The majority of Americans don’t believe diversity requirements should be a significant factor in whether or not a film is nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards, according to the findings of a new SurveyMonkey poll commissioned by The Daily Wire. 
With the Academy Awards only days away, the poll asked a national sample of Americans whether diversity in a film’s cast, themes or crew should play a significant role in getting an award nomination or whether artistic merit should be the sole factor. 
Sixty-three percent of respondents agreed that “films should solely be judged on their artistic merits,” while only 24% of respondents said that “diversity should be a significant factor” in a film’s nomination. The other respondents indicated they were unsure. 
Nearly half of non-white respondents, 48%, said artistic merit should be the sole consideration, while 38% said diversity should be factored in the nomination decision.
Last year, the Academy Awards announced that, beginning in 2024, a film will only qualify for Best Picture if it meets specific diversity criteria in two of four diversity areas. The Academy’s new guidelines cover “on-screen representation, themes and narratives” and “creative leadership and project team,” as well as so-called industry access opportunities and audience development diversity.
When respondents were provided with verbatim quotes directly from the Academy’s press release explaining the new guidelines, 35% of respondents support them. Furthermore, only 13% of respondents strongly support them. Half of respondents opposed the new standards, including 32% of respondents who indicated they strongly oppose them. 
In total, 39% of respondents said that they believed the new diversity standards would improve films, while 33% of them indicated that they would make films worse. 
Many of the survey’s respondents also indicated they do not plan to watch the Oscars this Sunday, but reasons for skipping the annual show vary largely by party affiliation. 
Among self-identified Republicans, 47% said that they definitely don’t plan to watch the Oscars this year, and only 9% said they definitely plan to watch. Sixty-three percent of Republicans who plan to skip the Oscars said it was because the program has become too political.
Among self-identified Democrats, 20% said that they definitely don’t plan to watch the Oscars this year, and 16% said that they definitely plan to watch. Sixty percent of Democrats who plan to skip the Oscars said it was because they don’t typically watch it, while another 34% said it was because the show is too boring. 
Moreover, 66% of respondents said they haven’t watched any of the movies nominated for Best Picture this year. An even larger number of Republican respondents, 78%, haven’t watched any of the movies up for the award. 
One of the largest areas of agreement among the respondents was the belief that Hollywood shouldn’t modify films to appease foreign entities, such as China’s National Film Bureau. In total, 82% of Americans indicated that Hollywood shouldn’t censor, even if that meant, for example, a film wouldn’t be screened in China.
Unsurprisingly, more than two-thirds of respondents indicated that they have not been to the movies in the last year, and 8% of respondents said that they haven’t been to the movies in the last month. Only 38% of Americans who frequented the movies at least several times per year last year said that they &#8220;definitely&#8221; plan to return to the movies when pandemic restrictions ease up in their states. 
When they do return to the movies, the poll’s results seem to suggest that most Americans plan to watch action films. The most highly anticipated film of the year, according to the survey, is “No Time To Die,” the new installment in the James Bond series, which 39 percent of the respondents said they plan to watch. This was followed by Tom Cruises’s “Top Gun: Maverick” at 36 percent and “Cruella,” starring Emma Stone, at 32 percent.
The <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1szQGZqP4VzMm8EvSkC_9p48KZvqXUBW-/view">online poll</a> was commissioned by The Daily Wire and conducted by SurveyMonkey on April 21-22, 2021. The survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of 1,203 American adults, 35% of whom identified as Democrats, 32% of whom identified as Republicans, and 33% of whom identified as Independents. The margin of error was 3%. 
Read the Academy&#8217;s full diversity criteria below:
<blockquote>For the 96th Oscars (2024), a film must meet TWO out of FOUR of the following standards to be deemed eligible:
STANDARD A:  ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES 
To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:
A1. Lead or significant supporting actors
At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. 
• Asian 
• Hispanic/Latinx 
• Black/African American 
• Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native 
• Middle Eastern/North African 
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 
• Other underrepresented race or ethnicity
A2. General ensemble cast
At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
A3. Main storyline/subject matter
The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s). 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
STANDARD B: CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT TEAM 
To achieve Standard B, the film must meet ONE of the criteria below:
B1. Creative leadership and department heads
At least two of the following creative leadership positions and department heads—Casting Director, Cinematographer, Composer, Costume Designer, Director, Editor, Hairstylist, Makeup Artist, Producer, Production Designer, Set Decorator, Sound, VFX Supervisor, Writer—are from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
At least one of those positions must belong to the following underrepresented racial or ethnic group: 
• Asian 
• Hispanic/Latinx 
• Black/African American 
• Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native 
• Middle Eastern/North African 
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 
• Other underrepresented race or ethnicity
B2. Other key roles
At least six other crew/team and technical positions (excluding Production Assistants) are from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. These positions include but are not limited to First AD, Gaffer, Script Supervisor, etc.
B3. Overall crew composition 
At least 30% of the film’s crew is from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
STANDARD C:  INDUSTRY ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES 
To achieve Standard C, the film must meet BOTH criteria below:
C1. Paid apprenticeship and internship opportunities
The film’s distribution or financing company has paid apprenticeships or internships that are from the following underrepresented groups and satisfy the criteria below: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
The major studios/distributors are required to have substantive, ongoing paid apprenticeships/internships inclusive of underrepresented groups (must also include racial or ethnic groups) in most of the following departments: production/development, physical production, post-production, music, VFX, acquisitions, business affairs, distribution, marketing and publicity.
The mini-major or independent studios/distributors must have a minimum of two apprentices/interns from the above underrepresented groups (at least one from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group) in at least one of the following departments: production/development, physical production, post-production, music, VFX, acquisitions, business affairs, distribution, marketing and publicity.
C2. Training opportunities and skills development (crew)
The film’s production, distribution and/or financing company offers training and/or work opportunities for below-the-line skill development to people from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing 
 
