I sat down with evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein to unpack how perverse incentives have hollowed out America’s institutions. Issues like the Epstein files, COVID propaganda, and transgender ideology have exposed an unsettling game being played: elites wield leverage out of sight, while government, media, and universities coordinate theatrical, so-called “expertise” to preserve their monopoly on information. Our institutions have so consistently engaged in the exact inverse of good governance and common sense that many Americans are left wondering what remains of our democratic republic—and whether the West can be pulled back from the brink.