The Class Society is immoral and unamerican and its hurting the way that we are setting up our country. So that was the Central Point that he was trying to make in the book. The book that hes coming apart in 2012 which didnt look at race at all if looked at only the differences only on one side which was white america. The reason he did that was to not look at race and to say we are organizing in a way that is leaving the bottom behind. We need to bring the fullness of American Society and opportunity. We need to do that more aggressively. Host numbers are on the screen if you want to talk to our guest. President of the American Enterprise institute and the author of these policy books. Who really cares, the surprising truth about the compassionate conservatism, it came out in 2006. Gross national happiness. Why happiness matters for america and how we can get more out of that came out in 2008. The battle how the fight between Big Government and Free Enterprise will shape americas futu
Of concern. It is especially good and too late to introduce Randy Boyagoda author of Randy Boyagoda mitt mac Richard John Neuhaus. Tonight randy has agreed to be interviewed so is my pleasure to welcome both of them. Thank you. [applause] Randy Boyagoda a novelist writing about Richard John Neuhaus how did we get here . Guest first of all the great question i started perking on this book in some ways in 2009 of approach to a profile for him. It was an essay that argued here is the most influential canadian born that none of you have ever heard of. So then at that point i was in the midst of a terrible unreadable academic monograph and to be rescued from the project relies it really was a story about a man in his involvement and i thought your is a story that needs telling. But then i presume after the biography lot of people could write the biography. Then his very good friend who i knew from a shared coincidence because my wife went to college with his daughter. Especially for our aud
Greek and roman political ideas and why they matter. Were the greeks and romans successful politicians . Guest they were. The greeks managed in different citystates to develop the worlds first democracy. In athens they produced works of art, literature and great works of architecture and Political Institutions which remained fundamental to Politics Today and the romans for 500 years and that went down for another 500 years. Depending on your measure of success they have a lot to offer. Host what were the similarities . Guest interesting question. Really emphasized election and the fundamental role for the people in setting the terms of legitimacy so that in greek democracy is true in the the Roman Republic so for example in the Roman Republic know what could be passed without it being passed by a popular assembly. Talk about the influence of the elite in rome and the senate, that was significant but the senate couldnt pass laws. They could make it presentable and business and manage th
I think the age of the common man is a less problematic term than the age of jackson because a lot of these things are happening independent of jackson or the jacksonians. I think you could do worse than the age of the common man. If you want to pitch it that way. Granted, native americans probably disagree with that. That is the thing. I am jotting down a list of the broad themes that happened 1815 to 1848. Youve got enfranchisement transportation revolution, a rise in the conflict over slavery, president jackson who towers over the period for 812 years or so, market revolution the age of reform. You can attach historian names to all of those themes. Professor feller well done. Thank you. And we are trying to look for the unified field theory. It probably does not exist that ties it all together. Maybe the best thing to do is here is all these themes, and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna, and so jackson was the and Andrew Jackson was the big kahuna and be done and not try to figure o
It comes back operationally, we do tolerate failure. The first thing in the field, this is not a zero mentality. People make mistakes. Theres fog and friction and we reward innovation and i think it exists. Constitutional ly institutionally, its a little harder. But in the acquisition realm the processes are not they grind on so its not that they dont reward innovation. Its that innovation and new ideas dont naturally arise from it because theres a risk aversion. Everybody wants a piece of it, they want to add their requirement to it. Its hard to get the process right. Intellectual intellectually, you read other things, you read small wars journal, every major interesting piece that are at odds often with what the secretary and the chief are saying. Thats a great thing. And the army has this incredible ferment. Do those people stay in the army . Are they punished for . I never really sayee that. The army is a culture, and so i have no doubt we have certain cultural biases. We try to no