Borders open immigration yea or nay . You will get a copy of this on leaving. I will let introduce the panelists. That would be superfluous. I want to point out is not true as some people have suggested that we hired barack obama to the advance publicity person for this conference. That is not true. He did it on his own initiative but we are delighted that he was able to bring such focus to this important issue. I think it is an important debate and there are no easy answers i think. Alex nowesteh will start things off with a crisis of his broadside and Mark Krikorian will follow. The other panelists will comment on it and we will allow alex and mark to respond and open up to the audience so perhaps you will have something you would like to say as well. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to hudson for putting together this great event for publishing the book, for the center of the Immigration Studies, for cosponsoring it and for all of you being here today. I believe american i
Of course lenin. Stalin was able to find specific quotations in londons work. Sometimes he had little pieces of white paper to help them find the quotes. Often he knew the quotes from memory. He knows a lot about the outside world but to return to an earlier point he was sophisticated and blinkered at the same time. So talk about fascism as finance capital. He has a very unsophisticated analysis of fascism. It filtered through his marxist worldview that is related to class and class struggle. This is not a sophisticated analysis. At the same time he had a very sophisticated analysis of behavior and what we would call and how other states use any means necessary. But you know theres a seriousness and a comical quality to the dictatorship at the same time. Here they are a poor country wracked by war revolution and civil war undergoing famine barely able to recover telling the outside world that they are the future and the outside world is going to do disappear and desperately needing tra
Themselves separate and not getting caught up in the culture or society. But its a wonderful question and one that really deserves some serious attention. Unfortunately, i havent given it a. [laughter] i would just add i think almost every federal judge in the nation reads the newspaper keeps up with cultural events. And im sure subconsciously its a factor in the thought process as it is with every other person. But dont think its dominant. I think whats concerned a lot of people, michael round of talk to a lot of folks on the country is whether or not a lot of our issues today are being resolved by the judiciary that should be left to the democratic process. I will leave it there. May i ask you to adjourn . [laughter] i ask you all to join me in thanking john peters. [applause] john, thanks a lot. [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Columnist and human rights activist R