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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 PodcastDispatch from Japan, Part II: From Antiquity to Modernity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Claremont Institute president Ryan Williams continues his…
The American Mind PodcastBoomers, Zoomers and Doomers
After another tense week of Iran-US operations, Trump is reportedly looking to broker a deal and snuff out the Middle East conflict. Meanwhile, amid rumors…
The American Mind PodcastDispatch from Japan, Part I
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Joining host Spencer Klavan fresh off the plane from a…
The American Mind PodcastDoes the Right Have a Woman Problem?
A buzzy new essay at New York Mag announces that some women have grown disgruntled at the MAGA movement and by their treatment from some on the New Right. Now…
The American Mind PodcastNear-Peer Conflict in Iran ft. Will Thibeau
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Will Thibeau joins host Spencer Klavan to take measure of our…
The American Mind PodcastAyatollah 2: Electric Boogaloo
Following the joint US-Israel airstrike on the Ayatollah Khamenei, the late dictator’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been picked successor by the regime. The…
The American Mind PodcastCalifornia versus Parents ft. Eric Wessan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com California’s radical law, forbidding schools and teachers from…
The American Mind PodcastNo More No More War
The Ayatollah Khameini is dead in a missile strike. The U.S. and Israel are effectively at war with Iran. Trump and his administration, hawkish on Iran, pursue…
The American Mind PodcastOverthrowing Nixon ft. James Rosen
Chief Washington Correspondent at Newsmax James Rosen sits down this week with Claremont Institute president Ryan Williams to discuss the deep state's…
The American Mind PodcastState of the Union: We Are So Back
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com President Trump took to the podium to deliver the first State of…
The American Mind PodcastThe Trump Tariffs Go to Court
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last week that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act does not give the president authority to impose tariffs—Alito…
The American Mind PodcastRubio Looks to the West
Following on from J.D. Vance’s bracing speech in 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on European allies to resist the managed decline of the West at…
The American Mind PodcastOur New Robot Overlords
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com Kicking off the Roundtable’s premium interview series, our AI…
The American Mind PodcastBad Bunny, Worse Politics
Superbowl LX went to the Seahawks, but the halftime show went to Puerto Rico with musician Bad Bunny, who performed almost entirely in Spanish (except, of…
The American Mind PodcastThe Mini-Bus, the Short Bus, and the Clown Car
The recent government shutdown standoff has reached an end but, in yet another stage of the war against immigration enforcement, only temporary funding for…
The American Mind PodcastICE Storm
Close on the heels of Renée Good's death, Minneapolis protestor Alex Pretti was killed in another altercation with ICE agents. Investigation into both…
The American Mind PodcastHalfway to the Midterms
As anti-ICE protests escalate in Minneapolis, agitators storm a church mid-service. But Trump’s deportation efforts are combining with economic pain to drive…
The American Mind PodcastMinnesota ICE (ft. Kyle Shideler)
This land is your land; this land is...Greenland? Following the recent arrest and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump has halted shipments of…
The American Mind PodcastMaduro No Más: Venezuela's Future After His Capture ft. Josh Treviño & R.J. Pestritto
Nicolás Maduro is in U.S. custody, pleading not guilty to federal drug and weapons charges. What does his capture mean for Venezuela, American foreign policy…
The American Mind PodcastWe Wish You A Merry Christmas
This week, hosts Ryan and Spencer sit down as the year closes out to share their Christmas plans and recommendations: music, theater, food, drink, and more!…
The American Mind PodcastNow It Can Be Told
Australia has suffered its deadliest mass shooting in decades, allegedly perpetrated by father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram, on the first night of Hannukah…
The American Mind PodcastSomalia et Alia
Under the nose of the Tim Walz regime, hundreds of millions of Minnesotan tax dollars have been defrauded by an array of shell organizations sending money…
The American Mind PodcastDouble Tap Dance
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being accused of war crimes after allegedly making a so-called “double-tap” strike against Venezuelan drug traffickers…
The American Mind PodcastFriends and Frenemies
A recent White House meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani gave the president a chance to flip the script while publicly debasing the rhetorical…
The American Mind PodcastI Will Be Your Tootsie-Nuzzi
In the wake of a bad election for Republicans, the Trump Administration seems to be reeling a bit as it looks for a new direction heading into Trump’s second…
The American Mind PodcastKondo for Congress
A bill to reopen the government has at last passed the Senate. It includes major concessions from Democrats on health care subsidies, earning moderate…
The American Mind PodcastGroy Polloi
Tucker Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic broadcaster, for a friendly interview, causing divisions to erupt on the Right. This week, as socialist…
The American Mind PodcastICE Gets Shaken Up
As Trump’s campaign to curb illegal immigration presses on, half of ICE’s top officers have been reassigned in what may be a significant policy shift ahead of…
The American Mind PodcastTroll King
The latest round of “No Kings!” rallies, reportedly attended by 7 million—average attendee, per Axios, mid-40s and female—took to the streets this weekend in…
The American Mind PodcastArt of the Hostage Deal
