Charter along with these television companies supports cspan2 as a public service. Today were talking with Professor Carol Anderson of charles howard Chandler Professor and chair of africanamerican studies at si emory university and also the author of many wonderful books. Im sure many of you have read what rage, which won the national book critics circle award. One person, one vote, talking about we should be talking about right now the goal of Voter Suppression around the country and all these different statewide initiatives to limit Access But Today were going to be talking about Professor Andersons new book the second is as you may guess about the second amendment, race and guns and the fatally unequal america. Lots to talk about. Were going to right into it. Professor anderson, welcome to the virtual program. I was interested when i first saw this book about the stove that you cover here and i think a lot of times we think about the second amendment and very contemporary terms of
Reached the point where people of goodwill from all sides have to step forward and say its time forcommon sense. Time to reject extremism and its time to recognize this country as real challenges both written and domestic and frankly, parts of the media are not helping because theyre focusing on trivia. How did we get here. I have to say that in a broader philosophical sense the lust for political power from whatever party it is is a dangerous thing. When the government gets so big that it controls so much of the economy, so much of thedecisionmaking power , people will fight for the power and they will sometimes step over ethical lines. They will sometimes exaggerate and sometimes lie sometimes break the normal guardrails of our constitutional republic. And i think this happens for all kinds of reasons but one thats not discussed enough is the power of the federal government and also frankly some of the local governments is such that too many people are spending time fighting in the p
The Search Box at the top of the page to find Yasmine And Damien or the title of the book, nightmare scenario. On your screen has author, national Review Coldness Wall Street Journal Editorial writer john has a new book coming out in november called our broken elections how the left change the way you vote. Before we get into all of that and get a preview of your new book, how do you rate the state of the World Today . Guest very confused. Everything is complete flux and chaos. The american people as you know are polarized. I really believe we reached a point were people of goodwill from all sides have to step forward and say it is time for common sense. It is time to reject extremism. Its time to recognize this country as real challenges both foreign and domestic. And frankly, parts of the media are not helping their focusing on trivia. Host how did we get here . You know, i have to say that in a broader philosophical sense the lust for political power from whatever party it is, is a
And on your screen is author, national Review Columnist and longtime Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer john who has a new book coming out in november called our drunken elections. How the left change the way you vote. Before we get into all that mister find and get a preview of your notebook how do you rate the state of the World Today . Very confused. Everything is incomplete flux and chaos. The american people as you know are polarized and i really believe that we have reached the point where people of goodwill from all sides have to step forward and say its time forcommon sense. Time to reject extremism and its time to recognize this country as real challenges both written and domestic and frankly, parts of the media are not helping because theyre focusing on trivia. How did we get here. I have to say that in a broader philosophical sense the lust for political power from whatever party it is is a dangerous thing. When the government gets so big that it controls so much of the ec
Coming out in november called our broken elections how the left change the way you vote. Before we get into all of that and get a preview of your new book, how do you rate the state of the World Today . Guest very confused. Everything is complete flux and chaos. The american people as you know are polarized. I really believe we reached a point were people of goodwill from all sides have to step forward and say it is time for common sense. It is time to reject extremism. Its time to recognize this country as real challenges both foreign and domestic. And frankly, parts of the media are not helping their focusing on trivia. Host how did we get here . You know, i have to say that in a broader philosophical sense the lust for political power from whatever party it is, is a dangerous thing. When the government gets so big that it controls so much of the economy, so much of the Decisionmaking Power people will fight for that power. They will sometimes step over ethical lines and sometimes ex