Get the Ricochet app

Ricochet will work fine in a browser on your mobile devices, but for the best experience please download our app.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Become a member.

Tired of the toxicity of social media? Why not join Ricochet for just $5/month? Think of it as an online bar. Come in, have a drink, hang out, say whatever you want. But don’t badger, bully, or berate the other drinkers. That's our only rule.

S15 EP169: Hour 1 - Your Child is Not an Experiment

Episode length: 37m

Subscribe to The Erick Erickson ShowSubscribe

Erick opens on the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece in The New York Times Magazine, where the 1619 Project author admits she sent her own daughter into a failing New York City public school as an act of collective good, then watched the girl move to a better high school and discover she had never actually learned algebra. Fresh off his debut on ABC's This Week, Erick lays out the three things Donald Trump must do before the midterms: go quiet, kill every tariff, and finish Iran. Plus the networks suspending the White House pool, a $35,000 per pupil system that cannot teach long division, and why Republicans on the ground are in all-hands-on-deck panic.

  • Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project, and the New York Times Magazine confession that her daughter's school failed her
  • The case against public schools: teachers' unions, no homework, Algebra for All, and New York City at $35,000 per pupil losing to Mississippi at $10,000
  • Erick's three-step plan for President Trump: disappear from social media, take all tariffs to zero, and arm the rebels inside Iran
  • Midterm panic: Democrats up 8.1 on the generic congressional ballot, Republican consultants predicting a House and Senate sweep, and why Erick still thinks the polling overstates it
  • ABC This Week debut with John Karl, Frank Luntz, Donna Brazile and George Will, plus the networks suspending White House pool coverage over the CNN ban
Host:
Erick Erickson