Do You Know the Enemy? ft. Glenn Ellmers | The Roundtable Ep. 117

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Know Your Enemy podcast recently accused Claremont of misunderstanding the old civil war, and irresponsibly predicting--or perhaps yearning for--a new one. The editors respond with the help of special guest Glenn Ellmers, Claremont Scholar and author of The Soul of Politics, a book on Claremont’s intellectual godfather Harry V. Jaffa. Plus: Elon Musk officially bought Twitter and conservatives are noticing that they’re being unshackled from shadow suppression. But who is Elon Musk and does the Right want to make him its champion?

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.0	But what's just so amazing to me
0:04.6	is the way the left has really exposed clearly
0:09.5	their frustration, not even that they will have
0:12.8	to listen to ideas that they don't like,
0:15.1	but the idea that other people will discuss ideas
0:19.1	that they don't like.
0:20.7	Like that's really what's bothering them.
0:22.8	They can mute or block anyone they want.
0:26.8	What drives them crazy is the idea.
0:29.2	It's like, you know, the old saw about Puritans
0:31.6	unhappy that someone's having a good time.
0:34.6	They're unhappy that someone somewhere
0:37.3	is having a discussion that they can't control.
0:40.9	Hello, and welcome once again to The Round Table,
1:07.4	your weekly publishers and editors podcast here
1:11.4	at The American Mind.
1:12.6	We have a full bench today, including a special guest.
1:17.8	I'm Spencer Klaven, your host,
1:19.3	features editor of The American Mind.
1:20.8	I'm joined as always or as usual by our editor, James Poulos,
1:25.6	our managing editor, Seth Baron, our publisher, Ryan Williams,
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