The West faces mounting debt, bitter divisions over immigration, and growing social unrest. What can ordinary people do to strengthen the communities their children will inherit? On Episode 181 of The Backlash, Dave Reilly welcomes Gabriel Rench of Moscow, Idaho—entrepreneur, political activist, CrossPolitic co-host, Fight Laugh Feast Network co-founder, and deacon at King’s Cross—for a…
Is democracy merely malfunctioning—or is its present collapse the inevitable fulfillment of its own design? In Episode 175 of The Backlash, Dalton Clodfelter joins Dave Reilly to discuss his new book, King or Chaos: an eight-part work presenting a comprehensive philosophical case against democracy and a detailed vision of what could replace it. Drawing upon Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Spengler…
Years ago, Catholic publisher John Sharpe became the target of a campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center and activist Heidi Beirich. The consequences extended far beyond hostile headlines, drawing John into a prolonged struggle involving his livelihood, his reputation, and the federal government. Now, the woman who helped target him is herself facing federal wire-fraud charges…
G.K. Chesterton saw the crisis of the modern world coming—and offered an alternative rooted in faith, family, property, community, and common sense. On Episode 171 of The Backlash, Dave Reilly is joined by Dale Ahlquist, president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and one of the world’s leading authorities on the life and work of the great Catholic writer. They discuss Chesterton’s…
Episode 164 of The Backlash features @LaNativePatriot, a Native American conservative influencer and self-described Christian American Supremacist with more than 230,000 followers. As co-creator of The Patriots Pray and a board member of Save Native Souls, he advocates preserving Native American names, imagery, history, and identity as essential parts of the broader American inheritance. In this…
What happened to the American nationalist tradition—and how did globalism become the dominant ideology of the modern political order? In this episode of The Backlash, Dave is joined by independent scholar, novelist, and longtime dissident commentator Thomas777 for a sweeping examination of American nationalism, political power, and the hidden forces that shaped the country we inhabit today…
