Podcast appearances and mentions of William Buckley

In this wide-ranging and richly entertaining conversation, novelist and political satirist Christopher Buckley joins Peter Robinson for a reflection on writing, legacy, friendship, and grace. From their early days as speechwriters for George H. W. Bush to Buckley's prolific career as an author of more than 20 books—including Thank You for Smoking and Steaming to Bamboola—the two longtime friends revisit the formative moments, literary inspirations, and unforgettable characters that shaped Buckley's life and work. Buckley offers sharp, often hilarious insight into the craft of satire, the absurdities of Washington politics, and the cultural shifts in American media and manners. The conversation also turns poignantly to Buckley's late parents, Patricia and William F. Buckley Jr., his transition from political fiction to historical novels, and the enduring influence of figures like Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Woven throughout is a deep appreciation for civility, wit, and the lost art of gentlemanly discourse—an ethos embodied by the towering figures of a previous generation, now honored in memory. With warmth and self-deprecating humor, Buckley closes the interview by discussing his father's typewriter (which Christopher has donated to the Hoover Institution Archives), on which William Buckley composed the National Review's formative mission statement: to “stand athwart history and yell stop”; and by reading from the epilogue of Steaming to Bamboola, offering a quietly moving meditation on departure and legacy. Recorded on March 13, 2025

“Any job where it's reasonable for you to have a beer in your hand when you're doing it is a pretty good deal.”Those words could be spoken at any brewery opening; in this case, however, they come courtesy of Crafty podcast guest Matt Stewart.Matt is a Melbourne-based comedian, podcast host, and history-travel-beer guide known as The Beer Pioneer. The last of those is a television show that first aired in 2021 and saw Matt track the path of William Buckley while visiting breweries along the way. Season Two – Up The Guts – is available now on YouTube; it follows John McDouall Stuart's journey from the bottom to the top of Australia.As well as hosting a show about beer, Matt has long loved trying new beers, frequently visiting new breweries and posting about them via his Paddlegram posts.Ahead of the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, during which Matt is performing his new show Bad Boy, we chatted to him about his love for beer, career in comedy, and the common ground between the two.Ahead of the main interview, James and Will talk about Voyager Craft Malt's impressive showing on the world stage, and the growing number of hop waters on the local market. You'll also discover who's been named Bluestone Yeast Brewery of the Month.Start of segments: 7:54 – Matt Stewart Part 1 43:18 – Bluestone Brewery of the Month 45:53 – Matt Stewart Part 2Relevant links: Crafty article on The Beer Pioneer The Beer Pioneer's YouTube Channel Matt's MICF 2025 Show Do Go On Podcast More Global Success For Voyager I Feel It In My (Hop) Waters Nominate a good beer citizen Nominate a Bluestone Yeast Brewery of the MonthTo find out more about supporting the show or otherwise partnering with The Crafty Pint, contact craig@craftypint.com.

The Echo Sport Podcast takes in all the latest GAA action. This week we break down the Rebel rout of All-Ireland champions Clare on Sunday afternoon. Pat Ryan's side up to target the inside line and the reward was six goals, with Cork finally converting the chances they've been creating throughout the league.Brian Hayes was the official TG4 Man of the Match but Declan Dalton was also unstoppable and Shane Barrett showed his best All-Star form. However, was it a case of going too well, too soon? Did the Rebels show too much? The weather and the crowd made it feel like championship but Clare now know exactly what to expect on Easter Sunday in the Munster Championship opener.The other major talking point from the game, and across the hurling weekend, was the flurry of red cards shown. On the local front, Fr O'Neills had a fine win in Division 1 over champions Sars while Charleville impressed against Blackrock.William Buckley was electric as St Finbarr's defeated Glen Rovers and Colin Walsh excelled for Kanturk in their loss to Douglas, while in Division 2, Daire Connery and Kevin Moynihan were superb for Na Piarsaigh in their draw with BallincolligYou can listen to the Echo Sport Podcast every week wherever you get your podcasts or on www.echolive.ie/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Thursdays Tipp Today, Fran spoke to John Butler form the Bookworm in Thurles and Cllr Michail Lowry about the row over the changes to Liberty square. Tracy and John also called in with their views on the subject.while john called in with his thoughts on the election result. Cllr Seamie Morris also gave his thoughts. Noel Buckely on an upcoming commenoration of William Buckley in Holycross, Michael Lowry on his involvement in Government formation talks, Muriel on health checks, a taste of thsi weekends Down Your Way and Ali looked at sleep disturbances for this edition of the conspiracy files.

