Of World War Ii History by historians such as ease. Seriously, im liable to imprisonment in russia by the new law set out by the minister of defense that anybody cancels the red army. This is tantamount to denial of because its sort of in any way tarnish is the reputation of the red army. So i mustnt underestimate this obsession with the control one is seen in russia the moment. I would say lucky with timing when they opened up the enclosed in 2000. Since then, things have become far, far worse. Your assessment of the army field commanders, collins and grove reporting to bradley . Well, collins for actually reporting two hi hodges. The trouble was hodges is in a state of the many accounts of his own offices and headquarters. It was incapable of taking all the decisions of that particular time. Unfortunately, montgomery turned off the headquarters in his famous dark green rollsroyce with flags flying to sort out the situation and the crisis and even one of his scuffle said he arrived th
Popes big outdoor mass wednesday at the basilica. Theyre holding off on installing a life size crucifix that will hang above the holy father. Is it going to be ready . By all accounts they are going to be ready. The crucifix borrowed from the chapel of Little Sisters of the poor a few blocks from here, its supposed to hang almost like magic on the other side of the basilica. They were going to install it today but because of this weather theyve decided to hold off until tomorrow. It was really incredible. We had a few technical difficulties. We cant show you exactly what we saw but one of the most Amazing Things is this cross that was discovered almost by accident in a storage room in the basement of georgetown university. Its actually the first iron cross used by the catholic colonists who landed at st. Marys in maryland and it was the first cross used in the first Catholic Service in the english colonies. Well hope to have more for you a little bit later. Bruce, thanks for that. Toda
Society which is not exactly, i think, true. Just because, you know, your money says in god we trust doesnt mean that you are under siege. They have a far more literalistic reading of scripture than any literalist i know. Sam harris is quite famous for this. He really reads the scriptures in the most literalist sense, and then if he is confronted by people of faith who dont have the same literalist view of the scripture that he does, he simply says that theyre not really jews, theyre not really christians, theyre not really muslims because they dont take their scripture literally. And certainly, they have the same sense of sole access to the truth. That is the, fundamentally or i should say the defining characteristic of fundamentalism for many of these new atheists, particularly richard dawkins. A person of faith is not just wrong, hes stupid that anyone who disagrees with him is not just incorrect, but, you know, dumb. That religion itself is nothing more than pure evil. As Christoph
Host set five, salman rushdie, one of your favorite books and authors. Guest thats right. Satanicber the first time i rad i heard about it and never got around to reading it. Think. I had heard about it obviously never got around to reading it. I thought only friends bookshelf and i thought was a big deal. Lets read this thing. It was incredible. The idea you could write about the deep spiritual ideas in a work of fiction to make it come alive in the narrative that he did, it really and what to me as a writer. Probably a lot with Garcia Marquez are the three sort of authors i thought this is what i want to do. This is who i want to be. Host guest itd save hook by not a very wellknown political philosopher who teaches at iowa. It is a book about the way we can start thinking about money as a secret day, the way it used to be. He makes a very important argument, which is the creation of what we call money arose to facilitate gift exchange. In other words, the idea was before money if i h
Spinning off like particles, but having an unfortunately galvanizing force for economic and political and social instability in many more parts of the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, professor shelley. We now from the carnegie endowment, they have a central subject of the book is the role of corruption, how corruption is an enabler, facilitator, and you cannot really understand transnational crime without paying attention to the broader issue of corruption. You have been studying corruption in detail in india and elsewhere. What are your reactions to some of those points that professor shelley raises . Sure. Thanks, everyone, for coming. I first want to thank moises for asking me to comment on this wonderful book, you know . The book is about terrorism, organized crime of which i know nothing about, and only under generous definition do i know anything about corruption, so thank you for including me. I want to make a couple of points on the question that you raised ab