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The Ricochet Podcast
The Ricochet Podcast

Tariff Tiffs and DOGEmestic Disruption

The Trump administration’s days of thunder roll on while just about everyone outside the DOGE team struggles to keep up. While many see little more than nonsense and mayhem, today’s guest, Daniel McCarthy, recognizes a sound strategy in tariff threats, iconoclasts heading executive agencies, and even the baffling Gaza Strip pitch, to address America’s mounting challenges at home and abroad. Plus, Steve, James and Charlie discuss the meltdown over USAID cuts; the dismal national report card; and the “Orwellian nightmare” facing… federal bureaucrats. Audio in this week’s open: NBC’s Hallie Jackson describes the panic of federal workers and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R - MO) talks about USAID on the floor of the Senate
Hosts:
Charles C. W. CookeJames LileksSteve Hayward
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Ricochet

March 2023

3 Whisky Happy Hour
3 Whisky Happy Hour

The Return of Willmoore Kendall

Willmoore Kendall was one of the great political scientists of the postwar era, and has been back on our minds lately for a number of reasons. As a heterodox champion of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, a critic of the place of John Locke in American political thought, and a defender of majoritarian deliberation, his provocative ideas are making a comeback in the age of nationalist populism. Kendall died at the too early age of 58 way back in 1967, following a brilliant if somewhat erratic and always controversial academic career. In addition to his scholarship, he worked as a journalist in Spain during the civil war in the 1930s (this is where he acquired his anti-communism), a CIA spy, and even wrote a book about baseball, as well as helping to found National Review magazine in 1955. At the time of his death, Kendall left behind an unfinished book that touched off a controversy that is still raging today, entitled The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition.
Host:
Steve Hayward
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Ricochet