Issues. Is this picture on the left a real picture of you . Yes. Not the week . Not a week spirit when was that taken . I would guess 71. Not quite positive. What were your politics 1971 . I think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a left winger, but it didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist are trotskyite or anything like that. Went to the transformation occur. When did the transformation occur . I just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this, called why i turned right, and its the story of a bunch of us and why we became right. It is a long store and i wont tell it but ill give the short version of it. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got a job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york when it appeared he dont the week is a lot of money is forced i was concerned. I was living doubt on the Lower East Side and i was v
That the end of the middle age. You know. Many i used to say that the middle age was age it was exactly the opposite it was a. Period. And there was a change of the east. Changed. Today with the u. K. But its interesting let me focus on this idea. Because many historians. Believe that. It was. More. For. What i hear you saying is that. There was a need that. You are essentially driven by the. Question is that. The 1st issue that. He was the need to come back to come back. To the. Bank in the public space of. A positive. Change and this. To the technological. Exactly what and where i want to take this conversation forward because many critics of the e. U. Have absolutely no issue with europes past they recognize the enormous success of the European Union. Conciliation and peace are its greatest achievements most of the people agree with that they take issue with the ability of the e. U. As a system as a mechanism to move forward to be as efficient as it has to be in present times can yo
Warning she just said monday here in moscow my name is kevin owen he was the world news update from r. T. International focus on this morning in the south of france last few days ramifications of the talk of the g. 7 of course irans foreign minister made impromptu visit there to that summit in the southwest of france sunday to hold crisis talks with president emmanuel mccrone Mohamed Javid cerise arrival apparently caught the other World Leaders though off guard and left the u. S. Delegation feeling pretty blind sided as has been described dubai and skis got more. Well oh well dear that didnt seem to work and neither did the next card that president pulled from his sleeve and that was a surprise visit by the Iranian Foreign minister to that g. 7 summit well that dramatic diplomatic move kind of went down like a lead balloon with the white house delegation refusing to meet the a rainy and foreign minister discuss that or a new deal of course the Iranian Foreign minister himself under u.
Know the inclusive Political Institutions was able to kind of respond to the enormous increase in inequality and the political challenges that create is to the american constitution was written in the in the late 18th century James Madison and other people who formulated it they were worried about populism in the 17th eighties so i think populism is an old thing inequalities and old thing you know what we try to argue in the book is that you know these challenges of being met successfully in the past in inclusive societies like the United States but thats not to say that thats inevitable mr robinson you mentioned inequalities in all thing in the us i think you would also agree that its been exacerbated greatly by globalization and at least to some extent this wave of populism especially as represented by donald trump is a push against global as. Nation and the very specific set of facts it has an American Society now many in the United States believe that trump is a russian creature bu
This is an uncomfortable day for the. Country farmer has a fresh news update for you next hour right now its a look at the growing wealth gap on the kinds of. Prouty im sure this is the cas report have you noticed a lot more trash garbage building up everywhere its true youre not paranoid its actually happening yes yes and i want to put this into the context of this global kind of you know theres a certain class of people that know how everybody else in the world should live better on a nation state level and then on the individual level and again i return to the trump election. The european votes where youre seeing over and over is the rise up of people rejecting this condescending social Justice Warrior ng better than you sort of thing especially when it turns out that they arent better than anybody else so in the case of look at Canada Canada everybody agrees is one of the most progressive nations on earth all sorts of you know social welfare programs for most people there could be