Be Strong and Courageous | The Roundtable Ep. 48
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The electoral college has cast their ballots. But there are lingering issues percolating through public discourse, from corruption to separation. Our editors have measured commentary to tell you what you should be watching and what is white noise. Plus: a frank discussion about class, religion, and politics in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:03.0 | When old man Joffa was alive, you know, and you met him for the first time or whatever, |
| 0:09.3 | I just remember an instance with an intern of Claremont, and you're kind of fat he'd be like so you know you |
| 0:16.6 | should fix that you know if you're a little overweight he even told me one time |
| 0:21.8 | he's like Ryan you put on a few pounds. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh yeah. He's, you know, I mean, he was no trim fit guy himself, but his excuse was he was |
| 0:29.8 | 85 years old and I was, you know, 28. Right right and it's not actually in the end in the way that it's entered into the plus |
| 0:37.1 | stream is not as like you must be no no you know have zero percent body and it's and it's not that you're a bad person if you're |
| 0:44.2 | overweight it's just we should not embrace it as the left has as this new |
| 0:49.6 | community of a protected people who you know are virtuous because of their identity having |
| 0:54.8 | having to be morbidly obese it's crazy. Oh, Welcome everyone once again to the Roundtable, the Claremont Institute's really the American |
| 1:26.3 | Minds podcast for the publisher and the editors. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm your host Ryan Williams, publisher of the American Mind and the Clermont Review Books and |
| 1:34.7 | President of the Clermont Institute joined by Matthew Peterson, Vice President of Education, |
| 1:38.6 | founding editor of the American Mind, Spencer Clavin, associate editor of the American Mind and the Clavenon Review books, and David Baah, |
| 1:45.0 | Senior Director of Publications. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm just going to make more elaborate elaborate titles for you every time David so |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, yeah, no, that's over. |
| 1:56.0 | Overlord of the patients. |
| 1:59.0 | James Polis cannot join us today because he is in Texas on the road traveling to go talk to |
| 2:05.3 | Rod Dreier about his newish book, Live Not by Lies. We teased that last week. |
| 2:10.3 | If this is out before tomorrow evening at the right time it might be you can go |
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