Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your very own Libertarian fighter plane shooting down

the balloon of Statism.

I'm Matt Welch joined by Nicolessby, Katherine Mangyward and special guest star, Elizabeth

Nolan Brown, please clap.

Howdy.

Hey Matt.

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It seems like you cannot open up a browser tab these days, in my case period, but for people

who are more agile, without running into Florida governor, Ron DeSantis opening up a new

front in his ongoing administrative culture war against what you might call him.

He probably does call the woke state at a press conference last week.

DeSantis unveiled a package to go after what he called academic discrimination and indoctrination

in the sunshine state's higher education system, including dismantling various diversity

equity and inclusion programs, that's DEI, for short, and letting college presidents

and boards hire who they want to instead of deferring to faculty, which be kind of a

major shift.

He was, he has rejected a pilot advanced placement high school course in African American studies.

He's installed anti woke activists like Chris Rufo in key oversight positions.

And it's not just school.

He's going after the liquor licenses of establishments that hold drag shows viewable

by kids allegedly, also the business licenses of companies that don't use the federal

e-verified database for confirming the immigration legality of employees.

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