STANDARD D: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT 
To achieve Standard D, the film must meet the criterion below:
D1. Representation in marketing, publicity, and distribution
The studio and/or film company has multiple in-house senior executives from among the following underrepresented groups (must include individuals from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups) on their marketing, publicity, and/or distribution teams. 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group
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<li>Asian</li>
<li>Hispanic/Latinx</li>
<li>Black/African American</li>
<li>Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native</li>
<li>Middle Eastern/North African</li>
<li>Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander</li>
<li>​Other underrepresented race or ethnicity</li>
</ul>
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing</blockquote>
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On the latest episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special,” Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy talked politics, sports, and why he doesn’t stay away from social media altercations. 
From disputes with AOC to defending his company from online attacks, Portnoy has a strong following on social media among fans who he says appreciate the candidness of his style. Just last month, for example, Portnoy took on a hockey commentator who accused Barstool Sports, the media company he founded in the early 2000s, of having a history of “unapologetic” racism and misogyny. 
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I know people say I should ignore guys like <a href="https://twitter.com/GMillerTSN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GMillerTSN</a> But I’ll never be able to do that. Barstool is 20 years of my life’s work. I’m proud of it. I’m proud of our fans. He attacked everything I’m about. If you don’t fight back against that what do you fight back against?
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1372045068484370433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Portnoy told Shapiro in an interview airing Sunday, April 25, that he’s willing to debate with anyone — even in front of a crowd — but that he’s not willing to just stand around and take it when critics come at him first. 
“There is an audience that appreciates, and it&#8217;s not even Left or Right, it&#8217;s kind of both, like, ‘I like how these guys aren’t backing down.’ And our audience allows us to do that, so people have always asked, ‘Why do you fight back’ or ‘Why do you push back’ or ‘Why don’t you just shut up when someone takes a shot at you that you feel is unfair,’ it’s like, I’m not going to do that. I will never throw the first punch, but if you throw a shot at me on Twitter — out of the clouds — it&#8217;s not my responsibility to protect you,” said Portnoy.
“I will never throw the first punch, but if you throw a shot at me on Twitter — out of the clouds — it&#8217;s not my responsibility to protect you,” he said. 
Portnoy also talked about his repeated run-ins with the NFL, like the time security escorted him away from NFL headquarters for protesting in defense of Tom Brady during DeflateGate — or the time he was kicked out of the Super Bowl at half-time. 
“When they suspended him for four games, we went and protested and — myself and three other Patriot fans who work for me — handcuffed ourselves to each other at NFL headquarters,” the Barstool sports founder told Shapiro. “We got arrested, spent a night in jail for that, and it continued to escalate.”
“I got dragged out of the Super Bowl, it was Patriots-Rams Super Bowl. I bought tickets, and at half-time, they literally had about ten security guards drag me out, in hand-cuffs, because they banned me from the Super Bowl,” added Portnoy. 
Even when sports leagues take a moral stand, Portnoy said, they’re not concerned with morality; they’re more concerned about making money or trying to appease fans. 
“We can agree morally whether something is right, or a protest is right, but I just don’t buy that with the leagues. They’re doing it, on what they think is best for their bottom line, and that, you know, they’ll find out, in the end, I guess whether it was right,” he said.
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Watch Dave Portnoy and Ben Shapiro on the newest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special">The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Specia</a>l” airing Sunday, April 25, exclusively at The Daily Wire. 
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Many shows on Apple Podcast have disappeared due to an apparent back-end bug. 
The company has been rolling out a new Apple Podcast experience, and the bug appears to be linked to an updated Apple Podcast Connect. The updated tool was designed to help content creators manage and organize shows on Apple’s podcast platform; however, it appears to have caused a system-wide error affecting access to podcast episodes for some of those creators. 
The apparent bug has affected The Daily Wire’s content library, including recent episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show, The Matt Walsh Show, and The Michael Knowles Show. The home page for each of The Daily Wire’s podcast hosts, including Andrew Klavan and Candace Owens, is also not viewable on Apple mobile devices or Apple computers. 
Platforms outside of Apple, including Spotify and YouTube, have not been affected by the bug. The Daily Wire is working to resolve the issue. 
You can still listen or watch The Daily Wire’s podcasts on Spotify, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BenShapiro/videos">YouTube</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show">The Daily Wire</a> website. To listen to The Ben Shapiro Show, click <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1WErgoXiZwgctkHLzqU6nf">here</a>. To listen to the Michael Knowles Show, click <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3TdABllOVzlzharkEdaiWg">here</a>. To listen to The Matt Walsh Show, click <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1LeIhhawEPWj4uVLQV8Lkd">here</a>. 
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Many shows on Apple Podcast have disappeared due to an apparent back-end bug.  The company has been rolling out a new Apple Podcast experience, and the Many podcast episodes, including Daily Wire shows, have been affected by an apparent glitch at Apple.

