American Thinker Takeaways, November 2, 2025: Charles Murray interview

This is a special edition of the American Thinker Takeaways podcast. I had the opportunity to interview Professor Charles Murray about his new book, Taking Religion Seriously, about his intellectual journey to faith.

Today's topics are a little insight into some of the people on food stamps and Governor Tim Walz's deeply dishonest accounting; Karine Jean Pierre's victim-centric mindset and the dirty little anti-democratic secret her interviewer gave away; and the serious problem with elected politicians who were not born in America and have roots in cultures utterly alien to our own.

Today's topics are scary ideas from Google's AI (and their intersection with the climate changista and environmentalist worldview), Europe's problematic African and Middle Eastern immigrants (and the coming purification), how one leftist member of the media defines "racism" to attack Timothy Mellon (we're all racists now), and the demise of Napoleon's Army.

Today's topics are what Obamacare has done to ERs, the drop in fuel prices, WaPo journalists who dare not speak "their" truth, what Google AI is alleged to have done to Robby Starbuck, and the fall of John Cleese, the avatar for all bad things from the "intellectual" left.

Today's topics are the leftist obsession with animal costumes (and what Biblical proscription I think it violates); the antisemitic madness in England and the general problem of unlimited, mostly Islamic, immigration to Europe, the Pope's obsession with immigrants over his own flock; and, lastly, Zohran Mandami's open embrace of the same pro-Islamic ideas that Barack Obama and his supporters are believed still to be hiding.

This episode looks at the peace plan in Gaza, Kamala Harris's ignorance (whether willful or natural), dhimmitude in America's prison system, the slaughter of Christians in Africa, the Blue state and city insurrection when it comes to illegal immigration, Jack Smith's serious misstatements about national security law, and the return to gender sanity.

Sizing up the proposed Trump peace plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The West's neo-paganism is worse than the original.

In this, the last podcast of 2024, I consider my movement to "ReclaimTheRainbow" for everyone, not just the LGBTQ+ crowd; the Biden military's crazed focus on gender and climate change rather than national defense;* Islamified Europe; and the necessity of Biden's presidency, along with my hope for the New Year.   *This is the Naval War College video underlying my look at Biden's military: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEBdWjN9V_E

A look at the eight factors that make American healthcare so expensive—and why socializing our medical care will not make things better.