Show 839  Stossel's 'Champions of Freedom  Season 2012   Episode 100 Jan 5, 2012

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 Show 838 Andrew Breitbart at CPAC 2012 02102012 - FULL SPEECH

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Show 837  Dennis Pragertalks to Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online, columnist for the Los Angeles Times and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His new book is The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.

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The bestselling author of Liberal Fascism dismantles the progressive myths that are passed-off as wisdom in our schools, media and politics.

According to Jonah Goldberg, if the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick liberals ever pulled was convincing themselves that they’re not ideological.

Today, “objective” journalists, academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms.  Barack Obama casts himself as a disciple of reason and sticks to one refrain above all others: he’s a pragmatist, opposed to the ideology and dogma of the right, solely concerned with “what works.” And today’s liberals follow his lead, spouting countless clichés such as:

•One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter: Sure, if the other man is an idiot. Was Martin Luther King Jr. a terrorist? Was Bin Laden a freedom fighter?

•Violence never solves anything: Really? It solved our problems with the British empire and ended slavery.

•Better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer: So you won’t mind if those ten guilty men move next door to you?

•Diversity is strength: Cool. The NBA should have a quota for midgets and one-legged point guards!

•We need complete separation of church and state: In other words all expressions of faith should be barred from politics …except when they support liberal programs.

With humor and passion, Goldberg dismantles these and many other Trojan Horses that liberals use to cheat in the war of ideas. He shows that the grand Progressive tradition of denying an ideological agenda while pursuing it vigorously under the false-flag of reasonableness is alive and well.  And he reveals how this dangerous game may lead us further down the path of self-destruction.

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Show 836 This is a wonderful speech from an honored CPAC 2012 guest, Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan. Feb 11, 2012

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Show 834 The Stossel Show. Evil Bankers?

Is the financial industry full of nothing but 'evil bankers'?

Season 2012   Episode 109  41 minutes FOX Business Network

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Show 833 Part 10 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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Welcome to Week 10

“The Recovery of the Constitution”

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Overview

Statesmanship, for Franklin D. Roosevelt, entailed the “redefinition” of “rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.” Fulfilling the promise of Progressivism, President Roosevelt’s New Deal gave rise to unlimited government. In contrast to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his ideological successors, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan sought the restoration of limited government. Today, our choice is clear: Will we live by the principles of the American Founding, or by the values of the Progressives?

Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his campaign for the presidency in 1932 by emphasizing the Progressive understanding of history and by calling for the “redefinition” of the old idea of rights. His “New Deal,” a series of economic programs ostensibly aimed at extricating America from the Great Depression, vastly enlarged the size and scope of the federal government. Unelected bureaucratic agencies—“the administrative state”—became a fact of American life.

Roosevelt’s call for a “Second Bill of Rights” sought to add “security” to the rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Describing the “old rights” of life and liberty as “inadequate” without underlying economic security, Roosevelt called for new economic rights for all, including the right to a job, a home, a fair wage, education, and medical care. With these rights guaranteed, Roosevelt argued, real political equality finally could be achieved.

Following President Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy’s “New Frontier” and Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” continued the transformation of the relationship between the American people and their government. President Johnson redefined the government’s role by redefining equality itself: equality must be a “result” rather than a “right.” Expanded federal control over education, transportation, welfare, and medical care soon followed.

Announcing that “with the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” Ronald Reagan appealed to the principles of the American Founding in seeking to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. Maintaining that Progressivism and the consent of the governed are incompatible, Reagan called for a return to individual self-rule and national self-government.

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Show 832 Part 9 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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 Welcome to Week 9

“The Progressive Rejection of the Founding”

Overview

Progressivism is the belief that America needs to move or “progress” beyond the principles of the American Founding. Organized politically more than a hundred years ago, Progressivism insists upon flexibility in political forms unbound by fixed and universal principles. Progressives hold that human nature is malleable and that society is perfectible. Affirming the inexorable, positive march of history, Progressives see the need for unelected experts who would supervise a vast administration of government.

Progressivism is rooted in the philosophy of European thinkers, most notably the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. Progressivism takes its name from a faith in “historical progress.” According to the leading lights of Progressivism, including Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Dewey, human nature has evolved beyond the limitations that the Founders identified. Far from fearing man’s capacity for evil, Progressives held that properly enlightened human beings could be entrusted with power and not abuse it.

The Progressive idea of historical progress is tied to the idea of historical contingency, which means that each period of history is guided by different and unique values that change over time. The “self-evident truths” that the Founders upheld in the Declaration of Independence, including natural rights, are no longer applicable. Circumstances, not eternal principles, ultimately dictate justice.