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In a recent sit-down with The Daily Wire, Candace Owens provided a glimpse behind the scenes about the vision and development of her new weekly talk show, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/candace-official-trailer">Candace</a>.”
The show, which will be filmed in front of a live studio audience in Nashville and is set to debut for Daily Wire members on March 19 (non-members can receive 25% off a membership with promo code <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe">CANDACE</a>), will be unlike any other show out there, Owens said.
“This show is going to be funny. This show is going to be uplifting. This show is going to be political. Without question, this show is going to be all of the pieces of me,” Owens said.
Asked about what has most inspired her to launch the show, Owens cited the growing trend of &#8220;conservative voices being kicked out of culture.”
“You&#8217;re not allowed to be funny, you&#8217;re not allowed to be likable in the media if you are a conservative,” she said, adding that this wasn’t the case a decade ago. “So I think the timing right now is really crucial to stand up on a platform and to say, I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;m a conservative, I&#8217;m not apologizing, and here are all the things that we are interested in and things that we love.”
DW: What is your biggest motivation or launching the new show?
Working with The Daily Wire to me felt like it was the right move for a lot of reasons. But I think the biggest motivation is seeing conservative voices being kicked out of culture, you&#8217;re not allowed to be funny, you&#8217;re not allowed to be likable in the media if you are a conservative, and it wasn&#8217;t like this 10 years ago. So I think the timing right now is really crucial to stand up on a platform and to say, I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;m a conservative, I&#8217;m not apologizing, and here are all the things that we are interested in and things that we love. And I think that&#8217;s really a humanizing aspect that is missing from the divisiveness that we see so much in, not just America, but all around the world.
I think one of the strangest things about where I&#8217;m at is the fact that the media has done a really good job of creating a caricature of Candace Owens. And part of that caricature is that I&#8217;m always on the defense, I&#8217;m angry, I&#8217;m upset. And that just couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. I&#8217;m a wife, a mother, a friend, a sister. And that has been completely, I think, stripped away in this age of media propaganda and building people as either good guys or bad guys.
This show is going to be funny. This show is going to be uplifting. This show is going to be political. Without question, this show is going to be all of the pieces of me.
DW: How is it going to be different than other shows offered by The Daily Wire? 
What&#8217;s going to be different about “Candace” at The Daily Wire? First and foremost, The Daily Wire is male-dominated; they needed a female show. I&#8217;m excited to answer that call. And with me, you&#8217;re always going to get content that you haven&#8217;t seen anywhere else. I just have a different perspective and I have the courage to stand by my convictions.
I think that you&#8217;ll get all of those elements — especially a sense of humor. I like to have fun, I can&#8217;t stress enough that sometimes rather than being angry, the best thing to do is just to appreciate the insanity and to take a step back and to make fun of it. I think the best way that you can deliver a message is if you can make people laugh at themselves and realize, okay, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t take myself so seriously. So yeah, it&#8217;ll definitely be a lot different than all the other shows, but at the same time it will be bound by the same values — and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m really excited to join The Daily Wire team.
DW: What are you looking forward to most about the show?
I think what I&#8217;m looking forward to the most with this show is actually sitting down with the team. Nobody ever gets to see that, but there&#8217;s so much fun working on these elements when you&#8217;re with the crew, when you are with the writers. There&#8217;s so much creativity that goes into this process, and I consider myself to be a creative person. So the creative process of looking at the stories of the week and saying, how do we get to tell a story? How do we get to bring our audiences in? And I think there are so many different things that I am interested in and people don&#8217;t get to see that because they&#8217;ve sort of painted me into a corner. So seeing all of that is something that I&#8217;m looking forward to presenting to the world.
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DW: You are known for fiercely and passionately speaking out about what you believe. What inspires you to be so outspoken?
People always ask me what is my main motivation? And the answer is pretty simple, I just want to be myself. It&#8217;s such a simple thing. I just want to be who I am and not feel like I have to be someone because the media demands it or the school&#8217;s demand it. There&#8217;s just this culture of bullying and trying to paint people into corners. Well, you are a woman, so you need to be this. You are a man so you need to be this. You are a lesbian, you need to be this. And at the end of the day, I think people just want to be who they are. And a lot of my followers feel that I give them the permission to be themselves because I do so unapologetically.
DW: Have you always been like that?
Without question I have always been exactly this person. My parents really tell me that I came out of the womb like this. I was just one of those no-nonsense toddlers. They could never manipulate me. I was always so committed to the truth. I mean, simple things like when parents say, if you don&#8217;t do this then Santa&#8217;s not going to come. When my parents would say that, I would turn to them and say, well, then tell Santa not to come. I just always required a better explanation than “just because.” I wanted to understand the reasons that people wanted me to do something. And I think that I&#8217;ve just sort of carried that and it&#8217;s somehow landed me in a political space.
DW: You get so much backlash, people love to hate you. How does that affect you? Does it affect you?
I think it&#8217;s hilarious. I just want to make this super clear. People spend so much time hating me, it&#8217;s almost a full-time job. I&#8217;m impressed with some of the things that they do. I&#8217;m like you spent hours on this, there&#8217;s no way you are not on Photoshop for hours making this meme. First and foremost, I think my haters should know that I have a sense of humor. I grew up with two sisters that are a year apart. If you think you can torture me, you didn&#8217;t grow up in my household. I have an incredibly thick skin. If you think you said something about me, it&#8217;s probably already was said to me when I was six years old by a cousin, a brother or sister. So yeah, I&#8217;m thick-skinned and I just don&#8217;t get my sense of self from the internet.
I think a huge problem with this generation is that they&#8217;re looking for the internet to give them a sense of security. And it&#8217;s never going to provide that for you. So I&#8217;m lucky because when Facebook and Twitter and Instagram came upon the scene, I was already in high school. So I was allowed to grow up, I was allowed to be ugly and to have braces and be awkward and gangly without the internet.
I&#8217;m a pretty formed person. I feel strong on my two feet. I know what I believe. And I&#8217;m just not going to be bullied to say something. One thing I can say you&#8217;ll never get from me on this show is one of those celeb apologies, copy and pasted like they&#8217;re being held hostage apologies. Because if I make a mistake, I&#8217;ll own it and keep moving forward. And I hope people feel that they have the permission to make mistakes.
DW: You’ve said you want to focus a great deal of talking with people that disagree with you. Why are you so passionate about this? 
I genuinely wish that any person that was convinced that they hated me would have the courage and the spirit to sit down with me. I really believe what I believe, and I think if you actually believe what you believe, you would sit in a room with somebody that you completely disagree with and hash it out. And what I have found over and over again is that people that are on the far-left will say all of these things. And when you say, you know what, let&#8217;s sit down, let&#8217;s have a conversation, they don&#8217;t want to do it. And to me, that shows that there is an intellectual cowardice going on, that for them, it&#8217;s an act, it&#8217;s a performance and it&#8217;s not actually what they believe.
I&#8217;ve been lucky enough in the past to sit down with some people who have had the courage to debate me, and I think when they hear it come out of their mouth, suddenly they realize, okay, maybe that sounded a little bit ridiculous. It&#8217;s important for people to sit in the room with people that they disagree with, because until you are challenged, you can&#8217;t be sure the things that you&#8217;re saying are actually coming from you and weren&#8217;t just copy and pasted because you saw it so many times said by your idols, your friends, your teachers.
I really genuinely believe in the importance of challenging ideas and the importance of debate, which is why I&#8217;m constantly debating the world.
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During an appearance on “Fox News at Night” with Shannon Bream, The Daily Wire’s Editor &amp; Columnist Ashe Schow explained how important due process is on college campuses.
President Joe Biden recently announced that he was directing the Department of Education to review its policies, including Title IX guidelines implemented by the Trump administration which ensured those who were accused of sexual misconduct would receive their constitutionally protected due process rights. The Obama administration, in which Biden was vice president, discouraged due process while Biden himself insisted women must be believed without any qualifiers about a fair and thorough investigation.
Bream began the segment by referencing an interview with C.D. Mock, whose son Corey <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-rules-university-cant-shift-burden-of-proof-onto-the-accused">faced a Title IX tribunal</a> nearly a decade ago. When C.D., who was at the time a popular wrestling coach at a different university, started a blog to defend his son, he was fired.
When asked about what kind of changes we might possibly see during the Biden administration, Schow responded:
<blockquote>There’s some things that possibly could be tweaked but we know from everything that Biden has said publicly going back to the Obama administration, he is absolutely against due process. Unless of course, he needs it. He was all about ‘It’s On Us,’ ‘Believe Women,’ and then as soon as he was accused by Tara Reade last year during the election, it was: ‘No, no, no, just listen to women and support them but then investigate what they’re saying,’ which was never brought up during the Obama administration, was never what was mentioned during the Obama-era regulations.
So, we have all of these students that are getting accused, like Corey Mock, and there’s absolutely nothing they can do. They don’t see the evidence against them, they don’t even know the specific allegations against them in a lot of cases. So, Biden has put out the sign that he wants to go back to the Obama-era guidelines where that’s the norm, and we can’t have that. This is America, where we have constitutionally protected due process, which doesn’t end just because you step on a college campus.</blockquote>
Bream later asked Schow what the impact would be to accused students, to which Schow replied:
<blockquote>I’ve been talking to parents, I’ve been talking to accused students for almost a decade now and it is traumatizing. They talk about the trauma that accusers face, assuming that all accusers are telling the truth, but accused students, they go through all kinds of trauma. They are depressed, they are anxious, they end up having to see psychiatrists and psychologists and get on all kinds of medications. They become suicidal. I have seen suicides.
We are having a mental health crisis in this country and removing due process from college kids who have no idea what this whole new culture is is not only dangerous to the accused students, but the fact is that a lack of due process means that people are going to question the outcome of these star chambers means that hurst accusers as well because they’re less likely to be believed.</blockquote>
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Schow On Fox: Everyone Loses When Due Process Is Rolled Back