In this week's episode, we head along the Great Ocean Road to Aireys Inlet for a trip down memory lane. It's our first time back in the studio for a few weeks, so there is a little unhinged madness as we catch up, as well as ‘more than a couple' of side quests as we revisit some of our childhood obsessions, explore Split Point Lighthouse, and take a peek into the life of convict William Buckley and how his dash to freedom left a marked impression on all of us without us even knowing it. For more information on today's topics, links, photographs, and more, head over to the show notes section on the website: www.ifthesetreescouldtalk.com.au.

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The Australian saying "Buckley's chance" means to have a very slim chance, and was spawned by his amazing story of survival in the bush. Kulasegaram Sanchayan presents the story behind the origin of that phrase. - “Buckley's Chance” - இந் நாட்டின் வார்த்தைப் பிரயோகத்திலிருக்கும் இந்த வார்த்தைகள் “வாய்ப்பே இல்லை!” என்ற பொருள்படும். இந்தச் சொற்றொடரின் தோற்றத்திற்குப் பின்னால் உள்ள கதையை முன்வைக்கிறார் குலசேகரம் சஞ்சயன்.

Descubre el invento australiano que revolucionó la aeronáutica. Conoce la historia de supervivencia del exconvicto William Buckley que dio origen a una frase popular, y entérate del fortuito hallazgo de una esquiva hormiga prehistórica en el Outback.

You almost certainly know that, for decades, Stu Rothenberg and his Rothenberg Political Report (now Inside Elections) penned among the most influential political analysis in Washington. But you probably don't know the origin story...his initial academic career track, how he cut his political teeth at the conservative Heritage Foundation, and what led to launching his own newsletter. In this conversation, we talk through all of that plus his most memorable interactions with candidates, biggest surprises, savviest politicians, and when he knew it was time to pass the newsletter baton to his partner Nathan Gonzales. IN THIS EPISODEStu grows up in a family of Rockefeller Republicans in Central Park West Manhattan…Stu's growing interest in politics and initial career trajectory to become an academic…How Stu's path diverted from the academic track to join the political operation of the conservative Heritage Foundation…Stu's tutelage under conservative political icon Paul Weyrich…What led to launching the Rothenberg Report newsletter…Stu's early intersection with fellow newsletter groundbreaker Charlie Cook…Stu's memories from “candidate interviews” with Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, and Barack Obama…Stu on the single biggest surprising result in his decades as a political observer…Stu talks some of the smartest political minds in Congress & the one committee chair who was a “giant pain in the ass”…The backstory behind a favorite Rothenberg column “For the Thousandth Time, Don't Call It a Push Poll”…Stu's memorable 2006 meeting with then-Vice President Dick Cheney…How Stu handled passing the torch of the Rothenberg Report to Inside Elections with Nathan Gonzales…AND The Almanac of American Politics, Morton Blackwell, Bill Bradley, Sherry Boehlert, Mary Bono, Sonny Bono, William Buckley, Bucknell University, CNN, CSX, Canadian-American regional integration, the Club for Growth, Colby College, complicated conservatives, Ted Cruz, Al D'Amato, Mitch Daniels, Tom Davis, David Dewhurst, egomaniacs, Rollie Fingers, Charles Franklin, the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Mark French, Milton Friedman, Martin Frost, The Greenbrier, Nikki Haley, Tom Harkin, Peter Hart, Friedrich Hayek, Blair Hull, “It's Only Politics”, Jan Plans, Jacob Javits, Roger Jepsen, Tommy John, Ben Jones, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Kenneth Keating, Harmon Killebrew, Leading Authorities, Louis Lefkowitz, Jon Lerner, John Lindsay, Juan Marichal, Marxist feminists, John McCain, Joe McLean, Ed Muskie, NYU, Lindsey Nelson, Frank Newport, Richard Nixon, George Pataki, political goo, Walter Rich, Roll Call, Jack Ryan, Larry Sabato, sewage trolls, Casey Stengel, Inez Tenenbaum, total losers, Donald Trump, UCONN, Amy Walter…& more!

In this episode, Koco and Terry commit to talking cops, but this is NOT a cop show. Now that's out of the way, Koco takes apart the phrase “agree to disagree” and interrogates its purpose. A shout-out to William Buckley can't be unheard. Finally, Terry and Koco close out with a nod to everyone who appears for public comment.

