Prager University. Part 46.

John Stossel- Woke Medicine

Victor Davis Hanson- Why Study History?

Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator

Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?

Can You Trust the NY Times?

Totalitarianism: Can It Happen in America?

 

Woke Medicine

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Feb 22, 2022

John Stossel

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America has a shortage of doctors. It’s one reason why health care costs so much. Yet the AMA, the biggest doctor’s association, is focused on telling doctors to use Marxist language. The AMA now tells doctors to use woke language. Instead of saying equality, say “equity.” Don’t say minority, say “historically marginalized.” “Can you imagine anyone actually doing this?” says journalist Matthew Yglesias. “What would happen if you were in a clinical setting and somebody starts giving you this lecture about landowners?” Silly language is one thing. But the AMA also makes it harder for people to become doctors, and lobbies for rules that reduce the number of doctors. “They restrict what kinds of people can provide medical services,” Yglesias tells me. It’s a reason America has fewer doctors than any European country. I’ll show you how the AMA acts like a doctor cartel.

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Why Study History?

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Is it important to study history? Why do we need to know what’s come before us? Isn’t it enough to just “live in the moment?” Renowned historian Victor Davis Hanson explores these important questions. Script: Why study history? Ironically, this question is as old as history.  Twenty-five hundred years ago, Thucydides, the great chronicler of the Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta, and the man many call the “first historian” said that “…I have written my work, not…to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.” Thucydides hoped that what he was writing would help future generations understand what transpired in his day. If they could learn from it and make better decisions, his efforts would not be in vain.   More than two millennia later, the American social thinker George Santayana said much the same thing, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But while knowledge of the past is a prerequisite to wisdom, it doesn’t give the historian a crystal ball.  We must be modest in our claims: studying history provides an invaluable guide—but only a guide—to current and future political, economic, military, and cultural challenges. Just as it is dangerous to be ignorant of past events, so too it is equally risky to assume that history across time and space will repeat itself in exactly the same fashion. It never does. Still, with the proper caution, studying history can warn us of dangers ahead.  For example, across the ages appeasing or ignoring enemies has rarely proven to be a prudent strategy. Usually, it’s disastrous.  The Greek city-states’ coddling of the Macedonian king Philip II, the weak Western democracies’ reaction to the aggression of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and the indifference shown to the dangers of radical Islam by an affluent West in the 1990s make the point.  There is another—perhaps less recognized—value in studying history. Every generation, none more than our own, suffers from a pernicious presentism—the arrogance that those now alive have created the most prosperous period in history. The result is that too often we judge a materially poorer past by the same contemporary standards of an affluent and leisured present.  Those who study history can avoid these fallacies. Aside from the fact that the present is the beneficiary of the accumulated intellectual, moral, and scientific contributions of the past, proper knowledge of the hardships of prior ages teaches us the value of humility. To take