Revolt of the Kids

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

A generational divide is intensifying within the Left, as a radical ascendant generation increasingly decries the more moderate Boomers, as exemplified most recently by a demand from Biden’s White House interns that the administration throw itself behind a permanent ceasefire in Israel. Meanwhile, the US is being slapped around on the world stage, this time by the Houthis. The future for Americans looks increasingly bleak; can we turn the ship around successfully? The complete cast muse over the correct way to shake off the dust in the domestic and foreign policy arenas before, as always, reminding you to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	It is just unfortunate to see the huthies slapping around the US in this way.
0:09.0	It is certainly like an ill omen, at the same time you know it is incumbent upon these
0:19.0	policymakers to figure out how to extricate themselves from this mess that they've created without simply
0:28.7	lurching all the way into headlong retreat. The collapse of the American order is not to be wished for because it's
0:36.9	going to be just a hot mess and a lot of Americans will suffer. So as much as I understand folks on the right who are like,
0:46.0	oh no, like this is great, like, you know,
0:49.0	get out your folding chair, sit back and watch it all melt down because tomorrow's going to be a brighter day.
0:55.8	Well, in the grand scheme of things, that's a nice vision, but genuinely, millions and millions of Americans could just suffer all the more along the way.
1:07.0	And it's the harder path and the less glamorous path and the less, you know, aesthetic or meme worthy path to recognize that we have to just grind out a way of disentangling the knot that the Neocon
1:24.7	and the Neolibs have woven for us
1:27.7	and just doing the hard work of step
1:30.4	getting to a better place. Oh, you're going to do you.
1:43.0	Do you.
1:45.0	Oh, you know.
1:47.0	Oh,
1:48.0	And,
1:47.0	Oh,
1:48.0	Oh, Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and
1:59.9	editors podcast here at the American Mind. I'm your host, Spencer Clavin features editor at the
2:06.4	American Mind and associate editor at the Claremont Review of Books back from a very restful,
2:12.1	I guess I'd call it writing retreat slash vacation last week.
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