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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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Episodes
The American Mind Podcast“Truth and Reconciliation” | The Roundtable Ep. 43
In a staggering display of dangerous hysterics, leftists have taken to floating the idea of post-Trump “truth and reconciliation commissions.” This of course…
The American Mind PodcastSpecial Edition: Matt Braynard on Election Integrity
In this special edition of The American Mind Podcast, Ryan Williams and Spencer Klavan interview Matt Braynard, former data chief and strategist for Trump's…
The American Mind PodcastElection 2020: The Fight Begins | The Roundtable Ep. 42
November 3 has come and gone, but we still don't know who’ll take the White House come January. Election officials seem to have spent the day flailing around…
The American Mind PodcastPre-Election Calm | The Roundtable Ep. 41
In a desperate final gambit for relevance, the legacy media has been actively trying to prevent you from hearing about Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings…
The American Mind PodcastToobin or not Toobin | The Roundtable Ep. 40
In a disgusting display of unbridled power, Twitter and Facebook have censored the New York Post’s exposé on Hunter Biden--Twitter has gone so far as to lock…
The American Mind PodcastCrack is Back | The Roundtable Ep. 39
Surprising nobody who’s paying attention, Facebook and Twitter decided to preemptively censor a New York Post exposé about Hunter Biden’s role in mediating…
The American Mind PodcastThe Harris Class | The Roundtable Ep. 38
Mike Pence took the stage last night against Kamala Harris. On full display were Kamala’s religious identitarianism and her utter mediocrity. Our editors…
The American Mind PodcastThe Existential Questions of 2020: A Special Edition of the American Mind Podcast
In this special edition of the American Mind podcast, we apply the themes of our special edition podcasts on multiculturalism, the 1619 Project, and preserving…
The American Mind PodcastThe "Debate" | The Roundtable Ep. 37
Trump took on Joe Biden and Chris Wallace in the debate on Tuesday night, demonstrating more than anything how far off the Left and the media are from reality…
The American Mind PodcastEscalation | The Roundtable Ep. 36
The Berggruen Institute’s VP of Programs, Nils Gilman, recently tweeted out what is tantamount to death threats against Michael Anton. No retraction has been…
The American Mind PodcastOn Death Threats | The Roundtable Ep. 36 Segment 1
Calling for the death of your political opponents is wrong, right? Right. Well, The Berggruen Institute’s Nils Gilman seems to think calling for death is…
The American Mind PodcastSCOTUS Fever | The Roundtable Ep. 36 Segment 2
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, throwing the entire 2020 election into a new light. The future of the Court is now on the line. Predictably, this development has…
The American Mind PodcastSurvivor: Louisville Edition | The Roundtable Ep. 36 Segment 3
In the wake of the grand jury indictment in the death of Breonna Taylor, Louisville, KY has entered a now-predictable state of unrest that resulted in the…
The American Mind PodcastThe Coup | The Roundtable Ep. 35
America is under attack by BLM and Antifa authoritarians, backed by Democrats, who decided to mount a blitz against America’s governing institutions…
The American Mind PodcastThe Coming Coup. | The Roundtable Ep. 35 Segment 1
Have you listened recently to what the Left is telling you? It should unsettle you. Democrats are actively trying to subvert the very core institutions that…
The American Mind PodcastHaters Gonna Hate | The Roundtable Ep. 35 Segment 2
Los Angeles Magazine recently wrote a hit piece about the Claremont Institute—and it’s hilariously bad. From false and terrible arguments to cheesy…
The American Mind PodcastLeo Strauss and Queer Theory | The Roundtable Ep. 35 Segment 3
Leo Strauss was a great man and a great political philosopher. That is why the American Political Science Association made an award in his name to be…
The American Mind PodcastMichael Anton on the Stakes of 2020
In this special edition of The American Mind Podcast, join Ryan Williams, President of The Claremont Institute, as he interviews Michael Anton during…
The American Mind PodcastMind Control, 93% Effective! | The Roundtable Ep. 34
Your eyes do not deceive you. Violent rioting has gripped the streets of American cities; more and more homeless are pouring out onto the sidewalks; and we…
The American Mind PodcastYour Lyin’ Eyes | The Roundtable Ep. 34 Segment 1
“Experts” in and out of government thought they had perfected data manipulation in 2016, and since then they’ve refused to adapt even as their methods have…
