The Fast Pace of American Cultural Decline

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

News, Government

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bill welcomed Heather Mac Donald on the show to discuss the pace of America's cultural decline. Heather's latest book is When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. Click here for the art mentioned on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to the Bill Bennett show. This show offers thoughtful conversation
0:06.2	about the news of the day. And we try to expose the existential threats to American.
0:10.8	Today's guest really does. Heather MacDonald, she's the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan
0:16.2	Institute, contributing in her city, city journal, where the smartest people around prolific
0:22.0	writes about all sorts of things. The essays we're dealing with today are talk about the
0:27.4	feminization of the American University of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has gone to political
0:33.2	correctness and woatness and whatever happened to California, golden state. You're listening to
0:40.7	the Bill Bennett show. I want to start at the beginning. You know, I pay attention to this stuff
0:47.0	and the culture and I, you know, I'm a Moynihan student politics, you know, is downstream from the
0:53.0	culture. The culture is what's meant to matter. I was watching it, but I still feel like,
0:58.1	wait a minute. When did this happen? I mean, I remember people saying, well, you know, dead white
1:04.4	males, maybe we should beat something other than dead white males. Maybe we should have some
1:09.3	affirmative action. I don't know. Okay. Maybe Sandra Dale counters, right? You know, 25 years.
1:16.6	That'll be over, but I didn't know the boom would be lowered on us like this on all fronts so
1:22.6	quickly. It's like, what, 30 years, 40 years, the late 60s, 70s. Now the world's upside down.
1:30.4	It's upside down. I know. Yeah. There are, there are ideas that are being put out there that are
1:36.4	beyond what anybody of it thought. On the other hand, I, I never buy the idea that people said,
1:42.2	oh, well, we always thought this was just silly stuff. And humorous and it would stay put.
1:47.1	I never felt that. And I don't think you did either. These ideas were dangerous from the start.
1:53.9	Yeah. But at this point, the, the degree to which our leaders are willing to sell out
2:01.9	the institutions that they are supposed to be defending, that they've given their lives to
2:07.3	whether it's humanities professors or people in science, doctors, heads of the AMA, heads of cancer
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