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Computers have a clock speed. The clock speed measures the number of cycles your CPU executes per second, measured in GHz (gigahertz). A “cycle” is technically a pulse synchronized by an internal oscillator, but for our purposes, they're a basic unit that helps understand a CPU's speed. The higher the clock speed, the faster the computer. There are other factors, but depending on your computing - gaming, graphics, CAD, video rendering, and other intensive tasks - you'll want the highest clock speed CPU you can afford. Humans also have a clock speed. I'm not a neuroscientist so I have no idea if it can be measured, but you know it when you see it. We talk about how fast or slow somebody is. Some of us are fast at some things and slow at other things. Some of us are fast most of the time while others are slow most of the time. Clock speed is evident in our walking pace, communication, handling adversity, facing opportunities, navigating new or strange situations, and just about everything else. Ben Shapiro has an extraordinarily high clock speed.   William Buckley had a high clock speed, too. It illustrates how clock speed isn't merely gauged by how fast somebody talks. Like Shapiro, Buckley had a high clock speed intellectually.     We mere mortals definitely are operating at a slower clock speed than these guys. I'm not sure what, if anything, we could do to rise to their level. Let's think about our potential, our natural inclinations and upping our performance. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me

Alex Newman returns to Hearts of Oak to help us to unpack The Deep State. Alex has his finger on the pulse like few others, his daily show and regular pieces in publications like Epoch Times cover so many current issues but four years ago he wrote a book on our topic this episode. What is the Deep State and why is there such a backlash against those who seek to expose it? Join us as Alex answers these questions and illuminates this clear and very present danger. Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does. In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, he has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for The New American magazine, a writer for WND (World Net Daily), an education writer for FreedomProject Media, a columnist for the Illinois Family Institute, and much more. Over his career as a journalist, Alex has interviewed current and former heads of state, members of Congress, royalty, and countless other fascinating people. His work, which has received numerous awards, has been repeatedly highlighted by Drudge, Breitbart, Fox News, and many other outlets. His writing has been published in major newspapers across America, and his PR work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, and more. In addition, Alex has authored and co-authored several books. One of his major works was an exposé of government schools with internationally renowned Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld called Crimes of the Educators published by WND Books. It was endorsed by conservative leaders ranging from Phyllis Schlafly to Ron Paul. Across multiple platforms and with tens of millions of views on his videos so far, Alex also hosts and co-hosts a number of shows. Alex hosts The Sentinel Report on the Frank Speech network which reaches many millions worldwide. Separately, he hosts Behind The Deep State and Conversations That Matter. Finally, he co-hosts Unravelling the Narrative. Alex is on the Leadership Council of Freedom Force International, one of the premier liberty organizations in the world. He also serves as a director for the organization Bear Witness Central, which works to protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution by educating the public in partnership with other conservative organizations. Alex is a Leadership Fellow at the James Madison Institute, Florida's premier free-market think tank. And he serves on the advisory board of Citizens for Free Speech. Alex has a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida with an emphasis on economics and international relations, as well as an A.A. degree in foreign languages from Miami-Dade College. He also studied international relations at the Institute Français des Alpes in France. Follow and support Alex at the links below... The Sentinel Report TV show: https://frankspeech.com/shows/sentinel-report-tv-show-alex-newman Liberty Sentinel: https://libertysentinel.org/ GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/AlexNewman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALEXNEWMAN_JOU?s=20&t=evt_r4vYv-FbhWUa2yqkxA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexjnewman86 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-newman-9109845/ 'Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes' and 'The Deep State: Pulling Strings From Behind the Scenes' available on e-book from Amazon... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-State-Government-Constitutional-Principles-ebook/dp/B08LHH4HGZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=alex+newman+the+deep+state&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-State-Pulling-Strings-American-ebook/dp/B079QFPM9H/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=alex+newman+the+deep+state&sr=8-2 Interview recorded 14.