Newt's World

Over the last 50 years, the left has poured time, money, and creativity into developing the institutions to support a story-telling culture. By some estimates the left spends tens of billions of dollars annually, while the right spends much less. Over time, this has underwritten a progressive ecosystem of supportive and reinforcing institutions, in addition to many powerful films. Palladium Pictures is putting a stake in the ground to help mentor right-of-center filmmakers through a new incubator program. Newt’s guests are Michael Pack, Producer of over 15 award-winning documentaries and President and CEO of Palladium Pictures, and his son Thomas Pack, Director of Palladium Pictures incubator program which is training the next generation of documentary filmmakers. Apply now at https://palladiumpictures.com/incubator/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It has been almost fifty years since President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned from the presidency. Nixon normalized U.S. relations with China, signed the first major strategic arms limitation treaty with the Soviets, and made peace possible in the Middle East. Nixon ended the war in Vietnam and brought home the prisoners. Nixon said he would leave us a “generation of peace,” and he did. Newt’s guest is writer, actor, economist, and lawyer, Ben Stein. He was a speechwriter and friend of President Nixon. His new book, “THE PEACEMAKER Nixon: The Man, President, and My Friend” is out now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Tuesday, October 31st, Patrick Dai, a 21-year-old junior at Cornell University, originally from Pittsford, New York, was arrested for making online threats to Jewish students on the Cornell campus. Dai’s actions represent an upward trend of the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th. Newt’s guest is William Jacobson, Clinical Professor and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was 1901 and President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible black man, civil rights activist and educator, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors. That fall, Washington accepted the President’s handwritten invitation to dinner, an event that marked a moment of shared admiration between two American icons amid serious racial disunity in the South. The promises of the Emancipation Proclamation united them, and what happened afterwards would define their relationship and the state of the nation. Newt’s guest is Brian Kilmeade. He is a Fox News Channel television anchor, co-host of the channel’s morning show Fox & Friends, and host of the daily national radio show, The Brian Kilmeade Show. His new book, Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality is available now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2021, Xi Van Fleet spoke out at a Loudoun County, Virginia School Board meeting against Critical Race Theory. Her video went viral and ignited national media attention. Xi lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years later, Xi disturbingly sees signs of the same Cultural Marxism that ravaged her birth country of China threatening to destroy the America she now calls home. Her new book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning is her dire warning to the citizens of the United States.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. Newt’s guest is trail-blazing TV journalist, Bill O’Reilly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism, Alan Dershowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars, explains why the horrific attack of October 7th and Israel’s just response changes everything. Newt’s guest is Alan Dershowitz. He is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism is available for pre-order now on Amazon.com and will be published on December 5th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What role should legislators play in assessing the role of artificial intelligence in both the private and public sector? What are the dangers of artificial intelligence? What regulations does the United States need, if any? Newt guest is James Broughel, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of CEI’s new report on artificial intelligence: “Rules for Robots: A Framework for Governance of AI”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Toffler’s were perhaps best-known for their innovative books, “Future Shock” and “The Third Wave.” Alvin and Heidi Toffler had a daughter, Karen, who died in 2000 at the age of 46 after more than a decade of suffering from Guillain-Barré Syndrome. After her death, the Toffler’s established the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, to help fund neurological medical research breakthroughs. Newt’s guests are: Deborah Westphal, Executive Advisor of the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, and two of the Trust’s Toffler Scholars and grant recipients; Adithya Gopinath, Postdoctoral Neuroscience, University of Florida and Vijaya Kolachalama, Associate Professor, Boston University. Learn more at https://tofflertrust.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This October marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that has shaped the modern Middle East. The war was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the Arab oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order. The Jewish State came shockingly close to defeat. After the war, Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and the senior leadership of the nation were forced to resign in disgrace. Newt’s guest is Uri Kaufman. In his new book, “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East”, he describes how a straight line leads from the battlefields of 1973 to the Camp David Accords of 1978 and all the treaties since.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.