In this inaugural episode of The Good Fight’s panel format, Francis Fukuyama, Ivan Krastev, and Mona Charen join Yascha to make sense of the events of the last week.
Great episode. Just a point of information, Mona is puzzled that universities have not sued over the cancellation of contracts, but government contracts can be terminated for the convenience of the government (no justification needs to be provided). That is a long-standing principle in federal procurement law, not an innovation of the current administration.
Democrats are very concerned about all of Trump’s corruption, but MAGA doesn’t believe it’s happening and the majority Republican legislators have been looking the other direction since his first election, they won’t do anything about anything he does, and the corrupt Supreme Court gave him permission to do ANYTHING!
As to the particulars, there's no contradiction between believing that the Administration should follow the law in dealing with the universities and recognizing the magnitude of the latter's wrongdoing. In their hiring, in their recruiting, in their public statements and in their administration, they have for decades encouraged the moral equivalent of cross-burnings on their campuses, while your panel made it sound more like misgendering (which in fact the universities treated much more seriously than anti-Semitism and calls for indiscriminate murder). Furthermore, there's every indication that the administrators are not good-faith interlocutors.
And as far as the harm to "apolitical" science and health research, one might point out both that they haven't been apolitical in some time (think of the DEI requirements for research and the top-tier cancer researcher at NYU who became unemployable from a woke cancelation). And, of course, if we really were dealing with cross-burnings, nobody would be worrying about the threat to cancer research.
Great episode. Just a point of information, Mona is puzzled that universities have not sued over the cancellation of contracts, but government contracts can be terminated for the convenience of the government (no justification needs to be provided). That is a long-standing principle in federal procurement law, not an innovation of the current administration.
Invite Frank, Ivan and Mona together many times more!
Democrats are very concerned about all of Trump’s corruption, but MAGA doesn’t believe it’s happening and the majority Republican legislators have been looking the other direction since his first election, they won’t do anything about anything he does, and the corrupt Supreme Court gave him permission to do ANYTHING!
Mona is RIGHT! Trump Adm is antisemitic, etc. Yes, extortion!
I like the format.
As to the particulars, there's no contradiction between believing that the Administration should follow the law in dealing with the universities and recognizing the magnitude of the latter's wrongdoing. In their hiring, in their recruiting, in their public statements and in their administration, they have for decades encouraged the moral equivalent of cross-burnings on their campuses, while your panel made it sound more like misgendering (which in fact the universities treated much more seriously than anti-Semitism and calls for indiscriminate murder). Furthermore, there's every indication that the administrators are not good-faith interlocutors.
And as far as the harm to "apolitical" science and health research, one might point out both that they haven't been apolitical in some time (think of the DEI requirements for research and the top-tier cancer researcher at NYU who became unemployable from a woke cancelation). And, of course, if we really were dealing with cross-burnings, nobody would be worrying about the threat to cancer research.
Great formula. To be repeated.