Point of View September 24, 2026 – Hour 2 : Updates from the Week

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kerby Anderson.

[00:00:19] Second hour today we were going to spend some time talking about the Lindsay Clancy case, but in this particular case it gives us some free time, which I think I'm going to focus some of our time and attention on some very good articles that Liberty posted, some which she had time to get to, others which she did not. And since this last hour we spent some time talking about education, probably the best way to illustrate some of our concerns is to really tell the story of Nicole Hannah-Jones.

[00:00:48] Some of you might say, you keep referring to that, but I don't know what you mean, and I think first of all we have to recognize that she has written of course for the New York Times, put together the New York Times 1619 Project. You might remember that's where the argument is, America didn't start in 1620 or America didn't start in 1776.

[00:01:07] America started when the first slaves made their way to Jamestown and of course you have this sort of racist screed in this anti-American idea, which of course has now been used in the classrooms.

[00:01:19] Well, okay, in a very widely read essay in the New York Times Magazine, she actually tells her story, and it chronicles her experience and her husband's deliberate decision to enroll their daughter in one of the New York City public schools.

[00:01:40] This particular article I'm reading from says one of the worst public schools, but I have to admit, I know people in New York City, there aren't many good schools, so most of them are in the negative sense. And the results are entirely predictable because she recounts at one point her realization that her daughter thought that she could do basic math when in fact she could not.

[00:02:05] And when she thought she was probably a good writer, had writing assignments, which again, I'm using her phraseology here, Nicole Hannah-Jones, who is a very good writer. I may disagree with her politically, but a very good writer for the New York Times, were rife with uncorrected punctuation, capitalization, and grammatical errors simply because the teacher were not checking her work.

[00:02:27] And so a lot of this was about this idea that, you know, what we need to do is we need to show solidarity with individuals in New York City. So instead of being like in some of the elitists saying, although I'm concerned about poor students in America, I'm going to make sure my student gets to go to an elite private school. She actually enrolled her daughter in really one of the worst public schools in New York City.

[00:02:54] And so as a result, what you see is this. Again, I'm reading for a moment from John Daniel Davidson, and I'm not having post this one for tomorrow, but I will in a minute quote from one we will talk about tomorrow. He says it's astonishing to read her account of the elementary schools and middle schools that her daughter attended.

[00:03:19] These, in many cases were, at least according to Nicole Hannah-Jones, were violent and chaotic, even during the lunch, especially during the lunch hours, where there was no adult supervision. Of course, there was no homework. There was no real classroom instruction. But even more astonishing was to discover how uninterested, apparently, Nicole Hannah-Jones was in the substance of her daughter's schooling.

[00:03:49] Years go by, it seems, without her asking about what her daughter is reading, asking to look at her schoolwork, or pressing the school about not assigning homework. So this gets back to a point we just made a minute ago with Larry Sand. Okay, there are some problems. One is the teachers weren't teaching. Number two, the parents weren't checking. As you'll also gather, number three, social media, AI.

[00:04:17] You add all that up, and you have a disaster. Okay, so, first of all, she goes through and explains grade school and middle school. Now, interestingly enough, somewhere along the line, Nicole Hannah-Jones writes about discovering, once her daughter is in high school, that she actually was never taught algebra, despite the fact that her daughter had failed the statewide algebra exam in the eighth grade.

[00:04:45] She says, I enrolled her in algebra tutoring. After an assessment, the center's director called me and told me that she knew very little algebra, had huge gaps in many of the building blocks of math that she could have learned in elementary school, like the mastery of long division and fractions. We're talking about the basics here. You know, as I pointed out, second grade, I was in the slow group, but eventually figured it out.

[00:05:13] I was able to add and divide and all those kinds of things. Later on, you learn some of that in second grade, some of it in fourth grade. But nevertheless, you pick all of that up eventually. And the same thing about writing and reading and all of the rest. And part of the reason is, as he points out, one of the issues is, and the title of his piece is, Hannah-Jones-Doesn't-Know-What-Education-Is, is part of the reason for some of this is she's disengaged because, after all,

[00:05:40] the concept here that she has of education isn't really what we have as the concept in Western education, Western culture. Because, again, this particular piece by John Daniel Davidson was, part of the reason is almost certain because Hannah-Jones' idea of education differs from both

[00:06:03] the classical Western definition, even the more pragmatic, utilitarian concept of education, adopted even after the Industrial Revolution. In classical terms, the purpose of education, we talk about this so often here on Point of View, is to impart not just knowledge, but virtue. An educated student is formed in truth and goodness and beauty, which are the proper subjects of education.

