and general philosophy like many classical philosophers. i think that you need a comprehensive approach to make out the case for various branches of philosophy. but, essentially, over the years i have come to believe that the classical liberal social-political stance, one that one associates with john locke, john stuart mill, thomas jefferson and so forth, is the sound position to take on political issues. as to ethics and epistemology and aesthetics and so on, that s another story. but if you were talking about politics which is what most ordinary folks are interested from philosophers, from academic philosophers, what position do you hold on, you know, the first amendment, the interstate commerce clause, whether one should be able to tell people how do they behave right and wrong and all of that stuff, that s what they want to know. and there i think i can safely be called a libertarian or classical liberal. host: who in american politics today most closely aligns with yo
pirate attack. now we have libya. general mattis, who is in charge of the central command is a werewolf. a good friend of mine, but scary. and i ll be amazed that general mattis doesn t take action against pirates in a way that will cause everyone s had to stand sometime in the next month. but in order to do that, we have to recognize we have other uses for these forces. and i think we have enough that we can keep it going. i thank you all very much for spending all this time with me on a rainy night. thank you. [applause] .. word of the two killers at columbine, and eric was a psychopath and dillinger was not. they were completely different people, and as i spent ten years on this book and the question i get asked most often is why did they do it? it took about a year to figure out that is the wrong question and leads in the wrong direction because there is eric and why he did it and dillinger and they are completely different people. so do you want to talk about so eric was
a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed newsweek or the other way around. and we have seen situations in which there s now some original content that occurs only online. i mentioned two sources. the fiscal times, and those who want to follow new york issues, web site called the city pragmatist. something exciting is happening, and one good thing is this web page of the new york times. a rocky start. a lot of good content. the title of tonight s discussion, the new york times good for democracy? a better question would have been, wouldn t have been as provocative, on balance, is the new york times good for democracy? and to that question we can give, yes, but, and no, but, answers, with a lot of variationness between. for that, let me introduce our two speakers. mike tomasky. editor of democracy. a quarterly general based in washington. deserves an applause. [applause] he is also the american editor at large for the british guardian, where he writes a blog,
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with you. i do want to correct one thing, bob. i was actually not third in the republican primary, i was second. yeah, i want to get that that has been a story that is often told, so i ve worked really hard to be second. not that it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no prize. or third, or fourth. one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy, at least i hope you do, of the book, simple government: 12 things that we really need from washington and the trillion we don t, and i m hope you have a chance to read it. i m sure you ll stay up late tonight and read all 228 payments of it. pages of it. i truly hope at least you ll give a cursory review of it. in many ways i m being asked the question not once, not ten times, but 100 times: are you going to run for president? and no how matter how many difft ways i say it, there s about a hundred different ways people report it. it s very much an option i m considering, and i m s