Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
First a few administrative matters. We have gotten advice from the sergeant at arms, the health and Human Services centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will he at least 6 feet apart. There is no room for the public and therefore but this is all streaming and therell be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. I like to Say Something about mask. The office of attending physician has said since we are 6 feet apart we dont need to wear masks although some may. Thats why my mask is off. Although i have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms the press gallery and the Capitol Police and chung check in the Evan Griffith r. Staff, all their hard work in helping to keep us safe in helping us do these conferences by video with wh
A high of 72000 backed up just a little 724. That is a stand on the financial market. Now this. After the state of the union speech, democrats should be doing cartwheels, thats according to the washington post, they thought biden laid to rest the idea that he was too old for the job, he is jacked up performance reversed worries about his cognitive decline, wishful thinking. A harris poll taken after the speech reveals 59 of voters, 63 of independents believe the speech was divisive, worse than that 57 of voters, 67 under present thought it raised questions about his age. Tuesday a semi outpouring of democrat and Media Support after robert hur testified before, grace. The democrats insisted he had been exonerated in the documents case and robert hur was out of bounds when questioning the president s memory. The white house, case closed. No its not, the president was not exonerated, that were does not appear and robert hurs report. What emerged from the hearing is bidens decline has gone
Its a great pleasure to be up here with you to discuss virtue. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of numerous books. You ball is director of social cultural constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books and we will start i think with you. Thank you very much. Its great to be here with my fellow panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual for me at least to approach the panelist topics civic virtue in its decline, its reinvigoration from a somewhat autobiographical perspective. Long ago and far away when i went to college the cuttingedge topic was something that we called grave tones, the critique of liberalism and we had leading authors and books. We read a book called knowledge and politics by roberto unger, kind of mad genius and i underline both words. We read the writings of Charles Taylor and we read the writings of alastair mcintyre. Esp
The Great Questions and im glad i did not have to answer them. Thank you chris and kevin for doing that and we will reconvene in 15 minutes at 10 30 for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. Im a fellow here at the center. Its a great pleasure to be up here with you to discuss virtue. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of numerous books. You ball is director of social cultural constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books and we will start i think with you. Thank you very much. Its great to be here with my fellow panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual for me at least to approach the panelist topics civic virtue in its decline, its reinvigoration from a somewhat autobiographical perspective. Long ago and far away when i went to college the cuttingedge topic was something that we called grave tones, the critique of liberalism a