Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
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Stretch governments then across the globe mutual aid is taking place all around the world helping those in need were going to discuss it all that and more all right its time to. I. Had 1000. 00 continues to grip the world and the nation the total now topping more than 1600000. 00 cases with over 101000 deaths and 372000 recovered cases the u. S. Still leading the way here with more than 486000 confirmed cases and about 18000 deaths 27000 have recovered and as the numbers of infections continue to surge prisons and jails across the country have become new hot beds for the virus while some are looking to free up space others are seeing protests over a lack. Action rachel bludgeons has more. The United States is known for having the largest prison population in the world and hundreds of thousands of inmates are now calling for help as both prisoners and guards test positive for the coronavirus dozens of inmates took part in a demonstration at the monroe correctional complex in Washington
Cutting edge science and show how they are relevant to our understanding of who we are where we came from what we might be doing the motivation for our behavior and what may happen in the very far future and you say that death is a very specific and whole empowering. For you and for all of us and for Quantum Mechanics we have well certainly when you realize that we are the singular species on the planet that knows about our own impermanence knows about our own mortality you recognize that it is a powerful force in driving behaviors that we humans execute and what i do in the book is id juxtapose that realization of our own impermanence with the realization of science that the universe is impermanent so theres a wonderful interplay and reflection between the cosmic version of this idea and the human version of this idea that people may think they know what entropy is maybe maybe some of yours wouldnt you seem to say entropy is a key to our and it is of daily life and the unit absolutely
Meantime were screening somebody a favorite episodes of the so far coming up in this show with a Global Pandemic weighing heavily on the mind of the only animal in the known universe aware of its own mortality humans we are the theoretical physicist who helped bring string theory of the multiverse into the public eye professor brian greene about what we can learn about our deaths from the ever present called mchales that could imminently destroy our reality plus why is modern physics like magic why is human consciousness cosmically in call brands of all and his freewill just a man made construct in a reality based on probability all this more coming up in todays going underground lets not go straight to professor brian greene of Columbia University whose book until the end of time mind matter in our search for meaning in an evolving universe is out brian welcome to going underground we dont have until the end of time obviously to talk about his book but we could talk for ages i know ev