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Edifice of Trust
The Edifice of Trust is a podcast that provides discussion and analysis of today's current events from the perspective of America's Founding Principles. Based on Enlightenment philosophy as espoused by John Locke and economic freedom as described by Adam Smith, the host, Victor Bolles, provides listeners a path toward understanding current events from these timeless principles. Many Americans believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction, the podcast tries to point out a new course…
Episodes
Edifice of TrustThe Pin Factory and Social Justice
In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith used the example of a simple pin factory to explain the benefits of the division of labor. He went on to show how this…
Edifice of TrustOpen Letter to Sen. John Cornyn
An open letter to Senator John Cornyn regarding his efforts to build a bi-partisan consensus on gun reform amid rising concern that current gun laws provide…
Edifice of TrustOur Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy
Our Politicians Are Driving Us Crazy. I do not mean this figuratively. I mean this literally. They are driving people crazy and making America a hellish place…
Edifice of TrustMore on the High Cost of Free Speech
Tragedy follows upon tragedy and the cause is linked to hate speech, disinformation or fake news. It is a natural instinct to want to suppress these sick ideas…
Edifice of TrustThe Continual High Cost of Free Speech
I am quite certain that as we get closer to the November off-year elections abortion, inflation and the war in Europe will dominate the campaign rhetoric and…
Edifice of TrustAbortion - A 23rd Century Perspective
A stolen draft Supreme court opinion that might overturn Roe v. Wade has set off a firestorm of tweets, op-eds and protests across the country. The Republicans…
Edifice of TrustJoe Biden Didn't Cause Our Inflation
President Biden's poll numbers are in the tank and a lot of people are blaming record high inflation for the poor numbers. But inflation pressures began…
Edifice of TrustSlanted Society
What if the differences between central planning, social justice loving progressives and free market, liberty loving conservatives were not ideological but…
Edifice of TrustWhat Happened to the Party of JFK?
President Biden has just released his proposed budget for 2023, projecting trillion dollar deficits and mounting public debt far into the future. The rapidly…
Edifice of TrustThe New Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Eight days after Hitler's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop, signed the infamous pact that bears his name along with his Soviet counterpart…
Edifice of TrustVertical War
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine isn't going as planned. The reason may lie in the fact the invasion was planned and implemented vertically, from the mind…
Edifice of TrustPutin Has Done Us a Favor
Just as America was wallowing in woke divisiveness and populist conspiracies, and while the other countries of the West sank into self-indulgent complacency…
Edifice of TrustBackfire
I never thought Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine. It didn't make any sense. It was irrational. I was wrong – but right. He did invade. But I was right…
Edifice of TrustMy Primary Predicament
Primary elections were intended to improve democracy in America. So was the inclusion of administrative positions such as attorney general or railroad…
Edifice of TrustIn Vlad's Shoes
To our Western eyes, the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin are not just dangerous, they are incomprehensible, which only makes them more dangerous…
Edifice of TrustThe Algorithm of Decline
Ray Dalio, billionaire hedge fund manager and author, has written a new book describing his theory of why nations succeed and fail. He has used artificial…
Edifice of TrustThe Real RINO
In a recent letter, former president Trump implies that Democrats are not real Americans and urges fellow patriots (his words) to elect Trump Republicans. Not…
Edifice of TrustPlessy v. Progressives
On January 5, 2022, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardoned Homer Plessy for committing the crime of riding in a whites-only railcar in 1892. The U.S…
Edifice of TrustUrgent Priorities
In the year 2022 the United States will be challenged to address urgent priorities of national importance, but our political leaders will be distracted by…
Edifice of TrustThanks for Nothing, Joe
Joe Manchin's decision to vote no on President Biden's Build Back Better plan has earned him the enmity of progressives across the country who are calling him…
Edifice of TrustEthical Gymnastics
Proponents and opponents of a Mississippi law banning abortion after fifteen weeks recently argued before the Supreme Court. Many fear, or alternatively hope…
Edifice of TrustPolitical Petroleum Reserve
Because his pleas to OPEC to increase oil production fell on deaf ears, President Biden recently authorized the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the…
Edifice of TrustThe 0.1% Solution
Ibram X. Kendi asserts that all humans share 99.9% of their DNA and that, because we are so alike, racial disparities in social and economic outcomes would not…
Edifice of TrustThe End of Wokeism
Democrats are still reeling from the disastrous election results from the 2021 off-year elections. They lost the governorship and the state house in blue…
Edifice of TrustCorporate Taxes in the Real World
Progressive Democrats and the Biden White House continue to work on hashing out the details of the American Families Plan along with increases in the tax rates…
Edifice of TrustModern Monetary Nonsense
The progressive left continues to push for passage of President Biden's $3.5 trillion (which in reality is more than $5.0 trillion) spending plan and Socialist…
Edifice of TrustIs a Better Life Worth Slower Growth?
