Host jason riley author, columnist, contributor to the wall street journal and manhattan institute. Among your books please stop helping us. I want to begin where your book concludes because they see the following liberalism convinces blacks to see themselves first and foremosts as victims. Guest i believe that is a big part of a political strate strategy. Theyve been at it for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting and as victims and then the followup is we have a Government Program or solution to help you overcome your victim so i think it is a political strategy. Guest thereve been books on Lyndon Johnson. Is it a failure or a success . Guest if you look at the programs and the goal the object is overstated at the time you would have to say that its largely a failure to to the extent we are told another debate i think that we of course move beyond a separate but equal but in your book you talkta abot the black colleges and pasted it could case of ronald
Victims. Yes. I believe thatths is a big part they have been at it for somee time. To plate paid to blacks primarily as victims defined by their victimization first and foremost and that we have a government with the Great Society was that a success . If you look at the actual track record and the goals and what was stated at the time its a failure. And by that i mean the black war. If they have not significantly improved. But you talk about historically black colleges who was mason and why is he important in terms of trying to merge historically black colleges and use of diversities that were forced out quex. Since the Civil Rights Act and more integration because black students had options from the 20th century with those historically black colleges. So schools are struggling our stay viable economically and with higher of education and those and this has been resisted by some to maintain their independence. So mason was pushing. Are they still relevant if they are producing the resu
Is the attraction then why do we have so many millennial zz and so many people attracted to this idea that so many of them have no historical knowledge of whatsoever go ahead thomas in baltimore was mostly because people like David Henderson and myself have been snuffed out of the academic world there are still hundreds of classical liberals in american academe but were outnumbered by hundreds of thousands of others and the young people are taught what economists call the nirvana fallacy they pose socialism as some sort of utopian ideal and compare that to the real world and of course the real world always comes up short when you compare it to utopia and thats basically the methodology thats used and its even used widely in the economics profession with all the theories of socalled market failure and so even if you take economics you dont really get well grounded in how markets work and the importance of private property and private enterprise. Was in most economics departments in my o
Return fire with rockets. Oh in the welcome the. Specter of socialism 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall socialism is now remarkably popular what explains this how to explain why so many successful and even privileged people with the socialism to solve social problems maybe its because liberalism itself is failing. Socialism im joined by my guest in new york hes an economist and writer as well as a Senior Research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research his research focuses on policy and technology in baltimore we have. Thomas de lorenzo is a professor of economics at university of maryland in baltimore as well as a senior fellow at the mieses institute his latest book is the problem with socialism and in monterey we cross to David Henderson he is an emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in monterey as well as a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University he is author of the joy of freedom and economists honestl
Talking millennial socialism im joined by my guest mexico in new york hes an economist and writer as well as a Senior Research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research his research focuses on policy and technology in baltimore we have thomas de lorenzo hes a professor of economics at Loyola University maryland in baltimore as well as a senior fellow at the mieses institute his latest book is the problem with socialism and in monterey we cross to David Henderson he is an emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in monterey as well as a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University he is author of the joy of freedom in economists honestly are gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate thomas let me go to you 1st in baltimore i dont i dont really think on this program we need to speak about the failings of socialism i think were all on the same page on that here my poi