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An End to Enervated Conservatism - Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (4.26.21)

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Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Arthur Milikh joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the handicaps of contemporary conservatism and how to chart a path forward. For more on his work at Claremont: https://www.claremont.org/press_releases/claremont-hires-arthur-milikh-to-lead-new-dc-center/ For his essay “A New Conservatism Must Emerge” in the American Mind: https://americanmind.org/features/a-new-conservatism-must-emerge/

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0:00.0

The Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

0:32.1

an accredited four-year Great Books Institution is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the

0:37.5

freedom of the American West. The college offers its students an immersion in the primary

0:42.0

sources of the classical tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual

0:46.6

heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect

0:51.1

through the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second

0:59.0

to none.

1:00.2

The college celebrated an in-person graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed its

1:05.7

largest freshman class ever this year.

1:08.1

Learn more about the college's unique space in the world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. Arthur Millick is with us today. He joined us last

1:17.2

year to discuss free speech threats, and now he's here to describe a new initiative of which

1:22.9

he is the director. Welcome, Arthur. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

1:27.5

So what the heck is the Center for the American Way of Life?

1:31.6

It sounds like the 1955.

1:34.4

I mean that as a compliment.

1:36.7

Well, in a way, it is trying to revive and restore a right,

1:42.6

who understands its purpose very clearly clearly as on the one hand, doing as much

1:49.5

to roll back the influences of the left in all of America's main institutions, which they

1:55.7

have captured and which they're using to turn the country into a tyranny.

2:08.1

But on the other hand, just as importantly, the goal is to make the right more honest and more useful to the country in a way that it is regrettably currently not.

2:13.5

Just to give you one example on that, even though you and your listeners already know that,

2:19.4

you know, the Wright spent the last 30 years trying to develop loyalties to America's mega corporations,

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