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Hes out now with a new book. "the great debate." edmund burke, thomas payne and the birth of right and left. welcome to the show. >> thank you very having me. >> john meacham out of the question involving what war in. >> i think were going to start with the french-indian war. i think maybe we will zip ahead to the french revolution. its a little current if we go straight to the french revolution. >> agents that the next hour. the polynesian war. >> you worked on this, what was the impetus for th...

Find it and you try to make it better. >> its very true. one of the arguments of the book. its an argument in book two, conservetism has to be conservative. it has to be temperamentally conservative to take the world as you find it and try to build on what works. conservatism amounts to making your society more and more like its best self rather than thinking you can start from scratch in the abstract and apply pure principal directly to politics. >> pete weiner said some wonderful things about ...

So hes created an entire army of bucket drummers in philadelphia. its become a real sensation. obama actually praised him publicly. arnie duncan invited him to the white house to find out more about his program. there is 14 other teachers in this book doing equally enno rate issive resourceful work. >> one is michael good wynn, teaches in condoucord, massachusetts. it includes kids from boston that were bussed out to concord high school every morning. >> yep. >> you have developed something call...

Review you write this about the feud between senator minority leader mitch mcconnell and the heritage foundation. there are some echoes of the message in your book, joe. in this piece. >> their feud has been one of the most enduring and important clashes within the ranks of the republican party team mcconald thinks he is a shelf destructed showboat whose tactics can load to only disaster. he thinks mcconnell is a tyrant who pushes a mushy agenda behind the scenes. the battle in kentucky is the c...

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