The American Mind PodcastHypocritical Hollywood | The Roundtable Ep. 34 Segment 2
In its latest act of self-immolation, the Academy is demanding that films live up to racial and gender quotas to be considered for an Oscar. This won’t save…
The American Mind PodcastCritical Race Theory | The Roundtable Ep. 34 Segment 3
Critical race theory has gotten its claws into the American bureaucracy. Trainings are held covertly to teach you that you are a horrible person and must cede…
The American Mind PodcastUnmasking Leftist Hypocrisy | The Roundtable Ep. 33
America is in trouble. Our corrupt academy has been working for years to churn out obedient lemmings who swallow the talking points of their increasingly…
The American Mind PodcastResist the Blackpill | The Roundtable Ep. 32
Amid the riots, the lockdowns, and the ceaseless media deceit, it’s tempting to just give up and wait for the end of America. But that’s exactly what the…
The American Mind PodcastKenosha Riots | The Roundtable Ep. 32 Segment 1
As the violent Left is set alight by another police shooting and subsequent Democratic agitation, they turn and set American cities alight. This time, two…
The American Mind PodcastSecession is on the Table | The Roundtable Ep. 32 Segment 2
With a meager sixty-seven days until the general election in November, Democrats have moved from talking about secession as a last-ditch effort in a war game…
The American Mind PodcastMake Your Stand | The Roundtable Ep. 32 Segment 3
The media tells you a misleading narrative first, and the facts only if convenient. Various government entities actively encourage or refuse to stop savagery…
The American Mind PodcastThe Future Liberals Want | The Roundtable Ep. 31
California is a dumpster fire of government corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude, and social breakdown--and it’s coming for a state near you! This is literally…
The American Mind PodcastCalifornia, the Nation’s Dumpster Fire | The Roundtable Ep. 31 Segment 1
Rolling blackouts are hitting hundreds of thousands of Californians during the worst heat wave since 2006. Wildfire is spreading across the state like…well…
The American Mind PodcastThe DNC Cringefest | The Roundtable Ep. 31 Segment 2
Only 75 days out from the general election, the Democrats are finally holding their national convention. Everyone, even prominent left-wing figures, agree that…
The American Mind PodcastQAnon and Netflix | The Roundtable Ep. 31 Segment 3
A reporter recently asked President Trump if he is secretly saving the world from “pedophiles and cannibals.” This threw gasoline on the QAnon conspiracy…
The American Mind PodcastPreserving the American Way of Life: A Special Edition of the American Mind Podcast
In this special edition of the American Mind podcast, we make the case that conservatives should make their mission preserving the way of life--and explore…
The American Mind PodcastThe Kamala Cascade | The Roundtable Ep. 30
Joe Biden has picked Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate. Is it really as bad a choice as it seems, or do the Dems have a secret game plan?…
The American Mind PodcastVeepstakes are Finally Over | The Roundtable Ep. 30 Segment 1
With less than two months until election day, Joe Biden has finally announced his vice presidential pick: Kamala Harris. This pick caused mixed reactions on…
The American Mind PodcastMask Hysteria | The Roundtable Ep. 30 Segment 2
As riots in the name of George Floyd continue around America’s urban hubs, a viral video has emerged of an Australian police officer chokeslamming a woman who…
The American Mind PodcastBlack Lives MAGA | The Roundtable Ep. 30 Segment 3
All across America, “Back the Blue” and “Black Lives MAGA” rallies have been cropping up. But mainstream media outlets won’t give them a megaphone. What gives?…
The American Mind PodcastImpending Electionmageddon | The Roundtable Ep. 29
In a week that seems straight from the fever dream, everything seems to trend toward American upheaval and even crackup. New election-war-games run by the most…
The American Mind PodcastWar Gaming November | The Roundtable Ep. 29 Segment 1
Lefty all-stars, including John Podesta and some remnants of the NeverTrump cohort, gathered to run war games to try and predict what will likely happen in…
The American Mind PodcastPerson, Woman, Man, Camera, TV | The Roundtable Ep. 29 Segment 2
The media has been running cover for Joe Biden in an attempt to prevent him from being fed (barely) alive to President Trump on the debate stage. On the flip…
The American Mind PodcastEthnomathematics and Based Trader Joe’s | The Roundtable Ep. 29 Segment 3
The woke mob has already come for your jobs, your education, your media, your very way of life. Now, they’re coming for basic truths of the world like 2+2=4…