Fox News

Sexual Assault

Title IX

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America has lost an inarguably great man. Walter Williams, one of the nation’s great economists and public intellectuals, died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after teaching his final class at George Mason University on Tuesday. He was 84.
A self-described &#8220;crazy-ass man&#8221; and libertarian economist with a black belt in karate, he focused on government&#8217;s role in perpetuating racial inequality.
A ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of liberty, Williams brought a personal toughness honed as a Philly cab driver to his work; a contrarianism born of growing up poor in the city’s racially segregated housing projects. But he never allowed himself to be a victim of his circumstances.
A disciple of Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, Williams worked for 40 years at George Mason University, putting his heart and soul into transforming the economics department into a highly respected center of free market scholars. Talking with Robert Chatfield of the Free To Choose Network, Williams said he tried to avoid using anything written within the last 40 years in his economics class. He wanted students to know that Mises, Hayek, and Friedman were right then, and they’re still right today.
A nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books including his seminal work, &#8220;Race and Economics&#8221;, a highly acclaimed must-read on the subject, his research was rigorous and his writings bold and unequivocal. His book, The State Against Blacks, was made into the television documentary &#8220;Good Intentions&#8221; in 1985, with his most recent documentary, “Suffer No Fools” debuting in 2015. He was one of the few economists who knew how to engage with the public. 
A libertarian in the truest sense, Williams refused the title as a descriptor, saying &#8220;I just do my own thing,&#8221; when asked by Reason Magazine in 2011 whether he saw himself as part of the libertarian movement. 
In a moving elegy to his best and closest friend of more than half a century, Thomas Sowell wrote, “There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone. But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things.”
Sowell shared a running joke between he and Williams, that there was a time when the entire black conservative community would have only consisted of the two of them, “Walter used to say the two of us should never fly on the same plane otherwise the whole movement will disappear if the plane goes down.”
To misquote slightly a line from Hamlet, “He was a man, Horatio, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.” 
Walter Edward Williams, rest in peace.

