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
Well, good evening. Everybody. Welcome to tonights presentation on Charlie Chaplin who is known universally as an iconic comedian. What is not so generally known perhaps is the political impact of his humor. A subject about which we will learn more this evening. First let me thank our series sponsor Davenport Company not only for their support of tonights lecture, but for the support they have provided for the program over the years. The davenport farm was our very First Corporate sponsor and they have not only continued that support. But have been instrumental in securing additional benefactors as well. I cannot emphasize enough how much the generosity has meant to the development of our program . The university and its students as well as the larger Fredericksburg Community are deeply indebted to them for this. Now speak of this evening, dr. Steven j farnsworth received his ba in history from the university of missouri, kansas city and a ba in government from dartmouth. Followed by b
Well, good evening. Everybody. Welcome to tonights presentation on Charlie Chaplin who is known universally as an iconic comedian. What is not so generally known perhaps is the political impact of his humor. A subject about which we will learn more this evening. First let me thank our series sponsor Davenport Company not only for their support of tonights lecture, but for the support they have provided for the program over the years. The davenport farm was our very First Corporate sponsor and they have not only continued that support. But have been instrumental in securing additional benefactors as well. I cannot emphasize enough how much the generosity has meant to the development of our program . The university and its students as well as the larger Fredericksburg Community are deeply indebted to them for this. Now speak of this evening, dr. Steven j farnsworth received his ba in history from the university of missouri, kansas city and a ba in government from dartmouth. Followed by b
[applause] thank you. I am going to sit rapid and go to the podium. I have had a few health problems. Just as soon not test myself. Thank you for coming tonight. In thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start with a simple problem. Most people including most people who think they have studied the subject have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism weather on the left or the right. There is an idea that you started with progressivism, you moved on i and teasing you start with progressivism, proceeded to the new deal and went on to the Great Society and it is a continuous flow. The trouble is is simply not true. Most progressives could not become new dealers. Very few republican progressives, remember progressivism was a bipartisan movement, the republican and democratic party. Very few republican progressives became new dealers and not surprisingly enough, among the democratic progressives, the group most likely to become new dealers were social workers, and they sa
Researched and engagingly her own ccount of family, which is not always an easy thing to do. And i want to start with some specific questions and then read a couple of things. Then therell be a little socialist jeopardy to keep her going. But well start with why this book now. A story about an american a time at war and a time when the country was going cultural me Major Political economic and social upheaval. In the federal government was going to the post office. Our years later, that was in 1914. 1917 happens, the United States sprs the war. Men are millions of being drafted. Their s of men see government working in and women too, see the government in a much different light. Were forced to reckon with questions about what a obligation to his country is. What a brothers obligation to another brother. What sons and daughters obligations to their parents are hasnt, you just know, 20 years before. Of course, these questions just arise, you know, in a day. Hey were planted in the few de