Trump’s Flag-Burning Crackdown: New Executive Order vs. First Amendment

City Journal Audio

Manhattan Institute

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The panel unpacks President Trump’s latest executive orders on cash bail, National Guard enforcement, and flag burning—are they strong reforms or constitutional overreach? The panel also examines the uproar over Chinese student visas and considers how the U.S. should weigh talent acquisition against national security. Plus: Will the Travis Kelce–Taylor Swift engagement spark a marriage and baby boom?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Citiginal podcast.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Charles Fane Lehman, a senior editor at City Journal.
0:14.9	Joining me on the panel today are Daniel D. Martino, Nietzsche Arnold, and Rafael Mangual,
0:20.7	all variously of the Manhattan Institute, immigration, high education, lower education, all kinds of education.
0:27.5	You do the full spectrum of education.
0:29.3	Yeah, everything. Everything. Everything. Right. It's good. And all things crime, which is related to education. Sure.
0:37.1	Yeah, they're close.
0:38.1	You're the school and Ralph is the prison and Daniel is the pipeline, I guess.
0:41.9	Education.
0:42.7	Yeah, there's a pipeline in the middle.
0:44.0	Hey, immigration and crime and education.
0:46.4	It's all related, actually.
0:47.6	It is.
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:48.6	And it's all about merit.
0:51.4	True.
0:52.3	Or it should be.
0:53.4	Some people, right.
0:55.2	Things related.
0:56.6	Some people deserve to go to college and some people deserve to go to college.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:01.9	Like America versus, I don't know, you know, China or.
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