Walter Williams

Walter E. Williams, R.I.P.

George Mason University

Thomas Sowell

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The entire content library for PragerU will now be available on The Daily Wire’s website as part of a new partnership between the two organizations, the latest move in The Daily Wire’s effort to provide conservatives and independent thinkers with even more content. 
As part of the partnership, The Daily Wire will now host the best content PragerU has to offer, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/5-minute-videos">Five-Minute Videos</a>, which feature engaging educational lessons, hosted by thought leaders and conservative figures, on various hot-button issues. To date, PragerU’s five-minute videos have racked up over 4 billion views and counting.  
“This new partnership with PragerU is just a taste of the kind of content we are committed to bringing to our audience as we expand our efforts to replace the legacy media,” said Jeremy Boreing, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Daily Wire. “We have big plans for 2021 that we can’t wait to share — this is just the start of it.”
In addition to hosting the acclaimed five-minute videos, The Daily Wire will also now be home to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-candace-owens-show">The Candace Owens Show</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-book-club-with-michael-knowles">Book Club With Michael Knowles</a>. Owens recently joined The Daily Wire, and her show with PragerU features in-depth conversations with a variety of guests, such as British author Douglas Murray, political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and actress Rosanne Barr to name a few. 
The PragerU book club show, hosted by The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, is also now available on The Daily Wire’s website. It features in-depth conversations about great works of literature, both fiction and non-fiction, with a variety of guests. For example, you can watch Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) discuss Aldous Huxley’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/sen-ted-cruz-brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley">Brave New World</a>, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro talk about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-the-federalist-papers-by-alexander-hamilton-james-madison-and">The Federalist Papers</a>, and talk-radio host Dennis Prager discuss Viktor Frankl’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/dennis-prager-mans-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-frankl">Man’s Search For Meaning</a>. 
“We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with The Daily Wire to reach a larger audience, as Big Tech companies censor more and more speech with each passing day,” said Craig Strazzeri, chief marketing officer for PragerU. “We’re eager to provide a new generation with facts and conservative viewpoints that leftist teachers and professors hide from them. If we’ve learned anything during these past four years, it’s been that conservatives need to adapt and out-innovate Big Tech and the Left. Hollywood and Silicon Valley may want to silence us, but we will never let it happen.”
Founded in 2009, PragerU has been producing conservative content with the vision of seeing a “World Committed to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” an homage to the text of the Declaration of Independence. 
“Prager University is the world&#8217;s leading conservative nonprofit that is focused on changing minds through the creative use of digital media. Taking full advantage of today&#8217;s technology and social media, we educate millions of Americans and young people about the values that make America great,” reads PragerU’s mission statement. 
To view the new PragerU content available on The Daily Wire, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch">here</a>. 
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The Daily Wire

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In a new <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/you-cant-be-free-without-this/">PragerU video</a>, Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty — the nation&#8217;s largest legal firm dedicated exclusively to protecting individual liberty — warns viewers of the growing threat to religious freedom in the United States.
Shackelford begins by stating that the assumed existence of religious freedom in the United States — where “you can be a Protestant, a Catholic, a Jew, a Muslim, or a Wiccan. You can believe in anything—or nothing” — is, unfortunately, no longer a reality. Now, Shackelford says, it “seems like almost every week a new dispute arises between people of faith and government agencies alleging that believers are violating the rights of non-believers, or simply violating government edicts.”
Citing <a href="https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&amp;psid=151">Common Sense</a>, Thomas Paine’s influential 1776 pamphlet, Shackelford points out that this newfound disregard for religious freedom is antithetical to the principles at the heart of America’s founding. Moreover, that it “wasn’t an accident” that the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights — beginning with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” — focuses on religious liberty.
Shackelford then compares “the two great revolutions of the 18th century,” quoting British historian <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-08-bk-26573-story.html">Paul Johnson</a> in order to draw a “stark and telling contrast” between the role of religion in the American and French revolutions:
<blockquote>The essential difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution is that the American Revolution, in its origins, was a religious event, whereas the French Revolution was an anti-religious event. That fact was to shape the American Revolution&#8230;and determine the nature of the independent state it brought into being.</blockquote>
Despite being achieved as “one of the main goals of the American Revolution,” Shackelford warns that “freedom of religion” <a href="https://www.heritage.org/religious-liberty/heritage-explains/religious-freedom-whats-stake-if-we-lose-it">has</a> now “morphed into freedom from religion,” thereby achieving one of the “main goals of the French Revolution.” 
The danger, Shackelford argues, is that an attack on religious freedom is a “totalitarian ‘tell,’” a sign that “they’re coming for all your freedom.” This is why the Founders “were so insistent that religious liberty be in the Constitution,” since “freedom of liberty was tantamount to freedom of thought. If you aren&#8217;t free to think as you wish, you can&#8217;t claim to be free.”
Shackelford continues by drawing from historical examples of the suppression of religious freedom, and how this relates to a broader impact upon all freedoms. He discusses the closure of churches and the “control of all religious life” under Soviet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2017/oct/26/why-the-soviet-attempt-to-stamp-out-religion-failed">rule</a>, as well as religious limitations <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-xi-jinping-is-attacking-religion-in-china-2018-11">enforced</a> under the Chinese communist regime.
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The reason for such anti-religious sentiment, Shackelford says, is that religion “challenges the authority of the state more than any other freedom,” and that “people who adhere to a religion believe that there’s something higher than the state, and no repressive government can tolerate such a belief.”
Shackelford uses the argument that “religion is the first target of those who want ever more power” to warn everyone — even those who aren’t religious — that “if you care about freedom, you should care deeply about religious liberty.” 
He concludes be providing an insight into the “troubling trends” he has noticed as he works to “protect religious liberty,” saying that “eight years ago, my case load was 47; last year it was over 300.” Shackelford provides a few recent examples, including the suspension and then termination of a Washington <a href="https://firstliberty.org/cases/coachkennedy/">high school football coach</a> for “going to a knee after a football game to say a brief, silent prayer,” an <a href="https://firstliberty.org/cases/heimish-of-houston/">attempt</a> by the City of Houston to “ban a small Orthodox Jewish community from worshipping in the home of its rabbi,” and a court in Maryland <a href="https://firstliberty.org/cases/bladensburg/">ordering</a> the removal of a “peace cross” which has “stood for almost 100 years in honor of 49 young men who died fighting in World War I.”
The <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/you-cant-be-free-without-this/">video</a> ends with both a warning and cause for hope:
<blockquote>America is also still standing. But it won&#8217;t be for much longer, not as the free country the Founders envisioned, if we don&#8217;t take these threats to religious freedom seriously. The great historian of post-revolutionary America, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood this very well. &#8220;When…men attack religious beliefs, they are following their emotions not their interests. Tyranny may be able to do without faith, but freedom cannot.&#8221;</blockquote>
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PRAGERU: You Can’t Be Free Without This

