The American Mind ✓

@theammind · joined 31 Mar 2019

Commentary and debate explaining the ideas currently driving American political life. A publication of @Claremontinst.

48 314Followers

2 173Following

14 311Posts total

9.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 002this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.07%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.80%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 002	3 808	0.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.07%	12.23%	0.17×
Engagement rate	0.80%	1.37%	0.58×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

5.8K28 Aug

1K2 Sep

1.2K

6563 Sep

559

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.16%28 Aug

0.80%2 Sep

3.30%

0.30%3 Sep

0.72%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.37%.

What the audience does

Likes54.9%79 in total

Reposts17.4%25 in total

Replies6.2%9 in total

Quotes5.6%8 in total

Bookmarks16.0%23 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The scandal surrounding Jason Arday proves wokeness is alive and well. In her recent article, @herandrews breaks down both Arday’s repeated lies and misconduct, and the lengths Cambridge went to protect him in the name of DEI. https://t.co/QlUCrGzoCK 559 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Richard Lim joins this week's conversation with Claremont President @RpwWilliams, @SpencerKlavan, and @MESabo86 to discuss his new book, Refusing a Crown: How George Washington Changed the World. The discussion also covers FIRE’s free-speech challenge to the Trump Administration 656 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 European newspapers have reported that Mexican and Colombian cartel members have “volunteered” to fight with the Ukrainian military. If these reports are true, @BensmanTodd writes, the U.S. needs to terminate all knowledge transfer to Ukraine to prevent cartels from turning 1.2K views · 27 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 .@YoThatsRough argues that a strong dollar in international trade has hollowed out the American heartland and weakened domestic manufacturing. Goldman examines whether the dollar's reserve currency status still serves our national interest in a measured look at a recent speech h 1K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 "The common good" isn't a post-liberal import — it's as American as the Founding itself. Our founders knew it. We forgot. Daniel J. Mahoney, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage and Contributing Editor at the Claremont Review of Books, traces the idea through Aristotle, 5.8K views · 44 likes · 15 reposts · 3 replies 28 Aug 2026