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The American Mind

Bunker Busted

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's right—and by extension, the right of other states—to regulate or ban trans medical procedures for children. Meanwhile, Trump’s precision strike against Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities has succeeded in extracting a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. The possibility of diplomacy and peace now exists—but will it materialize? The hosts are joined this week by regulars Seth Barron and Matthew Peterson, alongside special guest and Army veteran Will Thibeau to discuss the recent events in the Middle East and global implications. Plus: book and media recommendations!

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coming up on this episode of the Roundtable. A big sticking point from the Obama JCPOA is that

0:06.0

the Iranians didn't allow any Americans to be part of those inspection teams, which if you ask

0:12.9

some opened up the chances of fraud or evasion pretty significantly. And so that's one kind

0:20.7

of thing that I would look for if there's

0:21.9

openness from the Iranians, you know, to have Americans as part of the inspection teams and

0:28.0

reviewing their nuclear facilities, wherever they are and whatever they become in the future.

0:34.1

And then the other thing is the enrichment levels. There's some messaging that I've

0:38.2

been paying attention to that has changed over the last 10 days. It was obviously, you know,

0:44.9

the enduring message has been no nuclear weapon for Iran, but even since Israel started their

0:50.9

campaign of airstrikes, there was this discussion of zero enrichment, no uranium whatsoever.

0:58.9

And that's changed, certainly, to the absence of highly enriched uranium.

1:03.5

These are the levels that Vice President Vance in particular has been talking about on a lot of

1:08.0

his media appearances.

1:09.7

And then President Trump in front of the press pool has been explicit on his expectation that they don't have a means of weaponization. The

1:30.3

The Welcome everyone once again to the Roundtable, the editors and publishers podcast at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute.

2:00.6

I'm back after a

2:02.0

week in the wilds of Trump country in western North Carolina. More on that later. I'm your

2:07.0

host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review Books.

2:11.5

And The American Mind, joined by a full host of folks today. We will be joined in a little bit by

2:16.5

Will Tebow to talk a little bit

2:17.8

about Iran. But for now, I am joined by newly christened Miga editor of the American

2:24.3

mind, Spencer Claven. We were just commenting on he looks slightly Persian, maybe. And it is

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