David brooks i thought it was going to be a humor column. Either i was not funny enough or the audience is further to the left and are not rooting for you so that changed. Maybe every other column is political. That is where my interests have gone. I learned you have to trust your interests, what are you passionate about this week. That is what you want to share with readers. I have come to believe that religious, cultural, and moral investigations or what i care most about at this stage in life and what we need in the culture. We have a tone of political commentary but how to think about internal life, we do not have public figures. Brian lamb one thing that got my attention is your sidney awards that you give out. This interview is going to be about your writing and your thinking but when did that start . David brooks it is the best articles from that year. The idea is that they come out around the christmas week, between christmas and new years, and that that is a good week to step
I thought it was going to be morbid humor column. A humor column. Either i was not funny enough or the audience is further to the left and are not rooting for you so that you. That changed. Maybe every other column is political. That is where my interests have gone, i learned you have to trust your interests, what are you passionate about the week. That is what you want to share with readers. I have come to believe that religious, cultural, and moral investigations or what i care most about at this stage in life and what we need and culture. We have a tone of political commentary but how to think about eternal life, we do not have public figures. We used to have that that e internal life, we do not have public figures. One thing that got my attention is your sidney awards that you give out. Ms. Interview today this interview is going to be about your writing and your thinking about when did that start but when did that start . It is the best articles from that year. The idea is that th
Brian lamb why are they named after sidney hook . David brooks because he was a reflective philosopher. I was at stanford at the Hoover Institution and we had coffee and cookies. And there was one table where the economists sat, milton friedman. And the other was sidney hook. And i got to choose which table to sit at. I remember one time, he explained the problem of evil over about three hours. Six or seven or eight of us just listening to him. He is an exemplar of a person who is passionately engaged in politics but also reflective and well educated. If the news is here, sidney hook was up here. The idea was to lift us up from the day to day flow of events. And so it seemed to me he was someone with celebrating, so i named it or him. Named it after him. Brian lamb you talked for three hours but what was his basic point about evil and god . David brooks people have wrestled with this problem, why does a benevolent god allow children to die . If he solved that one, then he deserves immo
[inaudible conversations] [applause] they key is so much. Thank you for that very generous introduction they give for this Republican Party for hosting us with such a wonderful organization in to support women. I want to start today by stinking you for a loving me to talk to you today about the need for fairness in the tax code system in than need for the success to pay the government and what a Great Success president obama has done in the middle east. [laughter] that he negotiates with iran . And my grandparents to emigrated im sorry i have the wrong notes. This says Hillary Clintons speech. [laughter] this is not my speech. [applause] forgets that for i will start over. What i really want to talk about is what worries me the most about the president obama legacy think of all the things he has done 18 trillion debt, obamacare, the failed Foreign Policy he refuses to stand with israel. The is what the president is doing to redefine america and the American Dream. This president seems
He was so poor that when he was arrested, his parents couldnt make 3000 of bail. He spent three years in rikers. A 16yearold kid. Nobody deserves to be in prison for three years without a trial date. The sixth amendment says that you get a trial, it also says you get a speedy trial. I do not what happened to him in prison, i can only imagine. He tried to commit suicide four times. This should not happen america in america. It is this report shortly happening to blacks hispanics. You know what, if we were the party that cared about the entire bill of rights, nobody on the democratic side does anything about this. The party that was once the emancipation could become the party of the entire bill of rights again i think you would see a seachange. [applause] people asked me, whats the worst thing going on in washington . Is a obamacare . What the president has done to immigration, war powers . I say, frankly, it is all of the above, but the category i would lump bit under is that the separ