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The American Mind

Roundtable: The Mailbag, Quarantine Edition

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join our editors as they answer a combination of your serious and humorous mailbag questions. The results: speculation about a new Homestead Act, the potential for another Civil War, and how long it will take for David Bahr to catch the #CCPVirus.

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

0:02.6

Right.

0:03.2

Right.

0:03.6

I'd rather die than have the economy die.

0:05.6

And I'll say this for the third time in the history of this podcast.

0:08.6

Shut this down now.

0:10.1

Poggast down.

0:11.3

Emancipating yourself from your disgusting repulsive clay body ascending to the level of pure spirit. I'm just waiting for the Sunday meal.

0:27.0

Ooh, it doesn't come. We'll welcome everyone to another episode of The Round Table, the podcast of The American Mind.

0:43.7

I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont

0:48.1

books.

0:49.1

We're all sheltering in place across Greater Southern California, except for David Barr, of course, who's in the swamp,

0:55.3

but I'm joined as I usually am by Matthew Peterson, our Vice President of Education and

0:59.6

founding editor of the American Mind, James Pulos, executive editor of the American Mind, James Poulos, Executive Editor of the American Mind, just to mix up the order.

1:06.1

David Barr from The Swamp, managing editor of the American Mind and Spencer Clavin, assistant

1:11.2

editor both of the American Mind and the Claremont Review of Books.

1:15.3

So without further ado, the show from the bunker via Zoom, among other technological developments.

1:22.4

Let's get started.

1:23.6

So we thought we might do a bit of mailbag

1:26.6

for a couple of these segments today, at least.

1:29.3

I mean, we're of course going to talk about the only thing

1:31.9

that everyone's thinking about right now, which is the lockdown in various states.

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