This week, I sit down with Anson Frericks, a former executive at Bud Light who had a front row seat to the events that led to one of the greatest marketing disasters in modern history. His new book, Last Call for Bud Light, is fantastic, and our conversation, modesty aside, is absolutely worth your time.
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original series, Hanson discusses the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s blunt comments about diversity, equity, and inclusion potentially being at fault in the recent commercial jet/Army helicopter collision outside of Washington.
The would-be air traffic controller, who graduated from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013, was turned down for a job even though he had scored 100% on his training exam, the lawsuit alleges.
The Federal Aviation Administration is fighting a class-action lawsuit alleging it denied 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets — as it was revealed that staffing levels were “not normal” at the time of this week’s deadly midair collision.
Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter-century.
Details of the litigation re-emerged, too, as Andrew Brigida, the lead plaintiff in the suit filed in 2015, suggested the federal aviation agency’s obsession with diversity hiring and inclusion had only ensured that an accident was likely to happen.
‘Our tooth was thin and our tail was large.’ Retired US Navy Officer, Rear Admiral Mike Hewitt says DEI culture in the US Navy ‘diluted’ their ‘fighting force’.
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Trump’s full-scale assault on DEI has begun—and it is glorious. Also, speaking of DEI, a female cop accidentally shoots a civilian with his own gun. A Canadian politician turns the tables on a news anchor who tries to corner him on gender ideology. And the media, as expected, has been fighting back against Trump’s border enforcement operation with images of crying illegal immigrants. So far, it’s not having the effect they intended.
Journalist and author Michael Shellenberger critiques the current cultural dominance of the anti-civilization ideologies of Rousseau and Marx, which have fueled an increasing disconnect from the practical realities of governance. What we once understood as the decadence and psychological dysfunction of Hollywood elites has been hidden behind a façade of social justice, pushing hypocritical fantasies that have now come home to roost. For all the hand-wringing about ‘systemic racism’ in recent years, it seems the real systemic ‘isms’ behind California’s current disasters are narcissism, nihilism, and—my favorite to discuss—communism.
Sharpton reportedly makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from his nonprofit activist network.
Race activist Al Sharpton announced a boycott against companies that drop enforcing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump issued an executive order against DEI.
Sharpton posted the threat on social media with a statement comparing himself to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
“Why do we have DEl? We have DEl because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion. DEl was a remedy to the racial institutionalized bigotry practice in academia and in these corporations. Now, if you want to put us back in the back of the bus, we gonna do the Dr. King-Rosa Parks on you,” Sharpton said at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C.