Magazine executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
On this week’s episode, Antle discusses the radicalization of America’s youth and how billionaire Peter Thiel predicted this back in 2020.
“A lot of younger people today don’t have any stake in the capitalist system because they don’t have any capital,” Antle said. “They study in college, they accumulate a lot of debt to pay off their student loans, and then they are not in a position where they can afford to buy a home when they graduate, so they’re perennially renting. They don’t really feel like they benefit from a lot of aspects of the free enterprise system.”
Antle highlights the appeal of socialist candidates, such as newly elected New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
“He ran on an explicitly Democratic Socialist platform,” Antle said. “Many of the people who voted for him were younger professionals making six-figure salaries, but in an expensive city like New York, and in a place where they’re very unlikely to own their own homes, own any of their own property. They really feel the crushing burden of how expensive everything is in the city, and they don’t see how the free market system is really benefiting them.”
Antle then sits down with Nicholas Clairmont, the magazine’s arts and entertainment editor, to talk about the Christmas book spread in this week’s issue.
“Basically, I tried to make this issue in particular, something that has kind of something for every kind of reader and maybe every kind of person that might be on your Christmas list,” Clairmont said. “It is a good time of year to take on really big, long reading projects.”
Clairmont highlights a personal recommendation for Catapult by Jim Paul. A 1991 book republished by Tivoli Books, which humorously narrates the building of a catapult and explores themes of friendship and technology.
“It’s one of these books that, rather than feeling like you’re eating spinach, but maybe you’ll have learned something at the end, it’s just like eating candy,” Clairmont said. “When you finish it, you realize it’s really about the friendship between these two guys and how difficult it is to maintain a friendship. It just turns out to be a deeper and more thoughtful thing than you could possibly have imagined.”
A new Utah congressional map could leave four House GOP members scrambling for three seats. Our in-depth report by Taylor Millard outlines how the move comes amid a redistricting feud exploding across the country.
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Reps. Blake Moore (R-UT), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Celeste Maloy (R-UT), and Mike Kennedy (R-UT) are all up for reelection in 2026, setting up a political version of musical chairs. The new boundaries mean Moore, whose current district covers northern Utah and eastern Salt Lake City, will likely go head-to-head with Maloy, who is currently representing the 2nd Congressional District.
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