Vice President / Director of Communications at The Heartland Institute
Jim is the Vice President and Director of Communications at The Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland, he was an ink-stained newspaperman for 16 years with many stops in "old media."
Latest posts by Jim Lakely (see all)
- Is the End of Mask Mandates on Planes Like the Fall of the Berlin Wall? Not Really … but Kinda - April 18, 2022
- In the Tank LIVE, ep 332: COVID Gaslighting on Full Blast - February 10, 2022
- Afghanistan and Big Tech: We Keep Ignoring the Blatantly Obvious - August 16, 2021
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson to discuss his new book, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America”. They talk about American dysfunction and failure—both personal and institutional, and the rise of resentment politics. They also delve into American weirdness: flat-earther conventions, Kremlin-backed California secessionists, and the men who travel to the AVN awards, to name a few, and also talk about why conservatives and libertarians need to be a bit more circumspect regarding the tradeoffs of some of the policies they champion.
