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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 PodcastSliding into Senility
Russia is reigniting the space race as the House Intelligence Committee sounded the alarm that they may have already deployed an anti-satellite weapon system…
The American Mind PodcastRespect the “Other”
Republicans are seriously struggling to harness the momentum that Red-State governors have generated in favor of immigration enforcement. Is any Republican in…
The American Mind PodcastFalse God
Is Taylor Swift a Deep State plant to help get Biden reelected? Almost certainly not, but the theory does provide an interesting window into everyone’s 2024…
The American Mind PodcastShowdown on the Southern Border
The New York Times has anointed the Claremont Institute and its fellows as leaders in the fight against DEI. They think this makes Claremont a sinister cabal…
The American Mind PodcastTrump Ecocides the Opposition in Iowa
The Iowa results are in, and though they're not altogether shocking, they are revealing. Trump took the state with a commanding lead over all other candidates…
The American Mind PodcastEverything Woke Goes To...
Planes are literally falling apart in the sky--is DEI to blame, and does anybody care? Meanwhile, Biden found himself heckled in the middle of an early…
The American Mind PodcastSCALPED
It finally happened: Claudine Gay is out as president of Harvard after a tireless guerrilla journalism campaign led by the Manhattan Institute's Chris Rufo…
The American Mind PodcastYou Wild Colorado
The Supreme Court of Colorado has ruled that Donald Trump can be excluded from the state’s ballots under a circuitous 213-page reading of the 14th Amendment…
The American Mind PodcastCivil War Ain’t Like the Movies
Douglas Emhoff, the “Second Gentleman,” has made an amusing and perhaps telling unforced error in very publicly butchering the story of Hanukkah. Meanwhile…
The American Mind PodcastRevolt of the Kids
A generational divide is intensifying within the Left, as a radical ascendant generation increasingly decries the more moderate Boomers, as exemplified most…
The American Mind PodcastImagineering AI Domination
The terminally online are showing themselves unable to unplug from the negative feedback loops to which they subscribe. Hollywood, especially Disney, is…
The American Mind PodcastEighty-One Candles
A full complement of editors is joined by not one, but two special guests this week: Jeremy Carl & Michael Anton, both Claremont Institute senior fellows. In…
The American Mind PodcastPotemkin Villagers
Xi Jinping is coming to town and Gavin Newsom has decided that it’s finally time to clean up the city of feces and urban decay: San Francisco. But if you’re…
The American Mind PodcastRogue's Gallery
Seth and Spencer are going rogue again today, with a veritable who's who of psychopaths and weirdos from America's current moral and psychic breakdown. First…
The American Mind PodcastNoticing Things
AI is getting close to committing the grievous crime of noticing patterns in the data. Surely the government must step in. Biden recently signed an executive…
The American Mind PodcastHoly War
The House of Representatives has chosen a speaker at last. Their choice, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, seems to vindicate Matt Gaetz's risky maneuvering. The…
The American Mind PodcastHierarchy, not Hypocrisy
As war continues between Israel and Hamas, antisemitism flares up across the West in response to a jihadist attack on a hospital, falsely attributed in the…
The American Mind PodcastIsrael Under Attack
Hamas launched a series of devastating attacks against Israel over the last few days using everything from rockets to hang gliders, with a civilian death toll…
The American Mind PodcastGaetz to the Unknown
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz took advantage of a new procedural rule to orchestrate the ouster of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, hoping to force…
The American Mind PodcastBlue Sulla ft. Jeremy Carl
Gavin Newsom has been making national headlines lately, causing some to wonder whether he's got designs on the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. The…
The American Mind PodcastSlouching toward Washington
Oversized hoodie or tailored masters jacket--which way, Western man? As the Senate is terraformed into a mosh pit for the least common denominator, one must…
The American Mind PodcastSpecial Edition: Awakening to the Awokening, ft. Chris Rufo
This week the editors are off, but Ryan has pulled in activist and Manhattan Institute Fellow Chris Rufo for a special interview on his new book, America's…
The American Mind PodcastOh, the Irony!
Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for...well, defamation. Musk claims that Twitter/X has lost ad revenue as a result of ADL…
The American Mind PodcastDebates & Mugshots
As Donald Trump was hauled in and photographed in Fulton County, GA this week, his mug shot took the internet by storm with how unique and powerful it is while…
The American Mind PodcastTrumped up Charges ft. Professor John Yoo
This week, esteemed UC Berkeley professor John Yoo joins the editors to take a deep dive into the multiple indictments and charges being brought against Trump…
The American Mind PodcastRich Men North of Richmond
As fires ravage Maui and "takes" proliferate off the back of the tragedy, the editors discuss which interpretations and predictions--if any--have some heft to…
The American Mind PodcastTrolling Alone
Seth and Spencer examine the spiritual subtext of the Trump Indictment saga. Moreover, it seems Hillary Clinton has noticed (about five years late) that men in…
The American Mind PodcastGlobal Soufflé
New testimony paints the Biden family in an even worse light than usual, Trump has been indicted yet again, and climate alarmists are gearing up to put you…
The American Mind PodcastIn a Biden World
Revelations and accusations are swarming around Hunter Biden. A foreign informant has alleged that the Bidens received $10 million in bribes from the Ukrainian…
The American Mind PodcastAll Your Banks are Belong to Us
Banks both at home and abroad have been increasingly partaking in a troubling bout of digital warfare against their customers, some of whom are suspiciously…
The American Mind PodcastScreenshots Across the Bow
Moms for Liberty has drawn online ire by quoting Hitler in a newsletter as an attempt to raise the alarm about school indoctrination. But is apology the right…
The American Mind PodcastThe French Floyd
French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking…
The American Mind PodcastA Dalliance with Burisma
As Pride month has come and mostly gone, Spencer and Seth consider whether the Ts have dragged the LGBs by the nose into a carnival too extravagant to go on…
The American Mind PodcastWho will Indict the Indicters Themselves?
