Spies, Gays, and Coronavirus | The Roundtable Ep. 4
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Our editors discuss a bold proposal by Angelo Codevilla to abolish the CIA, coronavirus and its threat to globalism, Pete Buttigieg’s success in the New Hampshire primaries, and the dullness of #NeverTrump conservatism. Finally, our editors are unleashed on the Oscars.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:02.6 | These are people who will go to the ballot box and vote |
| 0:04.8 | no matter how depressed and intoxicated and alone they are. |
| 0:09.0 | After this, there is no turning back. |
| 0:11.7 | You take the blue pill. The story ends. You wake up in your bed and |
| 0:16.3 | believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill. You stay in |
| 0:20.8 | Wonderland. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes |
| 0:25.0 | Shut this podcast down right now. |
| 0:28.0 | Burn this podcast! |
| 0:30.0 | Burn it down. Well, welcome everyone, once again, to the Hollywood Hill. |
| 0:45.0 | It was looking so right. |
| 0:47.0 | It was giving chill. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, welcome everyone once again to the editors and publishers roundtable of the American Mind. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute, and publisher of the American |
| 1:01.5 | Mind and the Claremont Review of Books. |
| 1:04.0 | Joining me today are James Pullis, the executive editor of the American Mind, |
| 1:08.0 | Spencer Clavin, assistant editor of both the American Mind and the Claremont Review of books and as always from the swamp David Barr managing editor of the American Mind. |
| 1:17.0 | Those of you who are rabid fans now of the podcast may be wondering, where's Matt Peterson? |
| 1:23.4 | Well, after his little adventure with the little Freud last week, |
| 1:26.7 | as he predicted, I had to fire him. |
| 1:28.7 | So we'll just get right into it today. |
| 1:30.7 | Thanks for listening. |
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