National Review ISI fellow Nate Hochman joins Eric Kohn, Sam Gregg, and Dan Hugger this week to discuss his recent reporting on the Ilya Shapiro controversy at Georgetown Law School. The student sit-in in the wake of Shapiro’s poorly worded tweets produced demands for cry rooms and reparations. Will they get what they want? Why do people in places of authority seem incapable of standing up to these outrage mobs? Then the group discusses the surprisingly good jobs report for January, where the economy added nearly 500,000 jobs—and all during the Omicron wave. If this is more evidence that the public is moving on from the pandemic, why do so many political leaders refuse to take the off-ramps they’re being offered and instead stand by mask mandates and other mitigation measures? And finally, should we have boycotted the Beijing Winter Olympics?

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Georgetown Law Students Stage Sit-In, Demand Dean Fire Ilya Shapiro | Nate Hochman, National Review

Ilya Shapiro Tweets about Biden Supreme Court Nominee | FIRE

How Michigan’s Ballooning DEI Bureaucracy Stifled Speech and Divided the Campus | National Review

Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron slams labor market, ADP says | CNBC

Payrolls show surprisingly powerful gain of 467,000 in January despite omicron surge | CNBC

What message does NBC’s Olympics coverage send? | Isaac Willour, Acton Institute

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