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak, and thank you for joining us for another interview with Alex Newman, just coming up. Alex was with us back in July, and he's joined us to talk about the Deep State, Fact or Fiction. He has written a book five years ago on the Deep State, and it's a massive term, one that's misunderstood, one that there's a lot of pushback when you address, which always makes me curious. So we delve deeper into it, and Alex was able to share his input, his knowledge on what the Deep State is and look at some of those organizations and institutions that are using, how the media engage with it. Alex of course writes everywhere, he is on so many channels, he is the founder and president of Liberty Sentinel Media Inc, he writes for Epoch Times along with many other organizations, appears on many programs and is on Lindell TV every Monday to Friday at 4.30 Eastern Time which would be 9.30 p.m. UK time. You can catch him there. I know you'll enjoy listening to Alex as much as I did speaking with him. Here he is.   Alex Newman, it's wonderful to have you back. Thank you so much.   It's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me Peter.   Thank you for having me yesterday on your show. The first time on your show it's great to be on it and I've watched it. I've watched it on on Lindell TV and obviously the website. So it was great to join you. Thank you for that. I was an honour to have you. Thank you very much. It's great to have a British perspective sometimes. [1:50] I think Americans are very inward focused. We just focus on America, but it's really great to hear from somebody who is in another place, who's dealing with the same kind of things, only a little bit further advanced. It's a good warning, I think, that Americans need to hear more often. No, absolutely. [2:07] Well, Alex was with us back in July after I met him at the AFA conference over in LA. He is the founder and president of Liberty Sentinel Media Inc. And there the link is underneath there, libertysentinel.org. And I think today we're gonna look at the deep state. I put it, fact or fiction, a lot is written about it. And I know Alex, you have written about this and people can get that on the website. We'll put the link in the description, the deep state exposed. We'll touch on that a little bit. And so of course I need to let the viewers know if they're not watching Lindell TV, they can catch you on Monday evenings. Is it once a week you're on? No, it's actually a daily, every weekday. Yep, every weekday from 4.30 to 5 New York time. So.   Liberty Sentinel, they can get you on that. Maybe just go back, what was your vision? [3:08] You set up Liberty Sentinel what was your vision for it? What did you want that to actually achieve? What was your idea behind this? Actually, we set it up as a college newspaper, believe it or not. I was in college, this was 2007. And I got together with a group of, we got liberty minded people, liberty minded guys. And we decided, you know, all the newspapers are fake. It's all propaganda. We need something for this community and for the surrounding area to have good information. So we created that. It started off just a once a month print publication with an online component and very rapidly grew. And pretty soon we were distributing, you know, 15,000 copies a month throughout, what was it, eight or nine counties. After college, we didn't really prepare successors. So we kind of shut down the paper. I kept the company. And the thinking was, you know, I don't know what I'll need this company for in the future, but today it's a lot of different things. We produce content for a lot of the biggest and greatest media outlets out there. I write a lot for the Epoch Times. I serve as senior editor for the New American. I do five or six other shows. We work with all kinds of different people. [4:20] Just trying to get reliable, accurate, truthful information out there from a biblical perspective, from in our country, we have our constitution, from a constitutional perspective, for the purpose of informing, educating, and activating, especially Americans, but also people around the world on these issues. Yeah, absolutely. Well, if I can bring up where people can get, or when they go on the website, That's what you'll get. It's packed full of articles with the videos there as well. So make sure and make use of it that that's not on your list of places you have a look at each day. It is well worthwhile. [4:58] Now, the book, it was five years ago, actually, you were at the Deep State Exposed. And that I think has become a term that encompasses a lot of the control, the agenda, the attack on truth, reduction of value of the individual. And it's a term that's actually not used that much in the UK. [5:19] So maybe we can go back to that point and you wrote a book on the deep state. Do you wanna just unpack the meaning of that? Because two thirds of our viewers will be UK, a third will be US. And it may be a term which isn't deep inside people's minds in the UK. Yeah, thank you, Peter. And so I actually chose the term because it was starting to become part of the popular lexicon in America. There had been a poll commissioned by one of the universities, the Monmouth University Polling Institute early on during Donald Trump's presidency. And they found that 75% of Americans, and this was pretty evenly distributed across both parties, believed in what the pollsters described as a deep state. Now, they defined the deep state in the poll as a group of unelected military government and other individuals who were seeking to control the national policy of the United States outside of democratic means. It was some, you know, don't quote me on that, but it's a rough paraphrase of how they define the deep state. And I think that is actually a decent definition. And so we were at the point already in America, actually the, I first did a special report in the New American Magazine on the deep state. That was about five years ago. And then about two and a half years ago, we turned it into a book. Deep State, the invisible government behind the scenes. I probably have a copy here. [6:39] I do. And I went all over the country doing talks on this subject as well, on the Deep State because it was really coming out of the closet, right? And this was something I