If human nature is improving, and fixed principles do not exist, government must be updated according to the new reality. The Constitution’s arrangement of government, based upon the separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism, only impeded effective government, according to Progressives. The limited government of the Founding is rejected in favor of a “living Constitution.”

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Ronald J. Pestritto is the Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution, Associate Professor of Politics, and Dean of the Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. He is also a senior fellow with the College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. Dr. Pestritto teaches courses in American politics and political philosophy, with a focus on the political thought of the Progressives.

A senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and an academic fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Dr. Pestritto has served as a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism and Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America; editor of Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings; and co-editor of American Progressivism: A Reader, as well as a three-book series on American political thought. He has published articles and reviews in the Wall Street Journal and the Claremont Review of Books. He received his B.A. from Claremont

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Show 831 Part 8 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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 Welcome to Week 8

“Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution”

Overview

Abraham Lincoln’s fidelity to the Declaration of Independence is equally a fidelity to the Constitution. The Constitution takes its moral life from the principles of liberty and equality, and was created to serve those principles. We are divided as a nation today, as in Lincoln’s time, because we have severed the connection between these two documents.

Lincoln’s “Fragment on the Constitution and the Union” contains the central theme of Lincoln’s life and work. Drawing upon biblical language, Lincoln describes the Declaration of Independence as an “apple of gold,” and the Constitution as the “frame of silver” around it. We cannot consider the Constitution independently of the purpose which it was designed to serve.

The Constitution acts to guard the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. As the embodiment of the Declaration’s principles, the Constitution created a frame of government with a clear objective. The Constitution is not a collection of compromises, or an empty vessel whose meaning can be redefined to meet the needs of the time; it is the embodiment of an eternal, immutable truth.

Abraham Lincoln defended the Union and sought to defeat the Confederate insurrection because he held that the principles of the Declaration and Constitution were inviolable. In his speeches and in his statecraft, Lincoln wished to demonstrate that self-government is not doomed to either be so strong that it overwhelms the rights of the people or so weak that it is incapable of surviving.

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 Kevin Portteus is assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College, where he has taught since 2008. Dr. Portteus is faculty advisor for the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, and teaches courses in American political thought and American political institutions.

A visiting graduate faculty member in the American History and Government program at Ashland University, Dr. Portteus formerly taught at Belmont Abbey College and Mountain View College, in Dallas. Having published online through the Washington Times, Human Events, and BigGovernment.com, his book, Executive Details: Public Administration and American Constitutionalism, is under review for publication. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Ashland University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from the University of Dallas.

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 Show 830 Part 7 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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Welcome to Week 7

“Crisis of Constitutional Government”

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Overview-   At the heart of the American constitutional crisis of the mid-nineteenth century stood the moral, social, and political evil of slavery. At stake in this crisis was the future of republican self-government.

Abraham Lincoln saw the dilemma facing the nation as the “crisis of a house divided.” While the American Founders worked to put slavery, as Lincoln said, “on the course of ultimate extinction,” the institution had instead flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century. By the 1850s, efforts to expand slavery threatened to tear the nation apart.

Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas championed the idea that Americans living in the territories should choose whether or not slavery should be legal there. “Popular sovereignty” eventually became the law of the land with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

For Lincoln, “popular sovereignty” was an abandonment of moral principle. Man does not have a moral right to choose a moral wrong. Self-government cannot mean ruling other human beings without their consent. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, although disguised in the language of liberty and self-government, was in fact at odds with the core principles of the American regime.

The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision marked a further departure from the principles of the American Founding. Writing for the majority in 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that the Founders never intended for the principles of natural right enunciated in the Declaration to apply to blacks—whether enslaved or emancipated. Furthermore, Congress had no right to ban slavery in the territories. For Lincoln and the opponents of slavery, this decision was not only constitutionally and historically wrong, but it also further enabled the legal expansion of slavery nationwide.

Lincoln and Douglas debated both popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision in their Illinois Senate race of 1858. Douglas maintained that self-government and slavery were compatible and mutually beneficial in certain climates, and it was up to the majority of citizens to determine whether or not the conditions prevailing in their territory or state made slavery useful. Lincoln countered that republicanism and slavery could never exist in harmony, and that self-government could never be compatible with the denial of consent. America, he held, could not long exist half slave and half free; it must become one or the other.

About the Lecturer:

Will Morrisey is the William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution and Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he has taught since 2000. He teaches courses in American politics, political philosophy, and comparative politics.

