Trimming the Ivy

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

As Trump exerts federal pressure from without, the culture of some Ivy League universities may be changing from within—or maybe not, as Harvard seems determined to fight the administration in court. The nation’s elite colleges have been dominated by a Jacobin spirit for decades, and now they seem committed to defending violent radicals. Will their prestige hold? This week, the guys sit down together (in person!) to diagnose the state of America’s universities, elites, and political system at large. The hour is late, but there is time yet to drastically rehabilitate the country. Plus: Claremont announcements, a listener question, and media recommendations!

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:03.0	Academic achievement is basically our only outlet for that social function, where you bestow
0:09.6	an honor upon somebody and then you get more of whatever that thing is.
0:14.2	If it's plagiarized word gunk about made up social science to the effect that black indigenous
0:20.1	basket weavers are insufficiently represented
0:22.3	in Hollywood media, then that's what you get more of. And I think our friend in Estepin
0:27.2	has stepped in made this point on Twitter that we talk a lot about the anti-emericratic function of
0:32.6	DEI. We don't so much talk about the way it incentivizes brawling.
0:37.8	The fact that it creates just like a whole culture designed for like managerialism, consensus orientation, and basically self-abjection in the name of ridiculous political beliefs.
0:51.3	Coupled with entitlement.
0:52.3	Coupled, fascinating. Yeah. What a psychological rabbit war in that. political beliefs coupled with entitlement coupled fascinating yeah what it's
0:54.7	psychological rabbit war in that case Welcome, everyone. Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable here at the American Mind.
1:35.3	In the Claremont Institute, I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute
1:38.9	and publisher of the Claremont Review Books and the American Mind.
1:42.7	We are actually all together, the old crew or the second old crew, I should say, the new,
1:48.4	new American Mind roundtable.
1:51.0	Spencer Clayman, I'm joined by Associate Editor of Carver Review Books and Traveling Salesman
1:56.3	Editor of the Mind.
1:57.8	I thought it was going to be Kalani.
2:00.5	And Mike Sabo, managing editor of the American Mind.
2:03.6	We're actually here in a secure location in North Texas.
2:07.6	We're in town for a little bit of Claremontory, but we'll get to that.
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