The Lincoln Forum continues good morning. My name is Jonathan White and im the vice chair of the Lincoln Forum, and it is a pleasure to introduce caroline janey. Caroline janey is the john l. Now the third professor in this history of the American Civil War at the university of virginia where she also serves as director of the john l. Now the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor Gary W Gallagher she is the author or editor of seven books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina presses prestigious civil war america series. She has served as the president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. Im about 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book and i just this morning saw a brand new review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named harold holzer. And he calls it immensely readable and utterly convi
Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, this seems offputting to a lot of people. The way we allocate radio spectrum come and how we make Resources Available to the Wireless World we are in today, is fascinating, and there is a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio act. Primary actor Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. It is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, t
Idea that hes some big outlier when in fact hes kind of the result of the system we have an excellent point there rob weighed in on that because i think thats absolutely true here what were doing is were always getting these exaggerated reactions to everything that is said i mean like the. Episode oh wow that took you know what two new cycles here i mean i dont really care about that language and if a country isnt it why is it and did the u. S. Have a play in it ok those thats an interesting policy to talk about not about some callous vocabulary go ahead rob well ive been around for a while and my father worked in the Johnson White house and had his first meeting with the president when the president was sitting on the toilet so. I heard it all up pretty jaded and you and i were talking part of the show and i brought up a line which all power phrase from broadcasting. Who is what Albert Brooks says you know what that were in trouble in the news when we become more important than the st
Cross talking gaslighting im joined by my guest reverend Jesse Lee Peterson in los angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as author of the antidote healing america from the poison of hate blame and victimhood also in los angeles we have ron paul call and he is a comedian and a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming program get your news on with ron and in new york we cross to rob how hes a political pundit and journalist contributing to the Huffington Post all right gentlemen cross in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting home here and is it a country thats her its just turned into a a bunch of drama queens because from a distance from my Vantage Point my perch its a lot of drama. Queens out there not saying anything worth much listening to go ahead ron yeah you know im with heres the thing the media was in bad shape the Corporate
Bring it up to date enough that. I dont think that any country could push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be for i wish to political backlash money is a very plentiful think and i think it would be very quick before people find ways around it because as i see it but it may be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything nearly even the south is very unlikely. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle are the Mainstream Media intentionally gaslighting the public against President Donald Trump the reverse appears to be equally true trump does with style gas like the media what kind of body politic is this creating has the us become a collection of hysterical drama queens. Gaslighting im joined by my guest reverend Jesse Lee Peterson in los angeles he is a counselor activist media commentator as well as author of the antidote healing america from the poison blame and victimhood also in los angeles we ha