Welcome everybody to Goodfellows, a show where we talk about economics, politics, national security, and matters of current concern.

I'd like to welcome my fellow good fellows, Neil Ferguson, historian,

H.R. McMaster, General, and all-around optimist. I'm John Cochran, an economist. Our

normal host, Bill Whalen, is out this week. So in the theory of putting the inmates in charge

of the asylum, they made me moderator. And we're a special welcome

to our friend Glenn Lowry, a professor of economics at Brown and also distinguished visiting

fellow at the Hoover Institution. Welcome, Glenn. Let's have some fun. As much of a theme as we could

put together is that there's so much in the week's news we have to talk about, but it also seems a little bit of a reprise of that 70s show. Are we going down the same path

as we went before, maybe this time with Farse? So let's lead it off with what seems to be in the

news, and I'll lead off with Glenn. We had the written house verdict, the week in wokeism,

and much other news in that direction.

I won't even bother with a question.

Three, two, one.

Glenn, go.

Well, chickens come home to roost or the tale continues, the summer of 2020.

The shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the rioting and protesting that occurred after that written house, the young man from Illinois who shot dead two and wounded seriously a third in altercation there. His trial, the press on trial for misreporting and biased in tendentious rendering of the facts, the risk of civil disturbance if the verdict

didn't come out right in the trial, all of this.

I mean, I don't know where to begin, to be honest with you, Jad.

I mean, I'm struck by the fact that mobs gather around courthouses in this country,

sometimes, you know, edged on by unscrupulous politicians,

and that people of the sort that Jacob Blake would appear to have been

can become heroic figures and symbols of movements of social justice.

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