The American Mind Episode #6: Populism and Identity Politics
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 64 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 two exceptional scholars of American politics: David Azerrad and Henry Olsen. We thank them for joining us and for their unique insights.
The American Mind podcast uncovers the ideas and principles that drive American political life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome everyone to the American Mind podcast, a production of the Claremont Institute. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. |
| 0:24.2 | This podcast is about ideas, principles, and American politics, usually hosted by yours |
| 0:29.3 | truly, or our Vice President of education, Matt Peterson. |
| 0:33.0 | Our mission at Claremont has always been the recovery of the American idea, |
| 0:37.0 | those timeless principles that have made America great since our founding. |
| 0:41.0 | Visit our website for show notes, essays, |
| 0:43.8 | editorials, debates, and more at American Mind.org and you can always reach us by |
| 0:49.1 | emailing American Mind at Claremont.org. Don't forget to subscribe to the American mind on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:56.0 | spread the word to your friends and colleagues, |
| 0:58.0 | and most importantly, thanks for listening to. This is Matt Peterson, editor of the American Mind and Vice President for Education |
| 1:10.7 | at the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:12.4 | In today's episode of the American Mind |
| 1:14.2 | podcast I speak with David Azerad and Henry Olson. David Azerad is the director of |
| 1:20.2 | the Simon Center for Principles and Politics at the Heritage Foundation. He's also of the political philosophy guy. I also speak with Henry Olson. Henry is the author of |
| 1:36.7 | several books. He writes a lot about what's going on in contemporary politics as a |
| 1:41.0 | senior fellow at the Ethics in Public Policy Center and as of the |
| 1:43.0 | Public Policy Center and as Flyover Editor at onherd.com. |
| 1:48.0 | that's U N H Eardd.com. |
| 1:52.0 | Very interesting new publication. |
| 1:54.3 | Both of them have Claremont Connections. |
| 1:56.5 | David is one of our fine hublious fellows |
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