This week on Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes Bishop Leon Benjamin for a special Thanksgiving episode filled with faith, history, and gratitude.

Together, they revisit the Mayflower Compact of 1620 and the divine mission that guided America’s earliest settlers. Bishop Benjamin shares how the pilgrims understood their journey as a covenant with God—an assignment to bring faith and peace to a new land.

He explains how their gratitude and worship shaped the foundation of the nation: an attitude of thanksgiving that invited God’s presence into every part of life, from fellowship to food to family.

As the conversation turns to the meaning of Thanksgiving today, Bishop Benjamin reflects on reconciliation and unity around the table. Even amid political differences, he reminds listeners that gratitude is what binds Americans together. “If you don’t like the politics,” he says with a smile, “pass the yams.”

The episode closes with a heartfelt prayer for peace, healing, and renewed faith across the nation…a reminder that true thanksgiving begins with humility before God and love for one another.

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This week on Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith sits down with bestselling author and investigative researcher Matt Palumbo to expose how power has shifted from the people to a small class of elites who shape politics, media, and global policy- an American oligarchy.

Drawing from his latest book, The Heir: Inside the Not-So-Secret Network of Alex Soros, Palumbo reveals how billionaire financier George Soros and his son Alex built a worldwide network of influence that reaches deep into government, justice, and culture.

“Anyone with outsized influence and connections…the ability to turn things in their favor with ease fits the description of an oligarch,” Palumbo explains. “And George Soros, along with his son Alex, embodies that definition.”

In this eye-opening conversation, Palumbo traces the Soros network from the post-Soviet privatization of Russia to the global expansion of the Open Society Foundation, where he says “Alex starts on third base when it comes to the impact he’s going to have.”

As Palumbo warns, the danger lies not just in wealth or politics, but in how unelected elites can “control the narrative and silence critics.”

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Rational Faith: What Happens When Science Points To God?

In this deeply personal and intellectually stirring episode, Roots, Rights & Reason host Lee Smith sits down with renowned author and policy analyst Charles Murray to discuss his newest book, Taking Religion Seriously-a courageous exploration of how logic, science, and love led one of America’s leading social scientists to reconsider the divine.

Murray reflects on his journey from secular skepticism to spiritual reverence, recounting the scientific discoveries, philosophical insights, and personal experiences that reshaped his worldview. He describes how empirical evidence from astrophysics to consciousness studies compelled him to confront questions that science alone could not answer.

“If consciousness can exist independently of the brain,” Murray explains, “you have to accept the rather intimidating prospect that you just may have a soul.”

Through their conversation, Smith and Murray examine what happens when science points toward God, and how reason and faith (often cast as opposites ) are in fact two sides of the same pursuit of truth.

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In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith sits down with Hans Mahncke, attorney, author, and investigative journalist, to dissect the origins, motives, and aftermath of Russiagate-the political hoax that reshaped public trust, national security, and American democracy itself.

Mahncke traces how a narrative born inside the Hillary Clinton campaign intended to deflect from her own email scandal, morphed into a full-scale intelligence operation carried out by James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, and other senior officials. “It started off as a campaign smear operation, and then it became a government operation,” Mahncke explains.

Together, Smith and Mahncke explore the devastating consequences of the hoax: the persecution of General Mike Flynn, the sabotage of President Trump’s first term, the criminalization of diplomacy with Russia, and the lasting damage to American institutions. “They not only hobbled Donald Trump’s presidency,” Smith observes, “but they badly hurt the country.”

This episode is a sobering look at how lies at the highest levels of power can alter a nation and a reminder that freedom demands vigilance, courage, and truth.

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This week on Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith sits down with historian and author Professor C. Bradley Thompson to honor the life and legacy of one of America’s most underappreciated Founding Fathers-John Adams.

Though often overshadowed by Jefferson and Hamilton, Adams was, in Professor Thompson’s words, “America’s greatest Founding Father.” From his early leadership in revolutionary Boston to his decisive role in the Continental Congress, Adams was the moral and intellectual force behind independence itself; the Atlas of Independence and the Colossus on the floor.

In this episode, Smith and Thompson revisit Adams’ extraordinary contributions: his impassioned speech for independence on July 1, 1776, his authorship of the Massachusetts Constitution, and his far-reaching writings on government that would inspire the U.S. Constitution. They explore his philosophical break with Thomas Jefferson over the French Revolution and his lifelong belief that liberty must rest upon virtue and self-governance.

As the nation marks the anniversary of John Adams’ birth, this conversation calls Americans to remember the principles he fought for- truth, faith, moral courage, and “Independence forever.”

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In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith is interviewed by the show producer and veteran journalist April Moss about his explosive new book, “The China Matrix: The Epic Story of How Donald Trump Shattered a Deadly Pact,” exposing the decades-long entanglement between U.S. political, corporate, and media elites and the Chinese Communist Party.

Drawing from the book, the conversation traces how a bipartisan network of power brokers from Nixon and Kissinger to modern tech leaders enabled China’s rise and imported its authoritarian model into the West. From digital surveillance to censorship, from academia to Hollywood, they discuss how the CCP’s influence has reshaped American life.

This episode is about more than geopolitics; it’s about moral courage, national sovereignty, and the spiritual warfare between truth and deception. It’s a warning to every citizen who values liberty: resistance to tyranny begins with obedience to God and a commitment to reclaim America’s independence, both in body and in spirit.

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In this week’s episode, The Pentagon, The Deep State, and the Future of American Power, Lee Smith is joined by former Pentagon strategist Adam Lovinger for an insider’s look at how decades of bureaucratic expansion, political capture, and ideological subversion have weakened America’s strategic edge.

Drawing on his experience in the Office of Net Assessment and the National Security Council, Lovinger explains how the U.S. defense establishment, once the guardian of national strength, has been overtaken by career bureaucrats, lawyers, and political appointees more concerned with process than victory. From the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan to the weaponization of intelligence during “Russiagate,” he exposes how the rise of the so-called Deep State has transformed the Pentagon from a center of strategy into a fortress of self-preservation.

This episode goes beyond military policy. It’s a warning about the dangers of a government that fears accountability more than defeat. Lovinger and Smith explore what real strategy demands: moral clarity, courage, and a return to first principles that place America’s preeminence and peace above political ambition.

The Pentagon, The Deep State, and the Future of American Power reveals why restoring national strength begins with restoring truth, and how America can still secure its future if it finds the will to lead again.

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Episode Fifteen-From Exodus to Independence: America’s Biblical Roots

What do America’s Founders owe to the story of Exodus? Dr. Wilfred McClay, Professor of History at Hillsdale College and co-editor of Jewish Roots of American Liberty, joins Lee Smith to explore the biblical foundations of freedom and how they shaped the American experiment.

From Jefferson and Franklin’s proposed Great Seal depicting the Israelites’ flight from Egypt to the Puritans’ vision of a “new Zion” in the New World, McClay explains how Scripture inspired America’s earliest generations. He shows how the Exodus narrative echoed through the Revolution, guided Abraham Lincoln, fueled abolitionists and civil rights leaders, and continues to serve as a symbol of deliverance from bondage in every age.

This episode is about more than history, it’s about the enduring link between faith and liberty, the covenantal limits that give freedom its true meaning, and why remembering America’s biblical roots is vital in the face of rising antisemitism and threats to Western civilization.

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