at williams college. dr. nolan is the author of several books including what we are here to discuss this evening what they saw in america: alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g.k. chesterton and sayyid qutb. i especially look forward to this discussion as dr. nolan s insights will help us wrap up a year-long study at the mcconnell center on american political culture inspired by tocqueville s democracy in america. dr. nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the university of virginia. his teaching and research interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. he is the recipient of several grants and awards including the national endowments for the humanities fellowships and a full bright scholarship. we look forward to dr. williams pardon, dr. nolan s engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads, what they saw in america. dr. nolan has agreed to take questions from
responsibility but have little control and where you arelitt expected to swallow the blame but share the success? s where you don t hire your coworkers and have little meansr to reward or punish or discipline a job where you spend most of your spare time raisings money for colleagues, some of whom have short memories? the speaker of the house is third in line from presidency but first in line for the blame even in dividementd government n you only have onhalfe half of one-third of the control. congressman mike johnson was content working on the issues that matter most to him and the people of louisiana. but when kevin mccarthy washnso ousted by republicans, congressman mike johnson became speaker mike johnson here and you will not find a colleaguewih with a negative word to say about him personally. but he presides over ath razor-thin majority, getting smaller by the day in a political environment that rewards fame overwork and volume over depth. already, he has faceo ked col
[gunfire] dana: heave heavey fighting in gaza around hospitals. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino. mike: i m mike emanuel. israeli forces say troops killed 21 hamas terrorists who opened fire and tried to escape by running to a hospital. there is growing concern the war could spread beyond gaza as fighting escalates on israel s border with lebanon. israel s prime minister saying hamas must be destroyed. if you want peace, destroy hamas. if you want security, dedestroy hamas. if you want a future for israel. the palestinians, the middle east, destroy hamas. we ll do it with as few civilian casualties as we can and with maximum casualties on the hamas terrorists, which we are achieving day-by-day, hour by hour. we ll complete the task. dana: rich edson at the state department. jerusalem deputy mayor joining us here right in new york on set. first let s get to trey yengst live in southern israel. trey, what s the update from there today?
the featuring jonah goldberg and tucker carlson commit p.j. o rourke. they are all contributors to the hook the daily virtues. ladies and gentlemen if tucker carlson could please take his seat. rumors are that p.j. is in fact in the building. so that is what we were waiting for. i am jonah gold herb. i want to thank everybody for coming. it is very rare in public policies for someone to come up with a new idea but that is exactly what charles murray has done with this book by the people. this is a tree into thing. on thursday and doing a book about with charles murray so i hope you can all come to that too. i guess i ll just wing this one. i think it was steve jesus said in his chat to her or at least an excerpt i saw that fatherhood is the most monumental job a man can have and we are all completely unqualified for it until we do it. and it s true. fatherhood is one of the few significant things in our life in which all the clichés are true including the ones that contrad
you have finished writing a book they do something about it that s very enchanting and there are so many angles to it. i made want to play with another piece of it still. host: stacy schiff, the witches salem, 1692 is the name of the book. this is booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen we are going to get started create ladies and gentlemen if tucker carlson could please take his seat. [laughter] rumors are that p.j. is in fact in the building so that is what we are waiting for it. jonah goldberg, i want to thank everybody for coming. it s very rare and public policy for someone to come up with a new idea but that is exactly what charles murray has done with this new book by the people. it s a compelling and cogent rethinking this is that deadly virtues thing. on thursday i m doing a book event with charles murray s so i hope you can all come to that too. i guess i will just winning this one. i think of this steve j