pre-pandemic freedoms at lower risks. but things did not work out as i and other public health experts had hoped. vaccinated or not masks were gone for it good. we re pleased dr. adams can zwroin us tonight. thanks so much for being with us. i want to read more about what you said in the washington post op-ed. first of all, i don t know if you heard but just a second ago we played a sound that our reporter ely reave was talking to a mom in alabama, and the mom s 8-year-old child got covid and according to her had it bad and had been sick for weeks with a high fever, and was still not feeling good. and she was planning to go back to a doctor rb try to figure out if there was any damage or anything that could be done. and yet she still will not be vaccinated because she says she doesn t trust the government. as a doctor i m sure you have had patients like that. how do you convince somebody who sees their 8-year-old child sick
that if we continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning we would raise the temperature of the planet, we would see far more blistering heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods and that is not what we are seeing. that s the bad news. the good news is we can prevent it from getting worse but that s going to require dramatic action. can worse but that s going to require dramatic action. worse but that s going to require dramatic action. can you put that into lehmans dramatic action. can you put that into lehmans terms dramatic action. can you put that into lehmans terms for - dramatic action. can you put that into lehmans terms for us - dramatic action. can you put that into lehmans terms for us given | dramatic action. can you put that - into lehmans terms for us given that our horizons are we pretty sure back to our childhood, we compared back to our childhood, we compared back to our childhood or grandparent bonsai time. how frequent are these freak w
know, they had said that anyone who wants to join this lawsuit should go to this website, take on big tech.com or something like that. but when you go to the website it s pretty much just a page to donate money and doesn t offer a way to sign up for the suit. the website could say just send me money.com. sounds like part of this continuing trump grift. never ending. it certainly does because i am a little bit surprised that the lawyer who is representing him because he actually has been on both sides politically. and he certainly is savvy enough, while he doesn t have a record in this type of lawsuit, one doesn t have to look very far to understand these first amendment cases just go down. they went down against newspapers when people wanted to get forced to have their own op-ed in to respond to something that was in the paper. and they re going to the same happens with a private organization that runs a social
the debate and the politics over critical race theory is the latest rift in this country over something that shouldn t be political at all. conservative groups along with well-connected right wing activists and fox news, of course, weaponizing the republican party s opposition to teaching critical race theory, using it as their new rallying cry in the culture war. so far republican-backed legislation has been proposed in more than 20 states. five states have passed substantial restrictions on what can and cannot be taught in public school classrooms. in a brand-new op-ed in the new york times , four scholars, a progressive, a moderate, a libertarian and, yes, a conservative write that these laws are a threat to our education system. quote, let s not mince words about these laws. they are speech codes. they seek to change public education by banning the expression of ideas. even if this censorship is legal
when we think of a liberal arts education, a genuine liberal arts education, nicole, we think of it as a kind of exposure to a wide range of material that in some ways unsettles you. we re not provincials, we re not parochial, we want to expand our horizons. the ideas are to unsettle our previously held judgments, our commitments by being exposed to a wide range of commitment while you are reading thomas carlisle or karl marx. you will have that kind of encounter in the classroom. you will have that kind of encounter in the classroom. but what we re seeing are arguments for illiberal education, right, to confirm your narrow prejudices, to confirm your narrow commitments, not to expand your horizons. this is what we re seeing and this is what i think that op-ed and what max boot and tim snyder have been arguing in response to what we re hearing from the right. do you think it will work? i mean do you think we still