America and of course it ised considered conservative but its a good example of how the best word i could use is twisted our vocabulary. To too many people that will sound odd a conservative institution one of the first to admit of course thats because thats what conservatives stand for. Anyway, i have this connection which i founded five years ago and im proud to say 140 millioa views this year. We are trying to do fiveminute courses with somfive minutecourt minds in america. We are trying to do something and that is to undo some of the damage the universities are doing so we have a rough professors have given courses including some in the audience. Lets stick with education for a minute and this is something you wrote just last month. One of the murde murdered wot things you can do in the universities o america would be better off if youve earned that money. I mean it literally and with tears because i plead guilty to being an intellectual. The life of the mind has been central to my life. I must own a 5,000 books. I wanted to touch peoples lives but i didnt care much about money but i felt it was rich that was. This isnt a line. It now anand now indoctrinated r than educate. As a result, your kid will leave college if they took any humanities courses they will leave believing the two greatest on earth are the United States y and israel, two of the greatest in the world that are so twisted its broken. I live in california and los angeles and ucla you cant get a ba in english without having read one play because multiculturalism, the notion that all are equal has taken over the universities. So why would you concentrate on dead white european males fle . We have so much time can i develop this more. Im involved in Classical Music in southern california, so the chief music critic of the New York Times had a piece an in it was the ten greatest composers. I just wanted to know who would he choose and was it similar too my choices. They were mostly similar. He was only the father of the symphony and along with the father of the extreme court, the piano trio, the giant of giants and he said i know the readers will ask why did we include x. Y. And z. And the answer is i just didnt want to take too many german composers. Ge so instead because hes hungarian and french this is how they think so it isnt a list of it is the ten best. It is a list of diversity, not a quality and thats what you now get at universities you dont get quality, you get diversity. Why should we study shakespeare, there are guatemalan poets have been neglected. I could give you any number of reasons but those are two examples. Does that go to the issue of Political Correctness . Entirely even as i pointed out for my radio listeners even Political Correctness is a politically correct term. What i does politically correct meme . Not offensive to the left. What is the difference between the left and liberals . John f. Kennedy was a liberal, not a leftist. I was a little boy at the time he was inaugurated, he was a hero of mine. A little less here awake today that i cant get rid of that sense of excitement when i see videos of him or pictures or read about him. In any event, truman was athe go liberal, the great senator from Washington State henry jackson, the great senator from new york Daniel Patrick moynihan who was the first to say we have a calamity. This is a democrat and a liberal senator from new york state but a Major Intellectual i might add and he was the first to point out we have a serious crisis. And thats when it started. But the liberal would say that at that time. A leftist says you are a racist for pointing that out. It has to do with truth. I may have disagreed with them but they loved the truth. If you say that you are not considered a liberal, you are called a racist. I have this acronym is vomit phobic racist bigot that is all a leftist needs to know. They dont need to debate you come and they dont. What they do is label you one of those things, people are afraid of being labeled one of those things that i am no but i am not happens. And therefore it shuts down. That is the Political Correctness means a lot of liberals of leftists. Host you write that leftists has become a kind of religion. Guest i believe the most dynamic religion if you understand this, i think you understand the world of the last century in the last 100 years, the most dynamic religion in the world has not been christianity or islam, it has been lifted some. Its taken over the worlds education, the worlds media, the worlds news media, the entertainment media. Its taken over virtually everything. So much so i believe this and i backed it up with facts i think. Pope francis has catholic theology that his value system is left. He has deep antipathy to capitalism, the only thing thats ever raised people from poverty, the only thing that has and last month this was mind blowing really sad because if we lose the Catholic Church come a tremendous number but if we lose the church, we have lost a pretty important institution. Pope francis said in a french Catholic News Service he was asked about the priest who had his throat slit, it had just happened. Ph he said look, we have people baptized catholic who kill their girlfriends. Are we going to say catholics are killers . Theres no issue that they say one who cuts the throat of a priest thats the same as a guy that happens to be advertised catholic who kills his girlfriend. This is from the pope of the Catholic Church. That host what is your definition of conservatism . Guest you wish to conserve the best of the past. Thats the broad a definition for that which transcends the United States within the United States it is an affirmation of the american trinity as ive come to call it. Its found on every coin and banknote. Liberty and in god we trust. If you conserve those three you are a conservative. Host is there a libertarian streak . Guest not dominant characteristics im sure they are religious libertarians but this