history, the impact of "common sense realism" on the American Enlightenment, Locke versus The Founders, the debate between John Witherspoon and Woodrow Wilson and much more.

The Ideological Battle Between John Witherspoon and Woodrow Wilson

Robert Curry Full Interview On 'Common Sense Nation'

Professor Barry Latzer sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new book "The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America." During the interview, Prof. Latzer and Ben discuss a range of topics including Prof. Latzer's difficulty in publishing a book that talks about the correlation between violent crime and race, the link between war and crime, the interesting theory of the inverse relationship between homicide and suicide rates, the surprising lack of correlation between economics and crime, what caused the spike of crime from the late 1960s through the early 1990s and the drastic plummet of rates from the late 1990s to today, the deep question of whether crime is attributable to economics or culture, and what the future of violent crime looks like in America.

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Does Economics or Culture Determine Violent Crime Rates?

A Morose Theory: Are Homicide Rates Inversely Proportional to Suicide Rates?

Prof. Barry Latzer Full Interview On The Rise And Fall Of Violent Crime In America

David Schoenbrod formerly of the Natural Resources Defense Council and currently a Trustee Professor at New York Law School sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss his new book " DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington." During the interview, David and Ben discuss a variety of topics including the various types of chicanery engaged in by politicians in Washington, how and why the political system developed as it did, the costs to the American people, legislation that could hold the key to drastically curtailing such tricks and restoring accountability and much more.

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David Schoenbrod Full Interview on DC Confidential

Joy Pullmann, managing editor at The Federalist, and an education research fellow at the Heartland Institute, sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss her new book "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids." During the interview, Joy and Ben discuss a variety of topics including how America transitioned from an education system that had produced knowledgeable citizens with basic skills to Common Core, why Common Core is a natural extension of the administrative state, how big business and big government colluded to foist Common Core on the American people, the problems Common Core poses in math and the social sciences and much more.

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Joy Pullmann Full Interview on The Education Invasion

John Yoo explains how the rules of war under the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention come from a pro-Third World, pro-guerilla, pro-terrorist worldview intended to bolster such groups and hamstring the West. 
	
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Learn more about John Yoo’s ‘Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War’ at https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/striking-power/.

John Yoo is a UC-Berkeley law professor and former George W. Bush administration Justice Department official.

Ben Weingarten is a conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media. 

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John Yoo Explains Why the Geneva Convention’s Rules of War Help Terrorists

Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning of the environmentalist movement, the links between the acid rain fraud and today’s global warming movement, why the Paris climate accord represent a battle for America’s soul and much more. 

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Rupert Darwall Full Interview on Green Tyranny

Vasily Maklakov's Dealings with Stolypin

Judge Stephen F. Williams Full Interview on The Reformer

Professor Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Prof. Hanson's essay in the new book “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” Prof. Hanson and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the populism of President Donald Trump, what President Trump understood about the electorate that his opponents missed, the 2016 election's significance in history and what it augurs for the world, the ramifications of the FBI and DOJ actions regarding President Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where The Resistance leads and much more.

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Victor Davis Hanson Trump's Unlikely Populism - Full Interview

British MEP Daniel Hannan sits down with Ben Weingarten, Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss MEP Hannan's essay in the new book “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” MEP Hannan and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the anti-progressive character of modern populism, the failure of the elite political establishment, Brexit and the future of the EU, the death of classical liberalism in Europe, the underappreciated impact on the financial crisis on the Western body politic, the imperative to defend free market capitalism and much more.

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Daniel Hannan on Populism, the EU, and the Hangover from the Financial Crisis - Full Interview

Lord Conrad Black joins Ben Weingarten to discuss Lord Black's essay in “Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.” Lord Black and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the history of American populism and President Donald Trump's place in it, an assessment of Trump's populist political agenda, the poisonous legacy of Watergate, The Resistance, the 2018 midterm elections and much more.

Learn more about 'Vox Populi': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/vox-populi-the-perils-promises-of-populism/

Conrad Black is a British peer, former publisher of numerous publications including The London Daily Telegraph and the Daily Spectator, and a prolific columnist at National Review and elsewhere.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media.

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Conrad Black on Trump's Place in the History of Populism

Rupert Darwall, a strategy consultant, policy analyst and former special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer sits down with Ben Weingarten, conservative writer and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media, to discuss Darwall’s new book “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” Darwall and Weingarten discuss a series of topics including the Nazi roots of the modern environmentalist movement, how Sweden has become a major “soft power” in the realm of environmentalism, the anti-capitalist underpinning of the environmentalist movement, the links between the acid rain fraud and today’s global warming movement, why the Paris climate accord represent a battle for America’s soul and much more.

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Is Climate Change Really Just 'Ethics for the Wealthy?’

Why the Paris Climate Accord Represents a Fight for America's Soul

How Sweden Became a Dominant Soft Power in Environmentalism

Sally C. Pipes joins Ben Weingarten to discuss her new Encounter Broadside “The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care”, the state of Obamacare, how staggeringly wrong our politicians were about Medicare and Medicaid, and much more.

Read 'The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/false-promise-single-payer-health-care/

Sally C. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute where she also serves as Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and Founder & CEO of ChangeUp Media.

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Sally C. Pipes on The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care - Full Interview

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, aka the Instapundit, sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new Encounter Broadside 'The Judiciary's Class War', and a series of topics including the split in the American body politic, class and judicial philosophy, the court's activism on major political issues, and much more. 

Learn more in 'The Judiciary's Class War': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/judiciarys-class-war/

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He blogs at http://instapundit.com. Follow him on Twitter: @instapundit. 

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten. 

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Glenn Harlan Reynolds on The Judiciary's Class War - Full Interview

Ryan T. Anderson sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment', and a series of topics including the science and politics around transgenderism, stories of those who have detransitioned, the influence of transgender ideology in schools and much more.

Learn more in 'When Harry Became Sally': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/when-harry-became-sally-responding-to-the-transgender-moment/

Ryan T. Anderson William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and the founder and editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter: @RyanTAnd.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.

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Ryan T. Anderson on the Transgender Moment - Full Interview

Leon Kass sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'Leading a Worthy Life', and a series of topics including finding meaning in a modern age, the decline but potential for rebirth of core values and principles of Western civilization, grappling with scientific progress and ethics and much more.

Learn more in 'Leading a Worthy Life': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/leading-worthy-life/

Leon R. Kass is a Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.

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Leon Kass on How to Lead a Worthy Life - Full Interview

Joseph Tartakovsky sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'The Lives of the Constitution', and its ten historical characters including their impact on and response to the American Founding, the development of the administrative state, constitutional law, the perversion of the courts, war powers and much more.

Learn more in 'The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America's Supreme Law': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-lives-of-the-constitution/

Joseph Tartakovsky is the is the James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.

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Joseph Tartakovsky on The Lives of the Constitution - Full Interview

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