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How we order our societies, but for me obviously the bible is primarily the revelation of god planning principles for humanity and the best way to know the keys to living a godly life with intimacy with him and if you believe in the new testament as i do is son jesus christ. I also think as a trained historian its one of the most important history books that you will ever readve. Theres no better Single Source than the bible. Its all there, the rise and fall of empires from, you know, the babylon to the persians, to the greeks, to the roman empire. And then finally, even if you dont shower and then finally even if you dont share my faith, or the jewish or Christian Faith, i think it is one of the most important books of philosophy ever written. I mean, if you read the songs the proverbs, even if you dont have a view of the world, the principal, the philosophical beliefs that are found inca scripture are, you know some of the most timeless and eternal and important ever written. Host ho
Referred to as a liberal consensus of the 19 forties and 19 fifties. And try to work through it actually is happening in terms of the kind of main fear of american politics. The possibilities, the political actions and in the way people are thinking about politics and the american forties and fifties. Yet three readings, all of which, in different ways, deal with the kind of idea of political ideology, and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, we will sort of be thinking, today, about how the kind of from those ideas, and this is a kind of transition classes were removed from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war, and the red scare, into discussing sort of, what else is happening in america in the 1940s, and 19 fifties. So, should we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today. I assume there are very few questions about this one . Yeah . So, is he, essentially, saying that, like, the political ideologies you c
Recorded this event in november of 2017. We are fortunate to have an old friend with us, richard schroeder, a former officer with the cia clandestine service. He began his career under the cia in 1972. After two years in the army as an Intelligence Officer for the army stuff in washington, the u. S. Military command in vietnam. He consults on National Security and teaches that georgetown. He is a founding Advisory Board member here at the International Spy museum. He is the author of a new book, the foundation of the cia, harry truman, the missouri gang, and the origins of the cold war. You are not here to listen to me talk. Rick, come on up. [applause] thank you for coming out when you could be over at the Christmas Market across the street. As vince said, i have been a cia officer for running on to 50 years now. For the last 20 years, i have taught intelligence courses at Georgetown School of foreign service. In teaching at georgetown, i have discovered, as well as from participating
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