And the Welcome to another edition of the American Mind podcast. This is Ryan Williams,

president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of The American Mind and

the Claremont Review of Books.

In addition to our weekly editors and publishers roundtable podcast and occasional interviews,

we also publish these longer form programs, deep dives on the most important issues facing the country.

In July of last year, we investigated multiculturalism, identity politics, and political correctness in a special podcast titled

Multiculturalism versus America. In April of this year, we investigated what was at the time the

leading national campaign on behalf of the ideology

of identity politics, the New York Times of 1619 project.

1619 has since been overtaken by Black Lives Matter, but the two share a common ideology of anti-Americanism.

Indeed, when my colleague Charles Kessler wrote an op-ed for the New York Post titled, Call Them the 1619 riots.

The New York Times' Nicole Hannah Jones responded that, quote, it would be an honor.

Miss Jones is of course the creator of and lead journalist for the 1619 project at the New York Times.

In this special edition of the American Mind, we offer an alternative to 1619, Black Lives Matter Matter and the many left-wing talking points and

movements that have been stalking American public life since the late 1960s.

The task for Patriots, Politicians, and for that matter any leader in America, local or national, is to defend the American way of life.

Picking up on themes from our previous specials, this means defending the American idea of justice,

the equal protection for all of equal natural rights, as well as defending the constitutional,

civic, and cultural inheritance given us by great Americans of days past.

We now face a domestic crisis of national division rivaling that of the 1850s, And if we're going to avoid the horrible prospect of

another civil war, we must devote all of our energies to defending this great country of ours.

If you'd like to listen to the two previous specials you can find them at

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