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Public
by Michael Shellenberger
Reporting on humanity, civilization, and the environment www.public.news
Episodes
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Pascal Clérotte: Ban on front-runner Marine Le Pen is “nail in the coffin of French democracy”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news France is one of the world’s oldest democracies, dating back to the French Revolution of 1789. It was reaffirmed as the Fifth Republic in 1958 under President Charles de Gaulle. Since then, France has held regular,...
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Matt Goodwin: UK is “a big pile of wood covered in gasoline”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news No country did more than Britain to establish the values of free speech and equal justice under the law. In 1215, King John issued the Magna Carta, which established that even the king was subject to equal justice under...
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Roger Pielke, Jr.: “Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Since taking office, President Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change, unleashed fossil fuel production, cut climate subsidies that were part of the Inflation…
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R.R. Reno: “We may be moving to a point where the American right sets the agenda for the future politics of our country."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Since World War II, elites across the Western world have promoted the opening up of nations to globalization through the weakening of national cultural traditions. According to Rusty Reno, author of a little-known 2019...
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Marco Visscher: The atomic bomb was designed to bomb the world to peace, not to pieces. It's worked fairly well."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For many decades after World War II, fears of nuclear war eclipsed all other fears, including overpopulation, climate change, and asteroids. Thousands of Hollywood movies, documentaries, and books raised the alarm.…
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Matthew Feeney: “There is a panic over, ‘If we allow free speech, what will result?’”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Great Britain seems like a free nation. In recent years, there have been mass protests against everything from Israel’s war with Hamas to fossil fuels. Newspaper editorialists denounce the government in strong terms...
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AI Can't Solve Our Biggest Problems
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Hi Friends, Please enjoy my talk from the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London! Michael I love AI. I use chat GPT every day, and I encourage my students to do the same. I'm particularly…
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Jonathan Keeperman: “We need to reassert a healthy masculinity”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID were cruel, said Democrats and the media. Indeed, they argue, the underlying cause of most of society’s problems is lack of empathy. If only we were kinder and gentler with each...
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Jefferson Morley: “The people behind JFK’s murder had impunity”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For many, the Executive Order issued last month by President Donald Trump to declassify and release the remaining records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not that interesting or important....
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Ben Schreckinger: On Biden’s Long History Of Shady Deals
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Ben Schreckinger is an old-fashioned investigative journalist with Politico who wrote the best book on Joe Biden. Schreckinger’s book is called, simply, The Bidens. Hachette published the book in 2021. “It got a fair...
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Peter Schweizer: Biden Legacy Is Taking Tens Of Millions From America's Adversaries
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The mainstream story about Joe Biden has long been that he would bring “adult supervision or gravitas” to political life, notes investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. As someone who had served on the Senate Foreign...
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Jon Keeley: “L.A. Fires Not The Result Of Climate Change”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Two people are dead, and 80,000 have been forced to evacuate neighborhoods in Los Angeles thanks to fires raging out of control. According to the media and some scientists, climate change is causing the fires....
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Brendan Carr: “There’s no question NBC knows” Saturday Night Live broke the law
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In mid-September, NBC Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter that neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump would be on the show because doing so would be illegal. “You can’t bring the…
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Shellenberger And Gutentag: “The Dam Is Collapsing”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For as long as most of us can remember, the news media has reflected reality. Even many of us who felt the media was biased or deferential to the government and big corporations still believed that basic facts about…
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Sharyl Attkisson: "There's Corruption In The Pharmaceutical Industry"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news All of us rely on the federal government to protect us from industries selling poison. That’s why we have thousands of regulations and people working to enforce them. And yet, according to former CBS News investigative...
