We have been trying to get you here for years. We have. We have been trying to get him here for the longest time. It is so good to have you here. We have a little over an hour. We will have a conversation, we will take questions. When i say i have read all your books, i literally have. This is not all of them but a quarter, 1 5 maybe. Destructive generation was the first one i read, this is with peter callier. And second thoughts about the 60s, the one where you came out from the left, left to left. And this book is, he did not ask me to do this, i promise you. Radical son is great. This is like the Whittaker Chambers witness of this generation. I believe National Review or one of the publications, Weekly Standard said Something Like that. Weekly standard. He has done of late a number of different books, the black book of the american left. I have volume one, volume two, and there have been at least three, maybe four. David maybe six. Host there is so much here. I cant keep up with the
We will have a conversation, we will take questions. When i say i have read all your books, i literally have. This is not all of them but a quarter, 1 5 maybe. Destructive generation was the first one i read, this is with peter callier. And second thoughts about the 60s, the one where you came out from the left, left to left. And this book is, he did not ask me to do this, i promise you. Radical son is great. This is like the Whittaker Chambers witness of this generation. I believe National Review or one of the publications, Weekly Standard said Something Like that. Weekly standard. He has done of late a number of different books, the black book of the american left. I have volume one, volume two, and there have been at least three, maybe four. David maybe six. Host there is so much here. I went up to my office and tried to sort out questions and said forget it. I was going to sit here and try to have a conversation and ask things about the old left, the current left, todays left. Old
That it would be too expensive to have a womens component in the army. This has come for me to anybody this week . It was nonsense then. Its nonsense now. Whether it applies to women or whether it applies to our comrades in arms who are transgender. One of my personal favorites alfred cashier or jenne ha jars. Albert cashier lived 50 years after his service in the civil war as a man. His comrades from this regiment kept it secret that he was biologically female. They encouraged him to live as a man. In a nursing home he was forced into Womens Clothing and his health deteriorated rapidly which shouldnt surprise anybody and he only lived a couple more years after that. He was buried as alfred cashier, a man with full military honors. We thank you so much for coming out tonight and taking this trip through her story with us. Thank you so much and if youve got any other questions wed be happy to take them up here. Thank you all. [applause] thank you very much. Copies of their book are avai
Its very much attribute to goldwater. In 1960 he felt that the conservative movement and the Republican Party had been compromised by the new deal, and a somebody new to put together a blueprint on where the party and the movement ought to go. Thats what conscience of a conservative was. I think every, everybody since then who has looked at the book and said this is it, this is the manifesto. My thought, i thought i do honor it that way because in a way i think were facing some of the same kind of questions today that the party or the conservative movement has been compromised by populist layer. Host you begin the book by saying i will start by saying that i regret having to write this book. I regret it because its a necessity of the sign the American Conservative Movement which is been a force for great good in our country and to the world is lost. Why is that . Guest Barry Goldwater defined conservatism as one maximum amount of freedom consistent with order, and then the principles h
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