Dr. Morrisey is the author of eight books on statesmanship and political philosophy including Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War; The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government; Regime Change: What It Is, Why It Matters; Culture in the Commercial Republic; and Reflections on DeGaulle. He is currently working on a study of the geopolitical strategies of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Times, the American Political Science Review, the Claremont Review of Politics, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, of which he has served as an editor since 1979. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Kenyon College, and his Ph.D. in political science at the New School University.

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Show 829 Part 6 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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Welcome to Week 6

“Religion, Morality, and Property”

Overview-   The institutional separation of church and state—a revolutionary accomplishment of the American Founders—does not entail the separation of religion and politics. On the contrary, as the Northwest Ordinance states, “religion, morality and knowledge” are “necessary to good government.”

For America’s Founders, reason and revelation properly understood are complementary. “Almighty God hath created the mind free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Human beings are fallible, yet despite this fact, they are capable of self-government.

With careful cultivation of one’s soul, attention to “the laws of nature and of nature’s God,” and the uplifting assistance of family, church, and the local community, an individual is able to tame base passions and live worthy of the blessings of liberty. Virtue is vital to good government.

Among the greatest of blessings—and the most important of rights—is religious liberty. Rejecting the low standard of mere “toleration” that existed elsewhere, the Founders enshrined liberty of conscience as a matter of right. It is immoral, they held, for any government to coerce religious belief. Yet they also argued that it is advisable for governments to recognize their reliance upon “Divine Providence,” and to provide for the support and encouragement of religion.

The government of the United States (or any of the fifty states) is not a church, and the church is not a governmental entity. This institutional separation, a clear statement of which is in the First Amendment, is a boon to both religion and politics, for instead of tying man’s religious fate to the future of the state, the establishment of religious liberty frees up religion so that it might flourish. This important point is missed by the Supreme Court’s misinterpretation, repeated numerous times since 1947, of Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state” metaphor.

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 David J. Bobb is director of the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, in Washington, D.C., and lecturer in politics. Dr. Bobb teaches courses in American politics and political theory to students participating in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program. Through teaching the enduring principles of the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Kirby Center seeks to inspire citizens to live worthy of the blessings of liberty.

From 2001 to 2010 Dr. Bobb served as director of the Hillsdale College Charles R. and Kathleen K. Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, a civic education program for high school teachers. Formerly a research associate at the Boston-based Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, he has published reviews and articles in Perspectives on Political Science, the Claremont Review of Books, the American Spectator, and the Washington Times. He blogs regularly for BigGovernment.com, and his book on humility as a political virtue is under review for publication. He received his B.A. from Hillsdale College, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.

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Show 828 Part 5 of 10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

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Welcome to Week 5

“The Separation of Powers: Ensuring Good Government”

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Overview

The separation of powers helps to ensure good government at the same time it guards against tyranny. Independent in function but coordinated in the pursuit of justice, the three branches of government—legislative, executive, and judicial—must each have enough power to resist the encroachment of the others, and yet not so much that the liberty of the people is lost.

A political regime has three dimensions: the ruling institutions, the rulers, and the way of life of the people. In America, the rulers—the people themselves—and their ruling institutions—staffed by the people’s representatives—aim at securing the Creator-endowed natural rights of all citizens. The Framers did this in two ways. “Vertically” considered, our ruling institutions are defined by federalism, or the division of power between the national, state, and local governments. “Horizontally” considered, the ruling institutions of the federal government itself are separated and co-equal.

In the American regime, the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.” No one branch is superior to it; all three branches have a duty to abide by it. While each of the three branches plays a unique role in the passage, execution, and interpretation of laws, all of the branches must work together in the governing process.

The legislative branch is closest to the people. It is also the branch in which the danger of majority tyranny lurks. The passions of the people are reflected most in the House of Representatives, where the members are elected for terms of two years. The Senate, with its six year terms, was designed to be a more stable legislative presence than the House.

The defining characteristic of the executive is “energy.” The president can act swiftly and decisively to deal with foreign threats and to enforce the law, and can also provide a check on legislative tyranny through the veto.

Members of the judiciary, the third branch of government, must exercise judgment in particular cases to secure individual rights. Through “judicial review,” the judiciary is given the authority to strike down laws that are contrary to the Constitution. But judicial review is not judicial supremacy; even the Supreme Court must rely upon the other branches once it has rendered judgment.

The checks that each branch can exercise against the encroachment of the others ultimately protect the liberties of the people. The separation of powers promotes justice and good government by having each branch perform its proper function. This institutional design allows the sovereign people to observe and to know which branch is responsible for which actions in order to hold each to account. The sense of mutual responsibility built into the separation of powers is a reflection of the moral and civic responsibility all Americans share.