[00:06:32] In utilitarian terms, the idea is to acquire basic skills that will enable a student to find employment. But, again, whether you take the classical view or even the modern industrial view, neither of those were working for her daughter. And so now, of course, we are talking about the education of Nicole Hannah-Jones, which brings me to a piece that we have posted for tomorrow, and we'll get into it in more detail.

[00:07:02] But this comes from Roland Fryer, who was a professor at Harvard, and actually, I guess, still is a professor of economics at Harvard, and I've quoted him favorably. African American, I might just point out. But he also points out something very interesting, because he had served on the Massachusetts Board of Education. But he tells the really sad story of this Haitian woman who was upset when they decided to close down the school.

[00:07:30] And so, Roland Fryer, Dr. Fryer, explained that the state data showed that the school was not a good school. Well, this Haitian woman said, no, it's a really good school. Only a fraction of the students could read or even do math at grade level. And this woman from Haiti was like, no, no, that can't be right. I don't know that, but I know this. And she reaches into her purse and pulls out her daughter's report cards.

[00:07:56] They were covered in A's and A pluses. He said, my heart sank. The scores didn't tell me whether her daughter was learning. It didn't show that it was a good school. It just illustrated that we just kept rewarding students for poor performance. And once they finally decided to close down the school because it was doing such a bad job, the parents were in uproar because they said it was a good school. And how could it not be a good school?

[00:08:26] Because my kid's getting nothing but A's. I think that illustrates some of the concerns with the educational establishment. And we'll get into more of that tomorrow in this very good piece by Roland Fryer, The Education of Nicole Hannah-Jones. We'll take a break. We'll get into another issue right after this.

[00:09:00] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. In a recent video, John Stossel reminds us that not so long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we might move to net zero emissions. We'll be right back. Many promised that we might reach net zero by 2050. Several European countries embarked on a venture to achieve such a significant goal by working to get as much power as they needed through renewables. Of course, costs rose, power grids went down,

[00:09:29] and the ability to meet the green dream faded. Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, says in his video, the power outages are the starkest illustration of bad electricity policy. Even worse are the many Europeans who died during the summer heat wave. These places in Europe can't keep cool in the summer, even though we've had this technology for 100 years called air conditioning. Many European countries are walking back their net zero push.

[00:09:57] The German chancellor now says that rules must better align climate targets, market realities, companies, and jobs. He regrets they also decided to phase out nuclear energy. Notice how American concerns about energy use and climate change nearly vanished when we realized so much energy would be needed for artificial intelligence and data centers. Last year I talked about a memo that Bill Gates posted before a conference in Brazil that climate change would not lead to humanity's demise.

[00:10:24] Years before he wrote his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, but also explained the difficulty of achieving a net zero goal. The doomsday environmentalists have come face-to-face with the physical realities of chemistry and physics. We will probably hear less climate fear-mongering in the future. I'm Kerby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

[00:10:49] Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net. That's pointofview.net. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again, let's if we can spend some time looking at an issue that was discussed briefly yesterday and was posted, so you can go to the Wednesday edition of Point of View.

[00:11:16] And if you go to the pointofview.net website, you can find some links to those previous programs. And one of those is a piece by Emily Harrison called Boys at Risk, Online Gambling, Sports, Betting, and Addiction. And the article starts with, It is no secret that young men today are struggling. Thought leaders on both the left and the right have written extensively on the crisis plaguing boys in an attempt to educate the public and provoke change in society.

