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The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Filled with apparent panic at Biden's low standing among "the youth," the Administration pulled out all the stops this week with a press conference featuring...Mark Hamill? Was that the best they could do? Maybe, as student riots and protests continue to emphasize Biden's rowdy kids problem--not that the Right is quite sure how to respond to campus antisemitism, either. Elsewhere in academia, the rolling replicability crisis continues apace, indicating once again that data worship is a mistake. The editors survey the landscape of new age Star-Wars-ism, free speech unease, and COVID-style crises of authority.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	At some point you have to ask yourself like,
0:05.0	why do the universities deserve?
0:07.5	In what sense have they earned the privilege
0:10.0	of carrying on in this manner?
0:12.2	Even setting aside all the campus craziness and these ridiculous
0:17.1	doctrines. Obviously those are a problem, but the normal that they're trying to get us back to is a normal in which, you know, these overcredentialed,
0:27.8	overly intellectualized figures try to remake the regime into a manager's paradise.
0:36.1	We already know that doesn't work.
0:38.2	It's been failing for at least 25 years,
0:41.2	probably longer than that, and it's to be a hard landing probably for the
0:44.9	universities and and maybe for the rest of us as well. The Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable the editors and publishers
1:15.4	podcast for the American Mind I'm Ryan Williams the president of the
1:19.6	Claremont Institute and publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review books.
1:23.4	I'm joined by managing editor Seth Barron, associate editor of the Claremont Review books and
1:28.4	editor at large of the American Mind, Spencer Clavin.
1:32.2	And last but not least, editor of the American mind and general man of mystery
1:36.2	Dr James Pullis so we thought we'd start today by discussing something that Seth found amusing and wanted to have us
1:46.8	cogitate on a bit and that is Mark Hamill's appearance at the White House.
1:51.0	I think was it last week, Seth?
1:53.0	But what do we make of this?
1:55.0	Yeah, yeah, it was this, no, it was this week, it was this week.
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