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back at this table. let s talk about the big book. it goes all the way back to the 1500s? kurt: it is called fantasyland: how american went haywire, a 500 year history. it goes back to the pilgrims. charlie: religion is a part of the story. kurt: it is definitely part of the story, as is smoke and mirrors, american business, show business, lots of stuff. we always were big dreamers and true believers, believers of the fanciful and dubious, with an equilibrium with practicality and pragmatism, yankee clarity. as i talk about in this book, in the 1960 s, that balance went away. we lost the balance. suddenly, everybody was permitted to find their own truth and create their own reality. judgementalism was no longer permissible. part of what is interesting was that part of my story, this several hundred year journey, was what happened in the 1960 s. these things that happened on the cultural left, the bohemian left, the countercultural left, , theeft in academia relativism ....
causation? i m going to come to that. i don t know. you have been talking long enough. [laughter] you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. said john miller, what did you do here? guest: i m the director of the journalism program which means i oversee a program that includes a campus newspaper and a radio station and a bunch of scholarships and i keep some classes. host: what dow? the dow is the dow, great michigan, a business name from midland, michigan,. host: and that contributed to hillsdale? guest: the program is named after herbert h. dow, an individual gift but he s of that family. host: what do you do at national review? guest: i m a writer for national review. i ve been on the staff for 18 years. it was a full-time job for a long time. i lived in washington, d.c. and worked out of the washington bureau. five years ago i got recruited to come to hillsdale and i remain on the staff of the national review but it s become ver ....
campus newspaper and aid row agreed station and corporations and i teach classes. host: what dow? the dow? guest: the dow of the dow great michigan business name from middle of michigan. host: they aren ted to hillsdale? the program is named am her e herbert dow. host: what dot you do at national review. guest: other aim writer. i ve been on the staff for 18 years. it was full-time job for a long time. lived in washington, dc and work out of the washington bureau, five years ago i got recruit come to hillsdale and remained on the staff of national review but it s a part-time thingy your from michigan originally. guest: i ham a detroiter. born and raised. in and around to the city. and went to university of michigan. and upon graduation, went out to washington and unexpectedly had a chance to come back home five years ago. host: and what was that experience like? guest: that was great. i liked living in washington- welcome washington, d.c. i was not loo ....
sam warburton is ruled out for six weeks, but the man favourite to be lions captain is expected to be fit for this summer s tour to new zealand. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the american secretary of state, rex tillerson, has arrived in russia ahead of tomorrow s talks as tensions between the two countries continue to grow. he s urging president putin to withdraw his support for the assad regime in the wake of last week s chemical attack on a rebel town in syria. he flew out from italy, where g7 foreign ministers had been meeting. they rejected a british call for new sanctions to be imposed on syria and russia. meanwhile, president putin has claimed that enemies of the syrian president are planning future chemical weapons attacks to discredit the syrian government. this report from our diplomatic correspondent james robbins contains some distressing images. america s top diplomat, arriving in moscow, doesn t accept this is mission impossible. rex til ....
station, a bunch of scholar ships and i teach some classes. what down, is that the dow? that is the great michigan business name from midland michigan. and may have contributed here to hill staff. yes, the program is named after herbert h dowell so it s an individual gift, but he is of that family. what you do at national review? , writer for national review. i ve been on the staff for 18 years. it was a full-time job for a long time. i lived in washington d.c. and worked out of the washington bureau. five years ago i got recruited to come to hillsdale and i have remained on the staff of national review, but it has become very much a part-time thing. you re from michigan originally. i am from detroit, born and raised in and around the city, and i went to university of michigan and upon graduation, went out to washington and unexpectedly had a chance to come back home five years ago. what was that experience like. that was great. i liked living in was ....