Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

Bowser gave the nice people, the BLM riots,

a, uh, it wasn't a mosaic.

Was it K Street? Does it still say BLM? I should know this. I mean I live outside of

Washington, but she painted in big letters and so I thought surely Trump would also get his name painted in the streets

you know as a kind of you know inverse commemoration but next time.

Alas no no.

No, I think the main lesson is that when the real ruling class gets freaked out about something

and some unrest goes against them, then they really crack down. The Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable the American Minds publishers and editors

podcast here at the Claremont Institute I'm Ryan Williams your host president of

the Claremont Institute publisher of the Claremont Review books I. We've got a skeleton crew today.

I've got Spencer Claveen,

associate editor of the Clerment Review books

and the American Mind,

and James Pullis, executive editor of the American Mind.

Bar and Peterson are out in the wild doing Lord knows what. Well, gentlemen, I thought

we'd bring up an old topic today, but in old wine and new skins, I forget how the saying goes but I think don't do it is the

don't stop now is the scriptural advice I'm going to tell that I just wanted to talk a bit about David French who's been more vocal than

normal which is saying something in light of the week of commentary on the quote unquote

insurrection in the capital etc.

I don't want to downplay it too much of course.

There's some the newest video I saw was pretty despicable which was

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