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The American Mind

Mixed Signals

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Atlantic reporter Jeff Goldberg was mistakenly added to a national security group chat, leading to a DC media feeding frenzy—is there anything of substance to be gleaned from this goof? Meanwhile, Jay Bhattacharya—an early opponent of the 2020 lockdowns—was confirmed by the Senate to direct the National Institutes of Health, hopefully marking a turn back to sound health policy. This week, the guys talk through messaging and operations security, Biden-era censorship, plummeting egg prices, and more! Plus: a round of reading recommendations.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.

0:02.5

The key distinction is actually not, like, are people making slip-ups, but what gets

0:08.6

revealed when the slip-ups are made? Because everybody's comparing this to the butter

0:12.0

emails, to the Hillary scandal, and, like, oh, these conservatives, they made such a big deal

0:16.6

out of letting, being irresponsible with top secret information like when Hillary Clinton did it.

0:24.0

And now they're just doing the same thing. But the point of that or the point of the Burisma scandal and all of these other things on the left was not like that there were slipups being made.

0:33.4

It was like what was behind the curtain of secrecy turned out to be really corrupt and

0:40.4

anti-American? And like, we had all these problems about the things that were actually coming to light.

0:44.6

So, yeah, the fact that we got a little peek into a part of the Trump administration that we shouldn't have.

0:50.2

And it basically turns out that they're talking about what they say they're talking about, bombing the Houthis,

0:55.6

retaining American supremacy. That's, that part of it is a little bit encouraging. I'm I'm I'm

1:11.6

I'm

1:12.6

I'm

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I'm Welcome, everyone once again to the Roundtable, the editors and publishers' podcast at the American Mind and the Claremont Institute.

1:40.8

I'm your host for this episode, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher

1:45.2

of the Claremont Review Books. I'm joined by sometimes every other week participant, Seth Barron,

1:51.5

White Lotus editor, Spencer Clayton. It's like too many criticisms. The peanut gallery for the

1:58.3

White Lotus. Yeah, Thai pop critic Spencer, Spencer Clayman.

2:03.7

Five stars.

2:04.6

All five stars down the line for the Thai pop.

2:06.6

Also, associate editor with Claremont Review Books and Mike Sabo, managing editor of the American

2:11.9

Mind.

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