The American Mind Episode #2: The Dogma of the Modern University
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Matthew Peterson, our Vice President of Education at Claremont and Editor of The American Mind is joined by Michael Anton. We thank Mr. Anton for joining us and for his unique insights.
The American Mind podcast uncovers the ideas and principles that drive American political life.
The American Mind fosters thought-provoking and substantive conversation about the real causes of our current political and cultural reality. We explore these ideas with an eye towards restoring America back to civic health.
In each episode, we engage Claremont institute scholars, co-conspirators, and challengers on the core questions and critical issues of our time. The mission of the Claremont Institute is the recovery of the American idea- the timeless principles that have made America great since its founding.
The American Mind is hosted by Ryan Williams, President of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind, or Matthew Peterson, Vice-President of Education at the Claremont Institute and Editor of The American Mind. Visit our website for essays, editorials, debates, and more. E-mail us at americanmind@claremont.org. Don't forget to subscribe and to spread the word to your friends and colleagues!
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome everyone to the American Mind podcast, a production of the Claremont Institute. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review |
| 0:29.7 | Books. This podcast is about ideas, principles, and American politics, usually hosted by yours truly, or our Vice President of Education, Matt Peterson. |
| 0:39.0 | Our mission at Claremont has always been the recovery of the American idea, those timeless principles |
| 0:45.0 | that have made America great since our founding. |
| 0:47.7 | Visit our website for show notes, essays, editorials, debates, and more at Mind.org and you can always reach us by |
| 0:55.5 | emailing American Mind at Claremont.org. Don't forget to subscribe to the |
| 0:59.9 | American Mind on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, spread the word to your |
| 1:04.0 | friends and colleagues, and most importantly, thanks for listening. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Matt Peterson, Vice President of the Claremont Institute and editor of American Mind. |
| 1:18.0 | We've all heard about the problems of higher education today, and many of us agree that they lack true |
| 1:24.8 | intellectual diversity in fact they practically celebrate an oppressive and |
| 1:29.0 | puritanical adherence to the dogma of political correctness. |
| 1:33.0 | But exactly how and why did they get this way. |
| 1:37.0 | In the podcast you were about to hear, |
| 1:39.0 | I catch up with Michael Anton, the author of Claremont's Flight 93 essay, which argued for the election of Donald Trump. |
| 1:46.4 | This was perhaps the most influential and controversial essay of 2016, and people are still |
| 1:51.6 | talking and arguing about it today. |
| 1:54.0 | Anton is also a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:57.0 | Now the Claremont Institute sponsors multiple discussions at the American Political Science Association's annual conference. |
| 2:04.7 | We recorded this conversation this summer after a panel Anton was part of called |
| 2:09.5 | Politics and the Modern University. In our conversation Anton traces the history |
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