Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence

Part the First: The Powell Memo started it all. Written by Lewis Powell, then a Richmond corporate lawyer for Big Tobacco and later Supreme Court Justice, for the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Powell Memo set out how “to take America back” from the hippies and the freaks, Mario Savio,…