Know Why Podcast

Returning Know Why guest Richard Lim talks to Liberty about his recently published book, Refusing a Crown: How George Washington Changed the World. Listen for a peek into the contents, including details about Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, "The Most Dangerous Letter in American History," Washington's lesser known farewell address, and more.

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Young adults are in a dating recession, even though a new report reveals that the majority of young adults would like to be married someday. Dr. Andrea Gurney is helping to lead a new initiative—the Dating Education Action Network—to help multidisciplinary experts create blueprints and practical pathways for young adults seeking to enter relationships.

Dr. Gurney is a licensed clinical psycho...

Do you know why you're here? What you believe about human origins and purpose will become more salient than ever as AI tools become more ubiquitous.

Amid scary predictions about potential human extinction due to AI, others are talking about the flip side—the "utopian" future than awaits humanity if we will just embrace and accelerate superintelligence. That was the topic of a recent Interesting Times podcast featuring philoso...

For years, surveys have showed the decline of religion and the rise of the "nones." Much has been said about America becoming a more secular nation. Is that actually true? Co-author of the book The Death of Religion? Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith with historian Thomas Kidd, Dr. Byron Johnson is on the Know Why Podcast this week with the whole story. A leading researcher on religion and the effect of faith on individua...

Election Day is November 3, but now is the time to prepare if you want to be an informed voter.

While federal level races tend to get all the attention, state and local level positions, as well as propositions on your ballot, will tangibly impact what life is like in your state and your local community.

Start researching now so that you're not surprised on Election Day. When it comes to state and local level races, one vote really ...

In recent weeks we’ve seen headlines about the “Hugging Face attack,” where AI agents from OpenAI reportedly escaped their digital testing environment, went rogue online, and hacked into a competitor AI company to steal data. As more investigative reports are released, it looks as if the scale and number of such attacks is even higher than originally reported. The reports also reveal something else that seems a bi...

Why doesn’t Gen Z trust anyone?

In this episode, Liberty talks about some statistics showing that Gen Z is the least trusting generation, and offers theories as to why the public trust of an entire generation was destroyed, and lists many of the consequences for our society.

A free country can’t function without some level of mutual trust. What will it take to rebuild trust in t...

Last week on the Know Why Podcast, you heard from Dr. George Barna about how few teens—including from Christian families—have a biblical worldview today.

This week's episode is all about addressing that problem. Andrea Crum joins Liberty to talk about Worldview Prepared, a biblical curriculum designed to equip students to respond to the most influential ideas shaping their generation.

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Dr. George Barna joins the Know Why Podcast to discuss kids, parents, and worldview. Whether you have kids now or hope to someday, listen to find out why things like intentionality, consistency, and honesty are so critical in passing a biblical worldview on to the next generation. You’ll also hear why only 1 percent of American teens have a biblical worldview today, and why many kids are saying t...

Historically pride was called the queen of vices for a reason. What does it have to do with the relationship breakdown in modern society, modern tech advancement, and the destruction of the natural world? Everything.

In this episode, Liberty reviews a 1945 science fiction novel—That Hideous Strength—in which C.S. Lewis imagined many of the problems we are seeing play out in the modern world. ...

Is it ok for conservatives to be AI skeptics? With popular Democratic politicians rampaging against AI data centers and the Trump administration emphasizing the need to stay ahead of China in AI development, some on the right may believe that opposition to or skepticism about AI is “leftist coded.”

In this episode, Liberty highlights a recent article by Gregory Conti and makes the case that c...

Algorithms on social media drive users toward increasingly extreme content. AI bots flood comment sections, drowning out facts and thoughtful perspectives. In an environment like this, where the majority of young people spend hours of their time, it shouldn’t surprise us that distrust, moral relativism, belief in conspiracy theories, and ancient prejudices like antisemitism are becoming common.

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Gallup Polling shows that nearly half of Gen Z lacks a sense of meaning or purpose in life.

A closer look reveals that much of Gen Z’s sense of meaning and purpose in life is tied to what they do for paid work. This isn’t a problem totally unique to Gen Z. In fact, it is the way many people in America have been raised.

In this episode, we look at why so many people, especially y...

The State of Texas went viral recently for requiring students to read parts of the Bible in public schools. In this episode of the Know Why Podcast, Liberty looks at what is actually going on. Topics covered include:

• Understanding the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause, and the “Wall of Separation” between church and state
• What the Supreme Court has s...

The latest Gallup polling shows that rates of patriotism in the United States are at an all time low. Why does that matter?

Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, Liberty argues why you should be patriotic—and what that actually means.

Included in this episode:

• What does patriotism actually mean?
• Can Christians be patri...

Can Gen Z be effectively evangelized through social media, religious apps, and digital media? In this episode of the Know Why Podcast, Liberty reacts to a recent article by Gen Z writer Freya India on “The Commodification of Christianity.”

When using digital tools like short-form videos and apps to reach young adults, Christians should be mindful of how those mediums might be changing the mes...

From the U.S. government’s UAP file releases to Steven Spielberg’s new movie Disclosure Day, aliens are in the news again. While many assume that proof of extraterrestrial life would disprove the Christian faith, Casey Luskin, scientist and attorney with Discovery Institute, argues the opposite.

In this interview with Liberty, which originally aired on Point of View Radio Talk Show, Casey exp...

Why aren’t people talking with their neighbors anymore? In this episode of the Know Why Podcast, Liberty breaks down the reasons for dwindling neighbor connections drawing on research from the American Enterprise Institute. She talks about…

• Which age groups interact with neighbors more often
• How different groups of Americans define being a good neighbor

The latest World Happiness Report reveals that English-speaking countries are the unhappiest, and sociologist Arthur Brooks theorizes that a major cause for this is the Anglosphere’s social media usage. According to Brooks, hours spent on social media is only part of the explanation.

In this episode of the Know Why Podcast, Liberty breaks down Brooks’s hypotheses and observes other recent res...