In his The Tuesday column recently, Kevin Williamson wrote, "I do wonder what it would take to turn Russia around. I suppose it would start with a Russia that wanted to be turned around, or at least a critical mass of Russians who want that." Ron and Ed talked with him about Russia and Ukraine as well as his participation in the upcoming NR Institute's Seminar entitled "Creating Opportunity: Making the Moral and Practical Case for Free Enterprise."

A bit more about Kevin D. Williamson
Kevin D. Williamson is a fellow with National Review Institute and National Review’s roving correspondent, and writes “The Tuesday,” a weekly newsletter. He is the author of The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics (Gateway Editions, 2019) and several other books. Formerly, he served as the theater critic at The New Criterion and taught at The King’s College and as a Pulliam fellow at Hillsdale College. Williamson began his journalism career at the Bombay-based Indian Express Newspaper Group and spent 15 years in the newspaper business in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. He served as the editor-in-chief of three newspapers and was the founding editor of Philadelphia’s Bulletin. His work has appeared in the New York Post and Commentary, among other publications.

Below are the show notes. Use them to follow along while listening to the podcast:

The Reagan quote at the beginning of our show is a reminder of how far-sighted he was. The need for nuclear disarmament was something he foresaw in the future. Seems relevant to today.
There’s no retirement program for dictators so Kevin Williamson wondered out loud on our show today what Putin’s next steps will be…
China is, by necessity, much more sensible and practical about actions on the world stage compared to Russia.
Fun fact: Kevin D. Williamson is a former Burger King employee and Charlie C. Cook (@charlescwcooke) is a former McDonalds employee. Yet they are both great National Review writers.
Thank you to Blake Oliver for being our sponsor today for the Patreon channel. Blake can be found at @earmarkcpe and our Patreon at Patreon.com/TSOE
People don’t realize how poor Russia actually is. Their GDP is about half of Lithuania (as an example) at $11,000.
Check out “Walking on Atomic Eggshells” by our guest today, Kevin D. Williamson, at NationalReview.com https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/walking-on-atomic-eggshells/
Kevin asked today, has history handed the United States a really rare opportunity to do the right thing that is ALSO in our best interest?
Should we provide equipment and money and support to Ukraine? Kevin quipped on the show today, “As a wealthy nation, if you have problems that can be solved by spending money then that’s a good problem to have.”
“Keev” is the Ukrainian pronunciation and “Key-ev” is the Russian pronunciation which is why you’ve heard “Keev” more often lately.
NRI's "Creating Opportunity" regional seminar series is coming to Dallas on March 30 at Old Parkland and Houston on March 31 at the St. Regis. Kevin will be speaking with Pano Kanelos and Scott Turner on Free Enterprise. N-R-institute.org to learn more
“Political liberty and genuine social freedom are built on property rights.” —Kevin D. Williamson
There is a big difference between government provision of a service and government funding of a service. On school choice, we would be better off if we had generous government funding of K-12 without significant government provision.
Have you read Kevin Williamson’s book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”? https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Socialism-Guides/dp/1596986492
We started the fourth segment of the show today with this: The evolution of parasites allows them to figure out pressure points in organisms that are difficult to avoid. Progressivism is, in that sense, parasitic.
From Kevin today: Standing at the nexus of credit and finance is a very powerful place to be when it comes to ESG and stakeholder theory.
A big THANK YOU to Kevin Williamson from National Review for joining us today. Don’t forget to check out N-R-institute.org for more information about his upcoming speaking events.

Bonus Content is Available As Well

Did you know that each week after our live show, Ron and Ed take to the microphone for a bonus show? Typically, this bonus show is an extension of the live show topic (sometimes even with the same guest) and a few other pieces of news, current events, or things that have caught our attention.

This week was bonus episode 382 - “Returning to our pricing roots” and here are a few links discussed: