You're gonna be hard pressed...
Loury: “Everybody else in the 21st Century is making their way where the streets are paved with gold here in the U.S. Everybody else is availing themselves of all the opportunities of freedom. And here we are, bellyaching and telling our children that it doesn’t apply to them.”
We have a massive void in leadership
Atlas: “We have a tremendous absence of courage. It’s true that the cancel culture that we’ve all experienced on campus and elsewhere is powerful, but we need people to step up … you must do that or the freedoms disappear.”
Full interview:
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They say company ceos play to...
Atlas: “We have entrusted our children to [university administrators], and by doing so we’ve entrusted the future of our country.
There is nothing more important than teaching the younger generation to think critically. That is the role of a university, it’s not to learn facts out of a book—you could do that by reading on your own—it’s simply to understand engaging ideas that differ, that you have to judge and think through—that’s an essential task to be able to function as an individual let alone lead.”
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I can't think of anything more harmful
Atlas: “Everything is racial now … particularly in these elite universities where the students there, to me, are the most sheltered, privileged people in the country … these people [with] very little experience are pushing this forward.”
Full interview:
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One of my greatest concerns...
Loury: “They’re pushing this reparations thing as if you can give $5 million dollars a head to anybody because they are black and not undermine the very capacity to govern your country.”
Full interview: https://www.independent.org/multimedia/detail.asp?id=7316
Was slavery wrong?
Loury: “Obviously, slavery was wrong … but emancipation was right—and the progress over the century and a half since of the enslaved population having become, by now, the most powerful and wealthiest large number of African descended people on the planet, is historic.”
Episode 8
Jennifer Sey: “In taking these ‘woke’ stances [businesses] shield themselves from scrutiny from the press—they’re do-gooders saving the world, they're not "greedy businessmen"—they want to be celebrated for that—the press is failing to interrogate their basic business practices.”
Episode 8
Jennifer Sey: “[We used to think] of business leaders as largely of ‘the Right’. That’s not the case anymore. Whether they are privately [on the Right] I don’t know—publicly, they take these left-wing stances. It’s an attempt to profit off Millenial and Gen Z activism.”
Episode 8
“I was told there was no place for me at [Levi Strauss] anymore … my contributions didn’t matter—I had violated this ‘tenet,’ which was lockdown, use children as shields to protect the elderly, which [isn't how] our society is supposed to work."
Watch: http://bit.ly/3Mv1ZeP
Episode 7
VDH: “When a young student comes to campus, or a young assistant professor knows [they] are going to be up for tenure, they have to make a decision—do they go along with things and keep quiet, or even be an advocate for these ‘woke’ causes, or do they speak out against them?
If they speak out against them, the whole power of the university is going to be unleashed against them.”
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Episode 7
Atlas: "[At universities], there's the ideological takeover [and] the way they censor … [they're essentially teaching students to] use character assassination and intimidation instead of having an actual debate on the ideas.”
Full Episode: http://bit.ly/3TP5hLu
Episode 7
VDH: “We now have (subsidized) huge numbers of students with no computational or mathematical training, who were therapeutically trained to spot discrimination, transphobia, or #climatechange deniers—they have no ability to distinguish falsity from truth.”
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Episode 7
VDH: “[If] 'in the way of equity'—you can go after a speaker or try to injure somebody—that’s ok because these are necessary means in a very psycho-dramatic fashion that a university is not just a place to teach, it's a place to train progressive soldiers for their army.”
Episode 7
Atlas: “Universities have lost their pedestal—rightfully so—as entrusted with the sacred role of teaching our children.”
VDH: “They gave up the idea of being intellectually diverse. Diversity became 'we're going to look (diverse)'.”
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Episode 5
Atlas: "Very few elected officials showed leadership. One who did was
Governor Ron DeSantis ... You don't back down, you never give up, or the country is finished."
Watch the full episode here: http://bit.ly/3LnLAYI
Episode 5
"These claims were false—and, importantly, known to be false by spring 2020."
Not new data, not learned later.
As #Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
Watch here: http://bit.ly/3LnLAYI
Episode 7
Atlas: "I'm not sure [the pandemic management] was a grand plan. It was a confluence of interests—from the Klaus Schwab #WEF to moral corruption to pharmaceutical money—but the endpoint for all of them was to implement lockdowns." http://bit.ly/3YX5EEF
Episode 7
VDH: “In periods of turmoil the left sees opportunity to advance an agenda that otherwise wouldn’t have public support."
Atlas: “It wasn't people who were the caricature of those who stamp out freedom—fascistic, cartoonish Mussolinis—it was by the favored liberal authorities.”
Episode 5
"Lockdowns didn't affect everyone equally ... they spared the affluent but really hurt low-income families.
I thought we were a society that cared about poor people? This was a massive shift of burden, harming low-income families and children and sparing the affluent."
Episode 5
"The risk to healthy children is extremely low—that was known in the earliest days of the pandemic, March 2020.
It was a complete lie that teachers were high risk and schools had to be closed, or that any measures had to be done in schools to protect teachers."