Reagan tried to do away with some small federal agency (idk, the Bureau of Weights and Measurements, or something like that) and he found it impossible to abolish them. This was 40-sum years ago…
In the movie The Prestige, two magicians engage in a lifelong battle of one-upsmanship and vengeance. One is a technical genius, capable of performing magic even his arch rival can't decipher. The other is a master showman, a charismatic entertainer who can make trifles look engrossing. The American Mind podcast reminds of that technical genius in need of the showman. In almost every episode, there's some five-minute pearl of wisdom I haven't heard anywhere else, utterly buried in an hour of conversation, that any other podcast would make into the entire thesis of the show. Here, 21 minutes in, one of the hosts launches off from a description of a gigichad meme into the most insightful and succinct dissection of our generational shift from a 9 to 5 capitalist labor patriarchy into a progressive longhouse era of women in the workforce, and the civil war that will likely come about as a result... in the middle of a discussion of the non-story of progressives calling JD Vance "weird", in the middle of a podcast with 26 likes. And it's like, "Guys, insane takes like THAT are what we aren't getting elsewhere. Make THAT the podcast. We're covered on the JD Vance "weird" conversation."
