The Michael Knowles Show

A Planned Parenthood branch in Pennsylvania has demanded that Disney start giving its princesses abortions, meanwhile our friend Jordan Peterson seems to think that nobody would ever consider abortion a good thing. We’ll discuss with Faith Moore why everything not forbidden is compulsory. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did Christians shift pop music shift from sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll to themes of faith and devotion? We’ll discuss with Mark Joseph, author of “Rock Gets Religion: The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music.” Then, a caravan of over 1,000 illegal aliens want to invade our country, as the MSM steadfastly deny any problem. China strikes back at U.S. tariffs, and finally, hope for the future! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The majority of college students oppose free speech, according to recent polls. Yet left-wing commentators want to gaslight us all and insist that the campus free speech crisis is nothing more than a myth. We’ll analyze the facts and discuss what can be done about it with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a driving force behind the “Restore Campus Free Speech Act.” Then, a history of Free Speech Movement, and why leftist activism relies on lies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Easter! To celebrate, Michael sits down with American Orthodox theologian and scholar David Bentley Hart to discuss his new translation of the New Testament. Then, after all that Good News, a bunch of politically bad news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The smash-hit return of Roseanne to television, which blew away ratings expectations this week, is great news for Donald Trump and the most important political opinion poll in years. We will analyze what Roseanne’s return means for Trump, “nostalgia TV,” and the American people. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are race relations getting better or worse under Donald Trump? The inimitable Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson joins to discuss race and sex in the Trump Era: all 56 genders and every race, from white to black to orange. Then, a word on Cambridge Analytica and the media blackout of Trump’s possibly denuclearizing North Korea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has called for the repeal of the Second Amendment, and conservatives keep defending their Second Amendment rights on the Left’s terms. But even a cursory review of the numbers show America does not have a gun problem. Then, on this day in history in 1973, Marlon Brando ruins Hollywood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A $1.3 billion omnibus budget that preserves and expands Obama era initiatives has conservatives wondering: with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats? Is it time to turn on Trump? We analyze the budget and the state of conservative policy alongside Howie Carr, author of “What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton.” Then, three cheers for John Bolton! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Umayyad invasion of Tours in 732 through the ISIS bombing of Paris just a few years ago, the West has faced a lot of violence from the Religion of Peace. We’re joined today by Brigitte Gabriel, author of “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It.” She discuss her firsthand account growing up in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War and the devastation that religious ideology has wrought on her own life and those of her family and friends. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lefties, desperate to point to a non-Muslim terrorist, are calling the Austin bomber a terrorist. But there's no evidence he was one. We discuss why and why the distinction matters. Then, Frank Furedi, author of “Populism and the European Culture Wars: The Conflict of Values Between Hungary and the EU,” joins the show to discuss another terribly abused “ism,” populism and what it means for the democracies of the West. Finally, some news, and one of the great poems ever written, by Rudyard Kipling, on “World Poetry Day.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices