A growing number of people in America under the age of 40, and throughout the world, now believe that socialism is a viable political, economic, and social model. This is especially apparent when comparing the platforms of the platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties.

In this episode Brian converses with Chris Talgo, co-author of Socialism at a Glance. Chris is senior editor at The Heartland Institute and a research fellow for Heartland's Socialism Research Center. He is fully engaged in the ongoing societal debate concerning whether or not the USA should replace free-market capitalism with socialism.

Donald Kendal joined The Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the anti-humanist strain of thought that is pervasive in the modern environmentalist movement. Are climate alarmists motivated by a desire to avert global warming or are they more concerned with unconstrained population growth and human progress?

The other day, Donald Kendal, director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute, joined The Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the European Union's new ESG scheme. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive would mandate a whole host of ESG-like guidelines on businesses and industries in the EU. More importantly, because of the way the legislation was crafted, businesses, both large and small, here in the United States would be subject to the CSDDD mandates, too. Have a listen.