CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement addressed, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs.
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Reading from the book Who Is Government by Michael Lewis, Amanpour then claimed that, unlike the private sector, working for the government is noble and virtuous, “A former IRS commissioner who is quoted says, ‘The quality of life that we have, it’s all government. Government touches you a hundred times before breakfast, and you don’t even know it.’ The book shows how much safer, how much more secure daily life is today than it was even a generation ago, but more than that, the book is filled with thousands of reminders of why we have government because no one else will do this work. There is no profit motive in much of the work, no private business that will step and spend years or decades solving these difficult challenges. That’s true today, and it always will be, so you keep the faith.
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