Special Edition: America in Decay: Hope or Despair?
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 111 minutes
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In this special edition of The American Mind Podcast, Michael Anton, lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and former Trump Administration national security official, is joined by Charles Haywood, who runs The Worthy House and is a distinguished book reviewer. The two discuss the future of a country in crisis, touching on a wide array of topics in the process—from questions of political philosophy both contemporary and ancient, to the balance between hope and despair at the decay of the American regime.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to a special edition podcast here at the American Mind. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute, publisher of the Claremont Review |
| 0:32.6 | books and the American Mind. Many of you know our regular weekly podcast, The Round Table, |
| 0:38.0 | where we cover the news with my colleagues at the American Mind. And then it's been a while, |
| 0:42.7 | but occasionally I'll do special interviews with scholars in the Claremont orbit on their books |
| 0:49.2 | or latest work or sometimes some political things. So this special episode is Michael Anton, |
| 0:56.2 | senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and research fellow at Hillsdale College's |
| 1:01.3 | Washington D.C. Center. Michael also teaches at their D.C. Center there. |
| 1:06.8 | Mike's a long time friend of Claremont. Many of you know him from his flight 93 election essay |
| 1:12.8 | infamous from September of 2016. He's a frequent essayist at the Claremont Review books, |
| 1:18.7 | former Trump administration official. Mike's a great guy and a good friend. Mike is interviewing Charles |
| 1:24.4 | Haywood, who's also not quite as a long time friend of the Claremont Institute, but a friend of |
| 1:29.6 | recent years. As Mike will mention in his introduction of Charles in the upcoming part of the episode, |
| 1:36.5 | Charles runs an interesting book review blog called The Worthy House. Charles is a now retired |
| 1:42.9 | industrialist from the Midwest has thought a lot about politics, about policy, about our current |
| 1:49.9 | position right now. He reviewed among other things Mike Anton's book The Stakes. They've |
| 1:55.2 | become fast friends. So they wanted to just have take this opportunity to talk about our current |
| 2:00.2 | state of American politics. They cover the waterfront. They talk about regime decay in America. They |
| 2:04.8 | talk about strousingism, West Coast and East Coast. They talk about one of the topics of Mike's book, |
| 2:11.1 | which is Caesarism in America where it might go. I'll let them explain that the the interesting |
| 2:17.6 | history of that term in political philosophy and political history. They talk about |
| 2:24.0 | interesting thinkers on the right. What we ought to do in our current situation, reasons for hope, |
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