How the Left of the ‘60s Is Different From the Left of Today

Plus: n 3 Charts, What to Know About Florida's COVID-19 Surge

Jul 15, 2020   Good morning from Washington, where the talk of the town is what a New York Times editor has to say in resigning after being bullied for her personal views. Jarrett Stepman calls it a new low in the slide of the Old Gray Lady. What's going on with COVID-19 in Florida? Doug Badger takes a closer look. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Lee Edwards compares today's left to what he witnessed in the '60s. Plus: the hounding of Goya Foods' CEO; Star Parker defends a Lincoln statue from the mob; and the miserable state of academia. On this date in 1971, President Richard Nixon announces he will visit communist China, a turning point in U.S.-China relations.     Analysis How Is the Left of the '60s Different From the Left of Today? By Rachel del Guidice "Back in the 1960s ... they wanted to bring about a new world, a new America, in which there would be no more capitalism and in which there would be socialism," says The Heritage Foundation's Lee Edwards, a historian. More Commentary In 3 Charts, What to Know About Florida's COVID-19 Surge By Doug Badger The newly infected population has trended younger, an encouraging sign. That has helped reduce the percentage of infected patients who fall seriously ill and cut the ratio of deaths to reported cases. More News Black Leaders Rally to Save DC's Lincoln Park Statue By Rachel del Guidice "We do not believe that America is so systematically racist that we should divide ourselves now and start having discussions with domestic terrorists about which statues stand and which statues fall," says Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. More Commentary Despicable Behavior of Today's Academicians By Walter E. Williams The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. More Commentary War on Goya Foods' Bob Unanue Driven by Identity Politics By Mike Gonzalez If someone such as Unanue comes along and ignores a social compact to which he was not a signatory, rejects feelings of vassalage or servitude, and bears no resentments, then he must be stepped on. More Commentary New York Times Editor Quits Over Newspaper's Internal 'Orthodoxy' By Jarrett Stepman "I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative," writes Bari Weiss in resigning as an opinion editor and writer for The New York Times. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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