coming up on this episode of the Roundtable. The fundamental tension that is literally embodied

in Gavin Newsom, right, is that after the 2024 election, much as the 2016 election ushered in

this grand reckoning on the left about how we are not, you know, is we reaching out to the middle class of middle

America enough? Like, are we going to the Rust Belt? Let's send investigative journalism teams

to find out like what it's like to live in Appalachia. And they did that for about 15 minutes,

and then they came right back to their coastal cities and reported that, in fact, it's because they're all doing a big, big racism. Like, it's all because of how bad

these people. And this, it's starting to look as if like the analog to that after 2020,

is like, we must conduct an anthropological survey of this creature called the American male.

Like there is like what is men?

You know, like what does the, I hear the weightlifting, you know, like I understand

that perhaps and so now you're seeing all these think pieces that genuinely have the tone

of like some PhD postdoc out of Papua New Guinea Guinea, reporting on the, like, bizarre customs of this tiny tribe.

The United States. The The Welcome, everyone once again to the Roundtable, the publisher and editors podcast here at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute. I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute, and publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review of Books. We are joined. It's been a while, but we're joined by eminent guests and writer and author and screenwriter and one of the most famous

sues and on's out there peachy keenan good to have you back and spencer claven is here as well

uh what's your fake title of the week spencer oh man i i i'm not supposed to come up with

you're managing if i don't have to host.

You're a peripatetic ice editor. That's what you are. That's tricky. Immigration enforcement

editor at the American mine. I was going to say I'm the face cell. Is that what you call it when you when you're not anonymous? What's it called? Yeah. Like a face lord. There you go. I'm the face lord

immigration enforcement editor. So you see me coming right before I kick you back in your own country.

Well, I mean, peachy's here. You all probably know why. Well, she's good on any topic.

She's beautiful.

She's charming.

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