about 4500 years of his three history and about 45 minutes. in about 45 minutes. let me start with philosophies of history which i have mentioned, which i do consider bunk, and could in the most popular one which is presentism. everything leads up to the present and that s the only thing we should be interested in. but i do think nonetheless are things we can say about history and liberty. and the first looking at those conditions that are propitious liberty isrgence of the importance of some background of a higher law. the law isn t merely an expression of human wealth. and the philosopher and thinker leo strauss with whom i m not generally in much sympathy about his substantive views, he captured it very neatly. you can understand this with two cities. jerusalem and athens. withalem we associate revealed religion and there is the story, the book of exodus, about the golden calf. it s a very powerful story and moses has led the a lot of their straight out of their slav
up the stage for what we will be dealing with later, which is mainly american history, but not exclusively. now i get to take us through about 4500 years of history in about 45 minutes. let me start with a little bit of the philosophies of history, which i mentioned. i do consider them to be mostly bunk. including the idea that everything leads to the present and that is all we should be interested in. i do think, nonetheless, there are some things we can say about history and liberty. first, looking at those conditions for the emergence of liberty is the importance of some background of a higher law. it isn t merely an expression of human wealth. the philosopher and thinker leo strauss, with whom i am not generally in much sympathy, he captures very neatly. you can understand this with two cities. jerusalem and athens. jerusalem, we associate with revealed religion. there is a story in the book of exodus about the golden calf. a very powerful story. and moses led the people
[applause] booktv is on facebook. likes to enter act with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos. facebook.com/become tv. and now on booktv, npr media correspondent david folkenflik talk about the rice and near fall of rue bert murdoch news corp and how mr. murdoch was able to survive the recent bribery and phone hacking scandal in england. this is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. thank you for coming. just turn the lights up. you have to make noise every now and then and we ll know you re there. right now we can t tell. i get to introduce david so let me just bear with me a minute while i read what they wrote for me. did you write it for me? david folkenflik has been npr s media correspondent since 2004. he previously covered media and politics for the baltimore sun and edited the 2011 book page one, inside the new york times and the future of journalism. he was covered murdoch extensively and has been a protect commentator in the hacking scandal. his new bo
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that volunteered with their boats and came help do some rescues. there s still a flood warning for lafayette parish today. and the republican presidential candidates fighting for southern support. voting underway in the alabama and mississippi primaries. shannon travis at a polling place in ocean springs, mississippi. shannon, good to see you. this is going to be an exciting day. obviously, folks, everybody s got something at stake here. you re in a pretty conservative place. what are they hoping for? reporter: yeah. i mean, this is one of the most conservative parts of conservative mississippi, right here in ocean springs. i m right outside of the ocean springs civic center, where it s been a steady stream of voters coming in and out here. but in terms of what the candidates have to prove, obviously, they want to win the delegates, remember? delegate math. they ve got to 1144. 84 between the two states, alabama and mississippi today. 110 of the four contests, total, fo