[00:11:45] The research that they do there at the Institute of Family Studies' own research conferves the widespread demoralization among Gen Z men. Let me just mention that that parallels very well with my commentary yesterday, which has the title Young Men. I'll get to it in just a minute, but it's something we've talked about before. But this one focuses on one aspect that I think is of concern. It's one of the reasons why I have in the past written about gambling,

[00:12:14] but I never did a booklet on gambling until a couple months ago. You can get a copy of it if you'd like. You can go to the website. It's something we made available to our Truth Team members. Again, one more reason to be a Truth Team member. For as little as a dollar a day, $30 a month, you're part of the Truth Team. You get the Outlook magazine. You get the booklets. Of course, lately we were even giving out the zipper tote bag and all sorts of resources. There are a lot of benefits. One of those is these booklets.

[00:12:42] But this was, again, a concern because we're seeing more and more young men gambling. I'm going to talk about a prediction that was made almost two decades ago that shouldn't now surprise us that this is where it's come. Well, let's see if we can get into this article a bit more. Again, you can find it. It was yesterday posted by Liberty on the website pointofview.net

[00:13:07] because they point out in this article that in a therapeutic culture such as ours, it is tempting to try to fix the problem from the top down. By prescribing antidepressants or ADHD meds or maybe even shaming men for addictions or simply telling them to man up, we run the risk of failing to understand the root causes

[00:13:30] and therefore allowing the next generation of young boys to continue suffering the same fate as their slightly older peers. And so the argument is that we're starting to see some very significant issues that a whole generation of young boys more interested in growing up and being, say, a YouTube influencer than being an astronaut. And that isn't necessarily playing out very well.

[00:14:00] And so they go on to then remind us that this whole issue of gambling has gone from bad to worse, from significant to major catastrophic. One of the individuals who is the associate executive director of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry,

[00:14:21] that's the AAAP, says that youth gaming and online gambling, especially mixed with AI, artificial intelligence, leaves her very concerned. She says these are red flags that these could look like a scale of opiate addiction and actually said that the tens of millions of people have been impacted by the opioid epidemic.

[00:14:47] And as a result, in case you wonder, I recognize almost everything's called an addiction, but let's go back to 2019. 2019, that's when the World Health Organization formally recognized gaming addiction as a disorder, even though, of course, you had a pushback from the gaming world. And it just illustrates again that we have entirely too many young people, especially boys, but also girls.

[00:15:15] So it isn't just a male phenomenon, although I'm talking more about the boys for just a minute, because they are convinced that that's the way to get ahead. Now, one of the things that I think is so interesting is I have been reading through a book by Porter Stansberry. Now, his book about the end of America came out, I think it came out in 2011. But the newest one has the title 2029, End of America.

[00:15:43] We aren't even getting into all the issues of why he believes that, although when you look at Social Security, you look at the bond market and a number of others, he's coming to that reasonable, very accurate conclusion. But he's not looking at this from a psychological point of view. He's looking at it from a financial point of view, which is one of the reasons why on many occasions I felt that we had to spend more time talking about economic issues.

[00:16:10] And back in 2011, he said, The problem is this. We have been devaluing the currency over time. The dollar is worth less every single day. The dollars in your pocketbook, the dollars in your wallet, the dollars in your checking account, in your banking account, are worth less every single day because, and you know the answer because you've heard us talk about this, the government and the Federal Reserve in particular are printing more dollars.

[00:16:39] So you have more dollars for less value. And you get this sort of case-shaped economy. When the president says the stock market's at an all-time high, yes it is. Your value of your house, if you own a house, is probably at an all-time high. It's growing every year. But that's because those are assets. It takes more dollars to buy them. But everything else is going down because your wages are not keeping up with those dollars. And so you have more and more and more of a gap.

[00:17:08] Well, back in 2011, why did he write that? Well, we just come through our Great Recession. Remember that? 2008, 2009. And so in his book, The End of America, he predicted that we were going to just keep papering over our financial problems. And one of those would be that the dollars would be worth less. And he made three predictions. Tell me if he's predictions that he made. And again, this was in 2011. Now it's 2026. So this is 15 years later.

[00:17:36] And of course, he had written some of this before that. So it's almost 20 years. But 15 years later, he predicted a few things. Number one, because it was harder and harder for especially young men, but for all of us to make ends meet, he predicted that there would be a huge increase in the deaths of despair. What's the leading cause of men, 18 to 34? Fentanyl. And, of course, suicide, all sorts of things like that.

