Can't Make It Up | The Roundtable Ep. 84
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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What will happen to the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan? Will we ever be allowed to know? Does Europe's experience with Afghan refugees leave us with any useful lessons? If so, will we be permitted to learn them? Plus: Andrew Cuomo vanishes into obscurity, lobbing a political grenade on the way out, while Australia and the rest of the Anglosphere are careening into perpetual COVID despotism. Our editors discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.0 | There are also enormous quantities of data analysis |
| 0:07.2 | and data gathering that they simply refuse to acknowledge |
| 0:10.6 | or cope with or allow to be discussed in reasonable terms |
| 0:15.8 | that would help us perhaps to think about how we might move |
| 0:19.2 | forward in a prudent way, which is always, of course, |
| 0:23.2 | the way because like worship gets worship, right? |
| 0:25.3 | Well, this really is as a creed. |
| 0:27.0 | And it's a creed, which turns upon a double standard |
| 0:30.6 | because it has nothing to do with what the most effective method |
| 0:33.7 | is of finding the truth or devising a moral and righteous |
| 0:38.0 | way forward and everything to do with enforcing |
| 0:40.6 | a certain kind of power for a certain kind of people. |
| 0:43.8 | So they get to claim the credential of objectivism |
| 0:49.4 | and positivism. |
| 0:50.4 | But then at the same time, you don't get to cite any of your facts. |
| 0:53.8 | You're just bad. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome everyone, once again, to The Round Table, |
| 1:20.6 | The Publishers and Editors Podcast. |
| 1:23.5 | Here at The American Mind of the Claremont Institute, |
| 1:26.5 | I'm your host back from an absence during some of our fellowships, |
| 1:30.8 | a Ryan Williams present of the Claremont Institute publisher |
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