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Stopping Socialism

Discussions on how to save the United States from the scourge of socialism, presented by The Heartland Institute.

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The Rise of Zohran Mamdani and Socialism in America - Heartland on the Lars Larson Show

On November 20, 2025, Donald Kendal, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at The Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Lars Larson Show. He was asked to be on to talk about the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and a new Heartland Institute Rasmussen Reports poll showing the growing appeal of socialism to younger voters.

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Tokenized Assets & CBDCs: Are Property Rights Under Threat?

In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast , we dive into the controversial 2022 amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and their potential impact on property rights. Join us as we explore how tokenization—a system of creating digital representations of tangible assets—could reshape ownership and control. We discuss the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their…

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Tokenization Trap: How You Could Lose Everything on the Blockchain (Feat. Daylea Duvall Camp)

Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are diving into a concept that is reshaping the financial landscape—“tokenization.” It’s being talked about as a way to give more people access to markets, but could it come with some hidden risks? Our guest today is Daylea Duvall Camp, a…

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Exposing the Ranked Choice Voting Scam (feat. Brady Smith)

Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we are talking about a proposed overhaul to our voting system called Rank Choice Voting. Supposedly, this new voting system will allow for better representation and result in fairer outcomes, but is this really the case? Or will Rank Choice Voting…

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Public Health Emergency Authority Act (feat. Kendyl Turner)

Welcome to the Emerging Issues Show - the show where we talking about topics that are popping up on the peripheries of society and public policy. Today, we dive into what should be a very controversial piece of proposed legislation that could grant governors immense emergency powers over society, circumventing individual liberty in the name of “public safety.” Seems pretty crazy, but the craziest…

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How Young Americans Are Embracing Socialism

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…

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Future on Hold: Climate Alarmism and Human Advancement

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?

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Can America Escape the European Union's ESG Scheme?

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,…

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Scandinavia Has Never Been a Good Socialist Model

The other day, Heartland Institute Editorial Director Chris Talgo, who is also a research fellow at our Socialism Research Center, was a guest on the nationally syndicated Pelle Neroth Taylor Show. Pelle apparently got notice of a paper Chris and Heartland's Justin Haskins wrote back in 2019 titled "Debunking the Scandinavian Socialism Myth: An Evaluation of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Chris was…

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Why Did Larry Fink Just Dump on Renewable Energy at the WEF?

The other day, Donald Kendal, Deputy Director of Heartland Institute's Socialism Research Center, was a guest again on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM560 The Answer in Chicago. Donny tells Shaun what Blackrock CEO Larry Fink -- one of the most powerful men in the world, controlling trillions of dollars in funds -- has been up to, and what he revealed at a special meeting at the World Economic Forum…

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