[00:18:05] So that was his first prediction. Deaths of despair. Have we seen that? Yes, we have. Number two, he predicted that there would be a huge increase in, what we just talked about, gambling. Because as you lose the ability to earn money through normal commerce, through normal circumstances, instead, you're willing to take more significant financial risks. And if you lose money, well, it's not worth that much anyway. So what has happened?

[00:18:35] Well, now, as I'll point out in just a minute, everybody has a casino in their pocket, and you now can do all sorts of things. My biblical view on gambling reminds us of the fact that ever since the Supreme Court ruled that you could no longer ban sports gambling, you now, if you watch a football game, you see as many ads for gambling as anything else. And you can gamble right there,

[00:19:02] and you can win or lose right there on your phone, and that almost feeds the addiction. So number one, deaths of despair. Number two, gambling. And then number three, most tragic. He predicted that there would be a huge increase in prostitution. Why so? Well, again, if you look at the decline of nations, or you look at my latest one,

[00:19:31] Why Empires Fall, one of the things that almost always increases as a culture begins to fall apart is prostitution. Well, this one is played out in a little different way, because obviously you can then go online and engage in sort of visual prostitution of sorts. But he also points out that one in ten American college females have an account on OnlyFans. OnlyFans, I guess, is one.

[00:20:01] That shows how much I don't know about that issue. But again, these were the predictions he was making. And so again, my August 25th commentary was on gambling versus investing. Gen Z sees sports gambling as their long-term financial strategy. Well, you can see why they came to that, because the dollars are worth less. We spend more than we take in. We spend, as a federal government, seven trillion dollars. We only take in five trillion dollars.

[00:20:29] We have to sell our debt. We have to print more money. And so as a result, this issue of gambling is just shot through the issue. And again, just watch a football game this weekend. And what you'll see is lots of ads for betting platforms. You can wager minute by minute on outcomes while watching the game. The payments are instant. They're addictive. And as a result, that's one of those issues. But of course, also just a sense of frustration.

[00:20:58] If you can't earn enough to afford a house, you can't earn enough to really afford getting married, you can sense the frustration that is there as well. So this very good article that we posted yesterday, Liberty posted it, Boys at Risk Online Gambling, Sports Betting and Addiction. We'll come back to that again. But I start to see that there are people that have been predicting this for a long time. Let's take a break. We'll come back with more right after this.

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[00:23:00] You are listening to Point of View. The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Back once again, let me again do some kind of housekeeping details, one of those I already mentioned before. Don't forget, for those of you in the Georgia area, especially in the Augusta area, we would encourage you to come out to the meet and greet. Liberty and I will be there

[00:23:29] Monday, October 19th at Martinez Bible Chapel. It's from 6 to 730, October 19th. If you'd like to know more about that or like to get your reservation in so we can judge accordingly in terms of the light refreshments we'll be serving, you can contact Jana. Jana's with two Ns. Jana at pointofview.net. Or, of course, you can give us a call at that number that we give so often, 800-347-5151.

[00:23:56] 1-800-347-5151. That's a way in which you can contact us. You'll even email on the website, pointofview.net. I'm pretty sure if you find the right place to drop it, we'll be able to find it there as well. But it is certainly a way that we can get your reservation. I'll keep mentioning it, especially as we get closer to October. But I would encourage some of you to make plans to be there. We certainly love talking to so many of you.

[00:24:24] And Georgia's kind of becoming my home away from home. We go there with some regularity all over the different parts of the state, so we'd love to see you. Just a minute ago, I mentioned gambling. I thought I'd just teach you how to use the newly updated pointofview website. Of course, you will obviously, if you're familiar with computers at all, see in an upper right-hand corner something that looks like a microfine glass. And if you go and click on it,

[00:24:53] there's a search engine, which I think is very well done, by the way. And so I typed in gambling and hit search. What popped up? 13 viewpoints commentaries, most of which were mine, but I think maybe some others as well. 18 show materials and two booklets. So the booklet I just mentioned a minute ago, A Biblical View on Gambling, is right there. Interesting enough, one that popped up also was a booklet I did on A Biblical View on Criminal Justice, since I guess I didn't mention it there.

