19th century spanish novels so without further ado the moderator for the second panel liberalism at home and the challenges to western survival. [applause] can can you hear me all right all right . Welcome to the second panel on this conference on James Burnham suicide of the west which the william f. Buckley program is organized to put together. I should point out that unfortunately james was unable to attend but wonderfully at the massachusetts the last moment we have a replacement. Avik roy has stepped up and volunteer to fill in for him so we thank him. [applause] our time of consist of James Taranto and avik roy. We will open up the floor for discussion. When i accepted lawrence kind invitation to moderate this panel i was genuinely to thought delighted to have the opportunity to revisit burnhams classic book but as i started to read i realized that i was absolutely dead wrong about it. Not about his classic status but i have actually read the book before. Because as i read furthe
Lanka National Cricket team in lahore. Looked at the United States 60 years of john kennedy and dallas the American People dont believe if there was the single shooter. Host we now know he was shot but there was an investigation. We dont even know to what thats true. But thousands of regulation and one of the most amazing coincidences in pakistan a man who was at the exact same place of a speech was actually shot and killed by supposedly a lone gunman. The individual was shot several times it even though he was subdued by the crowd and take it away they shot him six times. See you would never know who was behind it to. So today there is speculation of the 56 years before because of id honor of that private mr. Because i found it interesting and they are assassinated to take to the Military Hospital if they try to receive him and revive him successfully but 20 years later the doctor there receives benazir bow benazir bhutto. Lot of coincidences. Host with that we will wrap up. Thank you
Military balance with indiana. He could find that Tipping Point where instead of india, pakistan start focusing more and terrorism is the problem. Can you hear me quiet makes working . Thank you for being here. Quick background. Thank you for the introduction. Thank you to salem state for having me and arranging all this. Really appreciate it. As you mentioned, my fathers have white, half black. He thought of the korean vietnam wars. He retired as a command sergeant major. He had a lot of work trauma. I grew up in alabama quarter black, quarter white and half korean. I got was some issues of racism and olene. My mother lived in japan in world war ii and in the korean war. I graduate from west point, was deployed to baghdad and now i work fulltime for peace. I want to begin by asking all of your question. Develop you follow the 2012 election pretty closely . The 2012 election was a close president ial race, right . They came down to the president ial debate. At that point, neither candi
Im tania paige reporting from kenya on a marriage bill that damages womens rights when it comes to pal iing amy, aopponents. Ukraines government launched what its calling on antiterrorist operation in the eastern si of carr active. 70 people who seized a regional building have been arrested. Ukraines president ial candidate Yulia Tymoschenko accused activists who seized the parliament as working for russias secret service. We have more. Ukrainians official forces moved in on the Regional Government building in carr kif in the past few hours. 70 people have been arrested. There were dramatic scenes overnight. Prorussian protesters set fire to the building. It was extinguished some hours later. Socalled antiterrorism operation in carr active is still ongoing, the city Metro Services have been shut down and will reopen when the operation finishes. The Administration Government building here is in the control, in the hands of prorussian protesters. People are talking about whether Security
Because i think we have that common ground. I think when you say to someone the past doesnt matter you know, it doesnt matter. Of course it does. In your case, it matters that your father went to a substandard school you know, and it matters that his father before him barely went to scho school. Whereas my father has a college education, my grandfather had an engineering degree. His father before him had an engineering degree. Where we are today has a lot to do with where we start. Host i agree. Guest and thats something that i think most white americans today are not willing to acknowledge. So that is one of the purposes of the book and thats the conversation i want us to have is look at the history, look at the sum total of experience. Before you start judging about what policy is good and what policy is bad, lets take a look at the totality of the run up to where we got to this point. Host so, are you hopeful about Race Relations . Guest i am, i am. In the epilogue of my book i talk