Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

This is not going to be the last time that someone theatrically ends their own life.

On paper, you know, a guy who was not quote unquote crazy who seemed to think in a in a

systematic way about the issues at stake and you know you might disagree with him

and I'm sure in our ways we all do but nothing

that would lead someone to say well this person can't participate in everyday

politics he must be taken to an insaneest out like that, that's not, wasn't the profile here.

In a world where people are increasingly convinced

by the pace and scope of technology

that there really isn't that much great

about being a human being. I don't know. I think we're going to see more suicides, more theatricality, and more, you know, fandoms growing up around suicides and people dunking on suicides. It's just going to become another

content stream, I'm afraid. And I think we should all, you know, hope and pray that it doesn't.

Well, better suicide than suicide bombing. I'll say that much. Oh, Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and editors podcast

here at the American Mind. I'm your host Spencer Clavin features editor of the American Mind and Associate Editor of the Claremont Review of

Books.

I'm joined this week by managing editor Seth Barron and editor James Pulos.

And we were talking before we started recording

about the fact that all three of our topics this week

are in some way to do with death, which is perhaps an unsettling sign of the

times, but we've got some pretty somber ones to talk about this week,

beginning with the death of Aaron Bushnell,

who let him let himself a flame outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC to protest the war in Gaza,

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