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The American Mind

The Egotist and the Icon | The Roundtable Ep. 57

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rush Limbaugh passed away yesterday—his work touched tens of millions of people, our editors included. Then there’s Governor Cuomo, who is embroiled in a scandal after covering up COVID nursing home deaths from the public. Plus: the Claremont Institute has launched a new DC-based branch: The Center for the American Way of Life. Arthur Milikh, the Center’s executive director, joins to talk about reclaiming a more robust kind of conservatism.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.2

These state universities are teaching our children

0:07.2

to be strangers to us, to despise us, to despise our nation.

0:10.5

We're not going to pay for them anymore.

0:12.1

It's over.

0:12.9

We elect our state legislatures.

0:14.9

These states should defund these universities.

0:18.2

They can do other things.

0:19.4

They can say, look, the University of Florida

0:22.4

not to pick on it, I don't know really much about it,

0:25.2

but just to use that example.

0:26.6

They can say, all right, well, the sciences

0:29.6

and the engineering schools are pretty healthy.

0:33.2

The humanities and social sciences are decrepit.

0:36.7

This university is chartered in the state of Florida.

0:39.2

Let's divide those two into two colleges.

0:42.8

We'll keep the sciences and we'll defund the others.

0:45.5

And if parents want to pay the full and rising tuition costs

0:52.5

for this kind of thing, we're not going to support it.

0:54.4

They can go ahead and do that and bleed them dry.

0:57.8

These things can be tried.

0:59.0

Welcome everyone, once again, to the roundtable,

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