Show 973. part 1 of 2 The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy by Donna Freitas
Michael Medved talks to the author.
Overview of book-
Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings’ successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would allow them to ask for more out of sexual intimacy. The pressure to participate comes from all directions—from peers, the media, and even parents. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? And why aren’t parents and universities helping students make better-informed decisions about sex and relationships?
In The End of Sex, Donna Freitas draws on her own extensive research to reveal what young men and women really want when it comes to sex and romance. Surveying thousands of college students and conducting extensive one-on-one interviews at religious, secular public, and secular private schools, Freitas discovered that many students—men and women alike—are deeply unhappy with hookup culture. Meaningless hookups have led them to associate sexuality with ambivalence, boredom, isolation, and loneliness, yet they tend to accept hooking up as an unavoidable part of college life. Freitas argues that, until students realize that there are many avenues that lead to sex and long-term relationships, the vast majority will continue to miss out on the romance, intimacy, and satisfying sex they deserve.
An honest, sympathetic portrait of the challenges of young adulthood, The End of Sex will strike a chord with undergraduates, parents, and faculty members who feel that students deserve more than an endless cycle of boozy one night stands. Freitas offers a refreshing take on this charged topic—and a solution that depends not on premarital abstinence or unfettered sexuality, but rather a healthy path between the two.
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Show 972 Audiobook. With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain by Michael Korda.
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Book Description - With Wings Like Eagles is bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.”—Wall Street Journal
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the most important battles of World War II. In the words of the Washington Post Book World, “With Wings Like Eagles is a skillful, absorbing, often moving contribution to the popular understanding of one of the few episodes in history … to deserve the description ‘heroic.’”
Show 971 Part 2 of 3. THE (SHOCKING) TRUTH ABOUT TAXES: HOW DID A NATION FOUNDED ON TAX REBELLION COME TO EMBRACE 90% RATES?
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Show 970 Part 1 of 3 THE (SHOCKING) TRUTH ABOUT TAXES: HOW DID A NATION FOUNDED ON TAX REBELLION COME TO EMBRACE 90% RATES?
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Show 969 The Quackcast Podcast by Dr. Mark Crislip M.D.
Two Selections.
Dr. Mark Crislip M.D. is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease specialist practicing in Portland Oregon for the last 26 years.
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His website is at http://edgydoc.com/
Show 968 The Quackcast Podcast. Lets Kill the Children or A Defense of Vaccinations by Dr. Mark Crislip M.D.
Dr. Mark Crislip M.D. is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease specialist practicing in Portland Oregon for the last 26 years.
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Show 967 Michael Medved talks to author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, Gordon G. Chang
Show 966 Part 2 of 3 THE WORST PRESIDENTS EVER: Big Lessons from the Most Colossal Failures in White House History
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On the Presidents Day holiday, Americans traditionally concentrate on a few celebrated examples of White House greatness. But in a provocative, unconventional and all-new history program, Michael Medved argues that we can learn even more from alarming, astonishing and mostly untold stories of presidential failure.
After all, few leaders can ever hope to replicate the epic achievements of a Washington or a Lincoln. But every future president can—and must—seek to avoid the appalling ineptitude of John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and their feckless fellow travelers on the road to the White House Hall of Shame.
As a starting point, Medved uses more than a dozen polls of prominent historians, journalists and politicians, taken between 1948 and 2011, that ranked all our chief executives from best to worst. The same three names—Lincoln, Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt—emerged at the top of every list, but the bottom rungs of the ladder generated more controversy. Medved argues that the two presidents most often ranked as worst-of-the-worst—Warren G. Harding and U.S. Grant—don't deserve their disrespectful treatment, and he explains why both of them have begun a recent climb in historical esteem.
Meanwhile, a few other names almost always listed in the failure category—James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson—richly earned their opprobrium and make the cut among Medved's "White House Worst." In fact, each of these men contributed to bringing on the greatest disaster in American history—the Civil War—or played a role in the tragic failures of the Reconstruction era.
- Which of these men dealt with an invalid wife who locked herself upstairs in the White House and spent her time writing letters to a dead son—while also convening the very first executive mansion séance?
- Which president won a gorgeous new wife (thirty years his junior) when he helped rescue her from a tragic explosion that killed her father—as well as the Secretary of State?
- And which president tried to reform his alcoholic, self-destructive son by installing him as his chief White House aide, only to watch helplessly as the talented young man plunged ever deeper into his addiction and wrecked his father's administration in the process?
