Guest Ben Weingarten joins host Garrett Snedeker to document how public and private actors (government, academia, media, and tech) have acted to curtail our natural right to speak freely in a concerted effort that Weingarten calls “The Censorship Industrial Complex.” They discuss the recent Supreme Court decision in Murthy v. Missouri as well as how the history of the Censorship Industrial Complex stretches back to the late 1940s.

For more information about the Censorship Industrial Complex, check out Weingarten’s recent article “Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the Rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex,” and his statement presented to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business: “Under the Microscope: Examining the Censorship-Industrial Complex and its Impact on American Small Businesses.”

Benjamin Weingarten is Editor at Large at RealClearInvestigations, a Senior Contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek and The Epoch Times, and a Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is author of American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (Bombardier, 2020), and a 2019 recipient of TFAS’ Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, under which he covered the Trump administration’s China policy. Ben has written for The American Mind, City Journal, The New York Post, and numerous other publications. He co-hosts the Edmund Burke Foundation’s “NatCon Squad” podcast. Ben has appeared on “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” “The Ingraham Angle,” and “The Ben Shapiro Show,” among many other programs. He is founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media, a conservative media consulting company. Ben is a 2010 graduate of Columbia University.

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