They are grounded in the free society. Conservatives want to save abstract principles and what we made of them in the present, but the combination that makes us the most free and open in the world. We could integrate immigrants. But we dont try. We are terrible failure of assimilation in the country. If we can address that we dont have to be any less of a nation of immigrants than we ever have been. I dont think if that is what burke thought, but it is what i thought. Host yuval levin, thank 0 f0 thanks for doing this. I hope everyone goes out and gets the book. The beauty of america is in this country we have the ability to write the script of our own life. We are in a sense in the drivers seat of our own future and her biggest decisions in life are made i us. America creates the sense of possibility and out of that you can become an activist, a Community Organizer read in a sense what are you doing . You are living off the great capitalist explosion of wealth that you didnt even crea
Nobody said it was 1992, the president ial election and the democratic primary and the candidates were no ones told you, there was no narrator. And nothing appeared to help you. It was and payback is, to pull that off creatively. But what people, but ive asked people what they like is they feel like that what they get is what the campaign wants you to get. And the reason that i think its survived for so long is people feel like that theyre getting to see something that wouldnt normally be available to em. Although it was nothing strategic or anything like that, they felt the sense of sort of realness. And i think thats why the film has sort of survived to the extent it has. And it was, you know, if youre gonna have somebody make a movie about you, have a brilliant film maker. And penny, obviously, was that. Its really come from a study of by the way, did yall see this American Hustle . Wow. Thats a good movie. [laughter] damn good movie. So i think that was what really carries that thi
So i wouldnt say it plays an enormous role in their work. Any other questions . Im sure the research into this was enormous and the many sources but if you could i mean is there the top three or four that come to mind as sources of research that you went to for this book . 70 roughly of the book and it was just invaluable. The twain stuff. There is such great scholarship around twain. You can go to marc twain projects. Org and see all those letters from i think until 1881 and they are wonderful additions of his correspondence so when it comes to researching twain its actually ready straightforward. I think these other characters i had to dig deeper into the archives because their work securely Charles Warren stoddard are not as widely known. That was a little bit more of the detective work which i really enjoyed but the bancrofts had most of it. I was in l. A. At the huntington. I was here the San Francisco Public Library and the oakland Public Library and a couple of collections on th
Income, you see the same type of disparity. The average Median Income for 57,009. Icans, the average Median Income for 21. Canamericans, 33,3 , d in terms of overall wealth 149. Hite families, 113, but for africanamerican families in this great country, the average collective wealth. S 5,677 100 in a or every white household, similarly situated africanamerican household only has 5. Thats a problem for america that we should all feel compelled to confront. Thats why the Congressional Black Caucus wants to invest in education and job training. Invest in transportation and infrastructure. Invest in research and development. Invest in technology and innovation, invest in preserving the social safety net so that you can lift up communities left behind by the recession, but also collectively lift up america for the good of everyone. So now its my honor and privilege to yield to the very distinguished gentleman from new york, prominent member of the ways and means committee, someone who has g
While saying his cautious avoids mistakes. What you think of his administrations foreignpolicy today . You can also send us a tweet. Comments on facebook and email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. Pieceshington post starts off by saying this. Heres what the president had to say. Typically, criticism of our foreignpolicy has been directed at the failure to use military force. The question i think i would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force . After we have just gone through a decade of war at enormous troops and to our budget . Exactly that these critics think would have been accomplished . My job as commanderinchief is to deploy military force as a last resort, and to deploy it wisely. Frankly, most of the foreignpolicy commentator set ed our policies would go headlong into a bunch of military adventures at the American People have no interest in participating in and would not advance our core security interests. If you look at syria, for exam