The American Mind PodcastIdentity, Nationalism, and Road Trips | The Roundtable Ep. 28
Join the editors for a frank discussion about black American nationalism, and nationalism more generally. Then: Matt reports on his road trip through several…
The American Mind PodcastRace and the Founding | The Roundtable Ep. 28 Segment 1
Under the relentless assault on American values from the 1619 project and other racially divisive leftist tactics, some conservatives are flailing as they try…
The American Mind PodcastRoad Trip Report: California to Montana | The Roundtable Ep. 28 Segment 2
Matt reports on the dramatic differences he’s seen in his family as they have escaped the clutches of SoCal on a red-state road trip. Plus: how should…
The American Mind PodcastSliding Down the Slippery Slope from Portland to LA | The Roundtable Ep. 27
In a dark and twisted experiment, L.A. Juvenile Hall is forcibly injecting teenage boys with estrogen without their or their parents’ consent. Meanwhile…
The American Mind PodcastThe Feds and White Fragility | The Roundtable Ep. 27 Segment 1
The hyper-woke “bias training” that has been ravaging corporate America is now being installed in the federal government. Ryan and Spencer discuss a shocking…
The American Mind PodcastForced Hormone Therapy | The Roundtable Ep. 27 Segment 2
In a horrifying turn of events reminiscent of chemical castration in 1940s Britain, doctors and nurses in Los Angeles’ juvenile detention system have been…
The American Mind PodcastThe Battle of Portland | The Roundtable Ep. 27 Segment 3
Portland is the new ground zero for insurrectionist sentiments in America. Insurgents have targeted a federal courthouse for more than 50 consecutive days…
The American Mind PodcastThe Natural Result of BLM | The Roundtable Ep. 26
Nick Cannon spews enough racist and anti-Semitic bile to get himself fired from ViacomCBS, but is he just saying the quiet part of BLM Inc. ideology out loud?…
The American Mind PodcastDeforming America | The Roundtable Ep. 25
You thought 2020 was weird before. But now Kanye is running for president, the bots are ready to teach you wokespeak, and Joe Biden has pledged to transform…
The American Mind PodcastPledging to End America | The Roundtable Ep. 25 Segment 1
Joe Biden has pledged to transform America should he win in 2020. What exactly does that mean for the American way of life? What does such a bold statement say…
The American Mind PodcastHow to Write Wokely | The Roundtable Ep. 25 Segment 2
Language matters. Textio, the new language-cleansing app, is just one among a number of robotic brain worms poised to emasculate and denature all language and…
The American Mind PodcastYeezy Nation | The Roundtable Ep. 25 Segment 3
2020 has been one of the strangest years on record, and then in walks Kanye West to make it even stranger with his announcement that he’s running for…
The American Mind PodcastKaren-in-Chief | The Roundtable Ep. 24
With the coronavirus surging again, Daddy Newsom rises to the fore as Karen-in-Chief--shutting down businesses across California, closing beaches, and banning…
The American Mind PodcastThe CHOP Cop Shop | The Roundtable Ep. 24 Segment 1
CHAZ/CHOP has finally been shut down by Seattle’s actual police, but not before several murders were committed--most recently by CHOP’s own private police…
The American Mind PodcastThe Gormless Old Party GOP | The Roundtable Ep. 24 Segment 2
Columbus, Ohio has, ironically, removed a 22-foot tall statue of the city’s namesake, Christopher Columbus. Meanwhile, three GOP senators back an idea to…
The American Mind PodcastLockdown 2.0 | The Roundtable Ep. 24 Segment 3
Daddy Newsom, the Karen-in-Chief, is back and insufferable as ever. This time he’s shutting down businesses in California (again), closing beaches, and banning…
The American Mind PodcastAmerican Heresy | The Roundtable Ep. 23
Have we forgotten that revolutionary ideology breeds actual revolutions? It seems some of our leaders on the Right may have. Our fearless Claremont president…
The American Mind PodcastStand Up, America! |The Roundtable Ep. 23 Segment 1
The radical goals of our Marxist mob are coming to fruition. DAs across the country announce they will not be pressing charges for BLM riot crimes. The Right…
The American Mind PodcastSweet Land of Deregistration | The Roundtable Ep. 23 Segment 2
Cancel culture just leveled up in the big tech world as our nerd overlords use deregistration to wipe dissident sites completely out of existence. Our editors…
The American Mind PodcastThe Coup | The Roundtable Ep. 23 Segment 3
The Claremont Institute seeks to lower the temperature of our political moment and to convince Americans of the price of failure to do so. BLM and the Left…