The misunderstood Herbert Hoover also shows up on the list of losers, but not for the reasons he became wildly unpopular among his contemporaries. No, he doesn't deserve blame for the Great Depression—the stock market crashed a mere six months after he took office. But he does deserve history's harshest judgment for responding to economic hardship in exactly the wrong way: by hiking taxes (painfully and needlessly), raising tariffs, and growing government. By the same token, what made Jimmy Carter's regime such a spectacular disaster wasn't the economic suffering the people endured under his leadership: he was still serving his single term as Georgia governor at the time of the Arab Oil Embargo and the beginning of crippling inflation. It was Carter's handling of crisis and reverses that made him so uniquely incompetent, and associated his leadership forever with the term "malaise."
Finally, Medved explains why other candidates often nominated for lists of the White House Worst don't really belong there—exonerating Harding, Grant and Nixon as well as George W. Bush and (so far, at least) Barack Obama. Meanwhile, two other presidents much-admired by historians—Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson—deserve special consideration. Their first term stature and undeniable achievements disqualify them from lists of all-time worsts, but megalomaniacal personalities, devastating damage to the Republic by their stubbornly-pursued policies, and heartbreaking rejection by the populace create a separate category of Epic Disasters.
Entertaining, surprising, informative and insightful, Medved's new history program includes pointed advice for future presidents (and our current incumbent) on how to avoid joining the terribly tarnished names included in the rich story-telling in this presentation of The Worst Presidents Ever.
Total Run Time: 1hr, 53 min
Available on 2 CDs or audio download from http://www.medvedhistorystore.com/
Show 965 Part 1 of 3 THE WORST PRESIDENTS EVER: Big Lessons from the Most Colossal Failures in White House History
Available on 2 CDs or audio download from Michael Medveds history website at http://www.medvedhistorystore.com/
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On the Presidents Day holiday, Americans traditionally concentrate on a few celebrated examples of White House greatness. But in a provocative, unconventional and all-new history program, Michael Medved argues that we can learn even more from alarming, astonishing and mostly untold stories of presidential failure.
After all, few leaders can ever hope to replicate the epic achievements of a Washington or a Lincoln. But every future president can—and must—seek to avoid the appalling ineptitude of John Tyler, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and their feckless fellow travelers on the road to the White House Hall of Shame.
As a starting point, Medved uses more than a dozen polls of prominent historians, journalists and politicians, taken between 1948 and 2011, that ranked all our chief executives from best to worst. The same three names—Lincoln, Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt—emerged at the top of every list, but the bottom rungs of the ladder generated more controversy. Medved argues that the two presidents most often ranked as worst-of-the-worst—Warren G. Harding and U.S. Grant—don't deserve their disrespectful treatment, and he explains why both of them have begun a recent climb in historical esteem.
Meanwhile, a few other names almost always listed in the failure category—James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson—richly earned their opprobrium and make the cut among Medved's "White House Worst." In fact, each of these men contributed to bringing on the greatest disaster in American history—the Civil War—or played a role in the tragic failures of the Reconstruction era.
- Which of these men dealt with an invalid wife who locked herself upstairs in the White House and spent her time writing letters to a dead son—while also convening the very first executive mansion séance?
- Which president won a gorgeous new wife (thirty years his junior) when he helped rescue her from a tragic explosion that killed her father—as well as the Secretary of State?
- And which president tried to reform his alcoholic, self-destructive son by installing him as his chief White House aide, only to watch helplessly as the talented young man plunged ever deeper into his addiction and wrecked his father's administration in the process?
The misunderstood Herbert Hoover also shows up on the list of losers, but not for the reasons he became wildly unpopular among his contemporaries. No, he doesn't deserve blame for the Great Depression—the stock market crashed a mere six months after he took office. But he does deserve history's harshest judgment for responding to economic hardship in exactly the wrong way: by hiking taxes (painfully and needlessly), raising tariffs, and growing government. By the same token, what made Jimmy Carter's regime such a spectacular disaster wasn't the economic suffering the people endured under his leadership: he was still serving his single term as Georgia governor at the time of the Arab Oil Embargo and the beginning of crippling inflation. It was Carter's handling of crisis and reverses that made him so uniquely incompetent, and associated his leadership forever with the term "malaise."
Finally, Medved explains why other candidates often nominated for lists of the White House Worst don't really belong there—exonerating Harding, Grant and Nixon as well as George W. Bush and (so far, at least) Barack Obama. Meanwhile, two other presidents much-admired by historians—Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson—deserve special consideration. Their first term stature and undeniable achievements disqualify them from lists of all-time worsts, but megalomaniacal personalities, devastating damage to the Republic by their stubbornly-pursued policies, and heartbreaking rejection by the populace create a separate category of Epic Disasters.
