In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with J. Michael Waller, Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy, about the return of the Monroe Doctrine and America’s renewed focus on hemispheric defense. Waller explains how the Monroe Doctrine, first articulated in 1823 by President James Monroe and shaped by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, became a defining principle of American national security—warning foreign empires to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. The conversation explores how that doctrine evolved through the twentieth century, from European power struggles in the Caribbean to Cold War conflicts and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Smith and Waller examine why maritime security, trade routes, and strategic chokepoints like the Panama Canal remain vital to U.S. interests today. They also discuss the growing influence of China and Russia in Latin America and the Arctic, including Greenland’s rising strategic importance. The episode argues that the Monroe Doctrine is not an outdated concept, but a permanent pillar of American defense and diplomacy.

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Episode 29- Ordered Liberty: America’s Founding Idea

In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith speaks with Peter Berkowitz, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, about classical liberalism, natural rights, and the philosophical foundations of the American founding.

Berkowitz explains how America’s core principles: human equality, unalienable rights, and limited government, were forged through biblical teaching, classical philosophy, and modern political thought. Drawing on thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu, he clarifies the true meaning of classical liberalism and distinguishes it from today’s expansive, bureaucratic model of government.

The conversation explores how freedom developed not only through ideas, but through centuries of social change, including religious reform, commerce, education, and the spread of literacy. Berkowitz challenges the claim that America was inevitable, arguing instead that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution designed to preserve inherited liberties rather than overturn moral and political traditions.

Smith and Berkowitz also examine modern threats to ordered liberty, including administrative overreach, emergency powers, and an education system increasingly hostile to America’s founding principles. Despite these challenges, Berkowitz argues that the United States remains the freest and most pluralistic great power in history, and that preserving it requires renewed civic education and constitutional understanding.

This episode defends the American experiment in ordered liberty and explains why classical liberalism still matters.

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Episode Twenty-Eight: An Inconvenient Study on Vaccines

In this episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes investigative filmmaker and former Communications Director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, Del Bigtree, for a focused discussion on vaccine safety, public health accountability, and the erosion of trust in American health institutions. Bigtree, founder and CEO of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), argues that vaccines occupy a unique position in U.S. public health policy, calling them “one of the only products that has no liability in the United States of America,” and traces how federal protections and institutional pressure have reshaped the relationship between regulators, industry, and the public. The conversation centers on Bigtree’s documentary An Inconvenient Study, which investigates an unpublished vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated study completed in 2016 but never submitted for publication. Smith and Bigtree also examine the aggressive COVID-era push for mass vaccination, government messaging that vaccines were “safe and effective,” and mandates that compelled compliance as a condition of public life. Bigtree addresses mask mandates as well, stating that improvised face coverings “had nothing to do with science” and “could not stop a particle as small as the coronavirus,” and situates these policies within what he describes as a broader “toxic soup” of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and regulatory failures — raising urgent questions about transparency, dissent, and what it will take to restore public trust in health authorities.

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WebLink: http://AnInconvenientStudy.com Following its global premiere on October 12, 2025, _An Inconvenient Study_has reached millions, igniting debate about vaccine safety, scientific transparency, and the chronic disease epidemic affecting over 50% of U.S. children.

An Inconvenient Study, a film by Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and Del Bigtree, uncovers a groundbreaking, unpublished vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated study conducted within the Henry Ford Health System. In 2016, Del challenged Dr. Marcus Zervos, head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Health to conduct a rigorous study and publish the results, no matter what they revealed. The study was completed but never submitted for publication. Hidden-camera footage reveals Dr. Zervos admitting, “I think it’s a good study... but publishing something like that, might as well retire. I’d be finished.” The film explores how this research came to be, explores the results and the aftermath, and interweaves critical commentary from some of America’s leading physicians and public health figures. An Inconvenient Study challenges audiences to confront potentially uncomfortable questions, ultimately leaving them to draw their own conclusions.

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