INSTAVISION: HOW MEDICAID FAILS POOR PEOPLE

Avik Roy joins Glenn Reynolds to discuss Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor. Roy explains that most enrollments under ObamaCare are in the Medicaid program, and that Medicaid is actually having a negative health impact. Hear more about the ObamaCare debacle, and Roy's new book, How Medicaid Fails the Poor on this InstaVision.

YESTERDAY'S HEADLINES TODAY - VOL. 43

Did Bush-Obama Policies Begin the End of Christianity in Arab Lands?

Who Needs a Democratic Egypt?

Obama's Jewel of Denial: His Islamophilia contributed to the mess in Egypt

White House spokesman jokes about Islamic attacks on Christian churches in Egypt

Obama Appointee Admits Obama's Policies Have Stalled U.S. Economy

NSA surveillance scandals are ruining Obama among young voters

Congress is handing its indispensable Constitutional role to the executive branch

Stopping the Hillary Juggernaut

Islamic Studies Professor Attacks Egyptian Christians on Facebook, Accusing Them of Burning Their Own Churches

Dana Perino Calls 'The Butler' Screenwriter 'Amazing'

CAMPUS CENSORSHIP & CULTURAL WARFARE

For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America's colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. This video explains how higher education fails to teach its students to become critical thinkers by supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues.



The video is drawn (no pun intended) from Unlearning Liberty, a book by Greg Lukianoff of FIRE.  In it, Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college student, from orientation to the end of freshman year. Through this lens, he describes startling violations of free speech rights: 

• a student in Indiana punished for publicly reading a book
• a student in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment collage he posted on Facebook
• students at Yale banned from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on a t-shirt
• students across the country banished to tiny “free speech zones.” 

But Lukianoff goes further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is bleeding into the larger society. As he explores public controversies involving Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, and Larry Summers, along with campus uproars in which Dave Barry and Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show played a role, Lukianoff paints a stark picture of our ability as a nation to rationally discuss important issues. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate reveals how the intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s campus threatens the freedom of every citizen—and makes us all just a little bit dumber.