is a part of the crisis in conservatism is in fact the greatness and they bring them on my show and i advocate their works and i learned from them but the great majority of the great conservative thinkers today are all secular. They dont realize the indispensability of god and i dont speak as a man of faith. If i were an atheist i would say that im saying. What im saying. America will not survive without god, i dont believe in a talk. It will because you cant have small government without a big god. People will either be responsible for their behavior to god and religion or to the oe government because people are not basically good which by the way is the fundamental difference or a fundamental difference between left and right. Gh be on the right understand people are basically good and people on the left are naive, they believe people are basically good and the overwhelming foolish belief is held in the bloodbath. We understand how are you going to have a good Society Given the laws of nature people will either be responsible for their behavior to god before i was born throughout American History the highest compliment you could pay is that this is a godfearing man, a godfearing woman. If you said that today to a college kid they would in no what youre talking about a. Of godfearing, what does that mean, but that is what was understood so either you are godfearing or government fearing. The founders including jefferson and franklin knew that and therefore they understood without religion making People Better the government will get bigger and bigger and american liberty will die. Thats whats happening. Host since we are here at the Hillsdale College in michigan this is from your book sink a second time becauselege schools recognize the general inability to cultivate love of learning they bribed students with both monetary and nonmonetary rewards card placement on the deans list, generous scholarships and all sorts of academic awards. Guest i wrote that. Well, thats the truth. I dont mind it by th either wai i dont know how you raise kids without bribes. Im totally in favor of bribery. Read tempest and i will give you 15. Its a great deal as far as im concerned to. It go host what should a College Student now after four years ofu college . Is there something mandatory . Guest i dont know if itat still exists but there was a course that was mandatory if you didnt know the basis of western civilization basically a that is what forms the last. Its attitude towards politics and for its ethics and that combination. If i said what does it mean to s say athens and jerusalem they would think that i say to her agent. They wouldnt know what im talking about. There is no sense of what are the pillars of our civilization or that its better. Western civilization has been morally superior. You cant say that on a campus today. You cant say that anywhere onat the left. As if it has anything to do with race and then they will say what about Nazi Committee reject western civilization was anit ws attempt to undo it. They blamed the jews for christianity which they ultimately hated and most followed hitler as a disgracee but it doesnt mean that they were pro christianity. It was pro swastika not cross that we dont teach this any longer. People dont know about the greatness of the civilization. When i was in tokyo i went to a performance and i got the last seat i will never forget because the sales guy knew a Little English and he looked at me ande said you are very lucky. And the reason i render, i gote the last seat in the place. If you know the greatest interpreters today tend to be japanese, the greatest series of which there are hundreds of hundreds was done by a guy named suzuki and its generally regarded as the greatest interpretation because the japanese if you said to them that the greatest music they are not going to see japanese music. They will say beethoven. I dont have a vested interest of having written the greatest music. Its just true. Whether i like them or dislike them look at the trivia that we have now preoccupied ourselves with. Guatemala didnt produce just like by the way i can see this so you cant yell at me has been selfaggrandizing. They became the greatest countr and was founded by protestants, not catholics, not jews, not muslims, atheists. It was founded by christians. Thats a fact. And if we get rid of christianity, we will get rid of america. There is a jew that goes to synagogue every saturday telling you this. Host what is the torah . Guest the basis of everything the west is founded on. When you think of the creation story, adam and eve, noah, the patriarchs, moses, the Ten Commandments, it all comes fromn the torah. Im glad you asked because i now feverishly working on the end om my 35 year project to write an explanation of the torah and by it is relevant to everyonepl including people born in tibet. It will be an explanation of the greatness of those books at least a thousand pages. I am working on it every free moment of my life and those five books from where we get Love Thy Neighbor as yourself but i will deal with the hard parts. Its as if you have a rebellious son, bring him to the court ando they will stone him. So everybody looks at a sentence and says if you believe in the 3,000 year old nonsense thats 3000yearsold but its not nonsense. I will answer that verse. Ss for the first time in human historhistoryhistory its next au cant kill your child. It was actually brilliant because until then, you could do whatever you wanted your child. It took it out of the hands of parents and gave it to the court and no jewish court in history executed a child. Host her most recent book is on the Ten Commandments. Are they transcended as well . Guest in their source, yes. If ultimately and i explained that the book is out and the ten videos are at the university. I explained if they ultimately it says before the Ten Commandments are given its size and these are the words that god spoke. If god doesnt say dont murderd murder isnt wrong. Ive explained that. Ha every atheist philosopher ive debated has acknowledged that his true. Because ethics are subjective if there is no god. Host what are the Ten Commandments in order . Guest im going to give the jewish order because they botboth attend the jewish and christian order are different. A the jewish order is i am the lord your god do not have any other gods, do not, and i explained do not take his namese in vain. