Special Edition: Dr. John Marini on The Challenge of Modern Democracy
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, while The American Mind's editors are off, Ryan Williams took the opportunity to sit down with Dr. John Marini. Against the background of the FBI's unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, which took place on the 48th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, the pair look back at Nixon's experience with the administrative state as it relates to today. Plus: what can we do to bring government back into the purview of politics and wrench it from the clutches of an increasingly autonomous bureaucratic class?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to a special edition of the American Mine, |
| 0:02.3 | which we're doing from time to time these days |
| 0:05.0 | and hope to do more of. |
| 0:06.5 | This is an interview between me and John Marini, |
| 0:09.3 | or an interview of John Marini by me, |
| 0:11.7 | Ryan Williams, President of the Climate and Student |
| 0:13.7 | in your host for these. |
| 0:15.3 | John and I wanted to take the occasion of the FBI |
| 0:18.6 | searching Mara Lago to talk about Richard Nixon, |
| 0:22.5 | the administrative state, Trump, and the challenges |
| 0:26.1 | of modern democracy, which seems |
| 0:29.7 | increasingly ruled by bureaucracy |
| 0:32.4 | rather than an old-fashioned politics. |
| 0:34.3 | So we explore some of those themes here. |
| 0:36.7 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:38.2 | Well, John, welcome to this special edition |
| 1:02.6 | of the American Mine podcast. |
| 1:04.4 | You're in town to teach our Lincoln Fellows, |
| 1:07.3 | and I wanted to start, really, take this whole episode. |
| 1:11.0 | We're doing here to talk about Trump and Richard Nixon. |
| 1:15.5 | You hit some of those themes today, |
| 1:17.1 | but we're recording here on a Wednesday. |
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