As globalization collapses, America faces a deeper crisis of culture, identity, and purpose. Mike explores Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom,” the rebuilding of American industry, the conflict with Iran, and the spiritual foundations needed to revive the nation.
No class this Memorial Day weekend. A short note on the origins of the holiday, a thank you to our supporters, and a look at next Saturday — Bruce Director returns.
Barbara Boyd argues Tulsi Gabbard's resignation as DNI was driven by a family medical crisis — not Iran-policy disputes. The episode also covers the Senate revolt against Trump's Anti-weaponization Fund and Kevin Warsh's "regime change" plan at the Fed.
As globalization collapses, America faces a deeper crisis of culture, identity, and purpose. Mike explores Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom,” the rebuilding of American industry, the conflict with Iran, and the spiritual foundations needed to revive the nation.
No class this Memorial Day weekend. A short note on the origins of the holiday, a thank you to our supporters, and a look at next Saturday — Bruce Director returns.
Barbara Boyd argues Tulsi Gabbard's resignation as DNI was driven by a family medical crisis — not Iran-policy disputes. The episode also covers the Senate revolt against Trump's Anti-weaponization Fund and Kevin Warsh's "regime change" plan at the Fed.
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May 2026 Promethean Perk — Exclusive for our Firebringer and Promethean Supporters
While the country watches the gas pump, Trump is finishing four wars at once — Iran, Russiagate, the Brent crude pricing racket, and the religious-war psyop being run on America.
Replay is now available, join us LIVE next Thursday! Trump dropped two Truths overnight — kill the filibuster, prosecute Jack Smith's "gang." Barbara and Susan connect them to today's three-front fight.
A political realignment is underway. This episode explores Trump’s long term strategy to rebuild American industry, expand the coalition, and reshape the cultural future of the nation.
Susan argues Bessent's G7 "no room for excuses" warning, the White House counterterrorism strategy naming the Muslim Brotherhood, and the new wave of cartel indictments all point at one target — not Iran, but the City of London.
Tony Papert and Bruce Director argue the Trump–Xi summit was misread: the real story is a leader-to-leader great-power approach also engaging Putin. They unpack Iran leverage and the paused U.S. strike, signs of an industrial upswing, and brightening Republican midterm prospects.
The key outcome of Trump's China visit was the personal trust between Trump and Xi — Xi's "secret garden" tour, previously reserved for Putin — establishing guardrails for the U.S.–China race. London and Carney are screaming.
Trump walked into Beijing with American industry, walked out with denuclearization talks and a trade framework. The Obama-Soros network raced to Toronto to rebrand. The old world died in Beijing.
A political realignment is underway. This episode explores Trump’s long term strategy to rebuild American industry, expand the coalition, and reshape the cultural future of the nation.
Susan argues Bessent's G7 "no room for excuses" warning, the White House counterterrorism strategy naming the Muslim Brotherhood, and the new wave of cartel indictments all point at one target — not Iran, but the City of London.
Tony Papert and Bruce Director argue the Trump–Xi summit was misread: the real story is a leader-to-leader great-power approach also engaging Putin. They unpack Iran leverage and the paused U.S. strike, signs of an industrial upswing, and brightening Republican midterm prospects.
The key outcome of Trump's China visit was the personal trust between Trump and Xi — Xi's "secret garden" tour, previously reserved for Putin — establishing guardrails for the U.S.–China race. London and Carney are screaming.
The centuries-long fight over tuning, the British- and Wall Street-funded "American sound" that hollowed out our culture, and why the renaissance Trump is unleashing has to start with classical music.
Victor Glover's Easter message from lunar orbit has a 600-year lineage. Bob Ingraham traces the unity of Christian faith and scientific breakthrough from Dufay and Josquin to Brunelleschi, van der Weyden, and the carracks that opened the New World.
Trace the deliberate cultural campaign that forged the intellectual foundations of the American Revolution: from Leibniz and Swift to Handel and Benjamin West.
Will Wertz traces the millennia-long battle between national sovereignty and empire — from Plato to Nicholas of Cusa to the EU — and shows why a new Bretton Woods system is the path forward.
The flood of information is making you a worse citizen. Bruce Director on Kepler's New Astronomy — how a 17th-century astronomer broke the empire's two-cage dogma of perfect circles and uniform motion, and what that fight has to do with 2026.
Brian Lantz takes you on the factory floor of the American economy: durable goods +8.2%, manufacturing construction +20.2%, machine tool orders +22.5%, the U.S. now the world's third-largest steel producer. It's being built, baby, built.
Nuclear power is the dividing line between mankind stuck on Earth and mankind colonizing the solar system. Trump's pushing through it. The British Empire says stay put.
Artemis II returned humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972. With nuclear power initiatives, a lunar landing targeted for 2028, and a revitalized space industrial base, America is entering a new golden age of space exploration and growth.
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