had been exposing my entire career as a journalist, this unelected secretive network. I go a little bit deeper. You know, yeah, there are the forces in Washington, DC, the permanent bureaucracy, you know, some of the forces within the intelligence community, things like that that have been caught over and over again, doing things they shouldn't do. But there's also another layer behind that. And in the book, I define it as the deep state behind the deep state. And these are the organizations that are less known. Some of them are technically secret. Others actually have a website. They publish membership lists, like the Council on Foreign Relations. The counterpart in the United Kingdom would be the Royal Institute for International Affairs. These are very, very powerful organizations. That don't necessarily operate in the shadows, but people don't really understand what they do. Of course, you have the Bilderberg group, you know, 120 plus weirdos and their minions come together. And I actually snuck into one one time, that was fun. [7:42] You've got genuine secret societies like Skull and Bones, we have at Yale University here. We've got the Bohemian Grove out in Northern California. I'm sure you guys have your own in the United Kingdom. And, you know, I started noticing a pattern as I started investigating these things. I started noticing that they were all moving us generally in the same direction, all moving us away, from the concept of nation states toward first regional and then global governance, moving us away from individual liberty, God-given rights protected by the constitution toward this more utilitarian technocratic view of government that the individual is more of a cog in the machine. [8:20] So, that was very disturbing to me. And I actually related directly into the Bible. In this book, I actually outline that what I think is going on here is we're dealing with a struggle against evil. The Apostle Paul describes it in Ephesians chapter 6 as a battle against powers, principalities, the rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places. And so, is every member of the Council on Foreign Relations working for Satan? No. Well, maybe, but not consciously necessarily. I was brainwashed with this stuff too. I was taught in school that countries are bad and that's why we have wars and if we want to get rid of wars we got to get rid of religion we got to get rid of nations and just move to this one world kumbaya United Nations so I think that really is ultimately my understanding of the deep state I used the term because it was already in the popular lexicon but I take it a step further than say your average person walking down the street might understand   And of course there is a [9:16] backlash, which always intrigues me whenever when you speak in something you suddenly find there is this backlash, not a backlash of engagement or discussion, but of ridicule, of smearing. Do you want to kind of touch on that? And certainly we've seen it the last three years on COVID, but it goes back further than that. Whenever you touch on certain things, you find you're told you're not supposed to discuss that.   Yeah, and what we're seeing here is actually just a more advanced form of what Pavlov did with the dogs. And actually, they start training the children for this very early on in their so-called education, which is really a fraud. There's very little education actually happening in public schools in the United States. But this is a conditioned response. It's a conditioned behaviour. So just like the dogs start drooling, you know, when they hear the little bell ringing. And so the people start drooling when they hear the term conspiracy, right? And they actually don't even know what the word means. They just, conspiracy, that just means something stupid that's not true. No, get a dictionary, conspiracy means two or more people working together in secret for immoral, illegal or wicked intent. [10:22] And so there are conspiracies everywhere. Your average person understands this very well. Businessmen conspire, right? If you ask an average person walking down the street, do you think businessmen might conspire to extort you out of money or raise their price? Well, of course they would, right? We all understand that. Might politicians also, oh no, that's a conspiracy theory, right? And they start drooling. So this is not actually a result of logic or reason. It's not that they're processing evidence. It's that they have been conditioned, first in the schools and then later through the media, to just start drooling. And of course, I'm using drooling as a proverbial, right? But, well, that's silly or whatever buzzword of the day. That's racist or that's homophobic. Or that, you know, just pick your buzzword that they've been trained to spout when they're exposed to the stimuli. [11:06] And that's what you get. That's a conspiracy. And so you end up with a large segment of the population that is actually impervious to reason, logic, or evidence. And I think that's how the deep state likes it. You know, more and more, this is falling by the wayside. I think more and more Americans, especially, and I think it's probably true in Britain as well and in other parts of Europe. I spent a big part of my life in Europe, but Latin America, Africa, you know, I have people that I speak with regularly all around the world. I think people all across the planet are starting to realize that, you know, they may not know all the details, but they're starting to realize that, wow, there really are people who want to undermine our nation states and undermine our individual freedoms and move us toward a system that at the very least we never consented to, and at the very least we haven't voted on, right? And so I'm encouraged by that. But yeah, there has been a very deliberate process of trying to