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.  

Episode Date
A Message About Free Expression
Dec 11, 2025
Thinking With Machines
Dec 04, 2025
Giving and Thanksgiving
Nov 25, 2025
Does Supply-Side Economics Still Work?
Nov 19, 2025
America, Russia, China and the Struggle for Global Supremacy
Nov 12, 2025
Democrats Make a Startling Comeback on Election Day
Nov 05, 2025
Are Women to Blame for Wokery?
Oct 29, 2025
Science, Evidence, and the Existence of God
Oct 22, 2025
A Fractured World
Oct 15, 2025
Colonialism, Reparations, and the Rise of ‘White Guilt’
Oct 08, 2025
An End To Climate Alarmism
Oct 01, 2025
The Woke Revolution and the Populist Backlash
Sep 25, 2025
Who’s to Blame for Political Violence?
Sep 17, 2025
A Top Banker on the Fed, Tariffs, and the Uncertain Outlook for the U.S. Economy
Sep 03, 2025
Tariffs, Stagflation and the New AI-driven Economy
Aug 13, 2025
Democracy on the Brink
Aug 05, 2025
Can Israel Win its War in Gaza?
Jul 29, 2025
The Last Republican Holdout?
Jul 23, 2025
Are the Socialists Taking Over the Democratic Party?
Jul 09, 2025
Trump, the GOP and the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill'
Jul 02, 2025
Is New York City Ready for a Democratic Socialist Mayor?
Jun 25, 2025
A Turning Point in Middle East History
Jun 17, 2025
Barry Diller on a Life in Hollywood
Jun 10, 2025
Can the U.S. Avoid an Oncoming Debt Crisis?
Jun 05, 2025
Newt Gingrich on Donald Trump’s Not-So-Conservative Triumph
May 30, 2025
Kelsey Grammer Discusses his Sister’s Tragic Death, its Meaning and the Role of Faith in his Life
May 22, 2025
Tariffs, Taxes and ‘The Big, Beautiful Bill’
May 14, 2025
Choosing the Next Pope
May 07, 2025
The Economic Outlook: The View from The White House
May 03, 2025
The Trump Touch - Is America's Leadership Failing?
Apr 23, 2025
Lessons from Nixon for Trump's New World Order
Mar 06, 2025
Peace in Our Time or Dishonorable Surrender?
Feb 26, 2025
Donald Trump's Russian Revolution
Feb 19, 2025
Are We Facing a Constitutional Crisis?
Feb 12, 2025
Will Free Expression Thrive Under Trump 2.0?
Feb 05, 2025
The Second Trump Administration Hits the Ground Running
Jan 29, 2025
Handling Russia in Donald Trump's Second Term
Jan 23, 2025
Trump and the Economy - Second Time a Charm?
Jan 15, 2025
Free Expression Encore: The Best of 2024
Dec 27, 2024
The Year 2024: Donald Trump’s Comeback and a Realignment for the World
Dec 18, 2024
Pardons, Lawfare, and How to Reform the Justice Department
Dec 05, 2024
The Economy in A Second Trump Term
Nov 19, 2024
Donald Trump’s Plan to Shake up America’s Military
Nov 14, 2024
Donald Trump’s Triumphant Return to the White House
Nov 06, 2024
The Final Stretch - or is it?
Oct 30, 2024
Is Donald Trump Closing In on Victory?
Oct 24, 2024
The Economy At and After the Election
Oct 14, 2024
Peace Through Strength? Foreign Policy in a Second Trump Term
Oct 09, 2024
Debates, October Surprises and the Coin-Flip Election
Oct 03, 2024
Under the Heel of Chinese Tyranny
Sep 24, 2024
Sen. Josh Hawley on Another Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and the New Republican Party
Sep 17, 2024
Trump's Missed Opportunity
Sep 12, 2024
Can Republicans Take the Senate?
Sep 03, 2024
The Election and the Economy
Aug 29, 2024
The Onward March of Joy
Aug 21, 2024
Is Trump Losing?
Aug 13, 2024
Tim Walz And The Democrats’ Leftward Lurch
Aug 08, 2024
Free Expression Encore: Jonathan Haidt
Jul 26, 2024
Republicans Rally in the Face of Democratic Disarray
Jul 18, 2024
Can Biden Survive?
