EP 72 SEABLINDNESS
No, that’s not the horse who won America’s heart back in the day. It’s an old term to sescribe a maritime nation’s forgetfulness of the oceans’ role in its prosperity and security.
And it’s the name of Seth Crospey’s new book. He served as deputy Undersecretary of the U.S. Navy under Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He feels that political neglect is choking American seapower at a very inopportune time as others powers are aggressively building their naval capability, particularly China, Russia and Iran. Is America taking on water when it comes to our naval supremacy? We’ll discuss that important topic in this episode.
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President Trump proposes to cut the number of green cards issued each year from one million to 500,000 and issuing them based on skill levels. While our guest, Edward Conard, believes he may be on to something regarding the skills assessment he feels that fewer green cards will not support the economic growth necessary to sustain benefits to our aging baby boomer population. Mr. Conard is an American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar and a former Bain Capital partner. He is also the author of ‘The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class.
Operation RedMap is one of the great successes of modern politics and yet it remains a mystery to many. Yet its implications are apparent to all. A Republican House of Representatives guaranteed through 2020 despite more popular Congressional votes going to Democrats. How is this possible? If you can draw the Congressional lines, all things are possible. This story goes back to 2010 and is told, with authority by David Daley, who heads communications for FairVote and wrote the book, Ratf***ed. We’ll find out if there are reforms going forward that can get us back fairer representation of the popular will.
By so many measures, Brooklyn is a borough of New York City that is rising. In her book, ‘The New Brooklyn’, Kay Hymowitz describes the process and who has benefited greatly from the re-emergence of Brooklyn and who has not. The Manhattan Institute scholar will give us a sense of what it takes for a hard luck city to come back in the 21st century.
That’s a concise one word explanation for the presidential campaign of 2016. It’s also the name of the new book by Dr. Gary Rose, a professor and Chair of the Department of Government, Politics and Global Studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. He provides a chronology of events leading up to the astonishing victory by Donald Trump. We will discuss the campaign and its aftermath and consequences going forward on this podcast.