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Federalist Radio Hour

The Dystopic Power Grab Nobody Is Talking About

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Dr. Matthew Mehan, director of academic programs for Hillsdale in Washington D.C. and assistant professor of government for the Van Andel Graduate School of Government, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss what happens when governments use their "kill switch" emergency powers to control their citizens.

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour, a memory Gisinski culture editor

0:21.8

here at the Federalist.

0:22.8

As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com, follow us on Twitter

0:26.8

at FDRLST, make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:32.0

We are coming to you today from Hillsdale College's Kirby Center here in Washington, DC,

0:36.0

where I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Mehan of Hillsdale College, the director of academic programs

0:41.6

at Hillsdale and DC's, also an assistant professor of government at the grad school where

0:46.8

you were just telling me nerdy people, do nerdy things and have nerdy conversations.

0:51.6

You'll remember Dr. Mehan from his podcast with Joy Pullman on his children's books.

0:57.0

You have your hands in a lot of different pods, Dr. Mehan.

0:59.6

Kilti.

1:00.6

Well, thank you so much for joining us tonight.

1:03.1

Thanks for having me, Emily.

1:04.4

No, you want to talk about something I think that's on everybody's mind across the world,

1:09.4

which is the kill switch.

1:10.4

Yeah, right exactly.

1:12.8

The people are clamoring for conversations about the kill switch, but actually the way this

1:17.9

is going to be laid out is we're going to start with something specific that will open

1:22.0

up a world of almost I think you could maybe call this a Pandora's box of other problems

1:28.0

in Western civilization.

1:30.2

So talk to us about the kill switch, the particular kill switch that you have in mind.

1:35.1

So the sort of the the trigger for all this, it was a piece in the daily caller by for

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