Entertaining, surprising, informative and insightful, Medved's new history program includes pointed advice for future presidents (and our current incumbent) on how to avoid joining the terribly tarnished names included in the rich story-telling in this presentation of The Worst Presidents Ever.
Total Run Time for entire series of 3 1hr, 53 min
Available on 2 CDs or audio download from http://www.medvedhistorystore.com/
Show 964 Book- Talking With Pagans The Great God Debates from the Hugh Hewitt Show
Michael Medved talks to Hugh Hewitt author of Talking with Pagans: The Great God Debates.
Book Description- The debate over God's existence has been underway since the book of Job was written down. In recent years, the "new atheists" arrived on the media scene to add a measure of sarcasm and evolutionary biology to the mix of arguments against God. Defenders of God rose to the task and a series of debates between the camps ensued.
Some of the best, most vigorous, and most pointed of those occurred on Hugh Hewitt's nationally syndicated radio show and were heard by millions. Hugh himself debated Richard Dawkins on the radio, and Sam Harris on television. Hewitt's frequent and welcome guest Christopher Hitchens went at it with Dr. Mark D. Roberts and Dr. David Allen White in two epic showdowns totaling five hours which Hugh moderated. Other prominent atheists or agnostics mixed it up with other prominent Christian apologists.
Now all of those key debates are gathered in one place, along with an introduction from Hugh and a study guide useful to understanding the arguments deployed and the stakes involved.
The book sparkles with wit and soars to very great heights of theology while also hitting the very serious divides between believers and those who are not yet in that camp.
Show 963 Eugenics Glenn Beck w/ Edwin Black author of "War Against the Weak"
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Glenn Beck with Edwin Black author of "War Against the Weak" Discuss Eugenics. For the book go to: http://www.bit.ly/WarWeak For more go to: http://www.GlennBecksBookList.com
Watch the video as they discuss Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Hitler, Darwin, etc...
In War Against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudoscientific American movement of the early 20th century called eugenics. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island but ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Cruel and racist laws were enacted in 27 U.S. states, and the supporters of eugenics included progressive thinkers like Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Ultimately, over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilized, a third of them after Nuremberg declared such practices crimes against humanity. This is a timely and shocking chronicle of bad science at its worst — with many important lessons for the impending genetic age.
Show 962 Stossel and his guests discuss nutrition myths and government efforts to regulate what we eat and drink.
Season 2012 Episode 140 (41:14)
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Show 961 Dennis Prager talks to four authors on their books.
1. Dennis Prager talks to Amity Shlaes, columnist for Bloomberg View and director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, on her new book, Coolidge, and her new
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Show 960 Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
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The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being charged with blasphemy in the Muslim world. Charges of "blasphemy," "apostasy," and "insulting Islam" are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces within key Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to acquire and consolidate power. These codes have proved effective in intimidating not only converts and heterodox groups, but also political and religious reformers.
In their newly released book, Silenced (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paul Marshall and Nina Shea provide the first survey of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim world, in international organizations, and in the West. These charges traditionally carry a punishment of death but are contested within Islam today, as described by the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid in the foreword to Silenced. Nevertheless, as Marshall and Shea describe, hundreds of victims, including political dissidents, religious reformers, journalists, writers, artists, movie makers, and religious minorities in many countries. They also document the political effects in Muslim societies of blasphemy and apostasy laws, as well as non-governmental fatwas and vigilante violence. And they examine in the West the move toward importing new blasphemy standards through bans on purported hate speech and Islamophobia, aggressively promoted by the OIC, and the increasing threat of violence to stifle commentary on Islam even in the absence of law.
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Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, The Hudson Institute
Nina Shea
Director, Center for Religious Freedom, The Hudson Institute
Show 959 Part 3 of 3. Making of America: One Day Seminar from the National Center for Constitutional Studies. This is highly recommended by ACU.
We have also included the accompanying Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to this audio presentation. Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
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What do we do at a Making of America seminar?
Here is the general outline and timing of our one-day Making of America seminar:
8:30am-12:00 noon - "Developing America 's Great Success Formula"
This is the exciting exploration which Jefferson, Adams, Franklin , Washington and others made in order to rediscover the key to the creation of the first free nation in modern times. We trace their adventure from 1400 B.C. to A.D. 1787
12:45pm-4:30pm - "The Perfect Plan of Liberty "
A refreshing look at the solid political and economic principles from the preamble through the amendments to the Constitution. You learn perhaps for the first time, how nearly every problem in America today can be solved by restoring these successful concepts.