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness and do not covet what belongs to your neighbor. Host what is the planation . N . Guest this is one of the reasons im so adamant on getting the commentary out on the torah. People think the commandment is to not take gods name in vain. By the way, intense because god will not forgive whoever takes his name in vain. Its the only says he will not forgive. And what do people think it means . If somebody says oh my god, what a crappy day at the office, or go my god, did you see that the shortstop did, they think they are violating this commandment and if they are serious that god will not forgive them, so he will forgive murder but not if you say oh m zero my god what a homerun . Like me offer a very upsetting the thought that several religious people, god has common sense. Though its a revolutionary thought to many religious people who have the most crazy ideas about what god actually believes. So, god cares if you say oh my god what a homerun, you think hes bothered by that . Thats not what it is and i know the hebrew like they know english. It is do not carry gods name in vain. It has nothing to do with saying it in vain. Kerry is gods name in vain, the person who acts religious an does evil. Therefore that is the only sin god will not forgive, doing evil in his name. That makes sense. Host from your book thet Ten Commandments we have as many false gods as the ancients did. Guest we do. Remember, false gods a very touchy subject because you dont like to mess around with peoples gods. Again people think made a false god and they will say money. Y. Money is not a false god. Nobody, no one contends that the worship of money is good. So it may be a god that nobodyhh believes that its a dog. People may live for it but no one contends that it is to worship. So that isnt a false god. Its a terrible value system to live just for money. You want a false god i will give you a false god, the earth, nature. Nature is a false god. People today worshiped nature. The whole point of genesis one is that god is the author of nature. God is to be worshiped, not nature. Its the whole point of the genesis and that we ought to conquer nature because if we dont, nature will conquer us. This notion that the nature is wonderful and we are a blight on it, nature isnt wonderful. Animals kill animals routinely. Cancer spreads, earthquakes are all around. We have to subdue nature to make a good life. There was just an article, another silly article in the New York Times about how we should give up air conditioning and live in basements where its a little cooler. Ive been to 20 african countries and have a deep affliction and if you asked one me ask you something what you take air conditioning knowing what a Carbon Footprint you are producing if you had air conditioning in your home . He would laugh you out of his house and i would laugh you out of his house with him and we would both fit and comfort in his airconditioned room. We would laugh and comfort. The whole southern renaissance was made possible because of aif conditioning. But people believe this stuff. So the whole i am for protecting the environment but im not an environmentalist, that is the name of environmentalism. The environment in thereligion judeochristian world the environment was created for man and the secular environmentalists world man is a blight on the environment. Thats why they are doing it again dont have more than one child. Host back to the Ten Commandments, still the greatest moral code above. The history of the human race has not been morally impressive. Guest thats right. Its only ignorance or Wishful Thinking that could lead you to any other conclusion. Take slavery. Slavery was not just ubiquitous, it was universal. Every society that we know of. In other words, people believe i have the right to own you, use you, do whatever i want. Every society had back. In the vast majority is until the judeochristian west develops further, women were close to cattle and this is just a little of it. Torture, rape, mass murder, i mean how many people know about slavery in the islamic worldic d which was ubiquitous in the western world it doesnt comport with what universities want to teach and undo the truth that the west is best. Heres what i would say to students. They all know the founders had slaves. The question in history sincesl everybody had slaves it tells you nothing about a society. It tells about human nature butt nothing about society. Its who stopped slavery. Same thing with poverty. The question in the historyhing isnt who is poor, everybody was. But the question was did anything ever uplift people from poverty and the answer is the west again, capitalism. Socialism has never made anybody rich except for the socialist parties. Socialism spends with capitalism may. Lism host good afternoon and welcome to book tv on cspan2. We are live in michigan talkingc with author, radio talkshow host and professor he is our guest on indepth. This is a chance for you to get to know one author, his or her body of work and you can call or text with your questions. The author of the spooks the nine questions people ask about judaism is his first book that camcame out in 1986. Think a second time, 1996. Anppiness is a serious problem, 1998, and then applied to choose the reason for antisemitism came out in 2003. His bestseller still the best hope why the world needs American Values to triumph came out in 2012 and his most recent book just came out last year the Te