Drive-time politics with a civic spine.
The Seth Leibsohn Show is live-feeling conservative talk built around hard verdicts, guest interviews, and moral pressure. Episodes move from Senate races and Democratic Party fights to museums, China, education, oil, courts, and American memory.
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The Seth Leibsohn Show is a brisk conservative talk show organized around verdicts. It treats the day’s politics as evidence in a larger argument about citizenship, faith, culture, and national memory. The show often begins with a fresh controversy: accusations against Graham Plattner, media placement of a story, Democratic Party dilemmas, or the rise of DSA-aligned candidates. It rarely stays small for long. A news item becomes a case study in institutional bias, moral confusion, or a failure of civic education. The Smithsonian, high school curricula, museums, courts, television, Reagan speeches, and the 250th anniversary of the United States all become part of the same conversation about what a country remembers and what it forgets. The pacing is live and full. Calls, sponsor reads, named producers, and mid-thought breaks give the show a local talk-radio feel even when the subject is national or global. Guest segments are central. David Harsanyi brings sharp analysis of Democrats, socialism, anti-Zionism, immigration, and the courts. Tevi Troy adds presidential and cultural history, including Hollywood stories and party strategy. Brian T. Kennedy frames China as a strategic and moral threat through stories about Stephen Mosher, forced abortions, Stanford, and foreign-policy pressure. Hugh Hallman brings a recurring Tuesday presence, moving through education, oil, Iran, Ukraine, Europe, and the limits of expert certainty. The show’s religious thread is not decorative. References to Milton, C.S. Lewis, Yeats, Gomorrah, heroism, and moral durability sit beside practical arguments about elections and policy. It can be dryly funny, especially when mocking media priorities or political evasions. It can also be blunt. The show is skeptical of elite institutions, hostile to left-wing cultural capture, and impatient with what it sees as cowardice in party leadership. Its appeal is the force of connection: one segment can link a museum display, a school lesson, a Senate race, and a question about America’s survival as a civic project. The result is opinionated, learned, local in texture, and national in ambition.
Made for: For listeners who prefer conservative political talk with religious, historical, and cultural stakes attached. It especially suits people drawn to arguments about American history, institutional bias, education, courts, China, and party politics.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge comes from how quickly it connects breaking political fights to older questions about civilization, faith, heroism, and civic memory. It has the looseness of live local radio, but the argument keeps reaching toward history and moral judgment.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Seth Leibsohn connects current political disputes to deeper arguments about civic education, institutions, religion, and American national memory.
Seth Leibsohn treats politics as an argument with roots, moving from the day's party disputes into the institutions, historical ideas, and cultural assumptions beneath them.
Class dismissed comes after Seth Leibsohn gives your political opinions a civics syllabus.
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A loose talk-radio hour that moves from donor-class politics to Mark Melman and Last Kings of Hollywood.
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A combative hour on media delay, scandal coverage, and the Smithsonian report.
The Seth Leibsohn Show spends much of the hour on Graham Plattner, the Politico report that brought him down, and the earlier New York Times mention of the woman already folded into the June profile as a corroborating witness.
A brisk, opinionated episode traces Democratic weakness and tension inside an energized outsider movement.
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A live discussion linking educational decline and founding documents with claims about Iran, oil, and geopolitical pressure.
Seth Leibsohn's final hour uses a complaint about weak writing to frame a broader argument about what education is meant to carry forward. With Hugh Hallman, former mayor of Tempe and honorary consul to the Republic of Kazakhstan, the discussion moves from colleges and…
A direct case for biblical literacy as context for civic language taught in schools.
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Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
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Seth Leibsohn opens on Graham Plattner.
The host opens with Tevi Troy and a small argument about how to describe a long friendship.
The show opens on a Senate race and a candidate's Nazi tattoo.
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This episode explores the feeling of societal chaos and the potential loss of enduring concepts like heroes and heroism in modern culture.
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The host discusses the poor state of American history and civics education, using Ronald Reagan's 1964 speech to highlight concerns about how the country's achievements are often overlooked in favor of negative narratives.
["Seth Leibsohn and Hugh Hallman argue that coverage of Iran, Donald Trump, and oil prices has become speculation, not reporting, while the United States heads toward its 250th anniversary in 2026.", "Hallman says some liberals are treating July 4, 2026, as a 'day of reckoning' instead of a civic milestone, and he ties that attitude to students who were never taught the founding or the 'golden thread' of Western civilization.", "The sharpest example comes from Arizona State University's Barrett Honors College, where Hallman contrasts current Human Event readings with Arizona Board of Regents civics requirements covering the Constitution, Supreme Court cases, and basic economics.", "The episode ends by arguing that law schools and universities teach opinions about the Constitution instead of the Constitution itself, leaving students without the Federalist Papers, Marbury v.
This episode features a discussion with Hugh Hallman about rugged individualism and the SemiQuincentennial, exploring historical perspectives on America's founding and the legacy of figures like Rudyard Kipling.
This episode features an interview with George Khalaf, a political candidate, discussing his Christian faith, family values, and authentic approach to campaigning.
Political consultant Chuck Warren discusses the nature of politics, similarities across states, and the characteristics of elected officials.