Multiculturalism vs. America
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this special edition of the American Mind podcast, we explore the intellectual roots, political and societal implications of and the antidote to what the Claremont Institute believes is the great threat to America: multiculturalism. The podcast features Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams, Chairman Tom Klingenstein and scholar Charles Kesler, as well as the likes of David Azerrad, Lord Conrad Black, Allen Guelzo, Roger Kimball and Norman Podhoretz. It is narrated by James Poulos, Executive Editor of the American Mind and produced by ChangeUp Media.
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Works Referenced & Related Readings (In Order of Appearance):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfwLh5pyy4
- https://americanmind.org/feature/multiculturalism-vs-america/
- https://americanmind.org/discourse/algorithms-of-suppression/
- https://americanmind.org/essays/defend-america-defeat-multiculturalism/
- https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed39.asp
- https://americanmind.org/essays/our-house-divided-multiculturalism-vs-america/
- https://claremont.org/crb/article/patriotism-vs-multiculturalism/
- https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-crb-interview/
- https://youtu.be/0WzDYy7IR2Y?t=2400
- https://americanmind.org/features/winning-the-new-irrepressible-conflict/trump-vs-multiculturalist-insurrection/
- https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1193&context=llr
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| 0:00.0 | And many of our leaders were more eager to delight the Davos crowd than champion the principles |
| 0:04.5 | that have made us the greatest nation that the civilization has ever known. |
| 0:11.3 | By the way the Claremont Institute sadly knows I could also name a certain |
| 0:19.1 | tech company that we spoke about earlier that's forgotten our first |
| 0:21.5 | principals too. |
| 0:26.6 | That was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo taking a subtle dig at Google while addressing the |
| 0:31.5 | Claremont Institute's 40th anniversary |
| 0:33.4 | gala. And this is James Polis, executive editor of the American Mind, |
| 0:38.0 | bringing you a special episode of the American Mind Podcast. Google is not the primary subject of this podcast, but its actions towards the |
| 0:57.2 | Claremont Institute to which the Secretary of State alluded |
| 0:59.8 | illustrated a new threat America faces, a threat posed to anyone who dares challenge social justice dogma |
| 1:06.0 | from the digital realm to the boardroom. The end game is the wholesale repudiation of American |
| 1:12.0 | justice as we've known it since the founding. |
| 1:14.7 | What follows, as a recent president put it, is the fundamental transformation of America, reducing |
| 1:20.6 | us to the United States in name only. |
| 1:24.0 | The pseudo-intellectual worldview at the heart of this attempted revolution |
| 1:28.0 | can be seen across not just major corporations like Google |
| 1:31.0 | but throughout our preeminent cultural institutions and our federal government. |
| 1:35.2 | Like so many bad ideas, this one got its start in the Academy. |
| 1:40.1 | Prodion yet single-minded, this invidious ideology is bent on dissolving the foundations of our nation |
| 1:45.0 | and establishing itself as official public doctrine to which all must adhere. |
| 1:50.8 | At the Claremont Institute, we call it multiculturalism. |
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