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The American Mind

Managed Decline

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

As flights are grounded across America and federal officials float—then retract—a ban on gas stoves, the editors gather to discuss the gradual dissolution of American competence, and what if anything can be done about it. Plus: Ron DeSantis has made a bold series of appointments to the New College of Florida's Board of Trustees. Is this a hopeful first step, or a meaningless drop in the ocean? The editors chose between white, black, and quantum pills on the state of education.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.0

There is a difference between the question,

0:05.1

what should Ron DeSantis do in his position

0:08.6

and the question, what should I personally do

0:12.1

in my position?

0:13.4

They're actually very different questions

0:15.0

and I think, I only raise it

0:16.5

because I think that when people sometimes write into me

0:19.0

or whatever to say, like, should I,

0:20.7

what should I do about the country,

0:22.6

about the problems of the world?

0:24.3

Like, I suspect that they're asking that question

0:27.2

from the perspective of like imagining themselves

0:29.5

to be Ron DeSantis or needing to do something

0:32.7

on the level of a Ron DeSantis.

0:35.0

When, in fact, that's not the row they've been given to Ho

0:38.4

and the deeper, maybe, harder, more intangible

0:43.3

and also much longer term task.

0:45.7

But also, in some sense, the more fundamental

0:47.3

and more urgent task that James outlines

0:49.0

of spiritual renovation, renewal,

0:51.1

that falls to people who, when they contemplate

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