Fate of the West
Where Western civilization is headed. History, demography, culture and power, with serious attention to both decline and renewal.
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The Feminism Debate
“Women should have control over their bodies, and 81 percent of Americans agree that [abortion] decisions should stay between a woman and her doctor, not the government, and not you.” Progressive writer Deja Foxx challenges conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey’s stance on abortion. Find the debate at TheFP.com or on Paramount+.
These failures are egregious, shocking, and have been tremendously costly for Israel
“These failures are egregious, shocking, and have been tremendously costly for Israel.” Haviv Rettig Gur argues that Netanyahu’s government has done enormous damage to Israel’s international standing, not just through its policies, but through its disastrous public diplomacy and the inflammatory rhetoric of its own ministers. Watch the full conversation between Maya Sulkin and Haviv Rettig Gur on YouTube.
Allie Beth Stuckey and Deja Foxx: Do We Need Feminism?
For more than a century, feminism fought to expand women’s choices, and in that time a lot of progress was made. The right to vote. The right to work. Equal access to education. Protection from discrimination because you’re pregnant. Those battles changed America. But, somewhere along the way, a movement built around expanding women’s freedom became a source of profound disagreement over what women should actually do with that freedom. And increasingly, women find themselves judged from both directions for making the “wrong” choices. There’s the trope of the work-obsessed, childless “cat lady,” the association of feminism with woke politics and cancel culture, and the notion that feminists want to advance women over men. The stereotype on the other side is just as blunt: that anti-feminists want to send women back to the 1940s, take away their agency, and “keep women in the kitchen.” All of this begs the question: Do we need feminism more than ever? Or . . . not at all? And if we do need it, what is its purpose in 2026? To discuss these critically important topics, we invited two women from different sides of the debate to Nashville. Author and podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey took on political organizer Deja Foxx for our latest Things That Matter debate, hosted by Kelly O’Grady.
Stop pretending the existential fears of Israelis are fake
“Stop pretending the existential fears of Israelis are fake.” Haviv Rettig Gur joins Maya Sulkin for a conversation about why international pressure on Israel fails to account for Israelis’ fears of annihilation, the rise of extremism across the Middle East, and what it would take to achieve lasting peace. Watch the full conversation now on YouTube.
The Modern Left Isn't Truly Liberal
What does "liberalism" actually mean? Political influencer @Sweeenie sat down to share why he's a common-sense liberal and how the modern Left isn't truly liberal.
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