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The presumption of political paternalists to arrogantly command and control how we live, work, and interact in the face of the imposed shutdowns and lockdowns and the behavior constraints in the face of the coronavirus crisis Who does not want to make the world a better place? With so much sorrow and suffering, poverty and plunder, cynicism and corruption in far too many places, nearly everyone, if asked, will usually say that if he could he would try to make this shared planet of ours a safer, prettier, more prosperous, and less unjust shared domicile on which we all live. The problem is, wh...

ha and what signals do we take seriously emanating from those countries from reports of those countries about what is going on and how we should decide when we say that's too far from democracy or that's close enough? before we start, i would like to do one thing because there are lots of states in this story, and it's fairly long ago which is to run a little bit through the chronology of american history and the cold war, the chronology of the subjects lived through. we start with the russian revolution, the bolsheviks came to power in the 1920's you have stalin consolidating power...

>> of princeton university, the man who gave us these men, professor fleming's new book is "the anti-communist manifestos." for books that shaped the cold war. one of the characters in this book by professor fleming was at a protest at carnegie hall in new york during that cruiseship visit. and he said our job is not to end the cold war. our job is to win it. professor kling has an extraordinarily interesting take on these men and the spirit. welcome, sir. >> guest: thank you it is a great pleasure to be here. >> host: we will divide the hour into three parts. in the first part we wi...