That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, amy binder takes an in depth look at experiences and activism of conservative students on the campuses of americas colleges and universities. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Well, thank you very much for coming out on this rainy thursday. And thank you very much to christine and tulare for inviting me to the center. For more than half a century, conservative critics have been in think thanks, foundation and the media have championed the cause of conservative College Students who they say suffer on College Campuses. In books with such titles as freefall of the american university, and tenured radicals, critics charge the american Higher Education has become the place a liberal if not radical faculties, and that in the classrooms of the politicized university, middle of the road students complacently consume their professors misinformation. Moderate students are smug liberal students are smug and feeling that theyre on the
To reflect reality. They have disabled generations from understanding language in a way to contact reality and does have disabled them from using. The down of American Education makes also its a good thing some possible or at least very difficult. I dont know how many people could have followed the argument i just made. Why . Because that takes an Attention Span longer than a few minutes for a few seconds. The American Educational system destroys Attention Spans, among other things, sl is historical knowledge, it better, it better. My name is mary. Im an independent observer. Youre talking about peace, but im beginning the impression that we are promoting are justifying more. You are making an error in the assumption that the natural state of one species is to stay in the natural state of calm for, perpetual conflict. As a matter of fact, there are studies. I dont remember the name of the psychologists, but it was presented to president lincoln. Like i said, i dont remember the names.
Thank you. I want to thank andrew. I think he was in my first class at grove city college. I think he literally was. Thank you to pat foil and ron r robinson who is not here but thank you for all you do for young people and campuses around the country. Ronald reagan conservatives was about preserving. Thanks to cspan for being here, too. People call cspan and say thank god for cspan. There is not many sources as objective as cspan. They put it out there unedited. And let it speak for itself. There are so many talks that good on around the world and i say if there could be a camera here to capture and broadcast this and only cspan does that. What is a reagan conservative is my topic. And that is based on my new book 11 principles of a reagan conservative. This question, what is a reagan conservative you hear if you do a Google Search on the words reagan conservative it comes up with 30 Million People trying to define and what it means. And a lot of that is because so Many Republican can
Like to leave you with words from terence kirk and he wrote this the gift of special life is no less beautiful which acco acy with illany illness, lonliness, or anything else. Human life gains extra splendor as it requires special care, concern and reverence. It is through the weakest vestals vessels the lord reveals love. A former student of mine who has a down syndrome child, i shared that with him and he said that is so true. Another principle of reagan conservative. American exceptioanaliexception. Reagan thought america was a book beacon to all humanity and the last hope. He said that for 30 years before the presidency. I found a speech he gave to a tiny Womens College wall William Woods college in missouri not far from where churchhill made his irony curtain speech. And in that speech, reagan said america is less than place than an idea. Chew that over. America is less of a place than an idea. It really is. The bases of this country and our religion and the idea that deep within
She reached out to me to read it, to read a draft. And since i was trying to build dress and providing feedback, found the draft fresh. I found that, you know, i certainly pushed back in some areas. I think i did. That would be contested, but what was most attractive to me was, it is just about the future of race. Often we look backward in history. It is important, but focusing on the future. Fast forward to today. We have been thinking a lot about the new center, thinking about home again and reinvigorating our core strength, what makes us different. What are we uniquely situated to do . You know, we have relationships with the 11,000 black elected officials in the country. So certainly that is one thing we are situated to do. Thank you, david. Yonhap males of colored. We had the commission in 2005 and six. The joint center and really spearheading that. That along with the efforts of many others contributed to the my brothers Keepers Initiative that the president just announced. But P