About the Lecturer:

Will Morrisey is the William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution and Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he has taught since 2000. He teaches courses in American politics, political philosophy, and comparative politics.

Dr. Morrisey is the author of eight books on statesmanship and political philosophy including Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War; The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government; Regime Change: What It Is, Why It Matters; Culture in the Commercial Republic; and Reflections on DeGaulle. He is currently working on a study of the geopolitical strategies of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Times, the American Political Science Review, the Claremont Review of Politics, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, of which he has served as an editor since 1979. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Kenyon College, and his Ph.D. in political science at the New School University.

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Show 827 Part 4 of  10. The Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny.

 Welcome to Week 4

“The Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny”

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Overview-

Separation of powers is the central structural feature of the United States Constitution. The division of power among the three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—is necessitated because human beings are imperfect. The imperfection of human nature means that well-structured government is necessary, though not sufficient, to prevent tyranny.

The United States Constitution is structurally designed in part to prevent tyranny. Separation of powers is the means by which power is divided and its accumulation in the hands of any single entity denied.

During the 1780s, most states had constitutions that formally divided the government’s power, yet in practice the legislatures dominated. The state constitutions required separation of powers in theory, but failed to deliver it in reality. As a result, the constitutions were little more than what Publius called “parchment barriers.”

In order for separation of powers to work, each branch of government must have the “constitutional means” to resist the encroachment of the other branches. This is what today we call “checks and balances.”

In addition to institutional checks and balances, there exist also the “personal motives” of people that will lead them to resist the encroachment of the other branches. Human nature is constant across the ages, according to Publius, and human beings are naturally ambitious. Instead of ignoring or attempting to suppress ambition, the Framers sought to channel it through the Constitution, so that it might serve the cause of liberty and justice rather than threaten it.

The Framers understood that human nature has noble characteristics that are essential to self-government, but also that it contains baser features, for which government must account. The Constitution’s structural separation of powers recognizes this truth, and in preventing tyranny makes self-government possible.

About the Lecturer-  

Kevin Portteus is assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College, where he has taught since 2008. Dr. Portteus is faculty advisor for the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, and teaches courses in American political thought and American political institutions.

A visiting graduate faculty member in the American History and Government program at Ashland University, Dr. Portteus formerly taught at Belmont Abbey College and Mountain View College, in Dallas. Having published online through the Washington Times, Human Events, and BigGovernment.com, his book, Executive Details: Public Administration and American Constitutionalism, is under review for publication. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Ashland University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from the University of Dallas.

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Show 826 Part 3 of  10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

 Part 3 of 10 The Problem of Majority Tyranny

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Welcome to Week 3-

“The Problem of Majority Tyranny”

Overview

America was governed under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 to 1789. Unable to redress the problem of “majority tyranny,” the Articles were abandoned in favor of the Constitution, which created a “more perfect union.”

 About the Lecturer-

David J. Bobb is director of the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, in Washington, D.C., and lecturer in politics. Dr. Bobb teaches courses in American politics and political theory to students participating in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program. Through teaching the enduring principles of the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Kirby Center seeks to inspire citizens to live worthy of the blessings of liberty.

From 2001 to 2010 Dr. Bobb served as director of the Hillsdale College Charles R. and Kathleen K. Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, a civic education program for high school teachers. Formerly a research associate at the Boston-based Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, he has published reviews and articles in Perspectives on Political Science, the Claremont Review of Books, the American Spectator, and the Washington Times. He blogs regularly for BigGovernment.com, and his book on humility as a political virtue is under review for publication. He received his B.A. from Hillsdale College, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.

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Show 825 Part 2 of  10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

Part 2 of 10 The Declaration of Independence

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Overview

The soul of the American founding is located in the enduring political principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The meaning of these principles, especially equality, is decisively different than the definition given to those principles by modern progressivism.

Equality means that nature ordains no one to be the ruler of any other person. Each human being is also equal in his natural rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are inalienable and possessed simply by virtue of being human.

Equality, liberty, and natural rights require that legitimate government be republican. The truth that all human beings are born free, equal, and independent means that a just government must be based on the consent of the governed—a consent which must be expressed through ongoing elections. The political theory of the Declaration of Independence requires that government secure the natural rights of the citizens through adopting and enforcing criminal laws; adopting and enforcing civil laws regarding property, family, education, and provision for the poor; and providing for national defense.

If the regime fails to operate according to these principles, the people have a right and duty to alter or abolish the government and establish a new government which will secure rights through the consent of the governed.

The people thus play a vital role in protecting their rights. They must be educated in “religion, morality, and knowledge.” A people that is not virtuous will not be able to perpetuate free government.

