My guest today is Ian Fletcher who is one of the leading academic critics of free trade in the United States today. Ian is on the advisory board of the Coalition for a Prosperous America and is the author or co-author of many books including Free Trade Doesn’t Work, The Conservative Case against Free Trade, and most recently Industrial Policy for the United States.

https://prosperousamerica.org/advisory-board/ian-fletcher/ https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B003BDMOEI

We discuss among other things:

- Who is going to be in charge of trade and industrial policy in Trump 2.0

- What the impact of Trump trade policy on Australia is likely to be

- What trade and industrial policy means for the USD and for currencies

- How industrial policy can be done poorly and how to avoid some of the downsides

- What Australia's trade policy should be like going forward - How to determine what goods you need to produce locally and which (if any) you can be comfortable importing

And much more

My guest today is Aimee Terese a well-known online political and social commentator x.com/aimeeterese .

Aimee is Australian although she is not particularly well known in her homeland. However, she does have a prolific following on X and is influential in online right circles in the United States and elsewhere.

Today we discuss:

• How she sees herself and how her political views evolved
• If X didn't exist what she would do
• The interaction between the online right and the mainstream media and the general public
• Sex differences and how they play out in politics
• Censorship, cancellation and the free press
• Whether many humans actually want truth
• Her views on religion

And much more.

Today I speak with Avik Roy who is a US conservative commentator, activist and founder of the foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity https://freopp.org/team/the-freopp-founders-avik-roy/

He has particular expertise in health care reform and has advised Mitt Romney and other Republican Presidential candidates in this area.

He has also been a prominent critic of the national conservative movement in the United States and was instrumental in pulling together something call "The Freedom Conservative Statement of Principles" found here: https://www.freedomconservatism.org/p/freedom-conservatism-a-statement

We talk briefly about health care in the United States, how concerns about Obamacare did not feature as much in the most recent Presidential election as they have in the past, and his view about what the appointments of RFK Jr and Jay Battachaya mean.

We then get in to national conservative v freedom conservative debate. His views on JD Vance, Trump and some of the key areas such as trade, foreign policy and immigration, where NatCons and his freedom cons have different approaches, and whether this is all just a rehash of what Disraeli and Gladstone were debating in the 19th Century.

Hope you enjoy.