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They are, in henry james words, perfectly equipped failures. And i wanted to talk about them beginning with huck finn because i think huck finn is americas literary declaration of independence. And i felt that at the end of huck finn that people started moving out and going to other landscapes of america. So babbitt becomes the antihuck which is the standardization of thought. That is what is really threatening us today, indifference, sleeping consciousness which is all the things that is talked about. Okay. And then carson [inaudible] and then, of course, the great, the incomparable James Bal...

This turns out to be a huge mistake. It turns east germany into a pressure cooker. Theres a series of like to take leadership the lens why. If you live under dictatorship you basically have three choices as to how you conduct your life. Those our loyalty, exit, or voice. Loyalty, exit or voice. What that means is you can be loyal and put up with it and not complain and stay quiet which have happened during long periods of east german history, or you can exit, tried to flee. When the border opened between hungary and austria, exit became an option. When the east german regime sealed off these g...

And taught High School History in new york. He is also native of new york and an Intelligence Officer in the naval reserves and the book he is going to talk about tonight is his first book and were really pleased to have charles here, the author of nation builder. John quincy adams and the grand strategy of the republic. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you very much for the introduction and also for helping me set up here this evening. Id also like to say im really excited to be here at island books, supporting a local independent book store which we should also purchase many, many books from a...

You can put your thoughts on facebook so morning. Facebook. Com cspan. Mail is available too, journal cspan. Org. Two subjects particularly dominate, especially when it comes to Foreign Policy issues. Russia being the lead story, that aside from the story of the president speaking to reporters yesterday, taking a look at syria saying they dont have a strategy yet. If you go to the pages of the New York Times, same thing syria being its lead story. An analysis piece, the headline, obama urges call in the face of two crises. He writes about the two situations, which you can see on cspan. Org. Pe...

Media polls that would apply right, left, and center in the mainstream media. In these academic polls sometimes littleknown colleges and universities have a poll talking about the Iowa Caucuses 1000 miles away two years before the caucuses and people trust the polls sight unseen because they are not done bipartisan pollsters. Hope, wouldket, i kick any of us out if we were not good at our craft, but there is not any accountability. Wrongjor networks got it in two cycles. Yet they are still standing. They still invest tons of money in their own polling. Part of the lack of accountability there ...