Special Edition: Truths ft. Vivek Ramaswamy
The American Mind
Amanda Callanan
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In today's special edition of The Roundtable, Ryan Williams, President of the Claremont Institute interviews Vivek Ramaswamy about his latest book "Truths: The Future of America First."
Buy the book here.
In "Truths: The Future of America First," Ramaswamy shows exactly how honesty about the most important issues will get our country back on track. The America First movement emphasizes the issues that bring us together, not what divides us. It asks that we put our country over politics, merit over grievance, and truth over lies. Ramaswamy tells us the truth about our political system, and the people who control it, and exhorts us to exercise our right to self-governance again.
Vivek is an American business leader and New York Times bestselling author of "Woke, Inc.," as well as "Nation of Victims," "Capitalist Punishment," and most recently "Truths: The Future of America First." Left leaning media has called him one of the “intellectual godfathers of the anti-woke movement” (Politico) and the “right’s leading anti-ESG crusader” (Axios and Bloomberg). He was dubbed “The C.E.O. of Anti-Woke,” by The New Yorker.
Vivek is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences. He is a former U.S. Presidential Candidate (R). He was born in Cincinnati to Indian parents. In high school he was class valedictorian, a nationally ranked junior tennis player and an accomplished pianist. He lives in Ohio with his wife and two sons.
Learn more about Vivek Ramaswamy's work here.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:02.8 | So the dirty little secret American politics today is that the people we elect to run the government, |
| 0:07.2 | they're no longer the ones who actually run the government. |
| 0:10.4 | Do we believe that the right immigration policy is one that should protect American |
| 0:15.2 | workers from the effects of foreign wage competition? |
| 0:18.7 | Or do we believe the right immigration policy is one that enriches and fosters a stronger national identity, civic |
| 0:26.1 | identity in the United States and the book is called Truths but it's predicated on |
| 0:30.8 | the thesis that America is found on, which is that the path to truth runs through free speech and open debate, and that is what this book hopes to spawn by saying some things that had I said them in the 1990s I would advise you not to buy the book because they were too mundane |
| 0:46.9 | Yet today my caution to you might be that some of the things that you read in the book are so controversial that they might get you in trouble. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, welcome Vivek Ramaswami to a special edition of the American Mind podcast and video. |
| 0:58.0 | We're here to talk about your new book, Truths, The Future of America First. |
| 1:02.0 | Really enjoy you being with us here today. |
| 1:04.0 | I want to run through first the truths |
| 1:06.0 | and then we can get into some discussion of the book. |
| 1:09.0 | They are, God is real, |
| 1:11.0 | the climate change agenda is a hoax, an open border is not a border, there are two |
| 1:15.6 | genders, there are three branches of US government, not four. The nuclear family is the greatest |
| 1:21.0 | form of governance, governance known to mankind. |
| 1:24.4 | Reverse racism is racism, nationalism isn't a bad word, facts are not conspiracies, and |
| 1:31.1 | then my favorite, the US Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in history |
| 1:36.4 | Before we get into some particular questions of Vavagg what's your what was your main goal with this book I knew it grew out of your |
| 1:56.3 | 2024 presidential campaign and talking to people and wanting to convey to the American people the lessons you learn from there and lessons you've learned from your longer venture into public service and also your experience in the private sector but what do you really want to get out of this |
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