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WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

By: Gerard Baker Editor at Large The Wall Street Journal
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Based on his Wall Street Journal Opinion column "Free Expression," Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks every week with some of the world's leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of subjects. Baker will welcome his guests from the worlds of politics, philosophy, and culture for wide-ranging dialogues that will enlighten and fascinate listeners. Episodes will be released each week.Copyright © Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Last Republican Holdout?

    The Last Republican Holdout?
    Jul 23 2025
    Donald Trump’s control of the Republican Party is almost complete. But there are still some members pushing back against the president. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a persistent dissident. She was one of the few Senators to vote against a recent package of cuts that had already been approved in a spending bill. She has also voted against and expressed reservations about a number of Donald Trump’s cabinet members. She voted to convict him on impeachment charges after the January 6 2021 Capitol Hill riots. On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with Murkowski about her recent memoir, “Far From Home,” her concerns about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stances on vaccines in relation to the recent measles outbreak in Texas, and why she’s “not losing sleep” over the direction of the Republican party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Are the Socialists Taking Over the Democratic Party?

    Are the Socialists Taking Over the Democratic Party?
    Jul 9 2025
    The hottest properties in the Democratic Party at the moment are self-described democratic socialists. Zohran Mamdani won the party’s nomination for New York City mayor last month while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders (who’s not even a Democrat) are in the forefront of the party’s campaigning against President Donald Trump. The trend alarms the party’s leadership and mainstream establishment, who see it as a quick route to electoral oblivion. Can the next wave of Democratic candidates for local and national elections appeal to the middle, or is the distaste for President Trump making the party hostage to its more radical elements? On this episode of Free Expression, former Commerce Secretary and White House Chief of Staff William Daley tells Gerry Baker about his concerns for the direction of the Democratic party, what it can learn from the mistake from the Tea Party movement of the GOP, and who he thinks are the party’s most electable candidates for president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Trump, the GOP and the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill'

    Trump, the GOP and the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill'
    Jul 2 2025
    Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress set a July 4th deadline to pass a spending package the President and others gave the moniker the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Getting the measure to the president’s desk hasn’t been plain sailing - the Senate version passed this week only with a tie-breaking vote by Vice President JD Vance. Now fiscal conservatives in the House are battling over some of the details, but it seems likely to become law soon enough. On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with economist and former director of the Congressional Budget Office Douglas Holtz-Eakin about the bill’s likely positive impact on the economy as well as the nation's dire fiscal situation, how the nation’s budget challenges still require reform of entitlements that seems politically elusive, and what this signature piece of domestic policy says about the direction of Trump’s Republican Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 mins
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I am conservative female, and young under 50 but my heroes in conservative field were the hard workers, thoughtful leaders who had brains and cared about all people not who just elected them, the screamers, carried the biggest machine gun or gave them $$$
DT is an embrassment to me and needs to fade away. Our party is sadly now run by terrified idiots or arrogrant airheads.
Reagan, George Will and writer Charles Kult. you are sorely missed.

Nope thought it would be intectually based

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