Inside Scoop: Warning to Democrats, distrust in Ivy League, streaming wars
Jim Antle, executive editor of *Washington Examiner* magazine, discusses this week’s *Inside scoop* episode and the issues covered in the magazine. He analyzes Jay Caruso’s cover story featuring Rahm Emanuel’s warning to Democrats that simply opposing president donald Trump isn’t enough-and that Democrats may need to shift toward the political center on cultural and social questions. Antle notes Emanuel’s message is unlikely to persuade many, though he highlights Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s focus on “kitchen-table” concerns. He also argues that while Gavin Newsom signaled possible movement toward the center-particularly on transgender issues-his shift appears to have been temporary.
Next, Antle speaks with Christopher Scalia of the American Enterprise Institute about a yale-commissioned report on higher education. The report attributes declining public trust largely to the universities themselves and points to problems such as limited intellectual diversity, administrative bloat, grade inflation, distracting campus practices, and classroom practices like screen use. Scalia emphasizes that universities’ core mission-teaching and research-requires free speech.
the show turns to Conn Carroll’s discussion of how “streaming wars” are reshaping and pricing out local sports bars, and how Congress could respond.
Jim Antle, the magazine executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Antle gives his analysis on Jay Caruso’s cover story in this week’s issue about a warning to democrats issued by Rahm Emanuel. The former adviser to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is warning Democrats that they can’t just fight President Donald Trump, but might have to move to the center on various cultural and social issues.
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“It is, however, unlikely that many Democrats will listen,” Antle said. “One possible exception is Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who has warned that Democrats aren’t delivering on the kitchen-table issues.”
Another top-tier Democratic presidential candidate who seemed to be getting this message was California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who originally was hosting on his podcast conservative figures like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, while also signaling he might move to the center on transgender issues.
“But Gavin Newsom’s transformation appears to have been short-lived,” Antle said. “He has already moved back to the left on a number of these issues.”
Next in the show, Antle sits down with Christopher Scalia, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read), to discuss a new report about the state of higher education. The report, commissioned by Yale’s president, acknowledges the university’s role in rapidly declining public trust in higher education.
“It doesn’t lay the blame anywhere else. Like the phone call in a horror movie, this call is coming from inside the house,” Scalia said. “They recognize it’s the university’s own fault, and they offer some plausible, and I think, credible solutions to address that decline in trust.”
The report highlights issues like the lack of intellectual diversity, with 82% of Yale faculty being Democrats, and suggests speaking to the government about rolling back regulations to improve hiring practices. The report also addresses administrative bloat, grade inflation, student distraction and removing screens from classrooms, and the need for communal learning experiences.
“One of the things I like about this report is that they say very clearly, the mission of a university is to preserve, create, and share knowledge through research and teaching,” Scalia said. “But to be good at that central mission of disseminating knowledge, creating knowledge, you have to have free speech.”
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Finally in the show, the streaming wars are coming for your local sports bar. Commentary editor Conn Carroll breaks down how expensive it has gotten to watch NFL games and how Congress can fix it.
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