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
Themselves from future storms one year after a deadly tornado devastated their town. Saving every drop, water reaction ordering in one California City as the drought threatens its water supply. Welcome to al Jazeera America. After six months of political unrest in thailand, the country is now under marshall law. The leader of the army made that declaration this morning. Sending troops into the heart of bangkok, the army is saying the move is abled at stabilizing the country, stressing it was not a military led coup. Last week, thailand Prime Minister was removed from power and the replacement is refusing calls for him to step down. This is what the streets look like under marshall law. Soldiers are peppered on street corners. We are hearing on the outskirts of the city, the major artery from the most, east and west are military check points checking people coming into the middle parts of the city. Tuesday, people woke up to marshall law. Many are going about their daily lives. What is
I am not a physicist. My background is in philosophy. I wrote biographies, maybe i should start by saying how did i get to write a biography of oppenheimer, why did it occur to me to do that . It began 12 years ago when the newspaper asked me to review a collection of his correspondence and up until that point on a new about oppenheimer only what Everybody Knows about oppenheimer, that he directed the las alamos laboratory, he had security clearance taken away from him, he was director of the institute of princeton, that is all of a new. I didnt know that he wrote poetry. I didnt know that he wrote short stories. That he was an expert in French Literature, that he was, taught himself sanskrit, that he was deeply interested in hinduism, that he taught himself sanskrit in order to read the hindu classics in their original language. Neither did i know about his Political Activities in any detail in the 1930s or his relations with his friends and students and family members. All of which i
Oshaughnessy history professor at the university of examines their tactical decisions and presents his thoughts on why they lost the war. This program from the Kansas City Public Library is an hour. [applause] thank you for reading the book so carefully and thank you also for wearing the monticello tie with Thomas Jefferson signature. I am very grateful to the Kansas City Public Library and their outstanding book program, for the opportunity to give this which is my first post publication talk about my book the men who lost america. I particularly want to thank henry who is the head of communications and tom who arranged the logistics so well, a sign of the quality of this program and of course Crosby Kemper the third who mentioned his director of the library. He mentioned that he was only born in the Thomas Jefferson foundation oversees monticello. The foundation is also my employer where i spend most of my time not talking about the british side of the American Revolution but about T
Im jame mcgrath boreas and were here and behind me stands in her name preferences stuck about the man who revolutionized newspapers. When i first had to recommend the book, people react with recognition than they said i was writing about this appellate her. But it is clear they need to name and not anything about his life because blitzer shares his state of the wellknown for a prize, but not for what he did in his life. Very few people remember he was an explosives maker. Carnegie, morgan, rockefeller, all these people. Pulitzer payday Critical Role in the industrial age, the age that made america the way we think ourselves today. Thats right before his time, we didnt have the media we now swimming every day. The notion of americans checking is on their phones are going to cnn or watching cspan picked his relatives thinks cultivated in that. Good it turns out pulitzer nonelected and historical row, let a fascinating life are good at reading, the influence yielded solicitous today. The