Free To Choose Media Podcast

Today’s podcast is titled “Presidential Leadership: The Defining Traits.” Recorded in early 2025, host Jim Falk sits down with presidential historians Talmage Boston, author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents, and Jeremi Suri, Ph.D., Mack Brown Distinguished Professor at UT Austin and author of The Impossible Presidency, along with John Lawrence, ...

Today’s podcast is titled “Brands in Crisis.” Recorded in 2025, Bruce Turkel, branding expert and author of All About Them, and Laura Culp, founder of Culp Branding, join host Vince Poscente to discuss how companies survive — or fail to survive — a brand crisis. Their conversation ranges from the fire extinguisher paradigm of crisis preparedness to what separates a genuine apolo...

Today’s podcast is titled “The State of Civics Education Today.” Recorded in 2025, host Jim Falk speaks with John Meko, President of Founding Forward and David Bobb, President and CEO of the Bill of Rights Institute about the troubling state of civic education in America, where a recent survey found 70% of registered voters fail a basic civics test. Their conversation ranges fro...

Today’s podcast is titled “Western Tradition and The American Founding.” Recorded in 2025, host Jim Falk sits down with author, filmmaker, and Presidential Scholar at New College of Florida Joseph Loconte and John Meko, President of Founding Forward for a conversation on the Western tradition and its role in shaping the American republic. Tracing the arc from ancient Greece and ...

Today’s podcast is titled “Free Speech: Campus Arrests and Deportations.” Recorded in 2025, host Jim Falk is joined by Paul Butler, a First Amendment attorney and partner at Jackson Walker, and Jeremy Suri, presidential historian and Mack Brown Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Together, they examine the growing pressure on free speech and academic fr...