Jul 10, 2024
Britain Takes a Turn to the Left
Jul 05, 2024
The Night That Sank Joe Biden
Jun 28, 2024
The War on Free Speech and the Weaponization of the Law
Jun 20, 2024
It's Time We Tried To Win This War
Jun 13, 2024
Conviction Politics
Jun 04, 2024
Will A Second Trump Term Fix the Border Crisis?
May 29, 2024
How The U.S. Failed To Meet the China Challenge
May 22, 2024
War and The Fragility of Civilization
May 15, 2024
Sex, Lies And Testimony
May 09, 2024
Campuses, Courtrooms and Swing States: Six Months to the Presidential Election
May 01, 2024
Antisemitism U
Apr 24, 2024
Will Israel be Allowed to Win?
Apr 10, 2024
Is Modern Technology Ruining Our Children?
Apr 04, 2024
The Growing Threat of Islamist Terrorism After the Moscow Massacre
Mar 27, 2024
Soft Landing or Bumpy Road for the Economy?
Mar 22, 2024
Four Years Later: The Real Cost of Covid
Mar 14, 2024
Previewing A Tumultuous 2024 Election
Mar 07, 2024
The War in Ukraine, the Future of Liberalism and the Rise of Populism - a View from Europe
Feb 29, 2024
What’s Going Wrong and What’s Going Right in Higher Education
Feb 20, 2024
How Big is The Democrats’ Joe Biden Problem?
Feb 14, 2024
A Booming Economy?
Feb 07, 2024
AI: Separating Science Fact from Science Fiction
Jan 31, 2024
That Was Quick: Trump, Biden and the Shortest Primary Contest in History
Jan 24, 2024
How Secure is the U.S. Election System?
Jan 16, 2024
Does Nikki Haley Have the Big Mo?
Jan 10, 2024
How Will Iowa and New Hampshire Shape the 2024 Campaign?
Jan 05, 2024
Free Expression Encore: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Dec 27, 2023
Looking Back on a Year of Conflict
Dec 19, 2023
Time to Cancel Campus Extremism
Dec 14, 2023
Ukraine, Israel and Cold War II
Dec 07, 2023
Election ‘24: A Real Democratic Primary?
Dec 01, 2023
The Best of the Free Expression Podcast
Nov 17, 2023
What's Gone Wrong (and Right) with the Democratic Party?
Nov 09, 2023
Nikki Haley Rising?
Nov 01, 2023
Will the U.S. Draw a Red Line on Iran and Hezbollah?
Oct 25, 2023
Larry Fink on ESG, the Economy and the State of Democracy
Oct 18, 2023
Hamas' Terror and Israel at War
Oct 11, 2023
The Divided GOP and the Removal of Kevin McCarthy
Oct 05, 2023
The Populist Party 
Sep 28, 2023
Can Tim Scott's Life Story and Faith in American Virtue Take Him to the White House?
Sep 21, 2023
American Breakdown - How Trust In Our Institutions and Leaders has Collapsed and How to Rebuild It
Sep 14, 2023
The China Crisis: How Bad is it?
Sep 07, 2023
Can Chris Christie Stop Donald Trump?
Aug 30, 2023
The GOP Debate and the Elephant (Not) in the Room
Aug 25, 2023
Trump, Biden, Double Standards and None of the Above
Aug 16, 2023
Trump, Crime, Punishment and War
Aug 09, 2023
A Postliberal Future?
Aug 03, 2023
Why Mesha Mainor is Abandoning the Democratic Party
Jul 18, 2023
Is There a Spiritual Crisis in America?
Jul 11, 2023
The Best of Free Expression
Jul 03, 2023
The Failed Mutiny in Russia and the Fate of Vladimir Putin
Jun 28, 2023
Hunter Biden, Donald Trump and Reviving the American Republic with Vivek Ramaswamy
Jun 20, 2023
Pence on Trump, the GOP and His Campaign for President
Jun 14, 2023
The Russia/Ukraine War Reaches A Crucial Phase
Jun 06, 2023
Another Kennedy for President?
May 31, 2023
The Trump-DeSantis Showdown Is Here
May 24, 2023
A New Conservative Economic Philosophy?
May 16, 2023
Rethinking a Conservative Foreign Policy
May 09, 2023
What Is a Woman? (Sports Edition)
May 03, 2023
Four More Years for Biden?