Modern liberalism uses the same language of “equality” as the Declaration of Independence. Yet modern liberals mean something altogether different than what the Founders meant by those words. For the Progressives, “equality” means that government must redistribute wealth to provide equal access to resources. This idea necessitates government programs that help mankind liberate itself from its “natural limitations.”

The Declaration of Independence and modern Progressivism are fundamentally opposed to each other. The modern misunderstanding of “equality” threatens the whole of the American constitutional and moral order.

Thomas G. West is the Paul and Dawn Potter Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he has taught since 2011. Dr. West teaches courses in American politics, with a focus on the U.S. Constitution, civil rights, foreign policy, and the political thought of the American founding. He also teaches courses in political philosophy, with particular emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.

Prior to joining the faculty at Hillsdale, Dr. West was Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas, where he taught from 1974 to 2011. Formerly a visiting scholar at the Heritage Foundation and at Claremont McKenna College, Dr. West is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, where he teaches in the Institute’s Publius and Lincoln Fellows summer programs. He is the author of the best-selling Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America, and co-translator of Four Texts on Socrates: Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes’ Clouds, of which there are more than 180,000 copies in print. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University.

About the Course Constitution 101

“Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution” is a free 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College.

Featuring an expanded format from the “Introduction to the Constitution” lecture series with Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, Constitution 101 follows closely the one-semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students.

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Show 824 Part 1 of  10. Constitution 101. The Meaning and History of the Constitution.

About Constitution 101

“Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution” is a free 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College.

Featuring an expanded format from the “Introduction to the Constitution” lecture series with Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, Constitution 101 follows closely the one-semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students.

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•upon completion of the course, receive a certificate from Hillsdale College.

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Part 1 of 10. The American Mind.

Overview

America’s Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson said, was the product of “the American mind.”  Our Constitution was made with the same purpose as the Declaration—to establish a regime where the people are sovereign, and the government protects the rights granted to them by their Creator.

The word “constitution” means “to ordain and establish something.”  It also means “to set a firm thing strongly in place.”  It is linked to two other words: statute and statue.  All three words—constitution, statute, and statue—connote a similar idea of establishing something lasting and beautiful.

The Constitution, then, is a work of art.  It gives America its form.  To fully know the “cause,” or purpose, of America, one must know the Declaration of Independence.  Thomas Jefferson, its author, mentioned four thinkers for their contribution to molding “the American mind”: Aristotle, Cicero, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke.

Studying these philosophers is a wondrous task in itself, and it greatly helps our understanding of America, just as it informed the statecraft of the Founders.  Knowing the meaning of the Declaration and Constitution is vital to the choice before us today as to whether we will live under a Constitution different than the one bequeathed to us. 

Readings

1.           “Letter to Henry Lee” - Thomas Jefferson

2.           “On the Commonwealth” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.           “Nicomachean Ethics” - Aristotle

4.           “The Politics” - Aristotle

5.           “Discourses Concerning Government” - Algernon Sidney

6.           “Second Treatise of Government” - John Locke

7.           “Fragment on the Constitution and the Union” - Abraham Lincoln

8.          “The Inspiration of the Declaration” - Calvin Coolidge

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Week One Study Guide

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Show 823 Part 5 of 5. Introduction to the Constitution

Lecture Series featuring Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President

This ACU podcast is part 5 of a 5 part series.

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Part 5 of 5 Concluding Session: Q&A Webcast with Dr. Larry Arnn and nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt

In this concluding session of the “Introduction to the Constitution” series, Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, will be joined by nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt for an hour-long webcast, where they will discuss the main points of the series, and answer questions submitted by you, our viewers!

Show 822 Introduction to the Constitution

Lecture Series featuring Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President

This ACU podcast is part 3 and 4 of a 5 part series.

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Part 3 of 5: The Constitution: Separation of Powers and Limited Government

In this third lecture of the “Introduction to the Constitution” series, Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, continues his outline of the key arrangements of the Constitution. He discusses the principles of Separation of Powers and Limited Government, and how they relate to Representation and the ideas of Nature and Equality in the Declaration.

Lecture Three Study Guide (PDF)

Part 4 of 5: Bureaucratic Versus Constitutional Government

In this fourth lecture of the “Introduction to the Constitution” series, Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, draws a contrast between centralized, bureaucratic rule and constitutional government.   

Lecture Four Study Guide (PDF)

Show 821 Part 1 and 2 of 5.  Introduction to the Constitution

Lecture Series featuring Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President

This ACU podcast is part 1 and 2 of a 5 part series.