ridicule and marginalize people who point this out, which of course is exactly what you would do if you were trying to secretly undermine institutions and values that people cherish. No, I think whenever watching Trump from afar running and winning in 2016, [12:13] The vitriol against him was one thing, but it seemed to be something more than that. And certainly I hadn't, from being a student of politics, had not seen anything on that scale before. I mean, what were your thoughts around that time? Because it seemed as if there was something bigger against this individual who was standing than we'd seen ever before. There absolutely was. And that's because the deep state, to borrow the term, to continue at this term, understood that Trump was not necessarily part of them. He was not controllable by them. And you know, you don't have to agree with everything that Trump ever did or said to recognize that he was kind of like a human wrecking ball, right? He had his own ideas. He was going to go in there and do those things. And he didn't care what the fake media or anybody else thought. And you know, for many years in his life, he was actually close to some of this machinery. But he also came from a background that I think deeply disturbed them, right? Early on in Trump's presidency. In fact, it might have even been before he was elected. I went to Roger Stone's house and to Roger Stone's office and we filmed some interviews. And this was for public, right? This was not a one-on-one conversation. This was for the public. And Roger Stone tells me, yeah, Donald Trump, he comes from an amazing background. His dad was a good friend of Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society. His dad was one of the major funders of the John Birch Society. [13:32] John Birch Society is like kryptonite for the deep state. They start freaking out. It's like throwing water on the wicked witch of the West. Because the John Birch Society has been trying to fight this for 60 plus years. And so when you have Roger Stone, a very close aide and advisor to Donald Trump, saying that Trump's dad was John Birch Society. Trump, of course, was mentored and worked very closely for decades with Roy Cohn, who was on the board of the Western Goals Foundation, which was founded by Congressman Larry McDonald, who, in addition to being the chairman of the John Birch Society, was the most conservative, the most anti-communist, the most anti-deep state member of the US Congress. So much so that the Soviets ended up shooting down his airplane in 1983. You know, he really made a lot of people mad. And so Roy Cohn was on the board with Congressman Larry McDonald. Congressman Larry McDonald was kind of like a Donald Trump, you know, just a human wrecking ball when it came to stopping the machinations and the plans of the establishment. And so Donald Trump came from this background. [14:28] It was very obvious that he wasn't going to be a conventional politician. It was very obvious that he wasn't going to be taking marching orders from the Council on Foreign Relations. Or he actually was the only Republican president in the last hundred years who hadn't gone to go visit these clowns at the Bohemian Grove with their weirdo rituals that they do. And actually, apparently they had talked about him there. Some emails were leaked from Stephen Harper, who was the Prime Minister of Canada and Colin Powell. And Colin Powell had written to Stephen Harper, no, sorry, to the former Defense Minister of Canada. He said, I got to sit next to Stephen Harper And, you know, we had some nice chats and we all agreed Donald Trump is terrible. You know, we got to stop Donald Trump. So within the kind of organizations and networks that we kind of broadly classify as the deep state, Donald Trump was viewed as very dangerous. And even after he was elected, they continued to come out of the woodwork and say this. I've got a video that I used in my presentations across the country on the deep state of the former head of the CIA, John McLaughlin. Saying he was asked on a panel discussion. So Donald Trump is whining that there's a deep state out to get him and that they want to remove him. Is that true? And I think she was expecting the guy to say like, what an idiot, what a conspiracy theorist. And he actually says, thank God for the deep state. [15:41] Wait, what? You're thanking God for a deep state trying to take out the elected president of the United States? Did we just hear that? You had Senator Chuckie Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, said on Rachel Maddow, this weird guy who's got a TV show on MSLSD, Asked him, you know, about Donald Trump. And Chuckie Schumer says, yeah, you know, the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So Donald Trump better be really careful. Who says that? What's that supposed to mean? Are you going to shoot the guy? Are you going to, you know, put fake news about him in the media? What tools, what six ways from Sunday does the intelligence community have to get back at the elected president of the United States? And so I think it was very obvious. Again, you don't have to agree with everything Donald Trump said or did during his presidency or before to realize that there was a very powerful network, not just American, but global, that absolutely hated the guy. And even though every once in a while he'd throw him a bone, you know, he'd meet with Henry Kissinger, he'd pursue some policy that they were pleased with, ultimately he was a human wrecking ball to their agenda. He got us out of the UNESCO. He got us out of the World Health Organization. He got us out of the Paris Agreement. I mean, these are all critical policies that the deep state has been working on for a long time. And here comes this guy, and in just a period of a few years is destroying the whole architecture that they'd spent all these decades building. So they'll never forgive him for that. