Among the first things we need to help people rise is knocking down the obstacles government puts in front of advancement which reinforce persistent poverty and inequality and prevent entrepreneurship from flourishing, particularly among those who haven’t had previous success.  Steve talks with John H. Cox, the 2018 Republican candidate for Governor of California.  […]

Free Speech is under attack at colleges and universities, with critics challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate.  Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened and classes are disrupted.  Steve interviews Keith Whittington, author of Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech

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Data is fundamental to our modern world.  We rely on numbers to allocate resources in economic development, employment, health care, education and public policy.  But because most data fails to take gender into account, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems.  Steve talks […]