What Keeps You Up at Night?
Editorial board member Lynn Schmidt will host conversations about the big issues and worries facing America — the things keeping her guests up at night. Schmidt wants to begin conversations about how we can begin solving those issues. Guests will include experts and politicians from across the country, political spectrum and generations, including presidential candidates, authors, former Congress members and more. Schmidt is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board.
Episodes
Political scientist and author of "The Rural Voter. The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" Nicholas Jacobs joins Lynn Schmidt for some political wonkery. They discuss the misconceptions of rural voters and why we should all work to overcome the "Us versus Them" mentality.
Futurist Ari Wallach talks about his PBS docuseries "A Brief History of the Future" and how innovators and entrepreneurs are addressing the four big megatrends facing all of us.
Co-founder and president of the San Francisco Briones Society Jay Donde and Lynn Schmidt talk about the practical ways principled conservatives can engage in progressive enclaves.
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The Washington Post's national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf talks with Lynn Schmidt about his new book "Finish What We Started. The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy" and the ways the radicalized MAGA movement has transformed Republican Party politics from the ground up.
Naomi Petel Adler and Mirjam Heutlink, survivors of Oct. 7, share their stories of enduring Hamas' terrorist attacks of their homes on Kibbutz Nahal Oz and why Hamas is responsible for the Palestinian humanitarian crisis.
Dr. Susan Polan talks with Lynn Schmidt about the frightening rise of measles outbreaks in the U.S. and the need to push back on vaccine misinformation.
Brian Klaas, author of Fluke. Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters" talks with Lynn Schmidt about how apparently insignificant choices of people we will never meet can seal our own fates and why it can benefit all of us if we can give up our illusion of control.
Joplin Missouri's Jared Young tells Lynn Schmidt why he has entered the race of the U.S. Senate as an independent, whether Missouri is ready to elect and independent candidate, and why he would have voted yes on the U.S. Senate's national sec...
Author and speaker Q. Moore is an inspiration. Q. sits down with Lynn Schmidt to discuss his new book "F My Dad. Overcoming the Anger, Rage, and Pain of being Fatherless."
The goal of the book and the discussion is to help those who struggle with...
Harlan Cohen is a bestselling author and journalist who has visited over 500 high school and college campuses. He is also a social media influencer with over 1 million followers. Harlan sits down and talks with Lynn Schmidt about how to help your teens and yound adults cope with rejection, whether it is regarding college accepta...
Behavioral scientist and author Leidy Klotz sits down and talks with Lynn Schmidt about his book "Subtract. The Untapped Science of Less." In a world of constantly adding things and commitments to our lives, subtracting might be the way to solve problems and find more joy.
Israel’s Consul General to South Florida Maor Elbaz-Starinsky sits down with Lynn Schmidt to discuss Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the rise of antisemitism, and the desire for living in peace.
Veteran political reporter and author of his forthcoming book "The Lie Detectives.
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Principles First founder Heath Mayo joins Lynn Schmidt to discuss Principles First and the upcoming Principles First Summit in Washington D.C.. Principles First is the grassroots movement of people who share a love of American democracy and concern for the direction of conservative leadership. Mayo describes how principles define who we are, what we believe in, and the type of country we’ll become. That’s why ...
The director of Education of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum discusses the alarming rise in antisemitism in this country, especially among college students, and strategies people of all ages can use when confronting this hatred. Helen Turner joins podcast host Lynn Schmidt, columnist and St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board member.
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...Alita Harmon, Social Work National Program Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) shares stories, hope, and resources for veterans and their families, especially during this holiday season.
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Yuval Levin talks with Lynn Schmidt, columnist and Editorial Board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about our social institutions, the lost trust in them, and how we as individuals owe it to each other to hold each other accountable and begin the work of rebuilding them. Levin teaches us that it is “A Time to Build. From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to our Institution...
Geoff Kabaservice, author and the vice president of political studies at the Niskanen Center, a Washington DC think tank, discusses the loss of Republican Party moderates, especially in Congress, and what that means for the GOP and the country. Lynn Schmidt, columnist and St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board member, hosts the podcast.
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Economist Melissa Kearney discusses her new book 'The Two Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind" with host Lynn Schmidt, a columnist and St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board member, They also talk about why society needs to work to strengthen families and increase rates of marriage, for our children’s sake as well as the sake of our communities.
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The co-founder of Blue Star Families, Kathy Roth-Douquet, talks about ways people can support military families and begin to turn around the U.S. military’s record low recruitment. Host Lynn Schmidt is a columnist and St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board member.
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