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Part One: The Declaration and the Constitution

In this first lecture of the “Introduction to the Constitution” series, Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, argues that the American republic’s meaning and proper method of operation is found in two documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He introduces the two main principles of the Declaration–Nature and Equality–and explains how they are key to understanding the arrangements of government found in the Constitution.

Part Two: The Constitution: Representative Government

In this second lecture of the “Introduction to the Constitution” series, Dr. Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College President, begins to outline the key arrangements of the Constitution. The topic of this lecture is the principle of Representative Government, which he argues is the most fundamental principle of the Constitution.

Show 820  Coming Apart  The State of White America, 1960-2010  Written by Charles Murray

Synopsis of Book

From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.

In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.

The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.

The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.

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Show 819 Ann Coulter- Godless. Abortion chapter 

From the dust jacket -Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive audiobook yet, to focus solely on the Leftist attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism is a religion a godless one. By far her best book yet. A must have for every conservative and a must read for every sincere American. Buy this Audio book at Amazon.com Podcast rating 10 out of 10  32 min 7.4MB

Show 818 John Stossel visits the 2012 International Students for Liberty Conference, an annual gathering of 1,000 student libertarians.  FOX Business Network Season 2012 episode 107   41 minutes

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Show 817  The Decline of Men         

Guy Garcia, award-winning journalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine. His new book is The Decline of Men: How the American Male is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future

Show 816 The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control. Author: Abraham Foxman

 Abraham Foxman argues that the power of the Israel Lobby in the U.S. has been exaggerated and that recent criticisms of Israel by President Jimmy Carter and others are misleading and dangerous.  Mr. Foxman spoke about his new book at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in New york City.

About the Author

Abraham Foxman is the director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the author of "Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism." 

About the Book - In a post-9/11 era of international tension and heightened suspicion, the American Jewish community has found itself having to respond to charges that it stifles free speech, has divided loyalties, and is responsible for pushing the United States into the war in Iraq.

 The essay by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard on “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” and the 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by former President Jimmy Carter have lent an alarming veneer of credibility to these accusations, which are little more than paranoid fantasies that reinforce persistent, anti-Semitic myths. 

In The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and The Myth of Jewish Control (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2007), Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, reveals these ideas for the falsehoods they are.  In particular, he demolishes the claims of an all powerful Israel Lobby and a global Jewish conspiracy, revealing their historic roots in the most virulent forms of bigotry.  He shows how hateful anti-Semitic stereotypes are once again resurfacing and becoming dangerously mainstream.  From Jimmy Carter to Mearsheimer and Walt, he addresses head-on the public figures who irresponsibly inspire these ideas and unfairly single out Jews for criticism.

 Eloquently argued and refreshingly nuanced, this book adds a much-needed voice of reason to public debates about Israel and American Judaism.

 From the Foreword by former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz:

“Jewish groups are influential.  They also largely agree that the United States should support Israel. But the notion that these groups have anything like a uniform agenda, and that U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East is the result of their influence, is simply wrong.”

 Praise for The Deadliest Lies from:

 • Ambassador Dennis Ross, former American envoy to the Arab-Israeli peace process and author of Statecraft;

 • Charles Hill, Distinguished Fellow in International Security Studies, Yale University;

 • Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of Among the Righteous;

 • Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and

 • Martin Peretz, Editor in Chief of The New Republic.

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Show 815 Dennis Pager talks to Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College. His new book is The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It.. February 16, 2012 by Dennis Prager Show 

Show 814 Stossel looks at how government's endless rules makes it impossible to know when you're breaking the law. And why does gov't need to ban things like drugs, sex work, and certain foods?   FOX Business Network Season 2012 episode 108    42 minutes

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Show 813 Dennis Prager talks to Andrew Breitbart, conservative Internet media activist and entrepreneur, about his new autobiography, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on June 2, 2011. Andrew Breitbart just recently died unexpectedly.

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 Show 811 Dennis Prager talks to Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera English’s senior political analyst. His new book is The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions.  February 21, 2012. The Dennis Prager Show

Show 808 Stossels Champions of Freedom

On the  FOX Business Network.  Jan 5, 2012

Stossel Season 2012  episode  100.  41 minutes.

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Show Book- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Show 807 Dennis Prager talks to Charles Murray, senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute. His new book is Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.

February 6, 2012

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Show 806 CPAC 2012 Ann Coulter

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Show 805 Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio at CPAC 2012

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Also Senator Marco Rubio at CPAC 2012

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Show 804 Charles Krauthammer speaks at the Hillsdale College Constitution Day Celebration on September 18, 2011.

His speech is titled, "Why We Celebrate Constitution Day." This Constitution Day Celebration was held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. 

