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TONIGHT: The show begins in California's San Joaquin Valley with Classicist Victor davis Hanson speaking of the cultural chaos these last years as a product of a confusing policy called DEI. Then to Moscow to hear of the Kremlin's campaign to encourage bi

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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TONIGHT: The show begins in California's San Joaquin Valley with Classicist Victor davis Hanson speaking of the cultural chaos these last years as a product of a confusing policy called DEI. Then to Moscow to hear of the Kremlin's campaign to encourage births.. To California to observe the Covid-19 spike with the Omicron variant JN.1. To Taipei, Taiwan, to Seoul, Korea, to Washington DC, all watching the Taiwan Election in a few hours. To Quito, Ecuador, to Brasilia, Brazil, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Then to Occitanie, France to celebrate 25 years of the Europ. To Boca Chica to battle with the NLRB.

1860 Visalia, California in the San Joaquin Valley

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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins tonight in conversation with Victor

0:04.4

David's Hansen of the Hoover Institution measuring the cultural chaos caused by

0:11.4

these last years of recovery from the pandemic and something called

0:15.4

DEI, progressives is DEI, diversity,, and inclusion.

0:23.9

Very difficult words to interpret.

0:26.8

So I turn to Victor, who says that the chaos

0:31.3

is a product of DEI in the economy, in military, in law enforcement,

0:36.3

in education, especially in the borders, and he has recommendations.

0:40.9

First you need to recognize the problem.

0:44.0

For example, in education, the recent controversy over the surprisingly insincere and unconvincing remarks by three college presidents about anti-semitism

0:57.8

on campus led to what looks to be an analysis of what's going on for these last years.

1:05.0

Somehow the American campus, especially the elite campus

1:10.0

is drifted away from what is regarded as common sense. is And then there's the question of what is to be done.

1:23.3

Victor Davis Hansen to begin the show tonight.

1:26.0

In a conversation with Moscow, a Katerina so Lottava.

1:29.9

The Kremlin has a plan which is to encourage more births in families and then to

1:36.4

offer land free land and subsidies to move away from Eastern Europe from Western Russia along the border with Poland and the

1:47.8

Baltic states, the big cities, to move to Siberia and to the east,

1:53.0

vast unconquered, unsettled east,

1:57.0

encouraging families to go with subsidies.

2:00.0

Here's the puzzle.

2:01.0

The war economy now underway demands lots of labor, lots of good-paying jobs.

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