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw, you know, another SWAT raid on Mar-a-Lago and they bring the CNNs and stuff to drag them out in chains. [17:10] But yeah, they hate him. And I think the reason why is obvious. Because I think every president really up to that point kind of fitted in the jigsaw. They fit it neatly in. They were in one of two parties that stayed in their lane. And then you have someone coming, an enigma that blows out of the water. And it was interesting to see the, I guess, the split in the Republican Party of a fear that someone was coming in that was maybe uncontrollable and they were losing that control of their own party. [17:44] Yeah and you know there's always been this struggle within the conservative movement and the Republican Party. It's been going on for many many decades. You had kind of the establishment faction and the grassroots faction and the establishment faction really has been primarily represented by I would say National Review and William Buckley. You know if you actually go back and read William Buckley's position, I mean the guy has a lot of troubling connections. He was a member of the Secret Society. I mentioned Skull and Bones at Yale. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He worked for years for the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City. He was okay with abortions. He was okay with what he described as a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores to supposedly deal with the Soviet Union. So, you know, on a traditional political spectrum of where Americans are at, William Buckley didn't really fit very well in the conservative side of the spectrum. And yet, the New York Times and the and the Washington Compost and PBS, they all trotted him out as the conservative. He was the representative of responsible conservatism and anyone who didn't line up behind William Buckley was somehow irresponsible or extreme. And so we saw this in the 2016 election, right? National Review did a whole issue about stopping Trump and they brought all their clown car out and everybody wrote the article about why Donald Trump is so scary and so dangerous. And the conservative movement and the Republican Party laughed at them. They said, you guys are clowns, right? We don't care what you think. You're not the leaders of the conservative movement. [19:07] And so at that point, I think the establishment wing of the Republican Party really was destroyed. I mean, a lot of them are still there, but they've had to camouflage themselves. They've had to pretend to be conservative. They've had to pretend to be MAGA, if you will, to borrow a term from the modern lexicon. [19:22] But a lot of them were just pushed clear out, right? Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, another leading figure within what was the establishment Republican. I mean, there's no genuine grassroots Republican conservative today in America who seriously cares what Bill Kristol thinks. I mean, the guy's a joke to the extent that anybody knows him, he's a joke. Same thing now today with National Review. National Review hasn't been to CPAC since Trump won the presidency, because they realize they're not really part of any actual movement anymore. They're kind of this fringe, you know, they don't quite fit in with the Democrats, because they like more war than I think the Democrats are comfortable with. But they certainly don't fit in with the Republicans. So they're kind of out in the wilderness. And that was all a result of Trump's presidency. He was the first one that was able to really. [20:07] communicate this to the American people in a way that they would understand, in a way where the media couldn't suppress it, [20:13] Because it happened very rapidly, the discrediting of the media completely among conservatives. Because it used to be, you know, the media could come in and play air support and kind of do damage control whenever the truth started leaking out. But with Trump, Americans, and this became very clear after the election, Americans who supported him were inclined to believe almost the opposite of what the fake media said. So if the media said, well, National Review said Trump is bad, and National review is the standard bearer of the conservative movement, conservative Americans would say, okay, I guess the conservative movement is actually not led by National Review, National Review must be a joke. And so you saw this really big rift in conservatism that was there for decades and decades. There was always this power struggle within the party. Do we want constitutional, Christian, limited government, God-given rights, or do we want this kind of establishment brand of neoconservatism, right? Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol's father was kind of one of the founders of neoconservatism. And he actually admitted once that it was kind of Trotskyite in orientation. [21:10] So this struggle existed for decades and decades. And then Trump's presidency kind of finally blew up that struggle. You know, and I think the final contest there was Liz Cheney running for office in Wyoming. I guess really somebody that was a political newcomer. I mean, I knew Harriet Hageman. She's been in some of my talks. I've known her for years. You know, nice lady. But National America Republican Party had not heard of Harriet Hageman and yet she crushed Liz Cheney like a bug. I mean, it wasn't even a contest. And I think at that point it was clear to everybody, all the analysts, everybody that the what was used to be the establishment wing of the Republican Party was basically not just impotent, but ground into dust. [21:50] Yeah, well, I'm just back from CPAC, which was a, I don't know if I dreamed about CPAC, certainly daydreamed about