Collaboration and survival in nazi germany. Professor, where did the writing of art in the third right come from. Guest this book project is the completion of a trilogy and the idea began about 30 years ago when i was a graduate student. I was at harvard university, i went to the school to study french history. My first professor said you are going to specialize in this narrow topic on dissertation soon enough so i want you to write a Research Paper on a different topic, different country, different era. So i had been sitting in german as an undergraduate and i had a knowledge of german. I was interested in world war ii, my father was born in 1930 and and i grew up with stories about the war, the hunger and such that world war ii also always seemed essential. And i was interested in cultural history. My undergraduate thesis had been on the role of the arts and the black civil rights movement. And i thought something german, world war ii in cultural, and i came up on the topic of the Ar
See more entertaining. Less confrontational. It may may cause people to take a look at what is happening to the culture from a different point of view. Host what are some Inconvenient Truth is. Guest unless we return to our constitutional form of governments in this generation, or must we see some form of moral and spiritual revival which we saw and the founding of a country and the great awakening that gave birth to liberty in our civilization in the first place, we we might be totally and irrevocably screwed. The course that we are currently on. So this book is humorous, although at times unsettling warning. Its like a road sign danger ahead turn back now. Host without giving away the ending, how does the and the various plot form. Guest the various plot is sort of a contemporary homage to the screwtape letters. Lorna farias was cast by hell with destroying the United States over a century ago. Now he is so confident that his plan has worked that he connects all of the dots, he names
[cheers and applause] stephen welcome. Good to have you with us. [crowd cheering] [chanting stephen, stephen] stephen thank you so much. Thank you. You folks, you folks at home cant possibly know but the things weve all been through tonight already. [laughter] this is a stressful job, were not going to lie to you. When im not out here spitting the truth hot and hard, i relax by gaming. Im a huge gamer, i play them all, monopoly, go fish. I meet you there but i have a thing i dont show up. I win. I also love games of the video nature. Ive spent hundreds of hours playing dark souls, assassins creed, call of duty. Which is when i cause assassins creed and go use the bathroom. [applause] high score. New high score last night. [laughter] as a gamesman, i am gripped by a scandal called gamergate thats shaken the video world. You probably heard of the term gamergate. I have. Thats why i brought it up just now. [laughter] what is it about. It is a scandal about gaming and sexism now made front
Nature. Ive spent hundreds of hours playing dark souls, assassins creed, call of duty. Which is when i cause assassins creed and go use the bathroom. [applause] high score. New high score last night. [laughter] as a gamesman, i am gripped by a scandal called gamergate thats shaken the video world. You probably heard of the term gamergate. I have. Thats why i brought it up just now. [laughter] what is it about. It is a scandal about gaming and sexism now made front pages across the country. One million tweets and counting to the gamergate hashtag. Online battle of the sexes how it is portrayed and violent acts into women who speak out. Stephen gamergate named after watergate when a cohort group known as the plumbers were caught spying for the whitehouse. At least in gamergate we know who the plumbers are. [laughter] as the tv man said, gamergate involves some male gamers hassing women speccing out on video games presuming the shock that women were even speaking to them at all. [crowd ch
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