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The American Mind Podcast
The American Mind Podcast uncovers the ideas and principles that drive American political life. The hosts engage Claremont scholars and critics in thought-provoking discussions about the real causes of our current political and cultural reality.
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The American Mind PodcastIsraeli and Brazilian Elections: A New Era of Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Following a defeat in the first round of voting in Brazil’s…
The American Mind PodcastMidterms Outlook – Where Does the Right Go Now?
A week from midterms, the guys discuss prospects for Republicans in the House and Senate. Polls forecast that Democrat challenges to the Right’s incumbent…
The American Mind PodcastReflections on NatCon Jerusalem, ft. Matthew Peterson
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Matthew Peterson joins the podcast to discuss his recent NatCon…
The American Mind PodcastTurmoil in France and South Africa – Can the Right Recover the West?
Riots in France—begun by students but now taken over by migrants—expose the dangers of uncontrolled immigration. Will the unrest flowing from Islamic-majority…
The American Mind PodcastEurope Lurches Leftward Toward Disaster. Can It Recover?
Europe faces a civilizational crisis induced by self-destructive progressive ideologies. The German Left has weaponized atonement for World War II to censor…
The American Mind PodcastBrazilian Election: A Global Turn Against the Left?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsanaro…
The American Mind PodcastBeasts, Gods, and Bots: Facing down the Specter of a Post-Human Future
Anthropic's top brass have been meeting religious leaders and trying to bring theology into the AI conversation. Do our newest technocrats intend to build a…
The American Mind PodcastMidterm Check In: The Future of the Democrats and the Challenges for MAGA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Five weeks from election day, hosts Spencer Klavan and Mike Sabo…
The American Mind PodcastThe Crisis of America is the Crisis of the West ft. Steve Hayward
Steve Hayward, senior fellow at Claremont and author-podcaster at the “Political Questions” Substack, joins the guys this week to discuss the political and…
The American Mind PodcastHow the Left’s Climate Agenda Caused the West’s Economic Downfall ft. Rupert Darwall
Coming out of the 2008 recession, the globalist order envisioned a green recovery. Rupert Darwall, author of the forthcoming The Age of Error and the West's…
The American Mind PodcastRussell Vought: How to Control the Administrative State
Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins Claremont Institute President Ryan P. Williams to discuss the Trump Administration’s…
The American Mind PodcastUncovered: Administrative State Abuses of Military Contracts
In this special episode, Will Thibeau, director of the Claremont Institute’s American Military Project, sits down with Claremont president Ryan P. Williams to…
The American Mind PodcastA Grade of Trump 2.0 - Claremont at the American Political Science Association
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Caving to pressure from a minority of members within the American…
The American Mind PodcastPolitical Fallout: Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and “The Flight 93 Election”
Ten years ago, the Claremont Review of Books published “The Flight 93 Election,” Michael Anton’s urgent warning that the 2016 election would be do-or-die…
The American Mind PodcastDolly Parton, RIP
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Dolly Parton, a widely adored icon in country music and American…
The American Mind PodcastFIRE Challenges Trump’s Deportation of Pro-Gaza Immigrants
Richard Lim, historian at Prager U. and host of the This American President podcast joins the guys to discuss his recent book on George Washington’s legacy…
The American Mind PodcastOffensive Truths: Dr. Nathan Cofnas and the State of the Academy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Dr. Nathan Cofnas has been accused of “scientific racism” for his…
The American Mind PodcastThe Great American Trade War Continues
Trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada broke down in the final hours of last Friday. This week, Trump’s 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods have…
The American Mind PodcastPresident AOC? The TikTok-ification of Politics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez angling to become president in 2028?…
The American Mind PodcastGroypers, Grifters, and the GOP: Florida's Primary Election
Florida is conducting a primary election to pick Governor Ron DeSantis’s conservative successor. President Trump’s choice, Representative Byron Donalds, leads…
The American Mind PodcastAn Education Academies Won’t Provide: Claremont’s Lincoln Fellowship
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com President Ryan Williams reports on the Claremont Institute's…
The American Mind PodcastAOC Goes from Woke 1 to Woke 2: A New Left Coalition Forms
“Woke One was crazy.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, questioned this week on ABC about a fellow Democratic Socialist’s call to cancel Thanksgiving in 2020, rolled…
The American Mind PodcastCommon GoodGate, Again
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Common good discourse, recently a central topic of right-wing…
The American Mind PodcastCatastrophe at Cambridge – Jason Arday and the Scandal at DEI
Jason Arday, who rocketed to academic stardom as the youngest black professor at Cambridge, now faces claims that his PhD thesis contains plagiarism. That's…
The American Mind PodcastZohran Mamdani Comes for the Pieds-à-Terre
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration announced a…
The American Mind PodcastA New Phase in the Iran War
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu entered meetings with Trump this week to discuss their respective wars with Russia and Iran. Will…
The American Mind PodcastAre Millennials and Gen Z Losing Out on Boomer-Level Wealth?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Faced with ever-greater housing costs, Millennials and Gen Z are…
The American Mind PodcastTrump Reopens the Trade War
President Trump this week has announced a set of 50 percent tariffs on various Canadian goods, with a 30-day window to negotiate before they are imposed. In…
