discussing a college admissions scandal in the u.s. . low and welcome to. the considered. most of us believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal inform us that both aren t true the rich and privileged can buy access to their kids at the expense of families who are hardworking and honest is the idea of merit. talking the status of society. i m joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal analyst in the news decoder and lionel media dot com in washington we have remington greg he is counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at public citizen and in athens ohio we cross to richard vedder he is a professor of economics at ohio university senior fellow at the independent institute and the author of the forthcoming book restoring the promise higher education in america all right gentlemen crossed the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate lionel let me go to you first
about the modern civilization of america. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i m peter lavelle most of us are taught and believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal inform us that both aren t true the rich and privileged can buy access to their kids at the expense of families who are hardworking and honest is the idea of merit debt. crosstalk in the status of society i m joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal analyst in the news decoder and lionel media dot com in washington we have remington greg he is counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at public citizen and in athens ohio we cross to richard vedder he is a professor of economics at ohio university senior fellow at the independent institute and the author of the forthcoming book restoring the promise higher education in america all right gentlemen crossed the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want
and welcome to. both of us believe we live in a society based on merit and equal justice the varsity blues college admissions scandal inform us that both aren t true the rich and privileged can buy access to their kids at the expense of families who are hard working and honest is the idea of merit. talking the status of society i m joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal analyst and a news decoder and lionel media dot com in washington we have remington greg he is counsel for civil justice and consumer rights at public. citizen and in athens ohio we cross to richard vedder he is a professor of economics at ohio university senior fellow at the independent institute and the author of the forthcoming book restoring the promise higher education in america all right gentlemen crossed the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate lionel let me go to you first hear what we have found out from this scandal is something that i think a
citizen and in athens ohio we cross to richard vedder he is a professor of economics at ohio university senior fellow at the independent institute and the author of the forthcoming book restoring the promise higher education in america all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate lionel let me go to you first hear what we have found out from this scandal is something that i think a lot of us had suspicions about i spent ten years of my life in the university of california system i saw questionable practices but you know i didn t have any proof that i wasn t the f.b.i. but you know we ve this story has been in the public realm now for over ten over a week now but it i think really at the core of it is how i ve been traduced much of it is that we really have a fetish for a status and it s not about merit and if you have if you have the means and the privilege to basically to reproduce yourself through your childr
every year tuning in from right around the globe welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my name s union o neill our top story russia s foreign minister has warned against the emergence of a new arms race on an even greater scale down the cold war speaking at a conference on disarmament in geneva said he regrets america s willingness to undermine some cornerstone treaties on controlling weapon stockpiles at the same event in switzerland washington questioned moscow s intention to prevent an arms race. from austin. russia s foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that after it s designed to destroy global basic agreements that proved to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting inter