First Amendment

Freedom of Religion

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On the heels of guest-hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show last week, Westwood One and The Daily Wire are delighted to <a href="https://www.westwoodone.com/programming/talk-radio/daily-talk/15101-2/">announce</a> that Michael Knowles will be hosting a daily radio show starting in the new year. In addition, his podcast, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show">The Michael Knowles Show</a>, will be expanding to 5 days a week starting the week of November 30th.
Michael’s radio show will launch on January 4, 2021, and will be broadcast at 5 p.m. EST.
Responding to the announcement, Knowles said, “It was such an honor and privilege to fill in for the great Rush Limbaugh on radio last week. Now I&#8217;m excited to learn and announce that we will be hitting the terrestrial airwaves every day starting in January!&#8221;
The move to the airwaves, suggested Knowles, is particularly timely given the increased censorship of conservative voices on social media platforms.
&#8220;As Big Tech ramps up its efforts to suppress our voice online, I&#8217;m thrilled to expand the show into new markets and media all around the country,&#8221; he said.
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Along with being the host of The Michael Knowles Show, Knowles is co-host of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/verdict-with-ted-cruz/id1495601614">Verdict</a> with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), host of PragerU&#8217;s <a href="https://www.prageru.com/series/book-club/">The Book Club</a>, and author of the #1 national bestseller, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1501180126">Reasons to Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide</a>” — the first bestseller in history to be completely blank.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show">Watch the latest episode of The Michael Knowles Show here</a>.
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The Michael Knowles Show Is Coming To Radio

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PragerU’s latest video features Selina Soule, who was one of the top five female high school sprinters in Connecticut — until competing against biological boys changed the game. In the video, released Monday, the sprinter speaks about the issues facing women in competitive sports that allow biological males to compete.
Soule begins by describing her initial path to sporting success, speaking of “training to be a championship sprinter since I was eight years old,” achieving her objective “with the help of my parents, my coaches, and my teammates.” However, everything changed at the state championships one year, when two “biological boys who said they were transgender girls” took first and second place, “dominating the field.”
After a journey through what it took to achieve her success, Soule states that the two biological males who took the top two spots in the women&#8217;s events &#8220;were not even good enough to qualify them to compete in the state championships on the boys’ team.” Soule references the same disparity when speaking about her inspiration, Allyson Felix, the “fastest female sprinter in the world.” Citing 2018 data, Soule notes that Felix&#8217;s lifetime best of 49.26 seconds in the 400 meters would be beaten by “nearly three hundred high school boys in the U.S. alone.&#8221;
After laying out the facts regarding the seemingly “insurmountable advantage in strength and speed” due to significant “biological changes that males go through during puberty,” Soule then argues that this issue is far greater than who gets to take home which trophy:
<blockquote>When biological boys are allowed to compete against girls in sports like track, where the differences in performance are so great, we are talking about girls getting shut out — never getting the chance to win, or even compete at all.</blockquote>
Speaking of losing “the opportunity to participate at the New England championships,” thereby losing “the chance to be scouted by top coaches, possibly even to win scholarships,” Soule goes on to warn about the impact this can have on the sporting careers of other girls.
<blockquote>The reason that we have girls’ sports in the first place is to give female athletes with talent, hard work, and dedication an equal opportunity to shine and be recognized. But girls will never have that opportunity if they are forced to compete with biological boys in sports like track and field, softball, volleyball, or basketball.</blockquote>
Soule concludes by condemning the treatment of girls who object by pointing out “the truth that biological differences in strength and speed between boys and girls are massive and real&#8221;: &#8220;Administrators, teachers, coaches, and other students tell us to just keep quiet and take it. We’re told a girl’s place is to be seen and not heard.&#8221;
But Soule promises not to be silenced, and explains that she and two other top female runners in Connecticut have “filed a federal lawsuit under Title IX to protect the rights of women and girls to a fair competition on a level playing field.”
The <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/the-end-of-womens-sports/">video</a> ends with a simple call for equality. “Please don’t turn your backs on us, America. This isn’t about gender identity,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It’s about fair play.”
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PRAGERU: The End of Women’s Sports