Apr 25, 2023
The Death of Merit
Apr 21, 2023
The Potentially Dangerous Future of AI
Apr 14, 2023
A Crisis of Democracy in Israel?
Mar 29, 2023
New York v. Trump: Politics v. The Law?
Mar 22, 2023
A Puzzling Bailout and A Perilous Economy
Mar 16, 2023
The Rising Backlash Against ESG Investing
Mar 08, 2023
The Perilous State of Geopolitics
Mar 01, 2023
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, One Year Later
Feb 24, 2023
Is There Hope for Free Speech and Ideological Diversity in American Universities?
Feb 15, 2023
Is There a Financial Crisis in our Future?
Feb 08, 2023
War in Europe and the Biden Administration on the World Stage
Jan 30, 2023
Inflation, Recession, the Fed - and Free Speech on Campus
Jan 25, 2023
Paul Ryan on Populism and the Return to Conservatism
Jan 18, 2023
Recession, Inflation or Soft Landing in 2023?
Jan 11, 2023
Can Republicans Find a Way to Break the Stalemate?
Jan 06, 2023
The Best of Free Expression 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Big Tech’s Brutal Year
Dec 19, 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu's Ambitions as He Returns to Office
Dec 12, 2022
Will the Republican Party Find Its Way Again?
Dec 08, 2022
Between Inflation and Recession - US Economic Prospects for 2023
Nov 30, 2022
What a Republican House Majority Will Look Like
Nov 17, 2022
What Happened to the Red Wave?
Nov 09, 2022
Is a Second Iranian Revolution on the Horizon?
Nov 04, 2022
Has the Left Sabotaged American Power?
Nov 01, 2022
Britain’s Political Chaos
Oct 25, 2022
The Pushback to Woke Capitalism
Oct 19, 2022
Looking for Answers to the Global Energy Crisis
Oct 13, 2022
Is Reason Under Siege in Today's World?
Oct 05, 2022
The Mistakes Made Responding to Covid-19
Sep 27, 2022
Will The November Midterms Be Full of Close Contests?
Sep 21, 2022
Is Russia on the Brink of Defeat?
Sep 13, 2022
How Donald Trump Broke History
Sep 06, 2022
Will Trump Be Indicted?
Aug 31, 2022
The Decline of Men in the Workforce
Aug 22, 2022
Can the U.S. and China Coexist Peacefully?
Aug 15, 2022
How Progressives Caused a Climate Panic and Ruined Cities
Aug 08, 2022
The Left's Suppression of Speech
Aug 02, 2022
The Return of Stagflation
Jul 26, 2022
Noah Rothman and "The New Puritanism"
Jul 18, 2022
The Woke Assault on Western Civilization
Jul 13, 2022
Kellyanne Conway, Donald J. Trump, and the Future of the GOP
Jul 05, 2022
The Dobbs Decision and the Bioethics of Abortion
Jun 28, 2022
The Consequential Decisions of the Supreme Court's Term
Jun 21, 2022
The Successor Ideology and the Threat to Our Freedoms
Jun 13, 2022
Civilization and Its Enemies
Jun 06, 2022
How Do Tragedies Like Uvalde, Texas, Happen?
May 31, 2022
The Collateral Damage of Lockdowns
May 23, 2022
Will the World Overcome the Russia and Covid Crises?
May 17, 2022
Jonathan Turley and the Fallout From the Supreme Court Leak
May 09, 2022
Yoram Hazony and the Future of Conservatism
May 02, 2022
Douglas Murray and the War on Western Culture
Apr 25, 2022
Mike Pompeo on Not Underestimating Vladimir Putin
Apr 19, 2022
Garry Kasparov on Putin and "the Virus of Imperialism"
Apr 11, 2022
Will Vladimir Putin Escalate the Brutality in Ukraine?
Apr 06, 2022
Orville Schell
Mar 28, 2022
Dr. Albert Bourla
Mar 21, 2022
Stephen Kotkin
Mar 14, 2022
William P. Barr
Mar 08, 2022
Niall Ferguson
Feb 28, 2022
Lawrence H. Summers
Feb 21, 2022
Condoleezza Rice
Feb 15, 2022
Free Expression
Feb 11, 2022