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Evan Barker: "I Was In An Abusive Relationship With The Democratic Party"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The conventional wisdom has long held that Democrats are the party that protects the little guy. Democrats are the party of working people while Republicans are the party of the rich, the thinking goes. Democrats are…
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Dr. Marty Makary: "The Reason People Don’t Trust The Medical Establishment Is Because It Lied To Them”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The government needs to step up its efforts to fight health misinformation, say Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, because it’s reducing public trust in the medical establishment. “People are dying because…
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Keith Humphreys: “Sometimes it’s the threats and pressure that make people give up their addiction”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Over the last 25 years, a consensus view of drug addiction has taken hold among experts, the media, and much of the public. “You can’t make someone quit drugs; they have to want to quit.” “Addicts who break laws should…
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Race-Baiting Enabled Kamala Harris’ Undemocratic Power Grab
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The biggest unsolved mystery of the 2024 presidential election is how Kamala Harris got the Democratic nomination. After all, she was so unpopular with Democratic voters in Iowa that she dropped out of the race in...
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This College Professor May Have Figured Out How To Kill DEI
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For decades, universities, corporations, and nonprofit organizations have argued that they need diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to create positive work and educational environments. The idea has been…
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James Orr: Political Earthquakes Are Coming To The U.S. And Europe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last April, a squad of armed police officers in Brussels, Belgium, marched into a National Conservatism Conference with the intent of shutting it down. The alleged crime? Hate speech. When the police saw the TV cameras,...
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Michael Patrick Leahy: "A Judge Doesn't Have The Right To Force Me To Do Something Unconstitutional"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news One of the most famous moments in American journalism occurred in 1971 when The New York Times and The Washington Post published excerpts of what would be known as “The Pentagon Papers.” Daniel Ellsberg, a Defense...
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Vaclav Klaus: “They Prolong The Ukraine War To Justify The Existence Of The European Union”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Vaclav Klaus is an economist who served as president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. He is a famously outspoken critic of anti-human environmentalism, the European Union, and Wokeism. We interviewed him last...
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Jean Twenge: “It may be human nature to silence people you disagree with, but that doesn't make it right”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Jean Twenge is a psychologist and author of a series of important and influential books, including Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for…
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James Esses: “My life plans went up in smoke. All I had done was raise concerns about child safeguarding"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Anybody who has been canceled for holding disfavored views knows how lonely and depressing the experience can be. It often means watching trusted people in positions of authority turn into bullies and, worse, watching...
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Governments Are Creating A Fake Hate Panic To Censor, Interfere In Elections, And Imprison Their Political Enemies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news A few weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, the Director of the FBI said, “Our most immediate concern is that violent extremists—individuals or small groups—will draw inspiration from the events…
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Jeff Kosseff: "Hey, Let's Not Rethink The First Amendment"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Many journalists, university professors, and Democrats say we must change how we think about the First Amendment for the Internet age. Maybe the government had no role in regulating speech before there existed social...
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Adam Candeub: US Government And Stanford Pioneered The Censorship Scheme That Europe May Impose On Us
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Europeans are free to speak their mind as they wish, most of them believe. They can express their views on controversial political and social issues on social media platforms from Facebook to X. But all of that may soon...
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Google CEO Pledged To Use AI To Counter “Fake News,” Racism, And Populism After Trump Victory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Google CEO Sundar Pichai today addressed the public upset with its AI chatbot, Gemini, for its political bias. “I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly...
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Robert Epstein: How Google Manipulates Us
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai went on a media offensive to reassure the public and policymakers that he was being responsible with Artificial Intelligence, or AI. “You will see us be bold and ship things,” he…
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Cambridge University Climate Scientist Denounces “Climate Emergency” As “Noble Lie”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Politicians and activists alike have warned of a looming climate catastrophe for decades. “Biden urged to declare climate change a national emergency,” reported NBC last year. “Climate Changes Threatens Every Facet of...
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FBI And Secret Service Are Covering Up What They Know About January 6 Bomb Scare, Evidence Suggests
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news On Monday, Alex Gutentag and I reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is misrepresenting the location of the alleged bomb allegedly found at the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on…
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Freddie deBoer: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2020, progressives rode a wave of righteous anger toward what many believed would be decisive and lasting change. The pandemic ensured a captive audience; America could no longer look away. So why did a year that saw...
