Podium. I had a few problems and would rather not test myself. Thank you for coming tonight. In thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start with the simple problem most people, including most people who think they studied the subject have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism whether it is on the left or the right, there is an idea is that you started with progressivism, moved on started with progressivism, proceeded to the new deal and went on to the Great Society and it was a continuous flow. The trouble is it is simply not true. Most progressive did not become new dealers. Very few republican progressives, progressivism was a bipartisan movement. Republican and Democratic Party. Very few republican progressives became new dealers. Not surprisingly enough, among the democratic progressives, the group most likely to become new dealers were social workers, and they saw what they wanted, what they hoped for in the new deal. Part of the reason for this was world war
Women didnt even have legal rights in the United States until pretty recently. My question is like two workers have the authority for example to take over . Do they have the authority . Yeah why not . They built the plant and they made the products and they did the work. Why should they be tools rented by some bank or somewhere else . That is the way our institutional structure happens to be as formulated but it doesnt mean its legitimate. When you talk about authority youre asking questions about legitimacy do people have the right to run their own lives or do they have to be sort of the tools in the hands of foreign masters . Will you now that is a question of legitimacy not authority. You mentioned the civil war and there is ample evidence by now that there were dairy significant slave initiatives in the civil war and there is more to say about that a lot more so take the american revolution. To a large extent that was a revolution carried out in order to maintain slavery. If you lo
Temperament . Or for word. I think part of the reason is to offer a different intellectual history of ourselves. We define ourselves that way that the left just does not. Too often when the conservatives reached for intellectual history or philosophy they reach for the most radical version for the jeffersonian tail and we squeezed Abraham Lincoln into the story and it ends up being too radical about ourselves burke offers a different way to understand the liberal society. Achievement not a break but ameritech is the greatest achievement and not throwing away what key before but throw rigo way but made us so therefore as improves and grows it is not a radical process it requires conservative is a man and one of the lessons we could take from burke it has the engagement with policies that you had to fix problems before they got too big to invite radical solutions. That is how he worked in conservatives today should do more than that. That is my day job and this is why it is important to
Conservatism. I think one of the lessons we could take from burke is that in part the process involves an engagement with governing, with policy. Burke was reform. He thought you had to fix public problems before they get so big that they invite radical solutions. So he was interested in the details, the reflection of the revolution in france is full of statistics. You dont expect them but thats a we thought. Thats how they work. I think consumers today should do more of that. Id thats what i get my day job and this is why. I think its important for conservatives to be in job to be involved in governing. I think its also important for consumers to approach our society from a disposition of gratitude and care rather than to begin from a place of anger at whats being lost. Im angry about whats being lost. I think the left today is destructive for the american ideal and has too much power and is destroying the african ideal. I really do. But i think the solution of that, the way to persua
Water related events, whether they be floods or droughts or things like Hurricane Katrina or superstorm sandy. Temperature changes. Are we experiencing that . A number of studies conflict that we are facing Global Warming today. Quite i did not think that is true. The studies also that the temperatures are rising. I think you are referring to the fact they have not risen that much over the last decade. Scientist talk a lot about why that is true. When we talk about Climate Change, people are focused very heavily on the temperature in the air. There are a number of different ways in which Climate Change happens. Even when the temperature has leveled off in the air, it would explain this a variety of ways, the temperatures in the oceans have continued to rise. The melting around the poles has continued much faster than scientists predict. Is ay how this happening matter of some debate. Whether and that it is happening is not a matter of debate. It is not a question of conflict. Thank you