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The Independent with Scott Atlas
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Dr. Scott Atlas is a world-renowned expert in health care policy, frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials, and author of A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America. He investigates the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic and civil liberty issues related to health policy. The Independent features Dr. Atlas in conversation with high profile, news-making guests around public health policy, science, civil liberties, censorship and free speech, higher education, the media, and more.
November 19, 2024
In the second part of this two part episode, Scott welcomes back Michael Shellenberger, bestselling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. As an award-winning investigative journalist, he has broken major stories in crime and drug policy, homelessness, climate change, and most recently exposing the role of government and intelligence agencies in collusion with Big Tech censorship or Americans.
November 11, 2024
In this episode, Scott welcomes Michael Shellenberger, bestselling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. As an award-winning investigative journalist, he has broken major stories in crime and drug policy, homelessness, climate change, and most recently exposing the role of government and intelligence agencies in collusion with Big Tech censorship or Americans. They have a conversation about those issues and particularly how America's media is functioning in their essential role in a free society.
October 23, 2024
In the second part of this two part episode, Scott welcomes H. R. McMaster, former Trump administration National Security Advisor to the show. They have a conversation about several of today's hotspots in the world including ongoing military battles arising under the Biden Administration and how our elected leaders are functioning to keep us safe.
October 9, 2024
In this episode Scott welcomes former Trump administration National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster. H.R. is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover institution and also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute, and he also lectures at Stanford's business school. They have a conversation about several of today's hotspots in the world including ongoing military battles arising under the Biden Administration and how our elected leaders are functioning to keep us safe.
September 24, 2024
In the second part of this two part interview, Scott welcomes back to the show Victor Davis Hanson, world renowned scholar of classics and military history. They discuss the current state of foreign affairs and our politicians’ refusal to learn from history.
September 10, 2024
In this episode, Scott welcomes back to the show Victor Davis Hanson, world renowned scholar of classics and military history. Victor is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His latest two books are The Dying Citizen and The End of Everything. They discuss immigration, patriotism, nationalism, and the clash of cultures and values in America today.
August 27, 2024
In this second part of his two part interview, Dr. Atlas interviews Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Formerly, he was executive director and senior lecturer at Georgetown's Center for the Constitution. He's written several books, including the forthcoming Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites. They have a conversation about several of the most controversial issues in law and society, including the ideological invasion at our law schools, judicial activism, free speech, and more.
August 14, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Formerly, he was executive director and senior lecturer at Georgetown's Center for the Constitution. He's written several books, including the forthcoming Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites. And in 2020, he wrote Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court. They have a conversation about several of the most controversial issues in law and society, many of which are playing out every day in the United States.
July 30, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews May Mailman, director of Independent Women's Law Center. May spent four years as a White House legal adviser to President Donald Trump where she advised on a wide range of policies and recently served as the Deputy Solicitor General for the state of Ohio. She is also one of the star Rising Leaders of the Global Liberty Institute. They discuss May's critical work on the fight to protect women's rights, including privacy, and ultimately the legal relevance of biological sex in the United States.
June 25, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews Aaron Sibarium, one of the star journalists representing a new group of young reporters committed to restoring the critical role of true investigative reporting. At the Washington Free Beacon, he's broken several critical stories, including exposing academic fraud and malfeasance at our elite universities. He graduated from Yale University where he was the opinion editor of the Yale Daily News. They discuss the state of America's journalism today, and Aaron’s journey and motivation in reporting truth.
May 30, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews Harmeet Dhillon, a nationally recognized attorney whose focus is employment law, First Amendment rights, election law and commercial litigation. She is a trial lawyer and the managing partner at Dhillon Law Group in San Francisco. She's also CEO and founder of the Center for American Liberty and the co-chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association. They have a wide-ranging conversation about key issues like free speech, the current state of our system of justice and its politicization, and separation of powers essential to our government's function.
May 2, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews physician Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and founder of "Do No Harm". Dr. Goldfarb argues that American healthcare is being destroyed as political ideology increasingly supplants excellence in admission and training of medical students, as well as in medical care itself. They have an important conversation about how DEI, racial preferences, and woke politics in medical schools and medical care threaten the health and future of America.
April 12, 2024
Dr. Atlas interviews Dinesh D'Souza, bestselling author, award winning filmmaker, and investigative political commentator. D'souza served in the Reagan White House, was President of King's College, and is the author of many books including Illiberal Education, Letters to a Young Conservative, and United States of Socialism. His films include 2000 Mules, and America: Imagine a World Without Her. They discuss freedom in America, ongoing attacks on the ideals upon which the nation was founded, and the resulting division and lack of trust in institutions that threaten the very essence of the nation.
March 29, 2024
In this episode Dr. Atlas interviews Alex Epstein, bestselling author and philosopher. He is the author of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels", arguing that human flourishing and freedom itself require that humanity use more fossil fuels, not less. His most recent book is "Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less". They have a conversation about energy policy, its tradeoffs, and its moral basis, including required energy conversion, mandated electric vehicles, and other policies that have become dogmas to progressive policymakers and many citizens, to a point where even questioning these ideas provokes cancellation and attack.
March 20, 2024
Clip highlights from the first year of the podcast. Join us as we continue to seek clarity and truth!
