Economics, state and city news, immigration, law and education. In her career at the wall street journal emily is held reporting and editing positions in new york, london, pittsburgh and atlanta. Tonights featured offer, melissa korn reaches a Higher Education were reported for the wall street journal previously she wrote for dow jones newswire she is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. Also we have jennifer levitz. She is a National Reporter for the wall street journal. Previously schroepfer the providence journal. She has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize finalist teams prayed she graduated from loyola university, maryland. And theyre reviewed of unacceptable, they wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level. A capable examination of the seeming intersection of ambition, money, and Higher Education. Library journal calls it a fastpaced account of the massive College Admission scam designed by br
Coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist, and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal or National Review or of course in the spectator but hes an associate editor. Douglas is also an author most recently his 2019 book, the madness of crowds, and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic, and while he is an observer of all things uk and i think u. S. , im not sure that he knew the subject of both his most recent book and this one would come into play so much during this particular moment in time, but they have and its for that reason and many others that it is my pleasure to welcome you, douglas, to our event this afternoon. Thank you very much. Its a great pleasure to be with you an
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Will talk with the killings of a psalm of bin laden and other operations taken place during the Obama Administration, also coming up, and coulter will make her case for supporting tunnel chart for president , and this weekend, wall street journal, was convinced russell argues the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech,. What you have are the bureaucracies and their preprogrammed just like money in politics, they kind of come with government always coming out of the same universities with the same viewpoints on things. So when they hear the dog whistle, when they they hear the president of the United States say these nonprofits are scary things, or when they are in wisconsin and they see a prosecutor working on a case for Campaign Finance violations supposedly by conservatives, their prime tact. Theyre already ready and inclined to do it, i think thats how you end up with some of these abuses. Theyre not always as out and out intentional, but you end up in