Ideas Have Consequences With Larry Alex Taunton
Larry Alex Taunton is your man in the field. Where some choose to hide in their safe spaces, Larry rides out to face the issues of our time head on. No sugar coating and no PC bulls*t here. As a staunch Christian conservative, Larry picks apart just about any topic sharing his world traveling experience along the way.
Episodes
I went to Mexico to investigate how cartels are profiting from illegal immigration—and sent an operative undercover in Mexico City to dig even deeper.
What he was allegedly offered stunned me: a “real” U.S. visa in just 3 days.
Visas. Coyotes. Narco tunnels. This is what we found.
Why is Islam gaining ground in the West?
I joined @SethGruberShow to discuss how the West’s abandonment of Christianity has created a cultural vacuum—and why Islam is increasingly positioned to fill it.
We also get into Dawkins, Hitchens, Oxford, atheism, and the future of the West.
I haven’t been very active on X lately, but when I did pop in, I saw @DineshDSouza having a go at John Calvin. So today, I gave him an opportunity to make peace with Calvin—and perhaps even the Calvinists.
Dr. Jay Smith on Islam’s Origins: Sources, Mecca, Muhammad, and the Quran Larry interviews Dr. Jay Smith, a Christian Islamicist and polemicist, who presents a visual, source-based critique of Islam’s origins focused on four areas: the reliability and timing of Islamic sources, the historical plausibility of Mecca, early evidence for Muhammad, and the compilation and preservation claims of the Quran. Smith argues that...
Eric Metaxas interviews Larry Taunton about a viral Oxford Union debate on the motion “the West should be suspicious of Islam,” featuring Lawrence Fox and Tommy Robinson. Taunton explains he helped Fox prepare by treating the event as performance, recounts attempted cancellation pressure from the Bishop of Oxford, police, media, and a hostile crowd, and says the Union delayed releasing video. They discuss a Muslim stu...
1 in 3 Democrats now identify as Democratic Socialists.
What does that actually mean?
Larry Alex Taunton examines the DSA's growing momentum, its national organizing efforts, and the policies it wants to pursue ahead of 2028.
Should the West Be Suspicious of Islam?
In this episode, Today we’ll break down Laurence Fox's appearance at the Oxford Union, where a debate on whether the West should be suspicious of Islam. How did the debate open? With a threat directed at those arguing against Islam
Is USAID humanitarian aid—or something much bigger?
In this episode, we explore why Elon Musk targeted USAID through DOGE, the spending controversies, covert operations claims, and what happened during a visit to USAID Cairo.
Should the Bible be taught in public schools?
In this episode of Ideas Have Consequences, Larry Alex Taunton examines the Texas State Board of Education's decision to include the Bible in the K–12 curriculum—and argues that the debate is about far more than religion.
Larry contends that the Bible is the "prequel" to Western civilization. Without ...
Why were concerns about Britain's grooming gang scandal ignored for so long?
This isn't just a conversation about current events. It's a discussion about free speech, faith, cultural decline, and the ideas shaping the future of the West.
For decades, John Lennox has been one of Christianity's most respected voices in the worlds of science and academia.
In this conversation from Oxford, we discuss his new autobiography, the influence of C.S. Lewis, the challenges of living openly as a Christian in elite academic circles, and the experiences that shaped his life and faith.
Larry Alex Taunton interviews Eric Metaxas about his new book, “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World,” and why he argues the American Revolution was uniquely grounded in biblical ideas of self-government, tracing its precedent to the Sinai Covenant and its development through the Reformation and colonial covenant theology. Eric contrasts America’s God-centered view of liberty wi...
In this episode, Larry Taunton shares the remarkable story of a Nigerian bishop, a massive freedom march in London, and what felt like a decade’s worth of prayers finally being answered. For years, Christians in Nigeria have endured unimaginable persecution — churches burned, pastors murdered, families displaced, and entire communities living under the constant threat of extremist violence. Yet much of the Western world...
Host Larry Alex Taunton sits down with conservative reporter Dustin Grage to discuss why Minnesota has become a political and cultural flashpoint in America. The conversation explores allegations of corruption, Medicaid and NGO-related fraud, the influence of identity politics, the rise of the so-called “Red-Green Alliance,” and concerns surrounding political power, ideology, and immigration in Minnesota. Dustin also sh...
I sat down with @anniefreyshow to discuss feminism, “Karen” culture, weak men, fatherlessness, and the deeper spiritual battle shaping the West.
What if much of our cultural chaos is rooted in a crisis of identity, purpose, and faith?
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