REAL AMERICA WITH BRIDGET PHETASY
The Education System: Part 2
This week on Real America, Bridget continued the discussion about education. She sat down with Ravi Gupta, Founder and CEO of The Branch. Before that, he was school principal. He’s also done a lot of work with Charter Schools. His recent article, “The Inconvenient Success of New Orleans Schools” caught Bridget’s eye. You guys had a lot of great stuff to say.
WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #353
Why Free Speech Is Dying and How to Save It
Greg Lukianoff returns to the podcast as he and Bridget spotlight the battle for free speech and why it’s dying in many areas of the world. They discuss suing the Trump administration over a shady deportation policy, AI’s potential for tyranny in places like China and Iran, people who are pro-free speech until it’s someone who’s not on their team, and why free speech is an eternally radical idea that must be continuously fought for.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #241
Democrats Have A Language Police Problem
Democrat think tank Third Way released a memo addressing how disconnected Democrats are from the average person with a lot of their language. Watch out, the language police are reversing course and have started policing the language they invented to confuse us all, in an effort to reconnect with normies.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #242
America Has An Anti-Science Problem
Who’s more nuts? RFK Jr. or Rachel Levine? Why are these our options for public health officials? Cracker Barrel caves and Taylor Swift is finally happy so she’ll probably never write another good song.
Get A "Real" Job
Bridget & Jeren are back to discuss the difference between a 9 to 5 job and working freelance, or in the service industry. They discuss the various jobs they’ve had over the years, what was modeled for them by their parents, the weirdest jobs they’ve ever had, the concept of a “real” job and what that means to them, the benefits and challenges of workin…
THE SPECTATOR
“The Internet is Dying and So Are We”
Check out Bridget’s most recent article for The Spectator, “The internet is dying and so are we,” which examines the Dead Internet Theory and the limits of human expansion.
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