Gender

Sports

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Along with hopes of developing an effective vaccine, a long-term goal in the fight against COVID-19 has been achieving widespread immunity. The following presents three potential immunity scenarios laid out by health experts, from the best case to the worst.
Throughout the pandemic, the World Health Organization has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52747112">cautioned</a> people who have recovered from COVID-19 that there is no evidence they are immune from reinfection. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/covid-antibodies-fade-rapidly-raising-risk-of-lost-protection">Recent</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-months-uk-study-suggests">studies</a> <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-antibodies-fade-months-study/story?id=71406787">indicate</a> that protective antibodies may fade in a matter of months, which could leave some people susceptible to contracting the disease more than once, or in seasonal waves, similar to catching the other strains of coronaviruses that can cause the common cold.
On August 24, researchers at the University of Hong Kong <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/24/coronavirus-reinfection-hong-kong/">announced</a> they had found evidence that individuals can be reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The team said a 33-year-old man from the region had tested positive for the second time in four and a half months, suggesting the concept of herd immunity could be unlikely, and a hypothetical vaccine that scientists are working to develop might not protect the global population that awaits for extended periods of time.
STAT News recently interviewed several health experts about ways the world can coexist with COVID-19. Vineet Menachery, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/four-scenarios-on-how-we-might-develop-immunity-to-covid-19/">presented</a> four possible immunity scenarios, one of which is a subset of another, based on the human body’s response to other coronavirus types. The outlet described the potential outcomes as “hopeful,” but emphasized that Dr. Menachery’s general categorizations “are educated guesses” which “cover a spectrum, and the lines between some of the scenarios can be blurry in spots.”
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Below are three potential scenarios, drawing heavily from Dr. Menachery&#8217;s theories and other experts STAT consulted as well as additional sources.
1. Complete immunity — best-case scenario, but “not so likely”
Sterilizing immunity, which essentially means humans would be resistant to reinfection, is a best-case scenario. Protection would persist because the human body’s forms of immunity response minimize the ramifications of repeat infection. For example, the antibodies generated by a measles infection generally last a lifetime.
Chia-Yi Hou, a health writer for The Hill, <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/501677-what-is-sterilizing-immunity-and-do-we-need-it">explains</a>:
<blockquote>Sterilizing immunity means that the immune system is able to stop a pathogen, including viruses, from replicating within your body.
This typically happens when immune cells in the body are able to bind to the pathogen in places that prevent it from being able to enter a cell where it can start making copies of itself. Some of these immune cells may produce sterilizing antibodies, which are proteins that recognize specific proteins and structures on the surfaces of pathogens.
To achieve sterilizing immunity, your body needs to produce enough neutralizing antibodies and it needs to be able to do so in the long term. Ideally, it leads to life-long immunity.</blockquote>
Marion Koopmans, head of virology at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, told STAT that sterilizing immunity “is out of the question, as with any respiratory virus.” Another expert interviewed described the option as “not so likely.”
As STAT <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/four-scenarios-on-how-we-might-develop-immunity-to-covid-19/">reported</a>, “viruses that infect via the mucus membranes of the nose and throat, like SARS-2, typically don’t induce sterilizing immunity.”
Health experts said experimental COVID-19 vaccines tested on primates do not block replication of the virus in the upper respiratory tract, which <a href="https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=85&amp;ContentID=P01300">includes</a> the nose, nasal passages, and sinuses.
2. Partial immunity — most likely scenario
Dr. Menachery envisions a concept he calls &#8220;functional immunity,&#8221; effectively partial immunity, as the most likely outcome. Even though the number of antibody proteins in the blood may significantly drop after an infection is cleared, the human body stores “memory cells” that could detect and fight off those same viruses at a later date.
“The idea there is that, yes, your antibodies might wane, but your memory responses aren’t absent,” Menachery said. More from STAT:
<blockquote>Under this scenario, people whose immune systems have been primed to recognize and fight the virus — whether through infection or vaccination — could contract it again in the future. But these infections would be cut short as the immune system’s defenses kick into gear. People infected might not develop symptoms or might have a mild, cold-like infection…</blockquote>
STAT cites “enormous amounts of debate” about the ability of people to produce a “durable” or long-lasting immune response to the virus, but says that experts told the outlet that so far immune responses to the virus follow standard patterns.
Some scientists <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-antibodies-vaccine/swiftly-waning-covid-19-immunity-poses-vaccination-challenge-idUSKCN24F261">believe</a> rapidly fading antibody levels could pose a challenge to vaccine developers. Several <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-antibodies-fade-months-study/story?id=71406787">suggested</a> the companies consider booster vaccinations that would be administered at regular intervals, especially for the most vulnerable groups.
A recent King’s College London study <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-months-uk-study-suggests">found</a> that COVID-19 patients with the most severe symptoms produced the highest antibody levels to fight the infection. Another research group from Chongqing Medical University in China <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-antibodies-fade-months-study/story?id=71406787">provided</a> data that suggests asymptomatic people had a weaker immune response to the virus.
A variant of this functional immunity, Menachery suggests, is “waning immunity,” in which individuals might eventually become reinfected, but the new infection would result in less severe symptoms than the previous episode. “You will never get as sick as you were the first time,” Dr. Menachery explained.
“This is a pattern seen with the four coronaviruses that cause about 15% of what we consider common colds – OC43, 229E, NL63, and HKU1,” <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/four-scenarios-on-how-we-might-develop-immunity-to-covid-19/">according</a> to STAT. “People can be reinfected with these viruses after a relatively short period of time.&#8221;
3. Fully lost immunity — worst-case scenario, probably “off the table”
Dr. Menachery described the worst possible outcome as “lost immunity,” meaning immunity would completely fade out, leaving people vulnerable to catch the virus again with unpredictable symptoms that may be just as severe as previous bouts with the disease.
