The 12th president of Purdue University, former governor of Indiana, and my friend since we served in the Reagan administration together,

Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr.

Mitch, thanks for taking the time to join us and welcome everybody to a special plague time edition of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson.

Peter Robinson is shooting at home.

You're in your office.

I am.

Got it. On to Purdue in a moment, but first the country, you've lived in Indiana since the 1970s,

you served as governor for eight years on protests this past Friday in Indianapolis, the state capital,

and I'm quoting from the Indianapolis Star. The protest started peacefully, but

as night fell it turned violent. At least 30 businesses were damaged.

A drugstore was set ablaze.

Some stores were looted.

How does the president of Purdue University

hope his students think about what is taking place in the country.

We don't have any students to speak of here on campus right now for the obvious

reason so it's a little hard to gauge how they view

this or react to this. I hope with the same sadness that I think most of us feel one can only hope that justice is

brought where it's where it appears to be so obviously necessary where this all started and that others

other people conclude that harming others and innocent people is not the appropriate response and is not an effective way to advance a good cause.

All right.

Heather McDonald in the city journal last night,

the ideological handmaiden of this violence, academia,

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