Coronavirus Cancels Campus | The Roundtable Ep. 18
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The coronavirus has America paralyzed by poor decision-making. In the midst of the chaos it claims a new victim: higher education. But who's suffering more, students ready to learn or administrators hungry to indoctrinate? Plus: in a grab bag of bashing, our editors lament Michigan's petty tyranny and lambaste California’s ham-fisted lockdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:02.6 | There's only one way to talk to the trees up there. |
| 0:05.4 | That's true, bad, that is true. |
| 0:07.1 | You commune with nature. |
| 0:08.2 | And the slugs, indeed. |
| 0:09.1 | And more away than one. |
| 0:10.3 | You're not talking to the trees unless the trees are talking back. I'm so ready for Joe and Megan to go because it would just be so fun and I just I just don't believe that they would win and I also the thing that people aren't factoring in I think is that Trump would make hay right I mean |
| 0:23.6 | this is it's just such a softball to him it's you know if they if people didn't |
| 0:28.0 | already who are if people who aren't online didn't already know about like the |
| 0:32.3 | jackbooted Harrodden version of Whitmer |
| 0:35.1 | then they will once Trump gets his hold. |
| 0:37.5 | It would just be slightly better if she was Karen Whimmer. |
| 0:41.6 | She might as well be she's spiritual Karen. Oh, Welcome everyone once again to the round table, the American Minds editors and |
| 1:16.9 | publishers podcast here at the Claremont Institute. Your host is yours truly |
| 1:21.5 | Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review books. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm joined as always by Spencer Clavin, assistant editor of the American Mind and the Claremont Review books. |
| 1:32.0 | David Barr, managing editor of the American Mind and the Claremont Review of books. David Barr, managing editor of the American Mind, Matthew Peterson, |
| 1:36.0 | Vice President of Education at the Claremont Institute and founding editor of the |
| 1:38.9 | American Mind. |
| 1:39.7 | And last but certainly not least, James Polis, executive editor of the American Mind. |
| 1:44.8 | I thought we'd open with a little thought experiment spurred on by this headline. |
| 1:51.4 | Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021. |
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