E17: E17: Saurabh Sharma's hot take on immigration and why we must reform the corrupt elite class
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What steps must be taken to improve the immigration system? How can we hold government elites accountable?
On a new episode of "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Saurabh Sharma, President of the American Moment, for a wide-ranging discussion about the current (unfortunate) crop of elites in Washington, the faults within US immigration, filling a new conservative elite pipeline, and the future direction of the American right.
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00:00 Episode Start
00:05 Shakeup on the political right
02:42 Welcome Saurabh Sharma
03:22 Returning to The Swamp - against his better judgment
11:54 The crises American Moment aims to resolve
18:40 Filling the conservative elite pipeline
21:29 On being an “immigration restrictionist”
28:31 Immigration and assimilation
37:54 What’s wrong with the current crop of D.C. elites
43:20 You can’t unsee this
50:42 Positively good news
---- Reading List ----
American Moment
https://www.americanmoment.org/
What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism (Marginal Revolution) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/what-libertarianism-has-become-and-will-become-state-capacity-libertarianism.html
Coercion in the Name of Virtue (The Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94461328599540685
Wait Just One American Moment (National Review) https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/wait-just-one-american-moment/
The Kushner conundrum (The Spectator World) https://spectatorworld.com/topic/jared-kushner-conundrum-scapegoat-saboteur/
Inside the American Moment launch party (The Spectator World) https://spectatorworld.com/topic/american-moment-saurabh-sharma-nick-solheim-jake-mercier-launch-party/
We Must Build An Elite For This American Moment (The American Conservative) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/we-must-build-an-elite-for-this-american-moment/
---- Plugs for our guests ----
Follow Saurabh Sharma on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ssharmaUS
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