the public can do an intervention on the hill, it s a beautiful place and they can make it better. so i address a lot of issues in the book, and i hope it s not just looked at as one issue or attacking one person. i m not a bitter person. i spent time with the granddaughter today. get to go to india. if have a chapter on india. i get to do radio. people to the right or left or middle get their voice out there and tell people what is going on in their government. the downtownistic side of this is critical. so i m happy. i m not a person that is unhappy and i m angry and i want to get everybody. but there are some things i had to tell. and i know it s going to cause some heartburn. my grandmother says there are two sharp halves. i want to thank everybody for coming. up next on book tv, this week, christian caryl and his brook, strange rebels, 1979 and the birth of the 21st century in it it s argued that a left-leaning consent sense developed across the world after world war
host: hello christian caryl. we are here to talk about your terrific new book, strange rebels 1979 and the birth of the 21st century. i am going to let you explain in a second why it is that 1979 was the crucial hinge point to history but let me first start out with a little bit of explanation for what i think is a really unusual book that you have done. christian for those of you joining us today is a longtime news correspondent creature theatre to the new york review of books as well as my colleague and contributes to foreign-policy magazine where i am the editor-in-chief. i think you have done some very unusual things with this book which is that you have managed to do in a way the impossible, linking together in one place margaret thatcher and ayatollah khamenei as characters in a unified narrative about the great counterrevolutionary year of 1979 and a very provocative that this was the year in which basically the backlash or the return of markets and religion to glo
it is a cultural issue. second, north korea. i will answer this way. we are prepared to always respond to any contingency. as you know, the premier of south korea is here today. i was in one of those meetings and i will see her later this afternoon and be with her tonight. we talked a lot about this issue. the united states is prepared with its allies to deal with any contingency. we hope that the leadership in north korea understands the wiser course of action is to participate in a process towards peace. we hope and believe that can happen. the case involving the air force officer has gotten a lot of attention for obvious reasons. do you think it is anything larger about the pentagon s efforts for sexual assault? my personal feelings i have expressed. secretary donnelly, chief ed they expressed themselves clearly and directly this morning. no one in this building is happy about what happened. we are disappointed. it does not fix the problem. you saw the reports and we w
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