In a stirring climax to Trump’s middle east negotiations, 20 Israeli hostages were released back to their families after 738 days in brutal captivity. This…
The American Mind PodcastNobelesse Oblige
Trump has a twenty-point plan to end the war in Gaza, emphasizing demilitarization and the release of hostages. On the two-year anniversary of the October 7…
The American Mind PodcastPost-Kamala Clarity
This week, Matthew Peterson of The Blaze jumps in to discuss Pete Hegseth’s forceful declaration of war on DEI initiatives, including separate PT standards for…
The American Mind PodcastThe Kirk Awakening
Special guest Ryder Selmi, longtime friend of Charlie Kirk and Strategy Director at Beck & Stone, joins the hosts this week to recount his experience attending…
The American Mind PodcastRemembering Charlie
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, slain by a politically motivated shooter, will shift our politics markedly in the coming months and years. Director and…
The American Mind PodcastLies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The editors open with an analysis of the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a repeat violent offender, and discuss what it reveals about crime…
The American Mind PodcastA Grade of AI
At a Catholic school in Minneapolis, two children were killed, and many others injured, in a recent shooting at the hands of a transgender individual. The…
The American Mind PodcastChips Ahoy
Trump has reached a deal with semiconductor chip maker Intel to land the government a 10% stake in the firm. It’s a potential safeguard against China in an…
The American Mind PodcastPax Donaldiana
This week, the legacy media allowed their hatred for Trump to overrule any desire they may once have had for peace in Ukraine. The president held meetings with…
The American Mind PodcastThe Crooks in DC
Trump invokes the Home Rule Act of 1973 to clean up the nation’s crime-ridden capital, temporarily wresting control of the DC Metropolitan Police from local…
The American Mind PodcastHardball and Big Balls
As Texas attempts to redraw districts in Republicans’ favor before the midterms, Democrats skip town to Illinois and threaten nationwide retaliation. But…
The American Mind PodcastJeanetic Lottery
Sydney Sweeney’s latest, mildly provocative ad for American Eagle has prompted a tidal wave of complaints that the campaign is racist for flaunting not just…
The American Mind PodcastToo Little, Too Late Show (ft. Giancarlo Sopo)
Hosts Spencer Klavan and Mike Sabo revisit the 2016 RussiaGate hoax, prompted by new documents just declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi…
The American Mind PodcastArt of the Arms Deal
As Joe Biden shuffled toward the finish line of his presidency, he and his staff let off a final volley of pardons—but who was really holding the (virtual)…
The American Mind PodcastBig Bill, Big Win (ft. Eric Teetsel)
The hosts are joined this week by Claremont's Vice President of Communications and Beck & Stone co-founder Andrew Beck to recount Vice President JD Vance’s…
The American Mind PodcastNew York, New Left (ft. Inez Stepman)
New York assemblyman (and amateur rapper) Zohran Mamdani has hit upon a distilled blend of socialism, anticolonialism, and woke omnicausery to secure a…
The American Mind PodcastBunker Busted
The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's right—and by extension, the right of other states—to regulate or ban trans medical procedures for children. Meanwhile…
The American Mind PodcastNo Kings, No Congress
In a two-man Roundtable throwback, hosts Spencer Klavan and Mike Sabo offer some initial reaction to Israel’s precision strikes against Iran and the subsequent…
The American Mind PodcastBattle: Los Angeles
This week, special guest Peachy Keenan rounds out the cast with a report from LA, where riots are breaking out (again). Governor Gavin Newsom failed to gain…
The American Mind PodcastWhite-Collar Bots
Artificial Intelligence threatens to storm the office as tech companies compete to replace entry-level workers with “agent” underlings. Will this be the next…
The American Mind PodcastPutting DOGE Down
Michael Anton—newly dubbed “MAGA’s Machiavelli”—gets a profile in The Free Press and some well-deserved recognition. Well-read, well-spoken, and well-dressed…
The American Mind PodcastCovering Up the Cover-Ups
The sad announcement of Joe Biden's advanced cancer diagnosis has thrown fuel onto recriminations and speculations about his condition during his presidency…
The American Mind PodcastCongress Take the Wheel
As Europe withers and China rises, Trump makes a trip to the Middle East and charts out a new course. In a speech that raised some interventionist hackles, he…
The American Mind PodcastCrowd Funding and Mob Rule
To cap off the first 100 days of his administration, Trump sparred at length with Kristen Welker of NBC’s Meet the Press over his record so far—from…
The American Mind PodcastTrimming the Ivy
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…
The American Mind PodcastOf Comms and Conclaves
Knives are out as Pete Hegseth’s wife is let in on sensitive information about U.S. operations against the Houthis. Amid rumors of staff churn and conflicts…
The American Mind PodcastFuture-Maxxing
A new global order emerges. China grows bolder in the East, while Europe and Canada drift culturally and economically away from America. Will Trump’s tariffs…
The American Mind PodcastThe Fog of Trade War
Trump announces a sweeping tariff regime, then pauses it for 90 days—why? As a tactic to renegotiate trade deals? To reshore manufacturing? Some combination of…
The American Mind PodcastTask Force Dragging On
Attempting to retroactively set the narrative of U.S. involvement in Ukraine on behalf of the intelligence community, journalist Adam Entous of the New York…
The American Mind PodcastMixed Signals
Atlantic reporter Jeff Goldberg was mistakenly added to a national security group chat, leading to a DC media feeding frenzy—is there anything of substance to…
The American Mind PodcastTren Wreck
You’re fired. Trump, by executive order, has moved to terminate federal contracts with law firm Perkins Coie for its role in promoting the 2016 Russiagate…