The American Mind PodcastMarco Rubio to the Globalists: Get Lost
This week, Marco Rubio declared a crusade against the International Criminal Court, citing the ICC’s aim to deny America its sovereignty on behalf of globalist…
The American Mind PodcastGraham Platner Ousted – Where Does the Left Go Now?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Graham Platner, a self-proclaimed communist and the Democrats’…
The American Mind PodcastIs Race Communism Ascendant in America?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Appropriating the U.S. Founding to deliver a message of…
The American Mind PodcastSupreme Court Roundup with John Eastman, Part 1
This week John Eastman, Founding Director at Claremont’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, joins the show to discuss recent landmark Supreme Court…
The American Mind PodcastThe Future of America and the Claremont Contribution
Reporting from Claremont’s Publius fellowship, where rising young conservatives receive instruction on America’s founding principles from distinguished…
The American Mind PodcastWhat Makes an American—Birthright Citizenship and the U.S. at 250
On the cusp of America’s 250th anniversary, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission has prepared a lineup of events celebrating the nation’s virtues. This week…
The American Mind PodcastAmerica as Seen from Japan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com After returning from a week-long trip to Japan, Spencer Klavan…
The American Mind Podcast60 Days to End the War
The United States and the Iranian regime have signed a 14-point memo of understanding, establishing a 60-day window to negotiate the war's end. To work out the…
The American Mind PodcastThe Right's Media Problem—And How to Fix It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com The Left has controlled America's media institutions for decades…
The American Mind PodcastAmerica's Fight Night
A memo of understanding between the United States and Iran is reportedly taking shape, laying the groundwork for a potential deal that includes $300 billion to…
The American Mind PodcastAliens in America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com President Trump ordered the public release of images that may…
The American Mind PodcastAmerica's Privileged Class – The Press, Libel, and Defamation
Having departed from the founders' understanding of libel, the Supreme Court of today declines to protect the reputation of public figures—a gap that has been…
The American Mind PodcastTolkien-Pilled
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Pope Leo XIV, in his first encyclical, dropped a quote from…
The American Mind PodcastThe Truth about Derek Chauvin
We all know the story: officer Derek Chauvin was making an arrest in the summer of 2020 when he supposedly killed George Floyd—and became a national hate…
The American Mind PodcastThe Price of Drone Warfare
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com The landscape of battle in the last decade has drastically…
The American Mind PodcastBabel Bots
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV addressed the prospects of AI, warning against the enduring perils of Babel. Does he have a good alternative, or just an…
The American Mind PodcastIs the AI Backlash Here?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com A just-released Pew Research poll revealed that a majority of…
The American Mind PodcastAmerica 250: Go Big or Go Home ft. Matthew Mehan
Associate Dean of Hillsdale’s graduate school of government Matthew Mehan joins the guys to discuss his latest work, The American Book of Fables. It’s a richly…
The American Mind PodcastHomer’s Odyssey and Nolan’s Oddity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com The Odyssey: Homer’s epic tale of a man’s harrowing return home…
The American Mind PodcastPratt Boy Summer
Spencer Pratt, formerly a reality television star on MTV’s The Hills, has entered Los Angeles’s mayoral race as a Republican to challenge incumbent Karen Bass…
The American Mind PodcastThe Wilting Ivies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com As institutes of higher learning lose public trust, a Yale…
The American Mind PodcastCallooh, Callais
In a historic ruling, the Supreme Court has effectively declared it unconstitutional for legislatures to gerrymander based on race. This week, the guys unravel…
The American Mind PodcastA Rebirth of Faith?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com In a new Gallup poll, the number of young men who consider…
The American Mind PodcastThe Piker Pill
Over the weekend, a California man bolted past security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, wielding two firearms and a knife. The suspect was operating…
The American Mind PodcastTrump v. Slaughter Part III: Creating Monsters to Destroy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com In anticipation of an eventual Trump v. Slaughter ruling, Spencer…
The American Mind PodcastCloak and Docket
In a dramatic leak, The New York Times has published seven private memos from a 2016 exchange between Supreme Court Justices leading up to the now-famous…
The American Mind PodcastTrump v. Slaughter Part II: Look at Me, I am the Government Now
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com In this installment of our Trump v. Slaughter mini-series…
The American Mind PodcastChimping Out
For the second time in recorded primatology, a civil war has been observed between chimpanzees. This week, the guys get a little philosophical about the unique…
The American Mind PodcastGenocide or Hyperbole?
Over Easter weekend, as the Iran War approached its sixth week, Trump reissued his ultimatum to Iran: open the Strait of Hormuz or face complete destruction…
The American Mind PodcastThe Administrative State in the Slaughterhouse, Part I
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Host Spencer Klavan and Claremont president Ryan Williams kick…
The American Mind PodcastDispatch from Japan, Part III: Trumpism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Wrapping up a short series of talks focused on Japanese politics…
The American Mind PodcastCongress Take the Wheel
Amid an ongoing congressional battle over Department of Homeland Security funding, the House Democrats eked out a bill in the early hours last Friday—excluding…