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The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A new global order emerges. China grows bolder in the East, while Europe and Canada drift culturally and economically away from America. Will Trump’s tariffs add more chaos to this new multipolar world, or set the U.S. up for success within it? Back home, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation continues to stir controversy. The guys sit down this week with Ron Dodson, president and portfolio manager of a private fund management firm, to discuss the tariff rollout, American preparedness for future conflicts, and the optics of border security, as well as the faint reflection of our future selves apparent in Argentina.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:02.5	I think that you're constantly going to have these type of movements within large economies
0:10.5	because your competitors, as you offload the things you don't want to do, they suddenly
0:17.3	want to do the stuff you still want to do. China wants to be financialized. They
0:22.8	want to do those things. They want to patrol the world's oceans. First of all, they don't grow
0:28.2	enough food or fish within their own local waters to feed their own people. So again, my argument
0:34.2	isn't a political one. I can make that argument. My argument is, is this is coming.
0:38.7	And you can either be on top of it and try to convince the rest of the political class to get on some level of boredness with it.
0:46.7	Or you're just going to be behind the eight ball and you're staring at England's quick and disastrous demise over the past 30 years.
1:34.9	Yeah. quick and disastrous demise over the past 30 years. Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable, the editors and publishers' podcast here at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute.
1:42.4	I am your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review Books. We have a packed lineup of talkers today, starting with unofficial PGA editor, Spencer
1:50.7	Claven, who's never touched a golf club in his life, I think.
1:53.6	It's not true.
1:54.7	That's not true.
1:55.8	Sorry, sorry.
1:56.3	I've swung a golf club so badly that I was barred from returning.
2:02.1	Yeah.
2:02.2	But I have touched a golf club.
2:04.4	That's good.
2:05.2	Seth Barron are every other week-ish Latin American correspondent.
2:09.8	That joke will land a little later.
2:11.3	And Ron Dodson, a manager, portfolio manager and president of a family office specializing
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