The American Mind Podcast

In a horrifying turn of events reminiscent of chemical castration in 1940s Britain, doctors and nurses in Los Angeles’ juvenile detention system have been injecting teenage boys with estrogen against their will and without consent. Ryan and Spencer outline how this could go from bad to worse. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...

Portland is the new ground zero for insurrectionist sentiments in America. Insurgents have targeted a federal courthouse for more than 50 consecutive days, attempting to burn it down multiple times with people still inside. Spencer and Ryan weigh in on how these insurgents threaten the very fabric of America. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...

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? Ghislaine Maxwell is in custody, but she oddly refuses to tell authorities who her husband is. Is it Jeffrey Epstein? Plus: what can ancient Rome tell us about where we’re heading today? Spencer and David weigh in as they hold down the fort....

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 America into something unrecognizable. Plus: Terry Crews gets based, and won’t back down. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com/sub...

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 about the state of American politics? What can conservatives do to fight against that ideology? Our editors have the answers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...

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, eventually all thought. Plus: Princeton faculty has made a series of misguided woke demands. Our editors stare into the void of depravity which faces us all. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

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 president. Our editors, through hearty laughter, talk about the national ramifications of such a campaign. Plus: Terry Crews gets based, attacks parts of the BLM movement, and--most importantly--sticks to his guns. This is a public episode. If you'd...

With the coronavirus surging again, Daddy Newsom rises to the fore as Karen-in-Chief--shutting down businesses across California, closing beaches, and banning fireworks just in time for the 4th. Meanwhile, CHAZ/CHOP is no more, scuppered after CHOP’s armed private security executed a young man. Plus: Columbus, Ohio removes a statue of Christopher Columbus while GOP senators work to abolish Columbu...

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 force. Our editors discuss the frightening circumstances and important takeaways from this insurrectionist experiment. Plus: where’s the Left when China brings down the jackboot of tyranny on Hong Kong? This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

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 abolish Columbus Day in a move that shows Republicans in leadership have learned nothing from the last four years. On top of that, how much havoc can woke AI cause? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

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 fireworks for the 4th of July all in a misguided attempt to control citizens. There’s an op afoot trying to blame conservatives for not wearing masks as an ideological position. But who’s really being anti-science here? This is a public epi...

Have we forgotten that revolutionary ideology breeds actual revolutions? It seems some of our leaders on the Right may have. Our fearless Claremont president urges them to Stand Up! BLM and the left continue to go unchecked, Big Tech weaponizes deregistration without oversight, and our military leaders issue renegade statements that don’t bode well, to say the least. Our editors discuss the Americ...

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 struggles to be smart and courageous in response to the current coup attempt. In the face of it all, Ryan rallies Republicans to take courage and Stand Up for America in the latest statement from the Claremont Institute.  This is a public epi...

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 concede that technology has allowed Americans the space to be free and successful. But with the growing control of the leftist woke tyrants over big tech, our very existence and ability to communicate meaningful ideas is at risk. Also: Matt...

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 continue to work hand-in-glove for power, while no one holds them accountable for their violence and attempts to delegitimize the 2016 election. Prominent military officials signal their disagreement with Trump on using the military to stop the...

The Lincoln Project puts out shamelessly deceitful (and laughably uninspired) propaganda insinuating President Trump is a racist. Google tries to demonetize the Federalist. Plus: Black Lives Matter rallies people to raise money for Black lives but instead funnels it to the Democrat Party and other activist groups. Our editors discuss the demonstrations of political power in the streets and the era...

Our editors discuss woke religion and its unfalsifiable claim that nebulous racism permeates our country--as compared to the real racism brought about by the administrative state and the elites who run it. Meanwhile, party lines are getting blurred, revealing which movements have the real power of the people behind them. Finally: same story, different victim—Google tries to demonetize the  Federal...

Behind and beyond the Democrat and Republican party, there are two coalitions mobilizing Americans: the BLM-Antifa coalition and the MAGA coalition. The traditional parties must bow down to these new populist fronts in order to harness their power. Unfortunately for the sincerest among the woke, the money BLM raises is not going where anyone thinks it is. It's the scam of multiculturalism writ lar...

The attempts at eradicating any trace of Western history continue this week, but who would have thought that the one to exhibit the most spine in the West would be Emmanuel Macron? Our editors give credit where it is due, discussing French nationalism and the struggles that are giving way to our full-blown regime crisis. Finally: the leftists come for poor John Sutter, and our editors aren’t havin...

There’s a new religion in the land, but it offers no absolution. Our editors discuss the new convulsions of our latest culture war culture war,  in which ignorant armies rage against the very principles of equality on which America was built. Our editors unpack the important cultural shifts that brought about this crisis and ponder where to go from here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

There’s a cultural revolution taking place on your city streets, your screens, and even your bookshelf. Mayor De Blasio vows to name a street in every borough “Black Lives Matter,”  Gone with the Wind  is erased from HBO, and Drew Brees bends the knee while being dragged through the mud to avoid getting cancelled. More in sorrow than in anger, our editors contemplate the radicalization of our ruli...

The state of nature is on full display in a pocket of Seattle called the “Autonomous Zone.” It turns out to be a fishbowl into which Americans can gaze and see all the effects of leftist miseducation on full display. It took less than 48 hours for a warlord to emerge, of course, and things only get wilder from there. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

The Antifa outrage mob attempts the wholesale erasure of history, sweeping through the U.S. and Europe and leaving no monument untoppled. Winston Churchill, the great leader who literally took the fight to real fascists, is among the first to be defamed. By way of Shakespeare and Lincoln's second inaugural, Ryan and James ask: when will it end? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss th...

The country watches the effects of the 1619 Project come to life in the form of weaponized social justice and anti-American riots. The ruling class goes full force in their efforts to unseat our elected president. Woke channels brainwash children with a gnostic leftist fantasy, and those who should know better sadly capitulate.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other su...

In this episode, the editors look to the final frontier, revisit some of The American Mind’s best essays, and answer your questions in the mailbag. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com/subscribe