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July 7, 2022Podcast: What do rural Republicans want?
Host Teresa Mull speaks to guest Dallas Kephart, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania state representative, about what he learned from rural Republicans on the campaign trail.
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June 29, 2022Podcast: Undoing the progressive constitution
Matt Purple and Amber Athey are joined by Josh Hammer to discuss the aftermath of the overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision.
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June 27, 2022Podcast: Are cross sex hormones for teens really saving lives?
Amber Athey is joined by Jay Greene, a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, to discuss his recent research on the relationship between cross sex hormones and suicide rates among transgender teens.
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June 17, 2022Podcast: Does Biden have a geopolitical plan?
Spectator deputy editor Oliver Wiseman is joined by Elbridge Colby, a senior Pentagon official during the Trump administration and the author of A Strategy of Denial, to discuss Biden’s foreign policy, the war in Ukraine and whether the US is doing enough to rise to the China threat.
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June 14, 2022Podcast: Media drops coverage of attempted Kavanaugh assassination
Amber Athey is joined by Teresa Mull to discuss the mainstream media’s lack of coverage on the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.
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June 10, 2022Podcast: Why did Fauci deny the lab leak theory?
Amber Athey is joined by guest Ashley Rindsberg to discuss his recent magazine piece about the ties between Anthony Fauci, Evergrande and Harvard.
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June 7, 2022Podcast: Guns, guns and more guns
Matt Purple and Teresa Mull discuss a uniquely American issue in the wake of the Uvalde shooting
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Amber Athey
Amber Athey is The Spectator’s Washington editor and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute. Amber was previously White House correspondent for the Daily Caller and a co-host of O’Connor & Company on WMAL.
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator’s World edition.
Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is deputy editor of The Spectator World and author of the DC Diary, a daily email from Washington. He is a 2021-22 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
Teresa Mull
Teresa Mull is an assistant editor at The Spectator World.
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