How would you describe the perfect conservative . Im not sure there is any thing there is such a thing as a perfect conservative. I am everybody, i think it is like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. It is hard to see the whole picture, but someone with a generosity of spirit, what can they learn from the other camps rather than having theological disputes about different points. You have written as much on Ronald Reagan as anybody. Of those different kind of conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly leaves out the Christi
The presiding officer under the previous order, the Senate Stands adjourned until 9 00 a. M. On thursday, october 20, 2022. U. S. 20, 2022. Senate holding brief sessions between now and the november midterm elections, no votes planned until november 14th. Now we take you to the booktv programming. Guest abortion needless to say. They use to try, stan evans pointed out he turned he hated the term fusionism, trying to put together 2 things that are a natural match and he said you cant have liberty, he thought liberty rested on some traditions and moral understanding of what human beings are and in that respect Frederick Hayek thought much the same and so there are always these clashes, most libertarians, not all are prochoice and most traditional conservatives are not. So that split, want to say this on behalf of social conservatives, quite aside from electoral consequences a lot were former democrats who switched parties but what ought to be said is abortion wasnt a national issue, it w
Lobbying regulars to go easy on Charles Keating savings and loan, you can blame that unregulated for buckling under political pressure but cant blame reagan for that, thats a commonplace problem. Host ron in arlington, virginia, youre on with steven hayward. Caller great to talk to you today. I think you are exaggerating on the covid 19. The former president was the executive at that time, we should keep that in mind but my question goes to the American First Movement in the 30s and when naziism was spreading through jersey, they issued radios to every citizen and i believe our cable media, fox and msnbc and cnn are entertainment channels. What the impact of the misinformation is why wouldnt we defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic . Why wouldnt we want to do that . Thank you. I will stay on the line. Guest we do want to do that. The first part of your question, we disagree on who our enemies are. We are all making enemies of the other side to put it in simple ter
Good. You have done a service to the intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and ill begin in an odd way. How do you explain si think i know the answer but nevertheless i want your answer. How do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half century is unknown to have america. Well, i guess to use todays parlance, thomas soul was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative. And way back in the 1970s when he began writing about t racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals and in the academy. And in the media and hes never really sure that. I think its something that has cost him professionally in terms of notoriety and its probably the main reason a lot of people today known names like Tanehisi Coates but not Thomas Sowell notwithstanding the fact that hes written circles around those folks. Maybe all ofthem combined. And not only in terms of brett of his work but also the rigor of the
How would you describe the perfect conservative . Im not sure there is any thing there is such a thing as a perfect conservative. I am everybody, i think it is like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. It is hard to see the whole picture, but someone with a generosity of spirit, what can they learn from the other camps rather than having theological disputes about different points. You have written as much on Ronald Reagan as anybody. Of those different kind of conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly leaves out the Christi