We recognize that many people would like to attend a live NCCS seminar, but are unable to because we simply cannot go everywhere. We recently recorded a seminar and have made it available for anyone to view as they have time. We have also included our Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to the Seminar.
Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
Now you can bring our "Making of America: One Day Seminar" into your own home. This package includes our seminar guide that you would receive at one of our live seminars, plus a DVD recording of an all day seminar for just $15. Visit http://www.nccsstore.com/The-Making-of-America-Seminar-Guide-DVD/productinfo/MOASEM/
Detailed Description- "The Making of America is about the world's greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family -- less than 6 percent -- to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to originate more than half of the world's total production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world."
"But Americans have more to share than their wealth. They have the world's greatest political success formula to share. In this respect they have been at fault. They have been too self-conscious about their system and its accomplishments. At times they have been almost apologetic that they have had such a remarkable system when the rest of the world did not. The world needs to know this formula." - From the introduction to the Making of America
In this seminar you will learn the Founding Fathers' story. Much of it is told in the words of the Founders themselves. You will feel the power of their minds sweeping away centuries of bad government and bad laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom.
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For many great productions on the constitution and U.S. History visit The National Center for Constitutional Studies at: http://www.nccs.net/
Show 958 Part 2 of 3. Making of America: One Day Seminar from the National Center for Constitutional Studies. This is highly recommended by ACU.
We have also included the accompanying Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to this audio presentation. Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
From NCCS-
What do we do at a Making of America seminar?
Here is the general outline and timing of our one-day Making of America seminar:
8:30am-12:00 noon - "Developing America 's Great Success Formula"
This is the exciting exploration which Jefferson, Adams, Franklin , Washington and others made in order to rediscover the key to the creation of the first free nation in modern times. We trace their adventure from 1400 B.C. to A.D. 1787
12:45pm-4:30pm - "The Perfect Plan of Liberty "
A refreshing look at the solid political and economic principles from the preamble through the amendments to the Constitution. You learn perhaps for the first time, how nearly every problem in America today can be solved by restoring these successful concepts.
We recognize that many people would like to attend a live NCCS seminar, but are unable to because we simply cannot go everywhere. We recently recorded a seminar and have made it available for anyone to view as they have time. We have also included our Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to the Seminar.
Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
Now you can bring our "Making of America: One Day Seminar" into your own home. This package includes our seminar guide that you would receive at one of our live seminars, plus a DVD recording of an all day seminar for just $15. Visit http://www.nccsstore.com/The-Making-of-America-Seminar-Guide-DVD/productinfo/MOASEM/
Detailed Description- "The Making of America is about the world's greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family -- less than 6 percent -- to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to originate more than half of the world's total production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world."
"But Americans have more to share than their wealth. They have the world's greatest political success formula to share. In this respect they have been at fault. They have been too self-conscious about their system and its accomplishments. At times they have been almost apologetic that they have had such a remarkable system when the rest of the world did not. The world needs to know this formula." - From the introduction to the Making of America
In this seminar you will learn the Founding Fathers' story. Much of it is told in the words of the Founders themselves. You will feel the power of their minds sweeping away centuries of bad government and bad laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For many great productions on the constitution and U.S. History visit The National Center for Constitutional Studies at: http://www.nccs.net/
Show 957 Part 1 of 3. Making of America: One Day Seminar from the National Center for Constitutional Studies. This is highly recommended by ACU.
We have also included the accompanying Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to this audio presentation. Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
From NCCS-
What do we do at a Making of America seminar?
Here is the general outline and timing of our one-day Making of America seminar:
8:30am-12:00 noon - "Developing America 's Great Success Formula"
This is the exciting exploration which Jefferson, Adams, Franklin , Washington and others made in order to rediscover the key to the creation of the first free nation in modern times. We trace their adventure from 1400 B.C. to A.D. 1787
12:45pm-4:30pm - "The Perfect Plan of Liberty "
A refreshing look at the solid political and economic principles from the preamble through the amendments to the Constitution. You learn perhaps for the first time, how nearly every problem in America today can be solved by restoring these successful concepts.
We recognize that many people would like to attend a live NCCS seminar, but are unable to because we simply cannot go everywhere. We recently recorded a seminar and have made it available for anyone to view as they have time. We have also included our Seminar Guide as a free download and strongly encourage the use of this guide as you listen to the Seminar.
