Stay updated with breaking news from Galesburg. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. there are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. first, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. does anyone really think that when the nashville city government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the city s residents? can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers? we know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas/nebraska act and to lincoln s noble recoil from the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories regarding slave ....
university for four years. author or editor of 11 books, several of which nominated for national book awards, his recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in the series con size lincoln library series published by southern illinois university press and was released in september. of the 16,500 and counting volumes published on abraham lincoln, this is the first full length study of its kind. dr. silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degrees at colorado state and the university of kentucky. he has received many distinguished teaching awards. is currently working on a companion volume detailing president lincoln s reputation in 19th century europe. he also served two elected terms on his local school board. so let s welcome professor jason silverman. [ applause ] thank you so much. that last part about the eight years on the rockhill school board, forget about all my education. that s when i learned the real ....
live coverage of the lost angeles times festival of books on the campus of the university of southern california. a couple more hours of live coverage ahead. you can get our full schedule at book tv.org and you can follow us on twitter or facebook to get the behind-the-scenes photos and other photos of the festival. we are now joined by bob streisand are who has written this book, incarceration nation a journey to justice and prison around the world. in your book you write america is the world s largest largest jailer? guest: we are and it is a title we should wear shamefully. we have 5% of the world s population, but 25% of the world prison population, 2.3 million people incarcerated. we spend over $50 billion a year on corrections and when it comes to the racial disparities that our system there are more african-americans under correctional supervision today than there were slaves at the height of slavery in 1850. host: how did we get there? guest: it s all reall ....
coverage before we wrap up this year s festival. and joining us here on our set is radio talk show host and author of seven books, dennis prager. his most recent book is called the ten commandments: still the best moral code. dennis prager, what s on your mind? guest: oh, that s a very good opening question. and i ll answer you completely honestly. what s on my mind and it s not totally germane, but quite germane to the ten commandments, is what i believe is the undoing of the american revolution. and the decline of my beloved country, the greatest experiment in liberty and decency in human history. and i do believe that a big part of the reason is the radical secularization of our society. host: where did that come from? how did it come about? guest: it came about, its origins really emanate from europe. after world war i and even somewhat before but especially after world war i, europe decided that everything it believed in was nonsense because of t ....
country, the greatest experiment in liberty and decency in human history. and i do believe that a big part of the reason is the radical secularization of our society. host: where did that come from? how did it come about? guest: it came about, its origins really emanate from europe. after world war i and even somewhat before but especially after world war i, europe decided that everything it believed in was nonsense because of the massacres of world war i. the atrocious loss of life for no apparently good reason. that s a very important point. everybody understands world war ii was morally necessary. not everybody believes world war i was, and they certainly didn t believe it afterwards. despite the versailles treaty and blaming germany and so on. nevertheless, there was a feeling everything we believed in lead us awry, so we will drop religion, and we will drop national identity, we will just become secular citizens of the world. america took its ph.d.s from euro ....