Many people hate Charles Murray. They call him “dangerous” because he wrote about racial IQ differences. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Angry protestors fail to recognize that Murray is not a white supremacist. He’s a thoughtful researcher who has published more than a dozen scholarly books about things like the impact of welfare, the pursuit of happiness, and the meaning of libertarianism. Some of his work influenced presidents. One of his books influenced my way of thinking. The video above is my full interview with Murray. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vBLFchXCGY

The government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media say it's a "crisis." --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel --------- The Washington Post talks talks about the "shutdown's pain." The New York Times says it's "just too much." John Stossel says: wait a second. Looking around America, everything seems pretty normal. Life goes on. Kids still play and learn, adults still work, stock prices have actually increased during the shutdown. It's hardly the end of the world. But he adds that the government shutdown is still a problem. For some 400,000 furloughed workers, and another 400,000 working without pay for now, the shutdown hurts. But while Times columnist Paul Krugman calls it "Trump's big libertarian experiment" -- Stossel notes that the shutdown is not libertarian. Government's rules are still in effect, and soon workers will be paid for not working. Stossel calls that an UN-libertarian experiment. Libertarians want to permanently cut government, not shut down parts for a few weeks and then pay the workers anyway. There are lessons to be learned from the shutdown. Government stopped collecting trash and cleaning up public parks in DC, so volunteers stepped in to pick up trash. Without so much government, Stossel says, private citizens will often step in to do things government workers used to do. Stossel says the shutdown highlights where some government waste can be trimmed. Farmers don't get their "support" checks during the shutdown. But Stossel asks -- why should they get checks at all? While the big subsidies go to grain and corn farmers, most fruit and vegetable farmers get no subsidies. They survive without them. Other farmers could, too. FDA inspection of food has stopped during the shutdown. Paul Krugman asks, smugly, "does tainted contaminated meat smell like freedom?" But Stossel notes that the main reason food is safe isn't government. It's competition. Companies worry about their reputation. Just ask Chipotle, Stossel says. Their stock fell by more than half after food poisoning incidents at their stores; since then they have instituted far more food inspection than government requires. Most food producers already do that. Beef carcasses undergo hot steam rinses, and microbiological testing goes well beyond what government requires. Market competition protects us better than rule-bound government bureaucrats. Stossel says most of government could be done away with or privatized. Even airport security. TSA workers aren't getting paid. But some airports (San Franc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVuKNA3naM

Thousands continue to die from Covid. Yet, America's FDA stops us from taking drugs that might save lives. ———— To make sure you see the new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about new drugs that make Covid less of a threat. One drug reduced the risk of death or hospitalization by 89% in trials. The media probably don’t report on them much because you and I aren’t permitted to take them. The FDA makes everyone wait until the drugs “meet the agency’s rigorous standards.” But while we wait, thousands die. Abolish the FDA? Watch and decide for yourself. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyg9liQE5nU

Feminists say their movement is about equality, yet they often ignore inequalities where women do better than men. --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel --------- Inequalities such as: Men die 5 years earlier than women, have more dangerous jobs, and are often passed over for custody of kids. Boys are two times more likely than girls to commit suicide. Boys are 29% less likely to get a college degree than girls. Warren Farrell was once a feminist movement leader.  But now he says, "I don't agree with the part of feminism that says, 'men are the oppressors and women are the oppressed.' That part of feminism is sick," Farrell tells Maxim Lott, Senior Producer of Stossel on Reason. Lott asks Farrell about the fact that men have more influence in government and business, and tend to make more money. Farrell answers that a big reason men make more money is because they are filling social expectations to become a family breadwinner. "Our dads and our grandpas, they made sacrifices ... to make more money, and then the feminist movement turned all of that sacrifice on the part of men against men," Farrell says. He adds: "[Feminists] haven't said, 'You were discriminated against, men, in your own way. You were obliged to earn more money, or we wouldn't even be thinking about marrying you. We wouldn't be thinking about having children with you.'" In The Boy Crisis, Farrell notes that both sexes struggle. He says that the feminist movement's single-sided focus on women's inequalities has led to at atmosphere that harms boys. Boys' worse outcomes in college and suicide are often ignored, and so is a dramatic increase in fatherless households -- which Farrell says is largely responsible for boys' problems. Study after study finds that having both a mother and father is best, at least for straight families. (Gay families may do just as well; Farrell notes that the overall evidence is inconclusive.) "Even when we control for the amount of money a father and mother earn, children with dads still do much better," Farrell notes. The rate of fatherless households has increased partly because of welfare programs that, says Farrell, "tear the family apart by giving the money to mothers when fathers are absent, and not giving money to mothers when fathers are present." Lott asks why would fatherless households hurt boys more?  "Boys tend to not have as many skills at developing friendships, at developing emotional connections," Farrell says. "So when the family connection breaks apart, it affec ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Icwgux5c0