Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Congressman Dan Crenshaw joins the world's leading experts for deep and insightful conversations about the most important issues facing us today.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 420
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Why Is College So Expensive? Myths and Facts about Tuition, Student Loan Debt, and the New Alternatives - with Beth Akers
We dive into the depths of the student loan debate with higher education expert Beth Akers, co-author of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt. Progressive politicians have made stu…
The Truth About Gun Bans, Violent Crime, and Universal Background Checks. What Really Happens When Firearms are Banned, with Dr. John Lott
Dr. John Lott is an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime. What happens in communities where guns are banned? Do universal background checks really accomplish what advocates say -…
What It's Like Being On a Committee with "The Squad" - with Rep. Patrick McHenry
Rep. Patrick McHenry is back to offer insight into the left’s approach to governance and the broader implications for everything from your 401k to the cost of housing in California vs Texas. What are…
The New Energy Frontier, with Nigel Jenvey
What is carbon capture? Can we really use this technology to turn CO2 into a commodity? It might sound like science fiction, but it’s actually the New Energy Frontier in America.
Nigel Jenvey is an i…
$23 T in Debt & Magic Monetary Theory, with Maya MacGuineas
Maya MacGuineas, head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, stopped by to help us pick apart Modern Monetary Theory, which is trendy again among certain members of Congress and president…
Inequality in America, What’s True and What Isn’t, with Ramesh Ponnuru
The issue of inequality isn’t what many people think it is. Ramesh Ponnuru joins us to explain how to properly think about inequality and income mobility, and why tax increases and massive expansions…
How Millennials Think, with Kristen Soltis Anderson
How have smart phones and social media shaped the political views of Millennials? What tricks do socialists like AOC and Bernie use to emotionally engage them into supporting programs like Medicare-f…
Rafting Over Dams, with Jay Faison
Jay Faison is a philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded ClearPath in 2013 to develop and advance conservative policies that accelerate clean energy innovation.
Jay joins Dan on the podcast to tal…
How 5G Will Unleash Everything Awesome, with Ajit Pai
Ajit Pai is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. We talk about the future of the internet, net neutrality, rural broadband, and, of course, our favorite memes. We also hit on how gover…
Pulling Back the Curtain On Iran, with Ray Takeyh
Ray Takeyh is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of specialization are Iran, political reform in the Middle East, and Islamist…
Do You Need 1000 Hours of Training to Dry Hair? Let’s Ask Shoshana Weissmann
Shoshana Weissmann is a Senior Manager and Research Fellow at R Street Institute and the self-declared Senator of Twitter. She has helped elevate the national conversation on the weird world of occup…
How Bitcoin Is Already Changing the World, with Rep. Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District and the Republican leader of the House Committee on Financial Services. We talked about how blockchain tech…
Coffee and Guns, with JT from Black Rifle Coffee
Jarred “Landing” Taylor is an Air Force veteran and the President of Article 15 Clothing, the Marketing Director of Leadslingers Spirits, and works in business development for Black Rifle Coffee Comp…
Everything You Need to Know About China, with Michael Sobolik
Michael Sobolik is a Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. There is no doubt that China is our number one geoeconomic competitor, and what happens next in the U.S-Chi…
Free Speech is Under Attack, with Former President of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita at New York Law School. From 1991 through 2008, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman…
Saving the Environment with Clean, Cheap, and Exportable Energy, with Neil Chatterjee
Neil Chatterjee is the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Texas has an abundance of clean, cheap, exportable energy and no one knows that better than Chairman Chatterjee. We discus…
Why Embracing Capitalism Leads to a Better World for Everybody, with Marian Tupy of HumanProgress.org
Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specializes in globalization and global well‐being, and the politi…
Nuclear Energy, Chernobyl, and the Simpsons, with Maria Korsnick
Maria Korsnick is the President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute. Clean energy is currently one of our most important conversations on Capitol Hill. Maria joined me to debunk some of the myths…
The Medicare for All Fraud, with Charles Blahous
Charles Blahous is the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Chair and Senior Research Strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he specializes in domestic economic policy and retire…
Cheaper, Better, Prescription Drugs, with Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Dr. Scott Gottlieb is the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he continues his work on improving public health thro…