Recent Episodes
Who Can Declare War? (Replay)
This episode is a replay of the episode posted on July 1, 2025: Episode 48: Who Can Declare War? Who has the constitutional authority to declare war: the President or Congress? Mark DeLuzio takes on a heated question that often gets filtered through party loyalty, current events, and political talking points. Rather than arguing from…
Are you the Useful Idiot the Founders Warned Us About?
What if the greatest threat to liberty isn’t an external enemy—but blind loyalty at home? In this episode, “Are You the Useful Idiot the Founders Warned Us About?”, we explore a powerful warning from early American thinkers about the dangers of political faction and partisan loyalty. Long before modern political polarization, leaders like Noah Webster,…
A Republic If You Can Keep It: The Case for Constitutional Literacy
If Americans expect to remain both free and self-governing, they must understand the document that secures their liberty. The Constitution is not self-enforcing. It depends on an informed and engaged citizenry.
From Gold to the Printing Press – How Average Americans were Betrayed
In this episode, we trace the arc of American money – from Thomas Jefferson’s warnings about paper currency… to the classical gold standard… to Franklin Roosevelt criminalizing gold ownership… to Bretton Woods… to Nixon closing the gold window… and finally to the modern era of unconstrained, monetary expansion and unconstitutional spending.
Yes, Minneapolis is an Insurrection
Mark DeLuzio explains what the term “insurrection” means in the US Constitution and shows that the illegal protests in Minneapolis are, in fact, an insurrection. He also explains the Insurrection Act and the powers it bestows on the President.