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The Editors

Episode 843: A New Tragedy in Minneapolis

The Editors

National Review

Conservatism, Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Noah Rothman, Policy, Rich Lowry, Current Events, Jim Geraghty, Government, Public Policy, Madeleine Kearns, News, Conservative, National Review, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Another tragedy in Minneapolis will discuss this and nothing else on this edition of the editors.

0:21.2

I'm Rich Lurie, I'm joined as always by the right Honorable Charles, C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods. Jim Garrity, you are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast. Our sponsors this episode are the University of Austin and ExpressVPN, more about both of them. in due course, if for some reason you're not already following us on a streaming service,

0:39.9

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0:43.2

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0:47.6

Or if you listen to your podcast, if you don't like what you hear here, please forget.

0:52.4

I said anything.

0:54.0

So before we get into it in earnest, let's hear

0:56.5

from our friends at the University of Austin. You know college has broken, activist, professors,

1:01.8

seminars that feel like struggle sessions, 80,000 dollars a year to hear Hamas chance on the quad

1:06.9

while being told America is evil in class. So what's the alternative? There's a new university in Texas that's doing the opposite.

1:13.6

It's called the University of Austin or UATX at UATX.

1:17.6

Students read the great books of Western civilization to learn from them, not tear them down.

1:21.6

They build actual companies on campus with mentorship from a vast network of top entrepreneurs and investors. You can be openly

1:28.5

Christian or Jewish without apology, and when you walk into the main atrium, there's a gigantic

1:33.4

American flag. UATX admit students based purely on test scores. So the application takes just five

1:39.9

minutes. And thanks to patriotic donors, tuition at UATX is completely free forever to apply to

1:45.6

the University of Austin. Visit uaustin.org. That's ua-us-tin.org. So Jim, we're going to talk a lot

1:54.4

about Minneapolis. We decided to kind of divide this up in three segments. One, we'll talk about

1:58.8

the incident itself, two, the political

2:01.1

fallout ongoing, and three, some of the Second Amendment arguments we've heard back and forth.

2:05.9

So let's discuss the incident. I'll just give you my read on what happened and my quick take,

2:12.7

and then you can bounce off of it. But there's an attempted arrest.

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