Okay. So we are 29 days out from the presIdent Ial electIon. People are votIng across the country and the key SwIng States already. VIce presIdent Kamala HarrIs and governor TIm Walz are on a MedIa BlItz rIght now. TIm walz was unleashed on Fox News Yesterday and It seemed to go well. HarrIs was unleashed on call her daddy, and both, done wIth a slew of podcast daytIme and latenIght hosts In the comIng days. BelIeve me, I would love to talk to you about my take on these MedIa StrategIes and we wIll durIng the show. We kInd of have to start somewhere else tonIght. RIght now, on a parallel track tell the IntervIews and the CampaIgn Events and early votIng and normal ElectIon Year KInd of stuff, we have a republIcan nomInee who wIll lIe about anythIng, If he thInks he can benefIt from that I. We have a Maga MachIne that amplIfIes those lIes on hIs behalf and we are watchIng real people suffer as a result. For the past few days, trump has been brazenly lyIng about the federal Governments R
Grahams behavior, however, is understandable; he he hides people because he has something to hide, thats what we ll tell you about now. We begin. Bidens policies are not working. Every time we need weapons for ukraine, we have to beg everyone. One of the ardent hawks and republicans of the us house of representatives, linsey graham, it would seem, should be rooting for his ideological supporters, but in his home state, South Carolina, from which he has been a senator for more than 20 years, he spoke at a rally in support of trump. This is the most qualified candidate to become president of the United States. When i have. To put pressure on secretary of state george brad rafen spenger and change the election results, then the senator played on trumps team, although back in the sixteenth he was his competitor in the president ial race and even called him an ass. Trump then retaliated in his usual eccentric manner, making light of grahams phone number. This is how they coexist in politics
[indiscernible] think you all for being here welcome to the oldest independent bookstore in los angeles. We are pleased to be shared our facility with the los angeles review of books one of its Board Members john weiner is going to be an enter lock a tour i thought i would tell you this a little bit about who our guests are tonight john who i know is famous for many things he does a book on the 1960s to a publisher i think thats true. He is most famous if anybody needs to know anything about john lennon or the fbi he is your go to person. He spent a decade litigating to get access to this information he is a writer and commentator and a man about town. And a friend of mine. He is going to be talking to a friend of his who is a professor at usc i would say of the two of them that these are serious historians who are not serious about themselves. The work that stephen will be reading or talking about tonight. And perhaps reading from. Is a really amazing captivating story that you cant b
Absolutely wonderful. Guest thanks for being here. Host and best of success on your next book. I cant wait to read it. [laughter] guest thank you. Host i cant wait to read it. Its going to be another changemaking book. Guest i hope so. Host thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Bradley birzer, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Guest pretty incredible, actually. Far more so than anyone would have expected including kirk and his publisher. When it came out, it came out in may of 1953, and it took about a month for it to catch on. But once it did, it really just caught fire. Its roughly 7580 publications in the englishspeaking world, major ones. Everything from the chicago trib and the New York Herald tribune, New York Times, london times, times literary supplement. They all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times. Going through the summer, kind of fee
With aristotle of saint john are st. Agusta and. To be classically educated in a very new for. So america against hitler we thought of america as something separate and to keep those ideologies down. Even those good ideologies. And dehumanizing and some level. So the conservative mind is truly that. For what has come before in 2016 it was pretty revolutionary he was not catholic at this point would become much better on. Talk about the dignity of a human person with the atf community and they had been forgotten and more equal to fascism with a onetoone correspondence with the american way of life it would be trump all of that. With the it is be accessible . They were that is one of the reasons it is lost to was now but he was a household name in the 1950s one of my favorite stories is that in august 1953 he wanted to meet t. S. Eliot he was having his play performed for the first time and while he was there are you the dr. Russell kirk . And he was absolutely flabbergasted that anybody