It has to be one of the oldest debates with social science predating the idea there is but the hideous social forces explain human outcomes. Its all about biography. What i thought is these are two further apart view points. The problem is that both arguments make sense. The social scientists or the people following the tradition of, you know, not just marx, but most social scientists say, look, theres three reasons why leaders dont matter that much, that the leader of my organization faces external constraints. If youre the ceo of company, you have competitors. You cant set prices at whatever you want. Theres internal constraints, tradition, culture, everything inside a country, company, military unit. You cant do whatever you want. Most importantly, leaders are not chosen randomly so most leaders of powerful organizations, organizations that we care about, organizations that have the ability to reshape history, they are not picked out of a hat, but picked because that organization is
Rayford, North Carolina today. As his coffin arrived, long lines of mourners shouted the chant no justice, no peace. We saw that replicated throughout the country, even as more videos capture Police Violence against protesters, the nations fury for an end to racism and Police Brutality as a whole has strong stronger. Two Buffalo Police officers were charged with Second Degree assault after disturbing video showed them shoving a 75yearold man to the ground and leaving him there as the blood pooled from his head. Simply put, the country is fed up. In louisville, kentucky, crowds were out to mourn the death of breonna day lotaylor who would turned 27 years old today. Similar pictures were seen in chicago, los angeles, new york city, buffalo and other american cities, including capital. Tens of thousands flooded washington, d. C. In united condemnation of Police Tactics and this administrations militant response. In the backdrop of their call for justice, a white house fortified by fences
Everyones minds in a good way. So theres a lot going on. A lot coming up on the show tonight. We start tonight with what i like to think of as our little organizational management problem. The known universe of 19 major candidates or potential candidates for the republican nomination for president. This is our working this is not even a list. Its our working thing we put up on the wall during the day to keep these people straight. The red squares show folks who have already announced officially that they are running. Dotted lines around some other people. Those are folks who have told us they will make an announcement some time soon. But even with those delineations obviously still the problem here is crowded. The problem at least in terms of organizing this as information. Finally today we did get news of some impending breathing room. We got big news from one republican wouldbe contender who said today that he will not run. Wow. Finally theres a republican who thinks theres a reason
Officially that they are running. Dotted lines around some other people. Those are folks who have told us they will make an announcement some time soon. But even with those delineations obviously still the problem here is crowded. The problem at least in terms of organizing this as information. Finally today we did get news of some impending breathing room. We got big news from one republican wouldbe contender who said today that he will not run. Wow. Finally theres a republican who thinks theres a reason not to run for president this year. Someone we can remove from our list, simplify things a little. It happened earlier tonight on a tv network you might have heard of called the Fox News Channel. We could have 1824 when all is said and done. Because i believe i cant get nominated. Really . Because of my views on gay marriage. Im in favor of gay rights. Im in favor of gay marriage. I see it as an issue of equality. Im prochoice. Im antiabortion personally but im prochoice and i am proi
The red squares show folks who have already announced officially that they are running. Dotted lines around some other people. Those are folks who have told us they will make an announcement some time soon. But even with those delineations obviously still the problem here is crowded. The problem at least in terms of organizing this as information. Finally today we did get news of some impending breathing room. We got big news from one republican wouldbe contender who said today that he will not run. Wow. Finally theres a republican who thinks theres a reason not to run for president this year. Someone we can remove from our list, simplify things a little. It happened earlier tonight on a tv network you might have heard of called the Fox News Channel. We could have 1824 when all is said and done. Because i believe i cant get nominated. Really . Because of my views on gay marriage. Im in favor of gay rights. Im in favor of gay marriage. I see it as an issue of equality. Im prochoice. Im