Professor Penn makes the case for a “Patriot Economy,” urging listeners to support Rumble, alternative media, and local entrepreneurs willing to stand against the political establishment. Professor and Royce welcome former professional football player and Minneapolis businessman Edwin Reed, who explains how entrepreneurship, faith, and self-governance shaped his life after sports. Reed recounts losing his vehicle-detailing business during the George Floyd unrest and accuses Minneapolis officials of abandoning business owners inside the affected area. He also alleges that outside agitators, politically connected nonprofits, and fraudulent grant programs exploited the destruction while independent businesses were left behind. The…
Professor Penn uses Tom’s question — “what can we do?” — to move from theory into political action, arguing that the future of the country will not be saved by national talking points, but by local community, precinct work, and citizens willing to rebuild power in their own backyard. He breaks down how BPOUs, state parties, Reagan-era Republicans, MAGA, and the old money wing of the GOP all sit inside a larger fight over who controls the Republican Party’s Overton window. The episode warns that fractured conservative groups, personal grudges, and purity fights could repeat the 1912 Republican split that handed power to Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Reserve, income tax, and the rise of globalism. Penn also responds to the Supreme…
Professor Penn opens with a hard look at fraud, government dependency, and the rule of law, arguing that corruption grows in proportion to the size of the systems people rely on. From Minneapolis fraud scandals to NATO spending, the military-industrial complex, logistics manipulation, and the rising cost of global trade, he frames America’s crisis as a battle between self-governance and managed dependency. The conversation moves through Trump’s pressure on NATO, Iran, Ukraine, and the deep state, questioning whether the country can escape a war economy that feeds on fear, debt, and permanent conflict. Penn then brings the issue home, comparing rule of law to logistics: when it works, society moves; when it breaks, contracts, courts,…
Professor Penn and Royce White mark America’s 250th anniversary by returning to Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence, and the unfinished moral contradictions at the heart of the founding. The conversation centers on Jefferson’s rejected anti-slavery passage, his warning that he preferred “dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery,” and the tension between America’s Christian principles and the compromises that allowed the country to be born. Penn and Royce connect slavery, abortion, the 14th Amendment, borders, feminism, identity politics, and the rule of law as recurring battles over ownership, freedom, responsibility, and truth. Royce argues that America’s founding promise was not comfort, dependency, or safety,…
Professor Penn opens by challenging America’s assumptions about time, progress, science, and material reality, arguing that the modern world has trained citizens to move in a straight line toward dependency, technocracy, and control. The conversation ties this spiritual and philosophical frame to the fight over election integrity, Supreme Court rulings, the SAVE Act, party money, and the machinery shaping the upcoming midterms. Penn warns that wedge issues like war, abortion, guns, and election fraud are increasingly treated as industries, keeping citizens emotionally trapped while political money and institutional power keep rewriting the rules. The episode moves into Minnesota politics, with Jacob Frey backing Angie Craig, Peggy…
Professor Penn and Royce White use America’s 250th anniversary to trace the country’s fight for self-governance from the founding, through the Civil War, and into today’s political realignment. The episode frames slavery, abortion, tariffs, banking, manufacturing, and empire as recurring battles over who controls life, labor, money, and national destiny. Penn argues that the Civil War was not only about slavery, but also about competing visions of political economy: agrarian free trade versus the American System of tariffs, national banking, and domestic infrastructure. Royce pushes the conversation into the present, warning that single-issue politics, whether rooted in abortion, race, taxes, or money, can become a form of…
A new documentary asks whether the republic can survive if it loses the very thing the Founders believed made self-governance possible? That is, virtue.
“The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760...
“The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” –John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1815) It is very doubtful that there should have been a successful American Revolution if the colonists had the opportunity to avail themselves of Twitter or TikTok. If Samuel Adams and John Hancock had a video podcast, I suspect we would all still be speaking the King’s English. This view runs counter to the populist instincts dominating political discourse today –and runs afoul of the utopianism of the technologists who promise us that ubiquitous access to information is the key to liberation.1 Surely, one might argue, if…Open
