The Arrakeen Restoration

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Objective normalcy makes a comeback. In several inauguration speeches, Trump delivered a searing indictment of the elites, a symbolic rebuke to the old order, and a reassertion of American ideals. He followed this up with a barrage of executive orders, including one overturning federal affirmative action. Though these are dramatic actions in one sense, in another they’re just first steps toward restoring the founders’ principled regime. The hosts discuss the first days of Trumps term, the spillover effect of ending federal DEI programs in the private sector, and the reconsideration of birthright citizenship in the face of birth tourism and mass immigration.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:02.9	Like, Trump is sort of reversing things back to normalcy in a weird way.
0:08.5	I mean, I guess they don't see it that way.
0:10.7	Right.
0:11.1	But, you know, that's the thing.
0:12.8	I mean, I guess it looks from which side you're standing on determines what it looks like.
0:17.1	But it does sort of feel like it's like when Charles the second came back after Cromwell.
0:24.6	And it's like, oh, well, now we're in a, now we're in a new era.
0:27.5	We can reopen the theaters.
0:29.9	Right.
0:30.0	We can like have a, we can let women on the stage.
0:34.8	You know, I mean, it's kind of true.
0:36.8	We've entered the modern age.
0:38.5	Now we can enter the modern age again. Welcome, everyone once again to The Roundtable, the publisher and editors podcast here at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute.
1:20.8	I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review Books.
1:27.8	I am joined by Spencer Claven, NFL playoff editor for the American Mind and associate editor
1:33.9	at the Claremont Review Books.
1:36.4	Is it assistant or associate Spencer?
1:38.2	I always forget.
1:39.4	It's associate.
1:40.4	And if I'm NFL editor, why isn't my team doing any better?
1:43.7	That's the question.
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