A college student who calls himself a “future scientist” tells Joshua Haymes a baby in the womb is “not a human being yet.” So Haymes asks him to Google one question: “When does life begin?” He reads the answer out loud, and the debate is over. JOSHUA HAYMES: “My proposition is very simple. It is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being.” STUDENT: “It’s not a human being yet.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “When does human life begin?” STUDENT: “I think that’s more of a philosophical question… As a future scientist, even.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “You would say trust the science. You would agree with trust the science?” STUDENT: “Yeah, I would.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “Would you agree that it is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being?” STUDENT: “Innocent, yes.” JOSHUA HAYMES: “Now, you said you trust the science. Will you do me a favor and just look up on your phone right now: according to all of the available scientific data, when does life begin?” STUDENT: “It says at fertilization or conception.” That’s the moment his whole argument collapsed. JOSHUA HAYMES: “This is the consensus of all of the scientific community that life begins at conception. It’s not a future life. It’s a current life… If you trust the science, you have to say we must abolish abortion.” STUDENT: [laughing] “Aww man…” He laughs because he knows he just lost. Credit to him for admitting it. CONTEXT: The science the student looked up is not just a pro-life talking point. In 2018, a University of Chicago researcher asked 5,577 biologists from 1,058 institutions when a human life begins. 96% said fertilization. Most of them identified as pro-choice. In 1952, Planned Parenthood’s own pamphlet told women abortion “kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” The biology hasn’t changed since then. The marketing has.

A college student tries to lecture Will Witt that capitalism and billionaires are the root cause of young people’s pain. Then he asks her to explain what capitalism is, and it’s over. WITT: “How does capitalism cause the problems that you’re seeing for young people in this country?” WITT: “What does capitalism do?” STUDENT: “I feel like I already kind of explained that…” WITT: “So what is capitalism?” STUDENT: “What do you mean what is capitalism?” WITT: “What would you define capitalism as?” He keeps handing her chances. She keeps refusing to take them. WITT: “Just a definition, so we’re on the same page, because definitions are important. What would you describe capitalism as?” Cornered, she tries changing the subject to immigrants. STUDENT: “No, I’m saying that it’s not immigrants that are causing the problems for America.” Witt drags her right back. “So what is capitalism? Just tell me what capitalism is.” STUDENT: “Okay.” Then she walks away. She’s not the exception. She’s the rule. A poll of 2,000 young Americans found most couldn’t define socialism or capitalism. And the more they learned about socialism, the less they liked it. These people can tell you exactly what to hate. Just don’t ask them what it means. CONTEXT: Capitalism pulled 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990. Worldwide, the rate fell from 43% to 10%. Nothing else in human history comes close.