The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor

Dr. Kevin Roberts and co-host Larry O’Connor break down Pope Leo XIV’s new AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas—a modern echo of Rerum Novarum—that demands AI serve human dignity, protect work, and uphold subsidiarity. They examine America’s race against China to lead in AI, the surge of data centers and energy needs, and why ethical guardrails beat both heavy regulation and unchecked transhumanism. Drawi...

The global persecution of Christians is one of today’s most underreported human rights crises. Thousands killed in Nigeria in 2026 alone, with millions facing violence and repression in China, North Korea, and the Middle East. Why the media silence and elite discomfort with acknowledging the plight of Christians? Dr. Kevin Roberts and co-host Larry O’Connor discuss anti-religious bias, totalitarian threats, and America&...

Dr. Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor confront America’s rising political violence. From multiple assassination attempts on President Trump and the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk to the recent attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, they examine how left-wing rhetoric and media demonization are fueling real-world threats.

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Once a legitimate civil rights organization, the SPLC was co-opted by radicals who used media and academia to build fake authority. They branded conservatives like Dr. Kevin Roberts, religious groups, school choice advocates, and everyday Americans as hate groups to silence debate. Finding that there wasn’t enough hate to go around, the SPLC is alleged to have begun manufacturing the extremism they claimed to fight. Dr. Kevin...

Step inside the National Archives Rotunda, home of the Charters of Freedom, during America’s 250th anniversary. We speak with National Archivist Jim Amburn about preserving the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Then at the Library of Congress with Kevin Butterfield, we examine Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and Jefferson’s copy of The Federalist Papers.

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Congress has a historic opportunity to pass another comprehensive reconciliation bill and demonstrate to the American people what a unified conservative majority can achieve heading into the midterms. From fully funding ICE and CBP for years to come, to aggressively slashing waste, fraud, and abuse, this process—which only requires 51 votes in the Senate—is the Right’s best chance to build on the successes of the ...

Who gets to be an American? This week, Dr. Kevin Roberts and co-host Larry O'Connor break down one of the most important debates in America today: birthright citizenship.

With President Trump’s executive order challenging automatic citizenship for children born to non-citizens now before the Supreme Court, they explore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment, the rapid rise of birth tourism, its serious national security im...

In this episode of The Next Frontier, I'm walking into two of America's most important cultural institutions—The Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress. One was built for performance, the other for preservation. I'm here asking a simple question: What does it take to keep a cultural inheritance alive?

If we want great art to remain part of American life, we can't treat institutions like scenery: useful only when they flatt...

The American liberal today no longer represents what liberalism once stood for. Rather than the classical understanding of liberalism—guided by Enlightenment philosophy and focused on limited government and individual freedom—the modern American liberal movement is intellectually totalitarian.

Dr. Roberts recently made this case at Yale University, arguing that liberalism has failed. In this episode, he and his co-host,...

The Heritage Foundation’s highly anticipated 2026 Index of Economic Freedom is finally here! The diagnosis? The American economy is in resurgence, but we have a lot of room for improvement. How does America’s economy stack up against the rest of the world and what do we need to change to move ourselves up in the global economic freedom rankings?

Dr. Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor discuss!

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Has the Republican Party irretrievably lost its way? Kevin Roberts traveled to the U.K. to join the Cambridge Union for a debate on whether the Republican party has lost its way. Tracing the roots of the Republican Party through to today’s conservative stances on religious liberty, national security, immigration, and more, Kevin Roberts argued that the Republican Party has never been truer to its roots than now.

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Throughout Biden’s presidency, our military was neglected and underfunded. Since Trump came in office just over a year ago, improvements have already been made to our leadership, systems, investments, and morale, but we know that climbing out from under that former degradation and humiliation of our troops takes time.

The Heritage Foundation hopes to build our troops back up through policy-focused initiatives. The military ind...

America can no longer afford to move at the speed of bureaucracy while our adversaries move at the speed of war. To lead in the modern arms race, America must draw on our heritage of innovation before our adversaries outpace us. Kevin Roberts headed to Utah to speak with Andy Yakulis about how his drone company is rethinking military technology. Kevin Roberts is the president of The Heritage Foundation. Andy Yakulis is the CEO and ...

To ignore our borders is to surrender our future. To secure them is to rebuild our nation's strength.

America’s borders protect our sovereignty and are our safety. Under the previous administration, drugs, human trafficking, and a complete breakdown of the rule threatened not just our borders but our entire nation. Now, thanks to the Trump administration, safety and security has returned to our borders and to ou...

Escalating events in Minneapolis have led to tragic results, but the core issues at stake—the rule of law, public safety, federal government jurisdiction—are clear. Larry O’Connor and Kevin Roberts discuss how Minneapolis today is emblematic of larger cultural issues prevalent in America, and how the administration's response in Minnesota will have implications across the nation.

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Declining families and a disconnected society put America’s future at risk. In this episode of The Kevin Roberts Show, Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor break down Heritage’s new family policy paper, highlighting the importance of strong, healthy families at the heart of a free and prosperous nation.

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As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday this year, Heritage is focused on what is needed to ensure America thrives for the next 250 years. 

Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor discuss the Four Cornerstones—family, dignity of work, national security, and citizenship—that will guide Heritage policy goals for 2026 and years to come.  

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What does an America First national security policy look like in practice? Kevin Roberts and Larry O’Connor reflect on American national security history—from Yorktown, to 9/11, to the Ukraine War—to define America First national security policy. How can the U.S. navigate foreign conflicts with the lens of prioritizing Americans’ safety, starting with transparency in military spending?

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