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial (The Entitlements of U.S. Decline, October 7, 2021) remarked that the Biden Administration's claim that higher taxes and…
Edifice of TrustCautiously Optimistic
Many of the Founders had grave doubts about the long-term viability of the American experiment in democracy, as documented in a recent book by Dennis…
Edifice of TrustThe Future of Tennis (and the World)
T The modern era has ended the geographic isolation that created different characteristics among people that were classified as different races. As a result…
Edifice of TrustClosing the Real Achievement Gap
Closing the black-white academic achievement gap is an important problem that America needs to solve. But the way to solve this problem is not to lower…
Edifice of TrustSystemic Enlightenment
The Enlightenment based Western Civilization that we live in did not arrive in this world in full bloom the moment John Locke put down his pen. It has evolved…
Edifice of TrustThe End of Enlightenment
A new woke ideology of egalitarian idealism is spreading out from academia and into our public schools, corporations and government institutions like a…
Edifice of TrustThe Piketty Solution
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week a continuation of the Fed's policy of purchasing government bonds in order to stimulate economic…
Edifice of TrustDesperation
Leftwing progressives seem intent on using razor thin majorities in Washington to permanently transform the United States into their vision of a Europeanized…
Edifice of TrustIt's Not Just Chicago
Fox News likes to pick on Chicago's murder rate, using anecdotal evidence instead of statistics. But increasing violence and murder is spreading across the…
Edifice of TrustMy Fourth
My Fourth Victor C. Bolles July 6, 2021 I wasn't too enthused by the Fourth of July specials on television so I created my own patriotic show. I thought you…
Edifice of TrustThe Purpose of Sports
Progressive political activists and social justice warriors are attempting to capture competitive sports as another way to bludgeon us into accepting their…
Edifice of TrustTaxing Picasso
A recent Internet meme about Pablo Picasso prompted me to wonder about how many unsold paintings and other art objects he still had when he died. This thought…
Edifice of TrustThe Limits of Diplomacy
President Joe Biden has just returned from his first overseas diplomatic mission attempting to repair the damage wreaked by the Trump administration to our…
Edifice of TrustBetween Scylla & Charybdis
Donald Trump's intervention in the 2020 Senate election in Georgia was a disaster that propelled two Democrats into the Senate, paving the way for the Biden…
Edifice of TrustLifestyle or Liberty
President Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget in order to begin the implementation of his American Jobs Plan and his American Families Plan thinking…
Edifice of TrustI Don't Want to be an Antiracist
Antiracism is like antimatter. It is the opposite of racism, but it is not better than racism, just opposite. And the combination of the opposing forces is…
Edifice of TrustHarry, Sally and Jeff
Amazon recently stopped selling a book because it disputes the progressive vision of transgender theory. But transgender issues make up only one front in the…
Edifice of TrustWho Built This Country, Joe?
President Joe Biden has given his first speech to a joint session of Congress recounting his accomplishments in the first 100 days as president and, in the…
Edifice of TrustThe Economic Cure
The Center for Disease Control has recently re-approved Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine after a brief pause stating that the benefits far outweigh the…
Edifice of TrustCritical Race Conundrum
Critical Race Theory is coming to a school near you. Soon! Very soon if it is not already there. Many people don't understand Critical Race Theory, just like…
Edifice of TrustBackwards Finance
Business school taught me that it is okay to finance long term assets like plant and equipment because those assets will be generating revenue for many years…
Edifice of TrustDuopoly of Division
A recent book, The Politics Industry, describes American politics as a multibillion-dollar industry made up of not only politicians but also advisors, think…
Edifice of TrustMass Hysteria
The stock market is going crazy with Tesla trading at a price/earnings ratio of over a thousand and GameStop spiking to $269. But the craziness isn't limited…
Edifice of TrustJoe Said the N-word
In this era of outrage against inadvertent utterances and unknowing micro-aggressions, there is little tolerance of even the most minute human error. Ancient…
Edifice of TrustStalking Systemic Racism
The search for systemic racism continues. Anti-racist academics and progressive politicians know it exists because the black/white outcome gap in areas such as…
Edifice of TrustThe Necessity of Integrity
A Gallup poll conducted in February 2020, well before the presidential elections, that 59% of the respondents said they did not trust US elections. If people…
Edifice of TrustWho Pays for the Minimum Wage?
The Congressional Budget Office has come out with a study of a bill in Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour that forecasts some good outcomes…
Edifice of TrustOld Black Men
Three old black men, Walter Williams, Bob Woodson and Thomas Sowell, have a different perspective about the problems afflicting the black community than do…
Edifice of TrustI versus We
President Joe Biden has called for unity in his inaugural address and has backed up this call name a very diverse group of people to senior positions and in…
Edifice of Trust107 Aryan Spring
A week after the attack on the Congress by hordes of fanatic Trump supporters, threats of even more violence by this mob roil the entire nation. The FBI has…
Edifice of TrustLoser
President Trump's obsession with overturning the results of the 2020 election have driven him to the edge of madness. But the riotous attack on the US Capitol…
Edifice of TrustIncompetent Democracy
After a week of chaos caused by his own actions, President Trump signed the COVID relief bill along with the omnibus spending bill passed by Congress with…
Edifice of TrustPandemic Messaging
Now that we are beginning to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel as vaccinations are set to begin before the end of the year, new cases of COVID-19…
Edifice of TrustThe Lesson of Juan Peron
Argentina went from being the tenth wealthiest country in the world in 1913 to 69th now, and it all started with the rise of the populist Juan Perón. Argentina…