Affairs from all Different Directions into some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why lex guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my Old School Bus were gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide. I tried to process back. The kids that got on the bus right after me [inaudible] and then nathan and their sister virginia, smart talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse, one in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and one blew himself up cooking meth and died of hepatitis from drug use. Hunter biden the Oregon State Penitentiary for 13 years. So, for a while, we wondered is it something that this is a National Problem that we have depths of despair and Life Expectancy is falling for three years in a row in america and god my old loves this kind of a microcosm to see that opinion across
Particularly because taking a look at a small town in oregon that you come from and i come from a small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career traveling the world in a different environment reporting on World Affairs but you choose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why we were all covering the humanitarian crisis and going back to my beloved hometown to the family far we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding their. One quarter of the kids were on my old Number Six School bus for drugs and suicide. The kids who got on the bus right after me a smart talent of kids from drug and alcohol abuse one died in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and regina died from hepatitis injectable drug use and so for a while with a Life Expectancy was falling for three years in a row and it was a microcosm. You saw this through the lens of returning home it could have been titled School Bus Number six. And then early in the relationship over the last couple of decades a
Russell kirk one day he woke up and said i want to write a book about all the conservatives that have lived and worked and made a difference in our history. No one had done that before. They express in irritable mental gestures. That was the disdain or contempt the liberals had were conservatives. Russell kirk said, i dont think thats right. He put together this book called the conservative mind which liberals said the words impossible. When they began reading the book there was and had been a conservative tradition in america since the founding. [indiscernible]. When he got through and published the conservative mind. Liberal said, wow. Wasnt a hit right away . It was. For depleting if you will. Deep reading if you will. It made russell kirk really the most important conservative intellectual in america. In many of your book, you indicate that 1946 was a key year in the modern conservative movement. Why is that . 1944 and in 1945. The Readers Digest picked it up and did a digest of ex
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