Welcome back to firg line, dr. Cornel west and dr. Robert george. Thank you. Ha you. And we salute you for your show building on the great legacy of this historic firing line show. Well, i am honored, because you are both celebrated scholars and public intellectuals whoma come from reably different world views and profess different perspectives dr. West, you are a professed nonmarxist cialist. And, dr. George, you are a movement. The theoconservative im not sure id say that, but at least im not a marxist. like cornel in that respect. [ laughter ] and were both christians. Were both christians. Youre both christians. And you respect each other enough to disagree and to engaga erious and rigorous contest of ideas in a civil andy respectful you teach a course at Princeton University and you also have in common that youes were both on the original firing line with william f. Buckley jr. Mmhmm. Ita very great honor. Very great honor. Well, whats clear is, as you nod when you speak, youred n
Welcome back to firing line, dr. Cornel west and dr. Robert george. T nk you. Thank you. And we salute you for your show building on thgreat legacy of this historic firing line show. Well, i am honored,ecause you are both celebrated scholars and public intellectuals who come from remarkably different world views and profess different perspectives. U dr. West, e a professed ounmarxist cialist. And, dr. George,re a leader in the theoconservative movement. Im not sure id say that, but at lst im not a marxist. Im like cornel in that respect. [ laughter ] and were both christians were both christians. Youre both christians. And you respect each other enough to disagree and to engage in a serious and rigorous contest of ideas in a civil and respectful way. You teach a urse at Princeton University and you also have in common that you were both guests on the originar g line with william f. Buckley jr. Mmhmm. Its a very great honor. Very great honor. Well, whats clear is, as you nod when you sp
Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. Its on the conservative case for class actions a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. We have three outstanding speakers, panelist i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice here at gibson, dunn crutcher. Is litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense of where his position is on that. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate, and University Virginia law school where he was on the long review, and is alo the author of the chapter in the popular guide series on so please welcome christopher chorba. [applause] our next panelist is the profession selfie wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame where he was runnerup valedictorian, but he made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and one the diploma. [inaudible] a lot easier, a lot easier. And he
Want to book this week and every weekend here on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today but is on the conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanize this debate. We got three outstanding speakers, panelists, i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice, he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense for his position on match. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and university of Virginia Law School which he was on the law review and he is also the author of a chapter in the popular guided series on [inaudible] so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself who wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where he is a runner up valedictorian but he did offer that when he went to Harvard Law School in one the diploma for being the top student to graduate in his class. He i