“A reinfection after that point would be like a first infection — carrying all the same risk of severe disease now seen with Covid-19,” STAT explains. “Lost immunity describes a scenario in which people who have been infected would lose all their immune munitions against the virus within some time frame.”
However, STAT says none of the experts with whom they had consulted thought it was a real possibility. If these experts are right, says the health news outlet, we can expect the threat of the virus to wane, with the virus eventually becoming “the fifth human coronavirus to cause common colds.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-effective-is-mask-wearing-heres-what-the-science-suggests">How Effective Is Mask Wearing? Here’s What The Science Suggests.</a>
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While C.S. Lewis is primarily known for his fictional and faith-focused writing, most notably The Chronicles of Narnia series and Mere Christianity, he believed that claims upon the soul are claims upon the whole of life. In other words, everything Lewis said and wrote about his faith had real-world implications — including political and cultural implications. Reading Lewis’s work with this in mind reveals profound insights on politics and culture, many of which are particularly relevant to America now. Below are 19 quotes about politics and culture from Lewis that America needs to hear now more than ever.
The Worst Kind of Tyranny
Lewis argued that the most oppressive tyranny is not enacted by brutal dictators but by well-meaning “moral busybodies” – the do-gooders, the Karens in government — “who torment us for our own good.”
<blockquote>“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron&#8217;s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one&#8217;s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” — “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,” 1948</blockquote>
This tyranny, says Lewis, is the tyranny of bureaucrats, carried out in “well-lighted offices” by “quiet men with white collars.”
<blockquote>“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of ‘Admin.’ The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” — Screwtape Letters, 1942—preface to the paperback edition</blockquote>
(Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/c-s-lewis-tyranny-for-your-own-good">‘Tyranny For Your Own Good’: C.S. Lewis On The Philosophy Behind COVID Lockdowns</a>)
Materialism vs. Faith
The great ideological error that ultimately leaves men at the mercy of government, says Lewis, is a strictly scientific or materialist view of the world:
<blockquote>“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning&#8230;” — Mere Christianity, 1952
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?” — Mere Christianity, 1952
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage.” — Mere Christianity, 1952
“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.” — Mere Christianity, 1952</blockquote>
On Being Truly “Progressive”
Lewis argued that “progressive” intellectuals, educators and politicians had taken a wrong turn in their materialist worldview. In many cases, he argued, true progress requires recognizing first that you are going the wrong direction and turning around — in other words, conservatism.
<blockquote>“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” — Mere Christianity, 1952</blockquote>
(Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/c-s-lewis-on-social-engineering-the-leftist-effort-to-reprogram-your-mind">C.S. Lewis On Social Engineering: The Leftist Effort To Reprogram Your Mind</a>)
The Importance of Justice
Lewis argued that while a society built on Judeo-Christian values attempts to offer grace and forgiveness to everyone, that does not mean doing away with justice. Justice, even harsh justice like the death penalty, must be upheld to create a truly loving society.
<blockquote>“There is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing.” — “On Forgiveness,” 1947
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.” — The Problem of Pain, 1940</blockquote>
The Importance of the Nuclear Family
The nuclear family is not just important, Lewis argues, it is absolutely central to everything a society is created to protect and promote. For this reason, being a homemaker is the most important career:
<blockquote>“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only — and that is to support the ultimate career.” — Collected Letters</blockquote>
The Politics of Education
Education stripped of God is ultimately devoid of good, says Lewis:
<blockquote>“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” — The Great Divorce, 1945</blockquote>
The education system teaching students that morality is relative isn&#8217;t just wrong, it&#8217;s dangerous:
<blockquote>“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” — The Abolition of Man, 1943
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” — Mere Christianity, 1952
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’” — Interview with Sherwood Wirt, 1963</blockquote>
Modern educators misunderstand “the pressing educational need of the moment”:
<blockquote>“They see the world around them swayed by emotional propaganda — they have learned from tradition that youth is sentimental — and they conclude that the best thing they can do is to fortify the minds of young people against emotion. My own experience as a teacher tells an opposite tale. For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity.  The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” — The Abolition of Man, 1943</blockquote>
Coddling the younger generation is dangerous, Lewis argues. We should instead be teaching them about courage:
<blockquote>“Those who say that children must not be frightened may mean two things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give the child those haunting, disabling, pathological fears against which ordinary courage is helpless: in fact, phobias. His mind must, if possible, be kept clear of things he can’t bear to think of. Or they may mean (2) that we must try to keep out of his mind the knowledge that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil. If they mean the first I agree with them: but not if they mean the second. The second would indeed be to give children a false impression and feed them on escapism in the bad sense. There is something ludicrous in the idea of so educating a generation which is born to the…atomic bomb. Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” — On Three Ways of Writing for Children, 1952
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” — The Screwtape Letters, 1942</blockquote>
(Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/c-s-lewis-on-why-the-left-is-coming-for-your-children">C.S. Lewis On Why The Left Is Coming For Your Children</a>)
The Eternal Significance of Society
Lewis ultimately argued that all things, including society and politics, have eternal significance and can only be seen clearly through the lens of eternity.
<blockquote>“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit — immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” — The Weight of Glory, 1942</blockquote>
But while God must be central in a society if it wants to be good, He cannot be used as a tool of politicians.
<blockquote>“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist&#8217;s shop.” — The Screwtape Letters, 1942</blockquote>
Read more about Lewis’s political views in the Daily Wire exclusive series “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klavan-the-politics-of-c-s-lewis">The Politics of C.S. Lewis</a>,” by Spencer Klavan. 
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