We're living in interesting times, a turning point in history.
Are we entering a dark authoritarian era or are we on the brink of a technological golden age or the apocalypse?
No one really knows, but I'm trying to find out.
From New York Times opinion, I'm Ross Douthat and on my show, Interesting Times,
I'm exploring this strange new world order with the thinkers and leaders giving it shape.
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From New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.
This is The Daily.
Today, in an extraordinarily tense showdown on Thursday,
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confronted by senators of both parties.
This is crazy talk.
You're just making stuff up.
To prescribe a vaccine for children.
I'm not making anything.
Over his vaccine policies, his ouster of the director of the CDC,
and the growing list of federal health officials who have resigned in protest of his leadership.
Everybody is corrupt but you?
It's not what we're looking at.
I don't think so.
And I think the issue... I don't even know what you're talking about.