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Leila and Phil Lawler
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Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front. leilamarielawler.substack.com

  1. 9h ago

    The week’s news: RFK Jr. at the GOP midterm convention; juror intimidation, state kidnapping over transing teen, &etc.

    Show Notes: New Details About Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Revealed Report of an interview with the holdout juror in the Clancy case Robert Kennedy’s speech at the Republican Midterm Convention Massachusetts kidnaps a teen to trans her against her parents’ will Our interview with Robert Royal on his book about the 21st century martyrs: Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    The week’s news: RFK Jr. at the GOP midterm convention; juror intimidation, state kidnapping over transing teen, &etc.

  2. Sep 11

    Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them

    Show Notes: * The German bishops’ outcry; the US bishops’ silence by Phil Lawler Why the AfD Wins by Christopher Caldwell Germany’s ‘Firewall’ Against the Far Right Is Being Tested as Never Before ~ News analysis, The New York Times (archive version here) The AfD Rises on the German Right ~ Editorial on The Wall Street Journal (check this page to see if the article is archived yet) Mitt Brennender Sorge: On the Church and the German Reich, Pope Pius XI (1937) * Using the Child Care and Development Fund for married couples with one spouse staying home with children: Pro: The Stay-At-Home Parent Debate Is GDP First Vs. America First​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Con: Welfare Queens of the Right and the Diet Coke of Socialists How the program works Lawler Family Book Club list (scroll down) Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Bishops’ outcries and silences; Don’t expand entitlements - eliminate them

  3. Sep 4

    Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more!

    Update (from when we recorded): The second “unvaccinated person” measles-associated case is put in perspective by Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons. He makes five points about the information given to the public. A must-read on this developing situation. Democratic Socialists of America Measles Hysteria: A Timely Political Hit Job by Mary Talley Bowden The Pope and the Jesuits: John Paul II and the New Order in the Catholic Church ~ by James Hitchcock Pontifex Minimus — Fr. Mankowksi’s review of Fr. James Martin S.J.’s book Building a Bridge, in First Things Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP ~ Phil Lawler’s obituary on CatholicCulture, with links to some Mankowski classics Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski, S.J., Collection (affiliate link) ~ edited by Phil Lawler Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul Mankowski, S.J. (affiliate link) ~ edited by George Weigel The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest (affiliate link) ~ by Karen Hall Tolkien and the Inklings: Men of the West (affiliate link) ~ by Bradley J. Birzer The Crusades: A History (affiliate link) ~ by Jonathan Riley-Smith Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Gov. Shapiro and the Dems’ midterm strategy; Fr. Mankowski and the SJs; The Inklings, the Crusades, and more!

  4. Aug 28

    The roots of conservatism; the magnanimity of Dolly Parton; and more!

    Show Notes: How One Man Invented the Conservative Moment ~ Lee Edwards on Buckley’s “Fusionism” The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species ~ Russell Kirk George Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (affiliate link) The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics (Wall Street Journal) The U.S. Government Now Owns Stakes In 30 Companies. Intel Is Just The Beginning (Forbes) Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (free ebook) Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions (affiliate link) Dolly Parton, RIP Dolly Parton’s philanthropy was based on ‘her belief in the goodness of people’ Magnanimity ~ St. Thomas Aquinas Ida Friederike Görres, Bread Grows in Winter Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    The roots of conservatism; the magnanimity of Dolly Parton; and more!

  5. Aug 21

    Save our institutions and our freedom from Woke; the laity vs. the bishops; a book about Lyme disease and biological warfare

    Show Notes: Cambridge chancellor condemns media frenzy after Black professor’s death How can lay Catholics spur bishops into action? (Phil at CatholicCulture) Nathan Cofnas (who wrote about Jason Arday, exposing his plagiarism and lack of credentials) Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, by Albert O. Hirschman (affiliate link) Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby (affiliate link) Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Save our institutions and our freedom from Woke; the laity vs. the bishops; a book about Lyme disease and biological warfare

  6. Aug 14

    Gov. Healey vs. the Church: excommunication or...? Principles and prudence in politics and saying what you mean.

    Show Notes: Governor Healey signs abortion bill (and here on the MA website). John O’Sullivan reacts to Healey photo on X The Massachusetts bishops’ polite collapse by Phil Lawler Excommunication? Not gonna happen by Phil Lawler Statement by Archbishop Henning of Boston (released after the bill was signed) CatholicVote president urges Massachusetts bishops to consider excommunication of Gov. Healey for signing late-term abortion law Bishop Barron’s statement (released after bill was signed) McCarrick’s legacy in the Biden-Communion debate by Phil Lawler (August 2020) The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture by Phil Lawler (affiliate link) Testimony of Anthony Levatino, MD, JD [former abortionist] before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives on why abortion is never necessary for the life of the mother Ross Douthat and the founder of Orchid, a company to enable IVF users to use eugenics to choose embryos (see minute 1:03 for the clip) Ross Douthat and Samuel Moyn, Yale professor, on whether parents or the state has the children’s interests at heart. Saying what you really think: freedom and friendship by Leila M. Lawler Ford v. Ferrari Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Gov. Healey vs. the Church: excommunication or...? Principles and prudence in politics and saying what you mean.

  7. Aug 7

    Peaceful assembly underlies all other 1A rights; Florida bishops rightly rebuked on vaccine mandates

    Show Notes: Jeff Childers: “The Constitution’s essence prioritizes individual rights over collective ones, even in “pandemics.” A journalist who intellectually grasped the Constitutional rights hierarchy would at least have acknowledged that individual rights are the baseline, and then argued about how preparedness fits within those rights.” CNN Didn’t Interview Kamala Harris, It Swaddled Her In A Security Blanket Florida’s upside-down dispute over religious freedom by Phil Lawler Florida AG threat to Catholic schools ‘clear violation’ of the First Amendment, law scholar says (OSV News) Catholic law scholars didn’t bother much before… odd. Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) Letter from Dr. John Haas, National Catholic Bioethics Center Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    Peaceful assembly underlies all other 1A rights; Florida bishops rightly rebuked on vaccine mandates

  8. Jul 31

    The Fauci Diary hearings

    Show Notes: Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear, in a Pandemic by Phil Lawler (affiliate link) Doctor Anthony Fauci on why he left the US government | BBC News Covid Lockdowns Were an Elite-Made Tragedy - WSJ Imposed Mass Hypochondria by Leila Lawler Fauci’s net worth — and his wife’s contribution First on Fox: Trump DOJ reaches settlement with pro-life protester targeted by Biden admin Phil Lawler’s Substack Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter Your paid subscription means a lot to us and helps us continue our work, but we are happy for you to receive our podcast in your email for free! Want to tell a friend? Please do! It’s a great way to help us! How about this, if you enjoyed listening to this one episode: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe

    The Fauci Diary hearings
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Leila and Phil Lawler have been talking to each other about everything for almost 50 years. Join as they discuss every aspect of the battle on the home front. leilamarielawler.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Leila and Phil Lawler
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    122
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    © Leila Marie Lawler
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