Download Study Guide at: http://nccs.net/seminars/making_of_america_seminar_guide.pdf
Now you can bring our "Making of America: One Day Seminar" into your own home. This package includes our seminar guide that you would receive at one of our live seminars, plus a DVD recording of an all day seminar for just $15. Visit http://www.nccsstore.com/The-Making-of-America-Seminar-Guide-DVD/productinfo/MOASEM/
Detailed Description- "The Making of America is about the world's greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family -- less than 6 percent -- to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to originate more than half of the world's total production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world."
"But Americans have more to share than their wealth. They have the world's greatest political success formula to share. In this respect they have been at fault. They have been too self-conscious about their system and its accomplishments. At times they have been almost apologetic that they have had such a remarkable system when the rest of the world did not. The world needs to know this formula." - From the introduction to the Making of America
In this seminar you will learn the Founding Fathers' story. Much of it is told in the words of the Founders themselves. You will feel the power of their minds sweeping away centuries of bad government and bad laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For many great productions on the constitution and U.S. History visit The National Center for Constitutional Studies at: http://www.nccs.net/
Show 956 No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the
byMark Owen, Kevin Maurer
Overview of book- For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines.
No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history.
In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in
Show 955 Invisible Armies An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Author: Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz's On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
Listen to John J. Miller interview Max Boot, author of Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.
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Segment 2- Dennis Prager talks to Author Max Boot.
Show 954 Max Boot, Invisible Armies: An Epic History Of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.
Max Boot, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, presented his new book, "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present" at IPI on February 7th, 2013.
The event was moderated by IPI Managing Director, François Carrel-Billiard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rB4TiwWrs
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz's On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
Show 953 Book- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel on Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel has published hugely influential books on both China and Japan. In his latest, he examines the key role played by Deng Xiaoping in moving China away from a thoroughly planned economy, a transition that required becoming much more open and engaged with the rest of the world. In his Nov. 9, 2011 presentation at the USC U.S.-China Institute, Vogel focused on how Deng's foreign policies were very much driven by his assessment of the desperate need China had for better trained personnel, foreign capital, and foreign technology.
Distinguished Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel offers his assessment of Deng's leadership. J. Stapleton Roy, former ambassador to China, wrote of Vogel's book,
"Deng Xiaoping's skill, vision, and courage in overcoming seemingly insuperable obstacles and guiding China onto the path of sustained economic development rank him with the great leaders of history. And yet, too little is known about the life and career of this extraordinary man. In this superbly researched and highly readable biography, Vogel has definitively filled this void. This fascinating book provides a host of insights into the factors that enabled Deng to triumph over repeated setbacks and lay the basis for China to regain the wealth and power that has eluded it for two centuries."
Ezra Vogel is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University where he taught 1964-2000. He is one of the most influential scholars of East Asia, contributing vital books on China and Japan. His China-focused titles include Canton Under Communism (1969) and One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform (1989). His books on Japan include Japan's New Middle Class (1963), Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979), and Is Japan Still Number One? (2000). In addition to these seminal works, Vogel has edited a number of others, including Living with China : U.S./China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (1997). Professor Vogel is a member of the USC US-China Institute Board of Scholars.
The event was co-sponsored by The Pacific Council on International Policy.
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Show 952 Book- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Two Segments
Segment 1- Ezra Vogel: The Transformation of China
Published on Mar 19, 2012
Deng Xiaoping: the leader who shaped contemporary China. Gelber Prize winner Ezra Vogel sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss China under Deng Xiaoping. 20 min
Segment Two- Professor Ezra Vogel on Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Published on Jun 8, 2012
Dr Graeme Smith interviews Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard University in the ANU Studio on Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.
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Synopsis of book- Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist.
Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top, Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.
Show 951 Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
Dennis Prager talks to Ben Shapiro, editor of Breitbart.com, co-host of the KRLA morning show, and author of Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.
Show 950 Documentary- Blood Money The Business of Abortion
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Published on Oct 23, 2012
This 2010 documentary DVD deals with the issue and practice of abortion in the
The filmmakers and participants of this documentary allege that the practice of abortion is not truly about women's rights, women's health nor matters of choice and liberty as the subject too often is billed as being based on. The film's premise is obviously slanted to being against the practice of abortion.
Show 949 The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists
Dennis Prager talks to Roy Spencer, Climatologist and Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His new book, now out in paperback, is The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists… Everything the President said about global warming in his inaugural address was factually incorrect.