[00:25:22] So you have two booklets, and so lots of times people say, where can I get those booklets? Well, you can certainly give us a call at any point, 800-347-5151, and we'll be glad to get one to you. But if you're one of those people that want to do it by yourself, just have to be able to have just a little bit of ability to make your way around a computer, and you can find it. By the way, as you do make a phone call, I hope at least some of you might think about making a donation. You've heard me say before

[00:25:52] that all of our show materials are free. We make those booklets available most of the time for free. We have all the videos for free, but you probably know as well as I do there's no such thing as a free lunch, and so if some of you can make a donation, be appreciated. If you can't, I recognize as we're going to talk about right now, we're going to be dealing with some very significant issues, economic issues due to energy. My commentary today, if you haven't seen it, is one that I would encourage you to get a copy of, and again, you can sign up

[00:26:21] to have this regularly showing up in your inbox. It is one, as again, I'm now quoting from John Stossel once again, because he did one the other day on net zero. In a recent video, he reminds us that we were told by politicians, by people in the media, that we need to move to net zero, and that we would do that by the year 2050. Now, as I point out with a little bit of smile on my face, it is amazing

[00:26:51] how much we don't hear about net zero as soon as we began to hear about the importance of artificial intelligence and the need for data centers and all the rest, but okay, we'll leave that off. And, of course, he reminds us of the fact that we are dealing with power outages, especially in Europe, but sometimes even in this country, and that is a good and stark illustration of bad electricity policy.

[00:27:19] And so, as a result, think of what people in Europe have endured, starting to get cooler, but how many individuals have died in the summer because they just don't even have air conditioning. But more importantly, there have been some others that have said maybe this push to net zero wasn't such a good idea. I quote from the German chancellor who now says rules, especially in Europe, must better align with climate targets

[00:27:49] and market realities and companies and jobs and really sort of laments and regrets they decided to phase out nuclear energy. And again, one of the things that I mentioned in my commentary is that a year ago I mentioned a memo that came out from Bill Gates. This was just before they had a climate, basically a climate policy conference in Brazil. And that climate change policy conference

[00:28:18] is one where he acknowledged that climate change was not going to lead to humanity's demise. And I point out that if you had read his earlier book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, even though you could sense that he was struggling trying to point out how we could possibly with remarkable innovation and entrepreneurial activities maybe get close to this goal, you could see that the problem was

[00:28:46] the physical realities of chemistry and physics and just the reality that unless we just want to stop everything, including even the manufacture of concrete which produces a lot of CO2 or produces a lot of CO2, it just can't get there from here. And so finally, some of the reality has hit. And so net zero isn't something you're hearing about so often. And you're probably going to hear even less about it

[00:29:16] because of what we're dealing right now. And that is, I mentioned it the other day, but since I got an extra minute or two, I thought I would come back to this issue of diesel prices. The national average for diesel right now is $6.29 a gallon. A year ago, it was $3.73. So obviously, we are dealing with a remarkable increase in the price of diesel. By the way, in California, it's over $8 a gallon. But in Europe,

[00:29:45] it's $17 if you do the calculations between euros and kilograms and all that kind of stuff. But anyway, but you might say, well, I don't use diesel, so why should I care? Well, diesel is involved in everything that you buy, everything that you use. It's in a tractor that planted the seeds. It's in the combine that harvests the crops. It is in the semi that hauled it to the elevator.

[00:30:14] It's in the locomotive that drove it to the manufacturing plant. It's in the warehouse. It's in the truck that takes it from the warehouse to your store. And so as a result, diesel is very significant. Now, when I talked about the other day, I was pointing out something, and that is that the Ukraine war has made a real significance and really began to significantly deprelete

[00:30:43] the diesel availability because Russia is the second largest producer of diesel. diesel. And if I've got the numbers right, Russia had 32 diesel plants. 22 of the 32 were hit by Ukrainian drones. And this is where you heard the other day President Trump saying to Valensky, you know, you've got to stop hitting the diesel plants

[00:31:12] because as a result, three quarters of them either are in ruins or are in one way or another significantly or at least in a minor way incapacitated. And then, of course, even over the last weekend, you had Moscow, which had a very big refiner, about 16 miles from the Kremlin, produces about a quarter of a million barrels a day, and it was hit with a drone attack. So, Russia is the second largest diesel exporter,

