Ryan Streeter
Executive Director, Civitas Institute. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Streeter served as Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Special Assistant for Domestic Policy to President George W. Bush. He is an executive director at the University of Texas at Austin's Civitas Institute, focusing on civil society and economic mobility.
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Streeter: US university faculty have drifted left, screening out opposing viewpoints
“It's just a matter of fact that the political leanings of faculty have really moved to the left since the 19 sixties in this country, and it's happened kind of decade by decade by decade, to the point where people do get screened out of certain colleges and sc…”
Streeter says employers actively avoid hiring university graduates acting as culture warriors
“When you feel like what you've got are a bunch of graduates from a school that have been indoctrinated in a certain worldview, and they're gonna come and be, like, culture warriors in your company and create chaos people don't want that.”
Streeter says Trump campaign spent $250M on transgender prison surgery ad
“We know now that like the Trump campaign spent like two hundred fifty million dollars on that one ad about transgender In, in prisons, when Kamala Harris was talking about supporting transgender surgery in prisons and all that, they found that that moved undec…”
Streeter says claims of universal loneliness crisis among young Americans are false
“You have to be careful when you're saying, like, all young people are suffering a crisis of loneliness, because it's actually not true. There are certain types of young people that are very lonely, and it's like, you want to tailor your response to that popula…”
Streeter says AEI scholars had outsized influence on COVID-19 relief bills
“During the COVID relief bills that, you know, when we were all kind of trying to figure out what was going on with the pandemic and exactly what the right federal response should be, again, a lot of bad ideas out there, and they needed to sift through exactly …”
Streeter predicts John Thune's Senate leadership will check Trump's MAGA appointments
“With John Thune becoming the Senate majority leader, that creates maybe a little bit of a break on the sort of MAGA elements in the Senate, because that was a hotly contested race too. Is Trump gonna be able to get all of his people rubber stamped? Is he gonna…”
Streeter predicts shifting student preferences will force elite universities to change behavior
“So something's happening in a pretty big way right now, which is gonna force some kind of accountability on, I think, some elite institutions that they haven't really felt the pressure to react to before, but I think it's actually gonna change their behavior s…”
Streeter says college degrees only matter for first jobs, not career trajectory
“That degree is gonna get you your first job, maybe your second, but probably not even that as much. It's these other things that you have learned how to do that really make you capable in the workplace.”
Streeter warns parents against sending kids to Ivy League schools over ideology
“So I would be very wary about sending my kid right now to an Ivy League school that's been all in there, and just talking with faculty at those places and people that have recently come from them, it just kind of reinforces.”
Streeter says culture wars outranked inflation for 2024 swing voters backing Trump
“When you look at the people who identified themselves as swing voters who eventually broke for Trump, the issue, the culture wars issue outranked the inflation issue for them.”
Streeter argues broad two-for-one deregulation rules are blunt and easily gamed
“These broad ones, which in the Trump administration tried to do this, did this last time, there's talk of doing it again, like for every new regulation, we take two off the books. Well, That's, that sounds great, but you can implement one very costly regulatio…”
Streeter says Washington think tanks wield true influence in private closed-door briefings
“All think tanks in Washington have a lot of public events, you know, that, you know, you can live stream them, you can come and hear scholars talk. But I always felt like the most important work that we did was the stuff that wasn't on camera. It was the stuff…”
Streeter says most tenured professors lack experience converting research into policy briefs
“A lot of people that are tenured professors in a department, they don't have experience converting their research into kind of policy briefs or whatever. And that's what think tanks can do for them is to take their research and make it digestible for people th…”
Streeter says no presidential administration has enough internal expertise to govern alone
“You never, no administration has all that expertise within the White House or within the Office of Management and Budget. It just doesn't exist within one administration.”
Streeter notes UT Austin student applications are up 98 percent year-over-year
“Someone told me last week that our applications are up 98% year over year at UT.”
Streeter says conscientiousness is a top three predictor of lifetime earnings
“Conscientiousness of the big five personality traits is conscientiousness is probably, it's one of the top two or three predictors of lifetime earnings,”
Streeter notes high-trust regions with more social capital produce higher GDP
“I mean, in high trust areas, you have higher productivity rates. You have, in, in, in geographic regions where you have more social capital measured even just by Civic and voluntary participation. You have higher levels of regional GDP.”
Streeter notes federal funding is a tiny share of public school budgets
“The reality is that, you know, schools are still, public schools are still very much a function of state budgets, right? It's a, in most states, it's like, it's the biggest part, or next to maybe your Medicaid population, depending on which state you are. I me…”
Streeter notes Mitch Daniels froze Purdue tuition for his entire ten-year tenure
“Mitch Daniels at Purdue kept tuition at the same rate, his entire decade he was there never raised tuition once,”
Streeter notes a 52-48 poll lead means nothing with 5-6% error margins
“If, you know, if a sample size is small and a margin of error is like five to six percent, then 52 to 48 doesn't really mean anything in that regard, right? And so that's not a four-point advantage. It could be the other way.”
Streeter says American media has become increasingly insular, ignoring global news
“And that is one of the, my ongoing critiques of American media.
We've become much more
Insular.
I mean, you would think in, you know, now that we're a full generation into the internet era, we'd all be more globally aware.
It's really hard to find news about w…”
Streeter says Bush White House held summer briefings with think tank scholars
“We used to have like every summer, we would have the heads of think tanks from around Washington and also even outside just do, handpick some of their own scholars and bring them in for like a ninety-minute briefing, and we'd have the president's economic advi…”
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