Welcome once again everyone to one of our special podcasts series here at the American

Mind, the stakes where Michael Anton and assorted guests talk about our current regime crisis. This is Ryan Williams,

president of the Claremont Institute, publisher of the Claremont Review Books, and the American mind. Today,

we have another discussion between Michael and Charles Haywood, friend of Claremont, editor of the

Worthy House, a mostly book review site that Charles has run for many years after getting kicked off

of Amazon for writing too many right-wing reviews on Amazon. It's another, you know, a breezy,

but serious conversation they talk about ancient political history, philosophy, the current state

of American race relations, critical race theory, the modern left, and they end with a bit of a

discussion about the coming trials of our current financial situation, the endless money printing,

whether or not to go into Bitcoin, but that's all very brief. Anyway, it's another lively conversation,

people seem to respond well to this new series hosted by Mike, so we're going to continue it,

and Charles is a very smart, smart man, an industrialist, an entrepreneur in his own right,

and has interesting views on a wide variety of topics. So if we help you enjoy it, thanks for listening.

All right, well thank you Ryan once again, and we are back by, I don't know how much popular demand,

but at least some popular demand, people seem to enjoy the last outing between Charles and myself.

So here we are again, I'm Michael Anton, and my guest or colleague, we want to say, is Charles Haywood,

the author of the Worthy House, a serious online blog review. I introduced it last time,

I think with more fanfare, so I'm not going to go into detail this time. Those of you who listened

last time will remember, those of you who didn't listen to the last one should just go and hear it.

We talked about, we were theoretical, I would say the last time, pretty high level,

we probably will get a theoretical and high level again, but we also want to see if we can stay

topical. The one problem we do have with staying topical is in order to preserve what's left

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