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Work. They were on strike. He wrote an editorial defending the coal miners which probably wasnt terribly popular on wall street. Money on my socks and all that sort of thing. But he was defending their rights that workers have just as much right to organize as investors due to organize business corporations. So i was one of the point i make in the book is that kind of philosophy, just the kind of fundamental philosophy, thats carried on pretty much the history of the wall street journal. Thats pretty much where they are today, defending markets as a journal today defends trade. And defending people as we have to do over many years of defending people against the various tyrannies of the world. Some of what still exist like cuba for example, and now venezuela. After words airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p. M. And sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs on our website, booktv. Org. Host you could enter the jefferson memorial, theres a great quote of jefferson. Buckley would agree but it also say moral equivalency. What is moral equivalency . He explains it like this. Imagine a wheelchair bound person is about to cross the street, and a passerby appears and he pushes the wheelchair in the way of an oncoming bus. Terrible and of the story. But imagine the person thats halfway across the street, the light changes and a bus is approaching a person and a Good Samaritan appears and pushes the wheelchair out of the way of the oncoming bus. Happy ending well, therefore, both stories have a few things in common. Theres a wheelchair, theres a bus and theres a Good Samaritan, or bad samaritan, a person. That doesnt make their motives equivalent. What bothered him, as it was teaching, this was the error after world war ii, where first of all the economics department, remember, he was born in 1925, think of 1925, coolidge is in the white house. He didnt say very much. He didnt think he had to impose himself every five minutes on the American People like other presence when you think about. He was attacked for not saying very much at all. Government did much less. America thought it had learned from its was trying very hard not to repeat it. The world was at peace in the Country Economic situation was booming. Well, as bill was getting older, he is witnessing, the wilson of Administration Come to power, a completely new world when he returned from the army in 1945. Suddenly were talking about mixed economies, not free markets, which he thought was really socialism by another name. We had the aggressive kind that we saw with, remember the praise of these gis coming home after world war ii. Eastern europe, the soviet state where they were so we had that form of tyranny and socialism but then we had the benign kind. The kind of gets elected in a free democracy but then suddenly feels it has to run more and more of the economy. They were teaching this at yale. Very few free market economists were around to call the textbooks talked about how successful societies have excessive welfare state, excessive mandatory state. He had an issue with that. Not that they shouldnt teach it. More and partly though, in relation, he did not feel they should teach one form of religion but he did feel that christianity or our judeochristian traditions was superior to the other form. Y . Because it informed our founding nation, formed the founding documents. We were a judeochristian society. Judeochristian tradition teaches that we are all made in god image and, therefore, a source of all freedom, all freedom from government, we are all equal in the eyes of each other, in the eyes of the state come in the eyes of god. Thats what he believed. He said its great to have other relation to its great to relearn about other religions but dont tell us some of the areas of the Samoan Islands are other traditions that touch about untouchables and god knows what is the same as ours. We should teach there is a difference, that there is not a moral equivalence. That obviously got into the great deal of trouble. That was the name of the book, god and man at yale because theres a fighting song they yale and then, for god, for men and for yale. He turned it god and man at yale meaning that secular humanism is