Roger Kimball on the Smithsonian’s Influence on Culture and the Trump Era
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Roger Kimball of The New Criterion explores how art shapes culture in America, the influence of the Smithsonian, and why the Trump Era matters in this discourse.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob, starring Steve McQueen? |
| 0:16.4 | The blood-curdling threat of the blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his |
| 0:23.3 | scene because the blob was supposed to eat them. |
| 0:25.9 | But he kept spitting him out. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 0:30.1 | Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. |
| 0:34.4 | Eric, the Texas! |
| 0:37.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:38.6 | We interrupt our regular programming to bring you our weekly |
| 0:42.2 | Supercentennial update. |
| 0:45.5 | Before we go to our next guest, I want to do an update really on the term |
| 0:53.6 | supercentennial is the term that I've invented |
| 0:56.6 | when we say it's the 250th anniversary of the birth of America. |
| 1:03.1 | The 200th is the bicentennial, the 250th. |
| 1:06.9 | We're calling it the super centennial. |
| 1:09.6 | And we're trying to get President Trump to adopt that term so everybody can get excited and celebrate the super centennial. And we're trying to get President Trump to adopt that term so everybody can get excited |
| 1:12.9 | and celebrate the super centennial. |
| 1:15.2 | But when you first came up with it, Eric, Chris Seim's here. |
| 1:19.0 | You had a feverish excitement about it. |
| 1:22.0 | It's sort of like you had this big idea that came. |
| 1:24.9 | I like to think it came to you in a dream. |
| 1:27.4 | And you kind of looked around both shoulders to make sure no one was listening. You didn't want anyone to steal it. And you said, here we are. Here it is. Super Centennial. Do you like it? What do you think? You think Trump will get behind it? And I said, I think it sounds great. I think, well, you were there when I pitched it to the two people in the White House |
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