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Independent Institute Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews is interviewed on WFSX radio. Ginsberg discusses how Israel became the enemy of the left after the 1967 Six-Day War, when progressives saw the US was making an ally of Israel. Ginsberg, a political science professor says he ends up teaching history to students who don't know the facts of recent history of the Middle East.
BART and San Francisco officials held a press conference to announce results of a survey in which BART riders say San Francisco’s Civic Center station has improved its safety and cleanliness. Independent Institute Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan, author of the California Golden Fleece Report "Crime, Grime, and Greed at BART" says the transit agency needs to focus on customers’ needs to bring people back. He says the survey doesn’t reflect that BART’s overall culture has changed.
Dr. Atlas interviews Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and world-renowned historian and scholar of classics and military history. They discuss the phrase “Threat to our Democracy” — who uses it, what it means, and what the real threats to democracy actually are.
Dr. Atlas interviews John Yoo, the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. They discuss the investigations of Presidents Biden and Trump, the appropriateness of criminal trials vs. political processes to adjudicate alleged misconduct by sitting presidents and ex-presidents, as well as broader concepts including separation of powers, and "threats to democracy."
Sr. Fellow Robert Whaples, editor of Is Social Justice Just? is interviewed on the Rory Sauter show. Dr. Whaples talks about the new book which contains several essays by scholars on the question of social justice and its origins and meanings. Whaples discusses examples of exclusionary zoning, occupational licensing, and cheap energy as areas where the concept of social justice can be improved by removing regulatory barriers.
Independent Institute Chairman and CEO Mary L. G. Theroux is interviewed on the Vernuccio/Novak Report. Cities and states can address the homelessness issue and it's been proven to work in San Antonio’s Haven for Hope, as shown in the film Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope. The federal “Housing First” policy is not working. Providing temporary shelter is not a strategic plan to address individual needs for recovery and life skills training.
Independent Institute Chairman and CEO Mary L. G. Theroux, the narrator of the film Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope talks about the success of Haven for Hope in San Antonio, TX, which has lowered downtown homelessness by 80 percent in ten years. San Francisco’s homeless population has increased by 80 percent over the same time period. Mary explains how the model is working in San Antonio.
Independent Institute Chairman and CEO Mary L. G. Theroux appears on the Shaun Thompson show on WIND radio. She discusses the documentary Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope and how a model that is working to end homelessness in San Antonio, TX can work in other cities too. The key, she says, is to treat each individual and their particular barriers to living independently.