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Federalist Radio Hour

What Happened To Statesmanship?

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," John Burtka, president and CEO of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the decline of statesmanship and analyze how the example of ancient philosophers could help rebuild it.

You can find Burtka's book Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill here.

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Transcript

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Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, Oh, We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.

0:39.0

I'm Emily Jishensky, culture editor here at the Federalist as always.

0:42.3

You can email the show at Radio at the Federalist as always you can email the show at radio at the

0:44.0

Federalist.com follow us on X at fDR LST make sure to subscribe wherever you download

0:49.7

your podcasts and of course to the premium version of the Federalist.com as well.

0:55.0

Today's podcast is a special one.

0:58.0

I was actually at an American Compass Media Symposium last week at the National Press Club. It was super interesting. I was on a

1:05.1

panel with David Leonart of the New York Times and the Washington Bureau Chief of

1:10.0

the Economist as well as we're talking about how the media can better represent or better reflect or better cover the various sort of needs, the everyday lives of people outside of the beltway and particularly

1:28.6

the working class.

1:30.6

So of course, that's fascinating to hear from the Economist and the New York Times

1:35.6

about how they see that problem. David Leinhart is one of the people at the

1:40.6

New York Times that was sort of pushing their coverage in a somewhat better direction on COVID, taking a little bit of a risk there on their COVID coverage, their school lockdown coverage, that was more in tune with the rest of the country, arguably,

1:55.4

than the kind of the New York City bubble. And he was very kind, economist was very kind.

2:01.7

It was a quite an interesting event. Overall, you know, my take is basically that

2:07.4

until these sort of class biases are really

2:15.0

from places like the new yeping blind spots in any media coverage period

2:18.0

particularly from places like the New York Times

2:20.0

and I think this is you know their biggest problem is they don't

2:24.4

concede their biases they still truly believe to their core on their news side

2:30.3

that what they're doing is the sort of aspirational neutrality that mass

2:36.2

media had for a really long time that you know you're the the example that I always

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