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Show 803 Stossel's 'Big Government: REJECTED Nov 3, 2011Stossel Season 2011 Episode  93.   41 minutes © FOX Business Network

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Show 802  Part 4 of 4. A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Part 1, 4 of  4) by Murray N. Rothbard

Audio book version of 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II' by Murray N. Rothbard, as read by Matthew Mezinskis. http://mises.org

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless lending standards, government profligacy, and central banking.

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.

Biography of Murray N. Rothbard

http://mises.org/about/3249

Read Rothbard's complete book, 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States' online:

http://mises.org/resources/1022

Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard:

The Case Against the Fed

http://mises.org/resources/3430

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F1FDA55FD094AAE1

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

http://mises.org/resources/617

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=85F528FA4B8DB51D

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I

http://mises.org/resources/3985

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C60128B8E98929D7

Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II

http://mises.org/resources/3986

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=08BADEE86CA3F02F

The Ethics of Liberty

http://mises.org/resources/1179

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=250D7BDE36219FA6

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

http://mises.org/resources/1010

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD6EC8BF3D7777F3

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People

http://mises.org/resources/3006

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C50235E756DDE5FD

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: The American Colonies in the First Half of the 18th Century

http://mises.org/resources/3007

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3D31A42E4519B5E

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775

http://mises.org/resources/3030

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AA7235FD04C365FE

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War

http://mises.org/resources/3031

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8FACD69F94A223A

Man, Economy, and State

http://mises.org/resources/1082

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

http://mises.org/resources/611

America's Great Depression

http://mises.org/resources/694

Making Economic Sense

http://mises.org/resources/899

Panic of 1819 Reactions and Policies

http://mises.org/resources/695

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

http://mises.org/resources/2668

The Essential von Mises

http://mises.org/resources/3081

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

http://mises.org/resources/196

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

http://mises.org/resources/1223

The Mystery of Banking

http://mises.org/resources/614

Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard

http://mises.org/resources/5777

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

http://mises.org/resources/3147

Rothbard vs. the Philosophers

http://mises.org/resources/4983

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty

http://mises.org/resources/1016

The Betrayal of the American Right

http://mises.org/resources/3316

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals

http://mises.org/journals/jls/9_1/9_1_5.pdf

Education: Free and Compulsory

http://mises.org/resources/2689

Links to more online books and essays by Murray Rothbard and others:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard-lib.html

http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=299

http://mises.org/articles.aspx?AuthorId=299

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises

http://mises.org/resources/3250

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Show 801  Part 3of 4. A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Part 1, 3 of  4) by Murray N. Rothbard

 Audio book version of 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II' by Murray N. Rothbard, as read by Matthew Mezinskis. http://mises.org

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless lending standards, government profligacy, and central banking

Show 800  Part 2of 4. A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Part 1, 2 of  4) by Murray N. Rothbard

Audio book version of 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II' by Murray N. Rothbard, as read by Matthew Mezinskis. http://mises.org

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless lending standards, government profligacy, and central banking

Show 799  Part 1of 4. A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Part 1, 1 of  4) by Murray N. Rothbard

Audio book version of 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II' by Murray N. Rothbard, as read by Matthew Mezinskis. http://mises.org

The master teacher of American economic history covers money and banking in the whole of American history, to show that the meltdown of our times is hardly the first. And guess what caused them in the past? Paper money, loose credit, reckless lending standards, government profligacy, and central banking.

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.

Biography of Murray N. Rothbard

http://mises.org/about/3249

Read Rothbard's complete book, 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States' online:

http://mises.org/resources/1022

Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard:

The Case Against the Fed

http://mises.org/resources/3430

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F1FDA55FD094AAE1

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

http://mises.org/resources/617

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=85F528FA4B8DB51D

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I

http://mises.org/resources/3985

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C60128B8E98929D7

Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II

http://mises.org/resources/3986

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=08BADEE86CA3F02F

The Ethics of Liberty

http://mises.org/resources/1179

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=250D7BDE36219FA6

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

http://mises.org/resources/1010

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD6EC8BF3D7777F3

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People

http://mises.org/resources/3006

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C50235E756DDE5FD

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: The American Colonies in the First Half of the 18th Century

