New future. A future which will see the Unconditional Surrender of infantile paralysis. Tonight, on q a, david brooks, columnist for the New York Times on writing an article for the times and the awards he gives out at the end of the year. The sidney awards. Theyre given for the best magazine essays of the year. And they can be in journals or in the new yorker, atlantic or obscure literary magazines. The idea is they come out at christmas week between christmas and new years. Thats a time to step back, not to read things to step back and read something deeper and longer. And its to celebrate those longer pieces. I do believe magazines change history. The new republic which until the recent destruction was the most influential american political magazine of the 20th century. Really did change history. It created progressivism, a voice for modern liberalism. Conservatism barely existed before National Review and gave it a voice. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Swiss bo
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of the time and the complexities of the human condition. but while many of his contemporaries, including george washington, freed their slaves during and after the revolution, inspired perhaps by the words of the declaration, jefferson did not. over the subsequent 50 years, a period of extraordinary public service, jefferson remained the master of monticello, and a buyer and seller of human beings. jon, this is written by paul finkleman in saturday s new york times. it s a conversation which is this sort of tension between clearly a great man but also a man who owned human beings. how do you reconcile that for yourself? well, i reconcile it actually, you don t really reconcile it. what you do is you try to explain it without excusing it. and to my mind, i think jefferson represents the best of us and the worst of us, as the piece made clear. he articulated an ideal of human liberty that he set forth a promise. dr. king called it the