Andrew Bernstein Debates Harry Binswanger on “The Olympics of Evil: Does it Matter Who the Winner Is?”

https://youtu.be/59gcwHnXyDEFrom Ayn Rand Centre UK:
The recent elections in America have triggered a polarising question: in the political division of Left and Right, is one side more evil than the other? Among the many who have opined on this issue is Dr. Andrew Bernstein, in his article titled: “The Left is Vastly More Evil than Religious Conservatives.” This has been a controversial take, particularly in the Objectivist community, where it has been met with both vehement agreement and strong opposition. However, a more essential question would be: does it matter whether one side of the political aisle is more evil than the other? To what extent, if any, are such identifications useful?

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

https://youtu.be/WK4M9iJrgtoThomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.

Steve Simpson with Ben Bayer on Section 230 and Social Media “Censorship”

https://youtu.be/5Fv78ueOJkMPhilosopher Ben Bayer of the Ayn Rand Institute’s New Ideal speaks with Steve Simpson, Senior Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, on the “de-platforming” of conservative websites, Section 230, and censorship.Related Reading:
Tulsi Gabbard: Advocates of a U.S. Police State are More “Dangerous Than the Mob That Stormed Our Capitol”

Tulsi Gabbard: Advocates of a U.S. Police State are More “Dangerous Than the Mob That Stormed Our Capitol”

The outspoken and independently minded, former Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii, roundly criticized former CIA Director John Brennan, House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and big tech “oligarchs” seeking to censor fellow Americans after the January 6 Capitol riot.
“The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country. But let’s be clear. The John Brennans, Adam Schiffs, and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies, and much more powerful and therefore dangerous than the mob that stormed our Capitol.”[…]“Now President Biden, I call upon you and all members of Congress from both parties to denounce these efforts by the likes of Brennan and others to take away our civil liberties that are endowed to us by our creator and guaranteed in our constitution. If you don’t stand up to these people now, then our country will be in great peril.”
Here is the entire video:https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1354035548524957697
Abigal Shrier: Biden Rule and Boys (Who ‘Identify as Female’) On Girl’s Sports Teams

Abigal Shrier: Biden Rule and Boys (Who ‘Identify as Female’) On Girl’s Sports Teams

Writes Abigal Shrier on “Joe Biden’s First Day Began the End of Girls’ Sports” in the WSJ:
Amid Inauguration Day talk of shattered glass ceilings, on Wednesday President Biden delivered a body blow to the rights of women and girls: the Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation. On day one, Mr. Biden placed all girls’ sports and women’s safe spaces in the crosshairs of the administrative state.The order declares: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the rest room, the locker room, or school sports. . . . All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.” The order purports to direct administrative agencies to begin promulgating regulations that would enforce the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision Bostock v. Clayton County. In fact, it goes much further.In Bostock, the justices held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited an employer from firing an employee on the basis of homosexuality or “transgender status.” Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for a 6-3 majority, took pains to clarify that the decision was limited to employment and had no bearing on “sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes”—all regulated under Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments. “Under Title VII, too,” the majority added, “we do not purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms, or anything else of the kind.”The Biden executive order is far more ambitious. Any school that receives federal funding—including nearly every public high school—must either allow biological boys who self-identify as girls onto girls’ sports teams or face administrative action from the Education Department. If this policy were to be broadly adopted in anticipation of the regulations that are no doubt on the way, what would this mean for girls’ and women’s sports?“Finished. Done,” Olympic track-and-field coach Linda Blade told me. “The leadership skills, all the benefits society gets from letting girls have their protected category so that competition can be fair, all the advances of women’s rights—that’s going to be diminished.” Ms. Blade noted that parents of teen girls are generally uninterested in watching their daughters demoralized by the blatant unfairness of a rigged competition.
Read the rest.Related: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our DaughtersUpdate: She also made an appearance on Tucker Carlson to discuss her views:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Sz_7G_coY

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