There is more than $1 trillion in student loan debt outstanding, and it keeps going higher, as does the cost of college tuition. Are we in the midst of a massive student loan bubble, and can universities continue to provide costly educations that burden graduates with a lifetime of debt? Will the federal government bail out struggling graduates? Find out on this InstaVision as Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke By Degree, talks to Glenn Reynolds.
Instead of serving as bastions of free speech and true centers of higher education, US colleges and universities have become the polar opposite — places where censorship reigns and political correctness is enforced by absurd extremists. What happened to make campuses so cloistered? Who will be banned next by the small-minded autocrats masquerading as professors and college administrators? Glenn Reynolds talks turkey with Greg Lukianoff, author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Hear how higher education is censoring speech and imperiling First Amendment rights on this InstaVision. H/T PJTV
Aerospace Engineer Rand Simberg talks about the future of space flight under the next president. Find out why President Obama has had one of the best space policies of the past 40 years. Plus, what can we expect under a Romney administration? Will commercial space flight save space? Find out on this episode of PJTV’s InstaVision with Glenn Reynolds.
The most incisive and iconoclastic art critic of our time, Camille Paglia, sits down with InstaVision‘s Glenn Reynolds to discuss her new book Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars. Among the topics covered:
Paglia is always entertaining as well as provocative, so even if you’re a cultural boob, there are some real nuggets of thought to glean from this interview. H/T PJTV
Mickey Kaus, columnist with The Daily Caller, takes a critical look at President Obama’s efforts to water down work requirements for welfare recipients. Kaus also examines the terrorist assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and speculates on how the attack might impact the 2012 election. Kaus shares his thoughts with Glenn Reynolds in a new installment of InstaVision. H/T PJTV
How serious a problem is voter fraud? Without voter fraud, we wouldn’t have Obamacare, says John Fund. He explains that the Democrats acquired the 60th Senate vote they needed to end a filibuster and pass Obamacare after Al Franken was declared the winner of a Senate race in Minnesota by a slim 312-vote margin. But a subsequent examination of the voting rolls showed that at least 1,100 felons had illegally cast ballots in Minnesota.
The Franken election is but one of about 100 cases of voter fraud enumerated by Fund in his new book Who’s Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk. Another serious source for risk: Some 2 million dead people still appear on voting rolls nationwide. “I believe we should honor the dead,” says Fund, “but I don’t believe in representation without respiration.”
Fund touches on voter fraud, as well as proposed ID laws and other efforts to increase ballot security, in a talk with Glenn Reynolds for PJTV’s InstaVision.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds recommends that Mitt Romney hire Jon Lovitz to read from Obama campaign commercials while masquerading as Tommy Flanagan of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Hard to imagine what could top that, unless he was being goaded on at the same time, by Jodi Miller off to his right, and Bill Maher off to his left, on how to play each embellishment. Wonder who would wear Lovitz’s old red devil suit?
Comedian Jon Stewart once called Harry Truman a war criminal for ordering the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, although Stewart later recanted his “stupid” remark after it elicited a firestorm of criticism. Today, on the 67th anniversary of Little Boy being dropped on Hiroshima, some more seasoned and veteran perspective on that historic event is offered by Jack H. McCall Jr., author of two companion histories of WWII. McCall says many of the soldiers fighting in the Pacific Theater kissed the ground upon hearing of Truman’s decision, knowing he had averted the deaths of more than one million GIs who likely would have been killed if a ground invasion of Japan had taken place.
One of McCall’s books examines the war through the perspective of Professor Christopher Donner, who McCall bills as “the thinking man’s John Wayne,” a trained historian fluent in multiple languages who nevertheless volunteered for the US Marines, serving in the fierce battles on Okinawa. Among Donner’s recollections: His fateful encounter with US Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., the son of a Kentucky governor and the highest-ranking US officer killed in combat during WWII.
McCall shares anecdotes from his books with Glenn Reynolds on PJTV’s InstaVision.