[00:31:41] and Russia finally decided to ban any kind of diesel exports. Well, you can think what that did to Europe and to Asia, Africa, things like that. Well, just the other day, we now heard the President talking about wanting to ban exports because we're the number one producer of diesel. But when it was not being banned, and of course we'll see how long that lasts, Europe is coming to us, Africa is coming to us, Latin America is coming to us,

[00:32:11] because one of the largest diesel plant exporters is in the American Gulf Coast. And so, as a result, in August, we were able to export 1.9 million barrels of diesel. Well, that's certainly one issue, but again, if you can't get diesel from Europe, I'm starting to think about our listeners up in the Northeast who are wanting to not only get diesel, but they want

[00:32:41] to get heating oil. It's not hot now, but pretty soon it's going to get pretty cold. And the winter is going to be significant, and already the price of heating oil in New England and the Northeast is up, what, 30%. It's not cold there yet, but it's going to get there. And so, again, you can see some of the concerns that that would have in terms of just keeping people warm, not to mention food because according to the Congressional Joint Economic

[00:33:11] Committee, they found that diesel added $1.4 billion to the cost of planting the food this year, the crops. And so, that's what farmers had to pay, and that's what you're going to have to pay here as well. So, again, we are starting to see not only the price of diesel going up, we're starting to see some places that are out of diesel. When you see the price of gas and diesel, sometimes the signs have the price of gasoline, and for

[00:33:41] diesel it has just the letters O-U-T. This is something we are going to have to pay attention to. We'll continue talking about it here on Point of View. Be right back. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back for a few more minutes, let me just give you an overview of what we're going to be covering tomorrow. First of all, we'll talk about

[00:34:09] a very significant victory for First Liberty Institute. Aaron will give us an update on that. This has to do with the opportunity for parents to opt out of various kinds of sexually oriented education and gender identifying education. I think you'll appreciate that conversation. Then we have a couple that will get us into some of the conversation of Nicole Hannah-Jones, a piece on what's wrong with our schools and the education of Nicole Hannah-Jones. Then one,

[00:34:39] what's really behind the call to regulate AI? That's an important issue. As a matter of fact, yesterday, Liberty posted a piece, What AI is Teaching My Youth Group Girls. So we might get into that. I might also just mention that some of you are just saying, why are we talking about AI so much? But a lot of it began about two weeks ago when Jacob Buccoxon, actually a 27-year-old, resigned. He'd worked

[00:35:09] at OpenAI, then he was working at Anthropic, but then posted a very significant set of concerns that he said the companies are racing into super intelligence and we're all going to die by the end of the decade. That then got about 152 million views, and then was something that created a phenomenon. He was on with Anderser Cooper. Of course, then very shortly thereafter you had the argument coming from the

[00:35:38] CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amode, who said we must pace the frontier and arguing that we should be maybe dealing with how fast AI is developing. That's when Elon Musk tweeted that he agreed. Sam Altman said he agreed, and pretty soon we were moving towards having the government do what it can to regulate AI. And of course, buried in that particular piece by our CEO

[00:36:08] of Anthropic was the idea that maybe we need to get a waiver for antitrust. And this is of course the argument that we're going to talk about tomorrow, which comes from EJ and Tony, in which maybe what's behind all of this is to have the government provide protection so that this duopoly, or monopoly if you will, eventually will not have any competition. And we used to have EJ on on a regular basis and then he was actually tapped to be in the Trump

[00:36:38] administration, so we stopped thinking about having him on the program, but since he's not, maybe we can get him on in the future to talk about some of this as well. But nevertheless, this issue of AI, very significant, which we'll get to. And then I posted a couple of other pieces. Trump bans media from the White House. Okay, judge says he has to let them back in. But I thought it would be worth talking about why he felt the need to even ridicule the media in the first place, and some of

[00:37:08] the stories that just simply are never covered by some of the more liberal, progressive media in that regard. We also, of course, have a piece on how to fix the economy, Penna Dexter's commentary, Steinem-style feminism, which we'll talk about my commentary on our medieval world, which is based on a piece by Victor Davis Hanson. So all of that is what we're looking forward to tomorrow. We'll see if we can manage those two hours as best as we

