Books with politics and religion and other topics and he appeared on the tv you. First in 1993 mr. Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of essays here he is from 1993 book notes. The always call yourself a libertarian . And that movement was encouraged by National Review the idea was to put out how much they had in common and then to be a libertarian. Does this augment or diminish human liberty . Cspan when you ran for mayor of new york you said as far as you are concerned he turned out the window and that the people pick it up. Your memory is the exchange i had with James Baldwin in which he was defending the littering of the streets that it was a form of protest against the city not paying close enough attention and i said its not very helpful to use that as a means should i mind out since i dont think he makes a good mayor . Cspan what do they get they buy the book . They get the best i can give them in various modes over the past eight years. So they covered the collapse of t
I conceived of the project because there is a lot going on in our country right now and it is unsettling times for a number of americans. Everything having to do with the covid crisis, to the lockdowns, to the killing of george floyd and subsequent protests and riots, and the president ial election. So a lot of people are taking the opportunity to really reexamine first principles, and trying to figure out where we stand as a nation. And people on the right at the end of the president s term comes into focus are asking themselves what is conservatism . An impactesident made on the overall trajectory of the conservative Moment Movement and the real can party . So i want to take this opportunity to reexamine those fundamental questions. There was a, seminal book called the federalist papers which examined the definition of conservatism. That was put together by frank meyer, bill buckley, a lot of conservative luminaries. About came out in 1964, six months before the president ial electio
8000. Republicans come your opinions will come in on 202748 8001. Independents, your line will be 202748 8002. You can always text us your always ond we are social media at twitter and on cspan. K. Com tensions have been ratcheting up the last few days, with both countries forcing the other to close a key embassy in that other country. Ae wall street journal has story about that this morning that we will bring to you so i want to bring that story to you. The u. S. And china moved rapidly friday to shut down consulates and evict diplomats, unprecedented steps followed by calls on both sides to ease tension. Flareups between the worlds two biggest economies, even amid the move to avoid further acts of immediate excavation escalation. Aging ordered the shutdown of , describingsulate it as a necessary response after washington ordered china to consulate in houston. U. S. Defended the closure, citing unacceptable espionage and intellectual property theft linked to the outpost. As evidenced
Would become National Bestsellers one of which my favorite is leo damores senatorial privilege about senator kennedy and how the truth about chappaquiddick. He was ticked off that kennedy saying the swimming out of the chappaquiddick river, could you say you were driving cracks years later leo more gets this on the record. No new york publisher would publish it. Registry publish it. More recently there was a patriotic book, flags of our father and since it was not flags of our mothers 27 new york publishers turned them down. When publish 44 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list to the way things are going now in the trunk area the hysteria, i dont know if any of you are still reading the times, but its every day about somehow some sad little Facebook Page that they think russia swung the whole election and if you visited america in 2016 you would notice outside of the major cities you could not drive a mile without seeing a 6foot tall trump sign, but im sure that little Facebook
Welcome to the l. A. Times book festival grand old party forum thanks for joining us. I am a republican political strategist thanks for joining us we have a very distinguished panel on stage the four met today partially with the state of the Republican Party we will do that for about 30 minutes starting with the first panelist National Syndicated talk radio can you tell us about your new book . Sure. We did not bring copies of our book. I know cspan brian lamb is dying laughing right now. And it came out it was as opposed to be written from the earthquake but how republicans deal with their president and they are happy to do so so the keyboard working away but then the fifth time your watching in tv land i will sign your copy. Professor of sociology the book is called black elephants in the room so i guess this is a nice contrast. But that opposite spent three breyers so what is it like to be black with the Republican Party . In the post obama era . That covers the experience of politi