The title itself, the violence inside us. You take the readers for both the biology and history of violence and so id like to ask you why begin air, why did you choose to begin here . Guest thank you so much for doing this and im blessed to be joining you to talk about this book. I start with this question what kind of violence is inside us because for me, it was the first real question is why i began the mission of my political career. While the book is mostly a history of american violence and how we overcome that history, it also involves my own political story since the shooting in connecticut in 2012. I had been pretty prestigious as a lawmaker before hand but never had an emotional connection like now and it was after sandy hook i realized this was about to become my political calling that i startebuti started asking que. The question i ask myself wasnt that different. A young man with no prior history of violence and no motive walking into an Elementary School and shooting and g
People should read. Whether or not you haveer and tiers or experience on this extremely important subject. Gun violence, american violence, global violence. And so id like to actually just begin with the title. Violence inside us. And the early portion of the book where you take the reader through something of a short primer on the biology and the history of violence, and so i wanted to ask you, why begin there . Why did you choose to begin with the nature of violence itself. Guest well, thank you for doing this and really glad to toe be joining you to talk about the book. I start with this question of what kind of violence is inside us, because for me it was the first real thorny question that i came upon when i began what has become the new mission of my political career. Maybe well have a chance to talk about this a little built but while the book is mostly a history of american violence and a conversation about how we overcome that history, it also involves my own political story.
Two reasons and two different audiences. Lets say it is the left and right audience. I wrote for the left because i often hear conservatism denigrated as a philosophy. Part of that is a large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored labeled as conservative. Will espouse philosophies that are not conservative. I think trade is one of t
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