Potemkin Villagers

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Xi Jinping is coming to town and Gavin Newsom has decided that it’s finally time to clean up the city of feces and urban decay: San Francisco. But if you’re not a Chinese party apparatchik you’re SOL: Gov. Gruesome essentially came right out and said that it wasn’t worth the cleanup for you, dear voter. Meanwhile, Nikki Haley calls for a complete and total crackdown on all pseuds and New York’s Kathy Hochul gives the editors occasion to discuss the weaponization of free speech and cancel culture. Finally, as always, the editors remind you to read the damn site!

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	And you might be able to sweep all that stuff under the rug
0:05.9	when daddy she comes to town,
0:08.1	but it's not gonna stay under the rug.
0:10.5	And you can put on a brave face for a day or a week.
0:15.0	This happens a lot during Olympic Games.
0:18.0	We know how it works.
0:20.0	But yeah, I think we really have sort of exited the world of the Potemkin village and moved on to the
0:26.7	Potemkin villagers It's unsustainable and it will end in tears. Oh, you're going to do you.
0:43.0	Do you.
0:45.0	Oh,
0:46.0	Oh,
0:47.0	Oh, Oh,
0:48.0	Oh, Oh,
0:50.0	Oh, Oh, Hello and welcome once again to the Roundtable your weekly publishers and
1:00.4	editors podcast here at the American Mind.
1:03.4	I'm your host.
1:04.4	Spencer Clavin features editor of the American Mind
1:07.3	and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books.
1:10.8	I am joined this week by editor James Pulos and managing editor Seth Barron.
1:17.0	Plus Ryan Williams, our publisher, and President May hop in a little bit down the line here.
1:23.3	So a grab bag of topics this week feels like we've been talking about some of the same things
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