To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
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When he came back from his military experience, he ended up getting his dlit, a little higher than a graduate degree, at a scottish university, the university of st. Andrews, earned that in 1952, came back in 1953. Strangely enough, his dissertation became this millioncopy bestseller, this book called the conservative mind, which the timing was just right. It hit the market from a chicago publisher, ended up going hrough seven editions over its lifetime, and it really did give there were a number of disparate voices that i would just say were not leftist. They might be conservative to ome degree, libertarian to another degree, but there were a whole number of voices that i think kirks book allowed some kind of forum for all of these voices to be able to speak right t the end of world war ii, right at the end of the korean war, so he becomes very important. We would never have had a very goldwater Movement Without kirk. We also would not have had a reagan Movement Later on without kirk.
Bradley talks about his biography on the influential conservative writer russell park. This was recorded at the 2016 Chicago Tribune led fast. Lit fest. [applause] good morning everybody it is great to be around a bunch of friends who feel the same way. It is my pleasure to help kick of lit fest. Ay it is my pleasure to welcome bradley j berserk who is the author of russell kirk, american conservative. Bradley is the russell kirk chair and a professor of history at hillsdale college. He came over this morning from southcentral michigan. He is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions i have is who is russell clear . Undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued that he still does. Namerussell kirks is not a that is much known these days, or much less invoked. , butbook does many things it also helps serve as a marvelous and bracing introduction to russell
Doing a deal with mr corbin is another thing altogether crowds are expected to begin gathering in a few hours for another mass rally in hong kong but police have denied permission for them to march through the central of the city saturday saw crowds turn out for and against the government and the need found out it was a generational divide among those on the streets. They gathered under the banner of safe to denounce recent violence during protest and to show support for the police here into more park the allegiance to china is clear but theres more than just that the crowd is mostly built. Part of a generation grew under British Colonial rule and want to protect their lifestyle david chu works in the Service Industry he is one of 200. 00 government supporters from the same neighborhood. Absolutely demands of the protesters not what the general. Public ones not that the months can be managed they are all nonsense and excuses. People here are calling on the police to uphold law and orde