[applause] it is hardly a secret the terms of political discourse are not exactly models of precision. Considering the way terms are used, it is next to impossible to try to give a meaningful answer to such questions as what is this socialism or capitalism or whats are back markets . That is even more true of the term anarchism as pointed out. It is a subject of varied use but also extreme of use sometimes by bitter enemies unfortunately by people hold the of manner high. So much so as the variation thats it resisted a simple characterization the only way i can see to redress some questioned what is anarchism is to identify the being ideas that animate and at least major currents of the rich and complex and often contradictory traditions of the anarchist thought and action. Of sensible approach can start with the remarks of to be the important manner of the intellectual i will quote rudolph rocker who sought anarchism not a fixed sullivan closed social system with a fixed the answer to
Interesting people from all over the world and their successful people and their passionate about being here and their contributing to the economy i like to give the example of football. Imagine the 49ers and were going to be playing with another team but what if it is other team had 13 or fourteen people. We have to see the u. S. As a team are the other countries and were limiting the team on the field and if canada is allowing their team to to compete against us. To not allow the 49ers to come to the game is not making sense. You want to have the largest team i can in order to beat the competition and so i have this commercial in their head. All those comments immigrants are lazy and taking our jobs. Imagine the same comments have been made as each immigration wave like the italians and now the mexicans but somehow theyve contributed to society and were growing because when you take a diversity of ideas they dont take your jobs. Somebody said that the way we have today, the system we
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
They are grounded in the free society. Conservatives want to save abstract principles and what we made of them in the present, but the combination that makes us the most free and open in the world. We could integrate immigrants. But we dont try. We are terrible failure of assimilation in the country. If we can address that we dont have to be any less of a nation of immigrants than we ever have been. I dont think if that is what burke thought, but it is what i thought. Host yuval levin, thank 0 f0 thanks for doing this. I hope everyone goes out and gets the book. The beauty of america is in this country we have the ability to write the script of our own life. We are in a sense in the drivers seat of our own future and her biggest decisions in life are made i us. America creates the sense of possibility and out of that you can become an activist, a Community Organizer read in a sense what are you doing . You are living off the great capitalist explosion of wealth that you didnt even crea