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Rob Henderson: Social Class, Elite Virtue Signaling, and "Luxury Beliefs"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rob Henderson is a writer and academic perhaps best known for popularizing the concept of “luxury beliefs.” Over the past several years, he’s become an influential commentator, both in mainstream media and with his own...
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Democrats Spread Russia Collusion Disinformation To Weaponize The FBI
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Last week, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused pro-Palestinian protesters who demonstrated outside her San Francisco home of being Russian stooges. She even urged the FBI to investigate them. Obviously, the FBI can’t...
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Groups Investigating Death Of Critically Endangered Whale Take Wind Industry Money
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Rope, not the wind industry, killed the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead last Monday, claim scientific organizations, the US government, and the news media. “This case highlights the ongoing...
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The People Trying To Censor Us Are Government Spies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Have you ever heard of the “Five Eyes” nations? I confess that I hadn’t until I started covering censorship and other governmental abuses of power last year. But it turns out to be something really important. The Five...
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Monica Harris: When It Came To Race And Sex, Generation X Had It Right
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news In 2010, the family of Monica Harris’s partner held a reunion in southeastern Montana. “She says, ‘Hey, babe, would you ever want to go?’ And I don't know about you, but Montana was one of these places that had always...
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Gary Taubes: Pseudoscientific Dietary Dogma Caused Obesity And Diabetes Disasters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news “People get fat because they eat too many calories.” “A calorie is a calorie.” “Saturated fats are bad.” America’s leading dietary experts, the US government, and food manufacturers agreed on the above for decades.…
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BOMBGATE: This Video Proves FBI Is Covering Up The Truth About The January 6 “Bomb”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news The US Department of Justice has charged over 1,200 people with federal crimes related to the January 6, 2021 riot. In order to convict those individuals, the DOJ has relied heavily on 14,000 hours of surveillance video...
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Alex V. Barnard: Why So Many Of The Homeless Are Mentally Ill
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news For more than 30 years, progressives and conservatives have differed over how to think about mentally ill homeless people. Progressives have argued that the fundamental problem is the lack of funding for mental health...
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A Riot Is Not A "Coup"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news If you watch the mainstream media, you might think that what happened on January 6th, 2021 was a coup attempt. But what if that’s not at all what happened? The dictionary definition of a coup is a “violent overthrow or...
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Why the Media Censors Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Did you see what happened last Monday night after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in Iowa? Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes…
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This Video Can Stop Totalitarianism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Imagine for a moment that you wanted to seize control over the Internet and put in place a system of mass censorship worldwide. How would you do it? You wouldn’t advertise your intentions. You’d hide them. You’d claim...
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This Is The Most Terrifying Graph In The World
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news There are a lot of scary charts and graphs out there. Like this one, which shows learning loss during covid lockdowns. Or this one, which shows the increase in illicit drug deaths over the last twenty years. Or this…
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The War On Trump Backfired Due To Elite Arrogance, Tribalism, And Disgust
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Donald Trump cannot become president of the United States because he led an insurrection against the government on January 6, 2021, most experts and journalists agree. Republican primary voters and caucus-goers should...
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Illegal Levels Of Whale-Killing Pile-Driving Noise By Wind Industry Documented
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Before 2016, when the wind industry’s increased boat traffic, sonar mapping, and construction began, eight humpback whales were found dead per year between Virginia and Maine. Since 2016, an average of 25 humpbacks were...
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Anthony Fauci’s Assault on Democracy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news We tend to think of censorship as a violation of the rights of the censored. And it is that, of course. But censorship creates other victims we give less consideration to: the millions who are denied the chance to hear...
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Stop Letting China And Mexico Poison Our Children
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Most days, we get up and think everything’s fine. We are alive, we are housed, and we are members of society we call a nation. Within the borders of that nation, we don’t let foreigners poison our children. But we do…
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Dehumanizing Anti-Civilization Dogma Behind DEI’s Destruction Of Universities
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Right-wing activists are responsible for the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, say mainstream news media organizations. “Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against…
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