Trump has been indicted again. The Left feels sure they’ve got him this time, but the poll numbers haven’t moved at all. Time will tell who is right…
The American Mind PodcastThe New Theology in 2024
Armenians take to the streets to brawl with Antifa over provocative pride activities at schools in Glendale, CA, the Freedom Caucus is causing Kevin McCarthy…
The American Mind Podcast"Off-White Supremacy"
It's time once again for debt crisis theater as House republicans agree with Democrats on a proposed deal, acquiescing to massive debt in exchange for minor…
The American Mind PodcastSponsored by Satan
Conservatives are finally building up a head of steam when it comes to boycotts, making an example of Anheuser-Busch after their unholy union with Dylan…
The American Mind PodcastFirst Principles
Dr. Hadley Arkes joins the editors this week to offer advice to the pro-life movement and discuss the precepts of common sense that must underlie sound legal…
The American Mind PodcastA Very Pro-Natalist Mother's Day
As Mother's Day rolls around, the editors take a moment to analyze an increasingly troubling movement: anti-natalism. To help with the analysis, Helen Roy…
The American Mind PodcastBlue State Blues
The full cast is back this week to analyze the continuing deterioration of blue cities and states as middle-class Republicans flee coastal areas at…
The American Mind PodcastDeplatformed
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News following a defamation case between Fox and Dominion, coinciding with other ousters in like Don Lemon's at CNN. In New York…
The American Mind PodcastQueer Beer
When Anheuser-Busch inked a deal with Dylan Mulvaney to wokeify their subpar beer, Americans turned on the brand. The company’s stock price has sunk sunk by…
The American Mind PodcastCivil Rights LARPing
In record time, Democrats have managed to turn the massacre of Christian children by a transgender woman into a Civil Rights LARP. Two state representatives…
The American Mind PodcastAnecdictments
Whatever your personal opinion of Trump, his indictment is a somber moment for the trajectory of democracy in America. Ryan and Spencer discuss the dogged…
The American Mind PodcastTragedy in Tennessee
There's no sugarcoating the horror of what happened in Nashville this week as a disturbed young woman murdered six people, three of them aged 9 years old. The…
The American Mind PodcastLights, Camera, Indictment?
Sufferers of advanced Trump Derangement Syndrome are frothing at the mouth to think of Trump being indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan. Meanwhile…
The American Mind PodcastBanking on Outrage
In a first for The Roundtable, Seth and James alone take the stage. They discuss the stunning righteous indignation displayed by the nobody Democratic Reps…
The American Mind PodcastLivin’ the Meme
As warring factions grapple for power behind an increasingly transparent veneer of control and serenity, everyday Americans find themselves subject to a…
The American Mind PodcastTeenage Wasteland
Peachy Keenan joins the editors to discuss the tweet that broke the internet: an anecdote about the effects of racial preferences in admission turned into a…
The American Mind PodcastDahl-eted
In a two-man episode of the Round Table (the linear table?), Seth Barron and Spencer Klavan conduct a close reading of Puffin’s changes to the works of Roald…
The American Mind PodcastThe Balloon Gap
As extremely dangerous chemical spills are happening across America, and as UFOs get shot down day after day, our editors (joined by Helen Roy!) discuss…
The American Mind PodcastThe Actual State of the Union
Turning from Biden’s gasbaggery to the real issues at stake, our editors discuss what is needed for a digital revival, how the US left a Chinese spy balloon in…
The American Mind Podcast“What Is Truth?”
This week's edition of "This is Fine" kicks off with a close analysis of an increasingly common phenomenon in mainstream media: supplanting objectivity with…
The American Mind PodcastThis is Fine
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The American Mind PodcastClassified
After ripping Trump for having classified documents on his property for months, the mainstream media has done an about face and are now running damage control…
The American Mind PodcastManaged Decline
As flights are grounded across America and federal officials float—then retract—a ban on gas stoves, the editors gather to discuss the gradual dissolution of…
The American Mind PodcastSpeaker Interference
Representative Kevin McCarthy has failed multiple times to win election as Speaker of the House. Is this a wake-up call for GOP leadership, or the wrong outlet…
The American Mind Podcast2022: A Year-End Review
As Christmas rapidly approaches, our editors gather to reflect on the whole of 2022. From the mobilization of the social media swarm in support of The Current…
The American Mind PodcastInto the Pandemiverse
At long last interracial marriage has been legalized at the federal level in the US! In reality, of course, the law Biden signed this week is more about…
The American Mind PodcastTAM: The Artificial Mind
AI-generated images have taken the internet by storm over the last week. Are AI profile pics the cute veneer over a coming existential threat to human…