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The Brendan O'Neill Show

Heather Mac Donald: Will Mayor Mamdani ruin New York?

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Heather Mac Donald – Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of When Race Trumps Merit – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss why Zohran Mamdani’s victory will fuel crime, poverty and anti-Semitism in New York City. Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/  🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/  Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0

We are about to be governed by the Columbia University student body.

1:04.0

He embodies the undergraduate mindset.

1:07.0

It's entitled, ignorant, performative and parasitic. It engages in the pseudo-play acting of revolutionary fervor

1:15.6

that is totally dependent on a larger infrastructure of public order and capitalism.

1:22.6

It's like putting somebody who can't read a music score in front of an orchestra and expecting him to conduct Stravinsky's right of spring.

1:31.4

He does not have anything to make us believe in his background that he can pull this off.

1:41.3

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, Heather MacDonald.

1:51.3

Heather, welcome to the show.

1:52.7

It's great to be with you, Brandon.

1:54.2

It's so good to have you back on.

1:55.6

Every now and then we need an injection of wisdom from our cousins in America so we can find out just exactly what's

2:02.4

going on over there and of course how it all impact on the Western world more broadly.

2:07.4

You're always a great person to turn to for precisely that. I've got to kick off with Zoram

2:12.1

Mamdani. You know, it's the elephant in the room. We can't avoid talking about this takeover of New York

2:19.2

City, this extraordinary electoral event, where a self-professed democratic socialist,

2:26.5

the first Muslim mayor, the first mayoral candidate to get over a million votes since 1969,

2:31.8

I think, made waves around the world. We talked about nothing

2:35.4

else in Britain for a couple of days after he was elected, and I'm sure it was even worse in

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