Roots, Rights and Reason with Lee Smith
America's Future presents: Roots, Rights and Reason with Lee Smith cuts through the noise to reclaim the truth of America’s foundations. Bestselling author and investigative journalist Lee Smith dives deep every week into the ideas that built the United States—natural rights, liberty, the Constitution, and moral order. With top guests and sharp analysis, Lee exposes the forces threatening America’s future and explores how we can stand firm in truth and reason.
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The Roots Rights & Reason Show - America's Future
Episodes
54 episodes
Manufacturing Movements: Inside Political Protest
Featuring Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand and one of the nation’s leading experts on organized demonstrations and advocacy campaigns, this episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at the mechanics of modern political protest. Drawing on ...
The Scientific Case for Covid's Lab Origin
Featuring physician-scientist Dr. Steven Quay, author of the newly released book The Code as Witness, this episode explores the growing body of scientific evidence surrounding the origins of COVID-19. In conversation with Lee Smith, Dr...
Is Cuba's Communist Regime Finally Collapsing?
Episode Fifty-Two: Is Cuba’s Communist Regime Finally Collapsing? Lee Smith and returning guest J. Michael Waller, Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy and author of Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went f...
Mass Migration and the Crisis of the West
In Episode Fifty-One of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes political philosopher and writer Nathan Pinkoski for a timely discussion titled Mass Migration and the Crisis of the West. The conversation examines t...
AI in Education
Lee Smith welcomes career educator and philosopher Jake Tawney for a thought-provoking discussion on one of the most consequential issues facing classrooms today: the rise of artificial intelligence in education. In Episode Fifty of Roots, ...
What Happened To Harvard? with Harvey Mansfield
Lee Smith welcomes renowned political philosopher, Harvard professor, and author Harvey Mansfield for a candid conversation about the decline of one of America’s most influential institutions. Drawing from his latest book, Where Harva...
Killed To Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry
In Episode Forty-Eight of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and New York Times bestselling author Jan Jekielek for a sobering discussion about one of the most disturbing h...
No Liberty to Libel: Rethinking Free Speech In America
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith welcomes Carson Holloway, Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and author of No Liberty to Libel: The Constitutional Case Agains...
The Classical Roots of Leadership
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith welcomes C. L. Max Nikias for a compelling conversation on leadership, resilience, and the enduring wisdom of the classical world. Drawing from the works of Homer and Xenophon, D...
The Western Way of War
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith welcomes historian Victor Davis Hanson for a clear and grounded look at what defines the “Western way of war” and how it is shaping modern conflict. Hanson explains that, at its ...
The Multipolar Shift: Who Controls The World Next?
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith welcomes returning guest J. Michael Waller for a timely discussion on the concept of multipolarity and its growing influence in global affairs.Smith and Waller examine com...
The Birthright Citizenship Debate
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith welcomes renowned legal scholar Richard A. Epstein for a timely and thought-provoking examination of birthright citizenship and the original meaning of the 14th Amendment. Drawing on deca...
Taxation and Tyranny
Lee Smith welcomes Constitutional Attorney KrisAnne Hall to examine the original constitutional framework of taxation and how far the United States has departed from the Founders’ design. Drawing on founding-era documents and early American his...
Mathematics and the Formation of the American Mind
Lee Smith welcomes educator and author Jake Tawney to examine the true nature of mathematics and its role in shaping both the individual mind and the American founding. Challenging the modern view of math as mere computation, Tawney argues that...
The Information State and the War for Truth
Episode Forty: The Information State and the War for TruthIn this focused discussion, Lee Smith sits down with writer Jacob Siegel to examine what information warfare actually is and how it has evolved from a tool of foreign confl...
Immigration and The Defense of the American Nation
Episode Thirty-Nine: Immigration and the Defense of the American NationIn this focused discussion, Lee Smith welcomes attorney Erielle Azerrad to examine the intersection of immigration law, national security, an...
The Lost Art of Argument
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith speaks with Professor Gregory Roper about why the ability to argue well is essential to the survival of a constitutional republic. Drawing on classical rhetoric and the anc...
The Western Hemisphere and American Grand Strategy
Lee Smith discusses with Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe the significance of grand strategy and its influence on American foreign policy. Rahe describes grand strategy as seeing the larger picture: understanding what the country needs and...
Destabilizing America By Design
Destabilizing America By DesignIn Episode Thirty-Six of Roots, Rights & Reason, Lee Smith speaks with Kyle Shideler, Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about t...
The Strategy of Deterrence: Preventing War in a Dangerous World
The Strategy of Deterrence: Preventing War in a Dangerous WorldIn this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with General Charles A. Flynn, USA (Ret.), former Commanding General of U.S. Army P...
Iran, China, and The Global Chessboard
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host April Moss interviews Lee Smith on the escalating tensions with Iran and the broader geopolitical implications for the United States. As military assets move into the Middle East and ...
Lincoln and the Fate of Liberty: When Popular Government Nearly Fell
As America marks the 217th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason examines why Lincoln should be understood as a world historical leader. Host Lee Smith speaks with author Lee Harris about how Lincoln r...
The Roots of the Republic: Greece, Rome, and the Birth of American Liberty
The Roots of the Republic: Greece, Rome, and the Birth of American Liberty In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with Harvard Professor James Hankins about the civilizational roots of t...
Capitalism Under Siege: Why Socialism Threatens Liberty
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with Professor C. Bradley Thompson, political philosopher at Clemson University and Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism, about the...
China, Russia, and the Americas: The Monroe Doctrine Restored
In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with J. Michael Waller, Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy, about the return of the Monroe Doctrine and America’s renewed focus on hemisphe...