China warns the US that bad things will happen if Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan. Will the US back down?… Portland public schools push leftist woke ideas on students. Do parents in Portland know this?

The goal of parenting is to make an independent, responsible adult, not to shower your child with love or even to be loved by your children… Dennis talks to Steven Mosher, president of Population Research Institute and a leading authority on China. His new book is The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics.

Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, declares her pronouns at a discussion about abortion “rights”… A Washington Post columnist is distraught that his daughter plays with a white doll. Who are the racists, again?… Another Washington Post writer couldn’t wait to vaccinate her nine-month baby.

Are you required to be as faithful to the person with whom you are steadily dating as you would be to a spouse? Dennis has thoughts. So do callers.

New Zealand tried to hide from Covid. But Covid has found it. Mrs. Single Source of Truth looks foolish again… Medical schools have gone woke. New doctors now must learn about “intersectionality” and “privilege” like they learn about anatomy… The enemy of the Left is truth.

What questions are most likely to elicit wisdom from someone? Dennis recalls his yeshiva (Jewish day school) education.

Who do we want to join the military? It seems like we want everyone but aggressive young men. What kind of military are we going to get with this attitude… Dennis talks to fellow talk show and founder of Turning Point, USA, Charlie Kirk. His new book is The College Scam: How America’s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America’s Youth.

A Maryland school district instructs its teachers to affirm their students “gender ideation.” If parents don’t approve, teachers are encouraged to lie to them. This is child abuse… Dennis’s fellow yeshiva students learned more about wisdom as 10-year-olds than Harvard grads do today…

The US Armed Forces are, like police departments, becoming depopulated. Who is to blame? The brass and the Joint Chiefs blame everybody but themselves, their failures and their woke policies… The efforts of environmentalists to denude the world of fossil fuel energy is more dangerous to the future of civilization than any threat from global warming.

Religious people are dismissed because they have “blind faith.” But there is no faith as blind as that of secular people. Their faith the world is going to burn up from carbon emissions in 10, 20 or 50 years has no religious parallel… Many now have blind faith in the Covid vaccines even though there is more and more evidence that they either don’t work or are unnecessary or even potentially harmful for most people… Dennis talks to Amity Shlaes, Chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and author of Coolidge. She presents two of this week’s three PragerU videos on The Jazz Age Presidents: Harding and Coolidge. The third video is Hoover (presented by Kenneth Whyte).

Dennis is in Miami for the week. Miami is known this time of year for its oppressive heat and humidity, but it’s very livable now. Why? The answer is energy supplied by fossil fuel… The National Education Convention confirms all of one’s worst fears about teachers unions: they are fully woke and fully an appendage of the Democratic Party.

Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: does the Webb space telescope argue for or against the existence of God.