But the more i worked on this project that i became more and more convinced that as the war came to an end, that it was the americans who were not the good guys. It was instead the british and the spanish who were the good guys. The british and the spanish offered freedom to their slaves. The man who served with them and took them away from this land of bondage and for the americans, well, the americans will keep slaves and bondage until 1865. Next encore booknotes on booktv. Nina easton discussed her book gang of five in 2000 on cspans booknotes. Hourlong interview with ryan lamb ms. Easton offers interlocking portraits of many conservative figures including bill kristol and ralph reid. Cspan nina j. Easton, who isor who are the gang of five . Guest the gang of five arebill kristol, ralph reed, David Mcintosh, Grover Norquist and Clint Bullock comprise my gang of five. Cspan and who are they . Guest well, what i tried to do in this book was look at what i call the flip side of the bab
This week on q a, yuval levin. Yuval levin, your wikipedia site has in the second sentence, he has been called, quote, probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the obama era. Whats that mean . Thats a very good question. I wonder by whom. I think its jonathan chait. Ok. Well then probably, in the course of criticizing me for something or other, but i guess what it means you know an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events and practical questions to deeper currents, theoretical or philosophical currents. There are narrower definitions. You know paul johnson, the Great British historian, wrote a book called intellectuals in the 80s in which he said that an intellectual in politics is actually a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. In that sense, there probably is no such thing as a conservative intellectual, but i think if you take a broader view of it and a notion that an intellectual tries to connect theory a
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