Good evening. This is John Bachelor. I speak tonight on the show with Dan Henniger.

We're discussing the reaction to the Supreme Court decision about affirmative action.

Yes, also about Creative 303, about freedom of speech, and of course the student loan.

But more particularly about why this severe reaction to the Court as not legitimate,

what's driving it. Where is the problem that so many people are anxious about the success of

young people and yet they focus on the college education and not the primary education

where the work can be done much more effectively across the country. We speak of charter schools

and public schools and the debate. Also tonight a conversation with Jim McTague about the

possibility of a soft lending in the economy. The new market numbers are neither this nor that

for the Federal Reserve to continue to raise rates. Inflation is a problem. How much of

this supply chain we don't know, but soft lending is not improbable. In Australia I speak to

Scott Maaman about a contradiction. Australia is under Anthony Albinaci in the new Prime Minister

going green, committed to a certain achievement of cutting down on their use of fossil fuels by such

and such a date. And yet Australia is enjoying a trade surplus because of its cold, much desired

by India and Indonesia. In Syria there is an ongoing collapse of civilization. Bashar Assad, the

dictator in Damascus, is a driver for the disorder and the mass murder these many years.

My colleague Josh Rogan of the Washington Post spoke with Syrian activists, Syrian American

activists, who had the occasion at a fundraiser in Maryland to meet with and speak with momentarily

the President of the United States. One of the interlocutors spoke up right away while waiting

in line to shake the President's hand. This is a fundraiser. She said Assad must go. The President

agreed. We discuss what that means for the Biden administration going forward and what it means for

the people of Syria. In Ukraine there is nothing but non-transparency for the Zapparizha nuclear power plant.

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