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Federalist Radio Hour

How Tyrannical Technocrats Are Transforming ‘Emergency Powers' Into Permanent Powers

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The American Conservative's Shaun Rieley joins Senior Editor Christopher Bedford and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky. The three discuss how the Glasgow Climate Conference revealed a transformation that's taken place in our society through the last two years of tyrannical COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates.  Technocrats have figured out that they transform "emergency" COVID powers into permanent […]

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:20.1

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.4

As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at FDRLST,

0:26.6

and make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:29.9

Today I'm joined by my colleague, Christopher Bedford, Senior Editor at the Federalist,

0:33.6

and by Sean Riley.

0:34.6

Sean, can you tell us your title and what it is that you do at the American Conservative?

0:38.7

Sure.

0:39.7

So I'm the Senior Director for Advancement in Programs at the American Conservative

0:44.2

Magazine.

0:45.2

I basically run all of our non-editorial programs as well as help to just kind of generally

0:51.7

advance the institution overall.

0:54.3

And I was going to say, you're also a lecturer with our friends at Hillsdale College,

0:59.6

right?

1:00.6

That's great.

1:01.6

Yeah, as of this semester, I'm now a lecturer in government at Hillsdale College's Curvy

1:05.6

Center, Van Indle Graduate School of Government.

1:08.6

Excellent.

1:09.6

Well, so maybe you can ask it as a, yeah, that's actually great because Sean is friends with

1:15.2

Chris, and I feel like Chris actually needs a lot of lectures.

1:17.6

That's a sort of a perfect fit.

1:20.4

You are a tyrant, Emily.

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