Next, from 18 to help texas book festival in austin, discussion went off there is Ricardo Ainslie and Alfredo Corchado on mexico. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming tonight. We are happy to be here at the texas book will. They asked me to tell everyone, please turn off cell phones to rejoin her of the conversations. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is Ricardo Ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had the unfortunate tension in recent years of being not only the most violent place in mexico, but by some accounts the most spineless in the world. He tells the story of this descent into dar
Here is the impact of. And what i try to show in the book is the need all three there is wisdom of. To recover also the funding is also the wisdom of the high point of person postworld war two so what i emphasizes it takes people back from the left and right with a conservative tradition is the virtue of political moderation my book seeks to show that actually political moderation is a conservative virtues and i am perfectly well aware with progress says political moderation you risk being laughed at of the room and shouted out but conservatives are extremist and absolutist give obstructionist and i am perfectly well aware if you then gather a roomful of conservatives that with the absence of conservatism you are met with stony stairs and i see indignation when the silence is broken youre asked to be declared and no, no, no we do not need moderation but unwavering devotion so i am aware when i say needs to be recovered is not regarded. You can say in this polarized h, one thing that pr
now an interview from book tvs recent visit to the hoover institution on the campus of stanford university. thomas sowell sat down to talk about his latest book, five in which he looks at the ways intellectuals have influence and cannot rates over the past century. this is part of book tvs college series. now joining us on what tv is dr. thomas sowell i stanford university. dr. sowell, your most recent, intellectuals and race, how do you define intellectual? guest: it is someone whose work is ideas, whose validation is through peer consensus, rather than any particular established procedure. in other words, congress would not be intellectuals by with his sons a mathematician or engineer but if you re deconstructionists, the only test is that they re either deconstructionists like which are doing. it doesn t matter what popular opinion says? guest: now. host: why not? guest: because solo career and self-esteem comes from peers. some take great pride. host: ar
fell in love with baseball was the air the players became interested in a union in 1946 when a farmer and al irby lawyer tried to guide the players and give them advice while they reject that. out of that came what we would call a company in hand, an organization which created the first pension plan, something always vital for athletes who have such an abbreviated career and are concerned about what s going to happen to them beyond it. host: who are some of the players active in 1946 and pushing the so-called union? guest: some of them one of them was dixie walker. these are called in the people s choice with burke remains who patrol the outfield for the brooklyn dodgers. johnny murphy at the new york yankees. montemayor and, shortstop of the road champion 1946 world champion st. louis cardinals. these were some of the pioneers. of course the players that year, the first year 1946 that i fell in love with the game were trying to protest their conditions, not simply by n
seen everything on tv that has come up. i read hostile takeover. you have halliburton, all these people making lots of money, and they do not have to pay anything back. you have dick cheney, george you have dick cheney, george bush involved. the education levels that we need. unfortunately, we are trying to get a lot of them into the government, and that can be problematic. at the basic level, we are bringing people from high school, now going after the top graduates and afghan high schools. i can there is enough of an educated population there to provide the necessary leadership. educated population to provide the necessary leadership. you are not going to have every policeman reading but again, the taliban, a lot of them can t read and are doing pretty well, so i don t think i don t see that as an obstacle we cannot overcome. host: what about offering money to afghanis to enlist in to this effort and specifically the top grounds you re talking about repaying a half ye