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Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

21 Episodes • By ChangeUp Media LLC • benweingarten.com/bigideas...
Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten features compelling long-form conversations with exceptional thinkers and doers on the most important ideas and issues of our time, and all time. Discussions focus on topics ranging from national security and foreign affairs, to economics and politics and philosophy and ...more
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Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten
Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten
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Rep. Mike Gallagher on the Challenge of Communist China
Rep. Mike Gallagher (@RepGallagher) (R-WI) is a lead... more
Jul 7 2020 31m
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Rep Brad Wenstrup on the New Cold War with Communist China and Deep State Corruption
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (@RepBradWenstrup) (R-OH) is a do... more
May 26 2020 38m
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Hedge-Fund Manager Kyle Bass on Winning the Economic and Ideological Battle with Communist China
Kyle Bass (@Jkylebass) is the Chief Investment Offic... more
Apr 20 2020 40m
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The Democrat-Deep State-Media Cover-Up that Protected the Russiagate Narrative -- Revisiting Awangate with Luke Ros...
Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) is an investigative report... more
May 28 2019 44m
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Robert Spencer on Islamic Supremacism, U.S. Middle East Policy, Defeating Jihad
Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) is the director of th... more
Nov 14 2018 36m
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U.S. Amb. to Germany Richard Grenell on Iran Sanctions Snapback, U.S. Energy Competition with Russia in the EU, Cha...
Richard Grenell is the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, a... more
Nov 1 2018 26m
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Ex-NSC Official Allegedly Fired Over Memo Warning Trump of ‘Deep State’ Resistance: ‘There’s a Whiff of Tyranny in ...
Rich Higgins is an expert on the nexus between theol... more
Sep 27 2018 30m
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Did the 'Deep State' Deep Six Pentagon's Lovinger Over Discovery of Shady Defense Department Contracts to FBI Trump...
Sean Bigley (@smb_JD) is a national security attorne... more
Aug 30 2018 37m
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Former CIA Operative Charles Sam Faddis on Disastrous Politicization of the Intelligence Community, How China's 'Ea...
Charles Sam Faddis (@RealSamFaddis) is a retired CIA... more
Aug 22 2018 45m
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How Leftism Supplanted Judaism and Subverted Israel and Zionism Under 'Tikkun Olam' -- Social Justice with a Perver...
Jonathan Neumann has written perhaps the seminal boo... more
Aug 15 2018 40m
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Michael Ledeen on the Potential Collapse of Iran's Khomeinist Regime and America's Role, the False Sunni-Shia Jihad...
Michael Ledeen (@michaelledeen) is a historian, long... more
Aug 8 2018 29m
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Dennis Prager on the Self-Righteously Suicidal West, the Disaster of Jewish Leftism, Intentions Versus Outcomes on ...
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio host,... more
Aug 1 2018 38m
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Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, the Administrative State, Free Speech, Silicon Valley Regulation
Professor Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence ... more
Jul 25 2018 45m
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Confucius Institutes: Centers for Chinese Cultural Exchange, or Trojan Horses for Propaganda and Penetration of U.S...
Rachelle Peterson is director of research projects a... more
Jul 11 2018 32m
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SPECIAL EPISODE (JULY 4): Deep Dive on the Declaration of Independence and its Relevance Today
For Independence Day, I take a deep dive into Declar... more
Jul 4 2018 47m
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Democrat Pollster Doug Schoen on Lessons from a Life in Politics, Being a Liberal in a Progressive Age, Learning fr...
Doug Schoen has been one of the most influential Dem... more
Jun 27 2018 29m
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Penn Law's Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Value...
Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at t... more
Jun 20 2018 51m
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Andrew C. McCarthy on Russiagate, Clinton-Trump Investigation Double Standards, Mueller's Mandate, DOJ-FBI-CIA Poli...
Andrew C. McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) is senior fell... more
Jun 13 2018 58m
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Andrew C. McCarthy: Lessons from the Blind Sheikh Terror Trial, What Animates Jihadists, Why U.S. Middle East Polic...
Andrew C. McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) is senior fell... more
Jun 6 2018 1h 18m
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Andrew Klavan on the Criticality of Conservative Competition in Culture, Regressive Progressivism, Political Correc...
Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) is a screenwriter, bes... more
May 30 2018 55m
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Heather Mac Donald on Corrosive Identity Politics, Multiculturalism and Unjust Criminal Justice
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at ... more
May 23 2018 1h 6m
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