Historian Richard Landes joins Judah and Guy for a conversation that reframes the last twenty five years of Western weakness in the face of jihad (00:13). Landes, a medievalist turned scholar of millennial movements, lays out the caliphater ideology driving the push to convert Dar al Harb into Dar al Islam, and the two hosts dig into why messaging on the right has failed to keep pace (02:39). The conversation turns to Islamophobia as a manufactured term built to shield the religion most in need of scrutiny from any scrutiny at all, and to the insecurity underneath religious supremacism (04:57). Landes explains the origin of his term Pollywood and the case for reforming legacy media rather than chasing social media (07:19), then traces how NGOs, academia, and journalism all drifted from their founding purpose into activist narrative work (09:47). The group ranks the failures of American, European, and Israeli media against each other before landing on the Gaza starvation narrative as what Landes calls a postmodern blood libel, built on staged footage while Gazans were documented eating in restaurants (12:10 to 16:56). Landes breaks down the four image sets driving Gaza coverage, genocide, starvation, camps, and ethnic cleansing, and shows how deliberately they mirror Holocaust imagery, then walks through how the word genocide has been captured almost entirely for one side of the story (16:56 to 18:14). The show covers media guidance quietly rewriting the language of 9/11 ahead of its 25th anniversary, softening hijackers where terrorists once stood (20:33), and names CARE and elements of academia as the machinery laundering jihadi propaganda into democratic language (22:59). Landes lays out Infidel Awareness Month in full, from the meaning of kafir to the fifty year horizon running through 2076, including plans to mark September 17th with George Bush's Islamic Center speech and an essay contest imagining the speech he should have given instead (25:22 to 34:37). The back half turns personal and historical, contrasting Israel's institutionalized memorial culture with America's fading memory of 9/11 (39:09), unpacking why infidel was chosen as a unifying term across faiths (41:29), previewing plans to profile former radicals like Ateret Schmuel of Indigenous Bridges (46:09), and closing on Landes's account of the Overton window inversion since 2000, where liberal became a synonym for excusing jihadi terror and centrist warnings about political Islam became far right (55:15). Judah and Guy close out on the Jewish tradition of disagreement without division, and Landes's warning about the danger of assuming political opponents act from malevolence rather than honest disagreement (57:31 to 59:58).