http://mises.org/resources/3007

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B3D31A42E4519B5E

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775

http://mises.org/resources/3030

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AA7235FD04C365FE

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War

http://mises.org/resources/3031

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8FACD69F94A223A

Man, Economy, and State

http://mises.org/resources/1082

The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

http://mises.org/resources/611

America's Great Depression

http://mises.org/resources/694

Making Economic Sense

http://mises.org/resources/899

Panic of 1819 Reactions and Policies

http://mises.org/resources/695

Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure

http://mises.org/resources/2668

The Essential von Mises

http://mises.org/resources/3081

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

http://mises.org/resources/196

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

http://mises.org/resources/1223

The Mystery of Banking

http://mises.org/resources/614

Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard

http://mises.org/resources/5777

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays

http://mises.org/resources/3147

Rothbard vs. the Philosophers

http://mises.org/resources/4983

Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty

http://mises.org/resources/1016

The Betrayal of the American Right

http://mises.org/resources/3316

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals

http://mises.org/journals/jls/9_1/9_1_5.pdf

Education: Free and Compulsory

http://mises.org/resources/2689

Links to more online books and essays by Murray Rothbard and others:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard-lib.html

http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=299

http://mises.org/articles.aspx?AuthorId=299

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises

http://mises.org/resources/3250

Audio book version: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=ED883527337E557B

DISCLAIMER: The producer of this audio presentation, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has given permission under the Creative Commons license to publicly repost as long as credit is given to the Mises Institute and respective guidelines are followed. More info at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

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Show 798 Ann Coulter talks about Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. 1 hr.

Show 797 From Book TV- Niall Ferguson, "Civilization: The West and the Rest," hosted by Susan Jacoby. 56 min. 39 sec. - December 10, 2011.

The acclaimed economist and historian argues that western civilization came to dominate the world by developing and using six concepts: competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. But the more the rest of the world adopts these concepts, the less the West dominates it. Mr. Ferguson discusses the historic power of several Western empires and their inevitable decline with author and cultural critic Susan Jacoby.

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Also see our previous ACU Show 763 Niall Fergeson The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity.

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Show 796 Dennis Prager talks to Ibn Warraq, visiting fellow at the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. His new book is Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy. January 12, 2012

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Show 795  Stossel  Gov't Health Care Gone Wrong: Stossel looks at the unintended consequences of government, meddling, health care. Season 2011 episode 97  41 minutes  FOX Business Network

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Show 794 Dinesh D'Souza Life after Death and The New Atheism

1. First segment is the author discussing his book Life after Death The evidence. 5 minutes

2. The second segment is

A Christian Response to the New Atheism lecture featuring Dinesh D'Souza at Wheaton College, April 6, 2009. For more information visit www.christianethics.org.

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Show 793 Dennis Prager talks to David Dow, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. His new book is Autobiography of an Execution. February 09, 2010

Show 792 Michael Medved discusses College Tuition and Student Loans

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Show 791  UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE

TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism

with guest Milton Friedman

December 20, 2010 | Recorded on February 10, 1999

What are the elements of the libertarian movement and how does one of its most illustrious proponents, Milton Friedman, apply its tenets to issues facing the United States today? Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006, discusses, on February 10, 1999, how he balances the libertarians' desire for a small, less intrusive government with environmental, public safety, food and drug administration, and other issues.

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Stossels 790 Free Speech and Its Enemies Nov 17, 2011 Stossel

Season 2011  episode 94    41 minutes

© FOX Business Network

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Show 789 Cato Institute climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels discusses the latest hysterical nonsense from the greenie-weenies like their opposition to the Keystone pipeline. Dec 16, 2011. The G. Gordon Liddy Show.

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The G. Gordon Liddy Show Podcast

With the unique perspective of someone who's been there, the G-man discusses the politics and news of the day as only he can. Nationally syndicated on the Radio America network, the G-man offers a unique, conservative perspective on world events that no one else in the talk radio industry can match. After all, who else has been a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, an Army artillery officer, the youngest Bureau Supervisor in the FBI, and of course, survived four and half years in prison as the mastermind behind the infamous Watergate break-in? Don't pass up this rare chance to get to know the man behind the legend. You have to listen if you want to learn.

Show 788 Michael Medved talks to author about his book Darwin Day then he talks to author Ron White on his new book on Abe Lincoln. 63 minutes.

Show 787 The Changing Face of Warfare by Max Boot

 Acclaimed author and security expert Max Boot explores how innovations in weaponry and tactics have not only transformed how wars are fought and won but also have guided the course of human events, from the formation of the first modern states 500 years ago, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the coming of al-Qaeda. His new book, War Made New, is a provocative new vision of the rise of the modern world through the lens of warfare. Boot argues that the past five centuries of history have been marked not by gradual change in how we fight but instead by four revolutions in military technology - and that the nations who have successfully mastered these revolutions have gained the power to redraw the map of the world. His book concludes with an examination of what America must do to survive and prevail in the Information Age.

The World Affairs Council was founded in 1947 out of the interest generated by the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. With over 10,000 members, they are the largest international affairs organization on the west coast.

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