Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Benjamin H. Barton of the University of Tennessee College of Law to discuss his new book, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice. They chat about how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors, how they spend most of their adult lives in elite and cloistered institutions, how the Court lacks individuals who reflect differing kinds of professional and personal merit, and what can be done to return Justices to the Court with a wider range of legal and political experience.

Get the book here: www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-cre…tialed-court/

Show Notes:

C-SPAN: “Q&A – Benjamin Barton” (VIDEO)

The Hub: Sean Speer – “Is ‘meritocracy’ most important?—Benjamin H. Barton on how a narrow set of American elites dominates the Supreme Court”

Law & Liberty: Mark Pulliam – “Ivy League Justice”

Law & Liberty: Glenn Harlan Reynolds – “The Age of the Judicial Thoroughbred”

National Review: Dan McLaughlin – “How the Supreme Court Became the Province of Cloistered Elites”

The Spectator World: Benjamin H. Barton – “How the Supreme Court lost its real diversity”

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 343 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about Elon Musk buying Twitter, his promise to adhere to free speech, and the left’s collective meltdown. Also, they revisit the Section 230 debate.

OPENING CHIT CHAT

MSN - Done Deal: Twitter Agrees to Sell Itself to Elon Musk

PRIMARY TOPIC – MUSK BUYING TWITTER A CULTURAL INFLECTION POINT?

(video) Elon On what he thinks Twitter should be and do:

And Musk’s tweet explaining more his views on free speech.

(video) MSNBC’s Projection is Out Of Control

SECONDARY TOPIC – SECTION 230 REVISITED

The Federalist - Democrats Waging A War On Twitter Don’t Want ‘Transparency,’ They Want Power

National Review - Psaki Says Biden ‘Concerned’ about Social-Media Platforms’ Power after Elon Musk Acquires Twitter

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On Earth Day, Heartland Senior Fellow Anthony Watts was a guest on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM560 The Answer in Chicago. Anthony and Shaun talk about how the radical environmentalists have been lying about the state of the planet for decades. They discuss the greening of the globe, how miniscule human CO2 emissions are, and more on the show.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by historian Neil Lanctot to discuss his new book, The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future. They chat about how the country’s three most prominent progressives—Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jane Addams—approached the outbreak of the Great War and what they thought America’s role in the conflict should be.

Get the book here:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539530/the-approaching-storm-by-neil-lanctot/

Show Notes:

Atlanta History Center: Author Talks | Neil Lanctot (VIDEO)

Free Library of Philadelphia: Neil Lanctot | The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, & Their Clash Over America’s Future (VIDEO)

New York Journal of Books: Steven Nathans-Kelly – “The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future”

Theodore Roosevelt Center: Erik Johnson – “Interview with author Neil Lanctot, on his new book The Approaching Storm”

Throughout the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Education, and school districts claimed ordering children to wear masks would keep schools open.  Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, along with Emily Burns and Josh Stevenson, looked back to see if that was actually the case. The researchers examined school closure in 500 of the nation’s largest school districts to find out if mask mandates kept schools open more often. What they found was the opposite. The report, “No Masks Don’t Help Keep Kids in School” can be found here.

The most pernicious mask mandates existed in the nation’s public schools.  If schools were open, in many school districts, children were ordered to mask-up. Kerpen has a hypothesis as to why masked schools closed their doors more often than those that made masks voluntary. Kerpen also discusses the work he did on the latest analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research, A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID 19, that ranked states on economic, health and education outcomes during the pandemic.  At the top of the list, were states that had the least heavy handed COVID policies.

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo are joined by the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr for episode 342 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about the end of mask mandates. Jim responds to Twitter. And the big question of the day: Is the Biden Administration returning to energy sanity?

OPENING CHIT CHAT

Jim Promotes a Tweet on Twitter

TOPIC ONE – MASK MANDATES

NYP - Judge’s decision to void mask mandate prompts mid-flight cheers among fliers

AP News - Feds will appeal mask ruling only if mandate still needed

Paul Krugman Makes a Ridiculous Prediction

TOPIC TWO – ENERGY SANITY?

ABC News - Infuriating climate activists, Biden expands oil drilling on public land

The Hill - Biden announces $6B to bail out nuclear plants at risk of closure

Watts Up With That - ‘We’re all in trouble’ – Wind turbine makers selling at a loss

The Blaze - The cost of lithium — a metal used to make electric car batteries — is up nearly 500% since last year: 'Supply is simply nowhere near enough to feed this demand surge'

Reuters - Special Report: U.S. solar expansion stalled by rural land-use protests

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Food prices were rising fast in the United States before Russia launched its war in the Ukraine, but the war has exasperated the food shortage problem. People in developing countries are going hungry and shoppers in the U.S. are seeing empty shelves and higher prices. Daren Bakst of the Heritage Foundation explains that the Biden administration's climate and energy policies are at fault. They are making it harder and more expensive for farmers to farm and to get food from fields to shelves. Biden claims to care about the poor, but his policies are making their lives harder by bringing hunger into the U.S.

In wake of the opioid epidemic (overdose deaths in 2020, 91,799), doctors and patients are turning to a FDA cleared, non-drug approach to treating pain called photobiomodulation (PBM). PBM uses red and near-infrared light to stimulate cell growth and reduce inflammation. It is increasingly being used at cancer centers, on veterans, and on individuals who want non-drug alternatives. Scot Faulkner is a senior advisor to the PBM Research Foundation. He discusses how there have been over 800 randomized clinical trials showing the effectiveness of PBM and how the treatment is changing the lives of millions of patients.

PBM has been around for about 60 years. It is now getting more attention as patients and physicians seek alternatives to prescription pain medication which can lead to chronic dependence. Since its inception, PBM has been used on 100 million people. Patients can get treated at centers or self-treat at home using FDA approved devices. Faukner discusses how PBM provides a long-lasting solution to pain by repairing the cell structures that lead to pain, how much the treatment costs, how long it takes to be effective, and training providers to use PBM, including a new center that opened at Shepherd University in West Virginia.

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Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, to discuss Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. They chat about how German unification came about, the world-historical figure that is Otto von Bismarck, how the Second Reich collapsed, and whether it achieved anything for Germans to admire.

Get the book here:  http://pegasusbooks.com/books/blood-and-iron-9781643138374-hardcover

Show Notes:

Berliner Zeitung: Maurice Frank – “Blood and Iron - a new look at Germany's Second Empire”

The Critic: Zareer Masani – “The making of a maelstrom”

The Daily Telegraph: Saul David – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer review: was the German Empire doomed to fail?”

The Daily Telegraph: “Anchorless Germany is yet to find its place in the 21st century | Katja Hoyer interview” (VIDEO)

Dublin City Libraries: “Blood and Iron: Katja Hoyer in Conversation with Roger Moorhouse - Dublin Festival of History 2021” (VIDEO)

Financial Times: Tony Barber – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer — conflicted Germany”

Literary Review: Maurice Frank – “High Prussia Environment”

National Review: Sean Durns – “Germany, Born in Blood and Iron”

The Times: Oliver Moody – “Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer review — Germany: glued together by enemy blood”

Washington Examiner: Robert Gerwarth – “Imperial restraint”

Washington Post: Gerard De Groot – “One man, three wars and the creation of Germany”