[00:37:37] possibly can. And again, we were going to spend some time to talk about the Lindsay Clancy trial, the jurors, and all the rest. Our guests could join us, so I've had these two hours to myself, and I think it's turned out relatively well. But let me, just before we wind down today, mention that as we talk about young men, my commentary yesterday, and since I was not on, Liberty was the host, I thought I would mention real quickly because we have pointed

[00:38:07] out on a number of occasions that a significant percentage of young men are not in the workforce, and many of them are not looking for work. The original number was about 7 million men of prime age, are not working, looking for work. I've now seen 6 million, so maybe some are going back to work, maybe some have aged out, I don't know, but nevertheless, this commentary that I had yesterday, which you can certainly get, goes to the

[00:38:36] piece by Carolyn Downey, writing in the Wall Street Journal, in which she points out that 176 million, excuse me, 176,000 more payroll jobs jobs for women than for men. And so, as a result, we're talking about many more women in the workforce than men, never happened before, but points out that there are some reasons for that. First of all, she points out that we've had these DEI policies.

[00:39:05] Many times, firms were required to actually hire an individual that was a female or a minority, even if the man was more qualified. And, of course, if you are doing that within the company, that's one thing, but if you are a NASDAQ company, you actually have to publicly disclose whether or not you have at least two directors on your company that are minorities, including one as

[00:39:35] a self-identified female. And, of course, young men pick that code up pretty quickly because she points out that some of the men that she knew in college were frustrated that when banks or other financial institutions came for interviews on campus, they were clamoring to fill the spots with females, even if they had less impressive applications. And that virtual signaling was able to help some of these young men to realize,

[00:40:05] well, there's no place for me in the financial world and have to consider something else. She also points out that we've had these enrollment caps on some of these issues. And so, as a result, girls are twice as likely as boys to get into, say, Caltech or MIT. If you've seen the ratings that they do for the various universities, number one almost always was Princeton. Now it's number two. Number one is now MIT.

[00:40:34] And so, it's very hard to get into MIT, as you might imagine. But they would allow more girls to come in than boys because they were half as likely to apply. And, of course, as we've pointed out, majority, 60% of all the students on college campuses today are female, not male. Then, of course, a third issue, kind of related to the others, is the issue of attitude. She laments that a lot of these colleges

[00:41:04] have oftentimes adopted this ideological tone that treats maleness as problematic. And so, you start hearing about this toxic maleness and the rest, and certainly she thinks that that is what's chasing them out of college, or in some cases just telling them to stay away. You might say, well, that'd be good. Maybe they would go into the more than a million trade jobs that we need in this country. No, because we keep telling all these young

[00:41:34] men that the only way to be successful is to go to college, but then when they try to go to college, they find themselves in a difficult situation, and so they're trained for a job that doesn't exist, and they're not trained in the skills that this country desperately needs. Anyway, that was my commentary for yesterday, and so if you'd like to find that one, or even the one the day before about our neighbors and the one coming out tomorrow where I quote from Victor Davis Hanson, all available at the

[00:42:04] website pointofview.net. As you go to the website, you can do a couple things. First of all, you can click on the button for Wednesday, which would be September 23rd. You can scroll down and you see the one boys at risk, also what AI is teaching my young youth group girls, and then of course for today, you can just simply click on the picture there, and we have all the information. You click on the button that says learn more, and you will see the articles on nose

[00:42:34] diving into moral relativism, the ungifted and talented, and test scores leaning the wrong way. Some of the issues we've talked about here today on Point of View. As always, I want to thank Megan for her help engineering the program, and Derek, thank you for producing the program. We will do our best to try to bring back some of these guests that we weren't able to have on the program today, and I thank you for sticking with us here on Point of View. One last time, if you'd like to talk to someone,

[00:43:04] let me give you the phone number, 800-347-5151, and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow right here on Point of View. It almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in positions of authority. They say men can be women, and women men. People are prosecuted differently, or not at all, depending on their politics. Criminals are more valued and rewarded than law-abiding citizens.

[00:43:33] It's so overwhelming, so demoralizing. You feel like giving up, but we can't, we shouldn't, we must not. As Winston Churchill said to Britain in the darkest days of World War II, never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. And that's what we say to you today. This is not a time to give in, but to step up and join

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