it. And you compare it to what we have in the UK, and it's got that energy, that razzmatazz, that showbiz, that, and it was great to be there and to the energy there. Obviously, Trump spoke at the end for, I think, an hour and a half, and really good speech, although didn't raise it to high decibels as such, but bang on so many of the topics. But I kind of look when you look, you're wondering whether, I mean when he got in in 2016, whether actually people know him much better, they are even more afraid of him, in many parts of the country, and whether that fight for this time will be even worse, even harder, even more brutal than it was before. [22:48] I think it will be. And it's very interesting now. The establishment has realized that they're not gonna be able to run one of the regular milk toast fake Republicans. I mean, the idea of Jeb Bush seriously running in a Republican Party, nobody can take that seriously. It's a laughing matter. Nobody would seriously consider running an establishment Republican. And so what's happening is the establishment Republicans now coalescing behind Ron DeSantis. And, um, you know, I, I spent hours and hours in Ron DeSantis's office. He used to be my Congressman, always, you know, pestering him about the votes that were less than ideal. [23:22] He's my governor. Of course, you know, he was at the meeting we were at just a few weeks ago, had a chance to speak with him briefly there. And so, you know, I really don't have a personal problem with Ron DeSantis. He's been a great governor. He's my governor. He's certainly the best in the whole country. But I think the reason the establishment wing of the Republican Party is coalescing behind Ron DeSantis, and this is a really good sign to me, is because they realize there's nobody else who doesn't have credentials as a hardcore conservative willing to punch these clowns in the nose that has any chance of winning against Donald Trump. And I think that they're more terrified of Donald Trump than they are of Ron DeSantis, because Ron DeSantis is still, you know, something more of a conventional politician. He doesn't throw out like insults that are gonna embarrass these people for the rest of their lives, right? And so I think they're like, you know what? Maybe Ron DeSantis isn't the policy guy that we like, but at least he's not Trump, and he has a chance of beating Trump. And so, you know, let's marshal our forces behind him. So it's gonna be really interesting. But I think just the fact that this is where the Republican Party at is a really good sign. [24:21] You know, Ron DeSantis has been a standard bearer for the freedom movement, actually. And he could have done better. Of course, he's a human being like anybody, but he did, early on he succumbed to some of the hysteria and did a few of the little mandates, but very rapidly he turned that around. And he actually protected the people of Florida from the craziness that was affecting most of the rest of the country. And I know, cause I live here, you know, we really didn't have mandates from the local, from the county or from the state level where I live. Life just pretty much continued as normal. Never did anyone here tell me to put on a face diaper, never did anyone tell me I couldn't do something if I wouldn't take the thing. And so, and I thank Ron DeSantis for that, you know, he really led the way. And so I'm frankly pleased that I know a lot of conservatives are very worried about the possibility of Trump and Ron DeSantis kind of of destroying each other and dividing the conservative movement. And I think that's a fair concern. [25:11] And I share it, but I also think there's a silver lining here. And this shows you that the American people are breaking free of the fake, you know, uni-party, the fake two-party system where they really all agree. And they're demanding somebody who's going to actually be bold and courageous and standing up for the rights of Americans against the tyranny that has really run almost unchecked for so many decades now. So I think that's encouraging. And actually, at the meeting we were at just a few weeks ago in Miami, I spent a little time with Anthony Sabatini, a lot of time with Anthony Sabatini. I would say he was our best legislator here in the state of Florida by far, took on all the crazy COVID stuff. And he planted a seed in my mind that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He said, you know what? This is really gonna be good to have Ron DeSantis and Trump running because they're gonna both have to run to the right. They're both gonna have to run as real conservatives. That's gonna change the Overton window in this country. The fake media is no longer gonna be able to keep the debate confined within this dumb little box. They're gonna smash it wide open. And yeah, it's gonna be interesting. But yeah, the media is gonna do everything they can to attack Trump like they did last time, the deep state will as well. I think potentially even including criminal charges that we may see soon. [26:22] But it's a fascinating time to be alive.   Well, it is. And you talk about the media and it's interesting to see how, with Trump, the media coalesced against him, but generally how they've come together against many of the values. And I don't know whether that means the media just a useful idiom, a pawn used by others, or whether they're more part and parcel of the evil we're seeing?   Well, I think at the highest levels they are absolutely part and parcel of what we're seeing. In fact, I mentioned the Council on Foreign Relations several times. That's the sister organization of your Royal Institute for International Affairs. Actually, Cecil Rhodes set up this huge global network, and it's described in a book I have behind me. It's called Tragedy and Hope, Cecil Rhodes, of course, the mining magnate who made his fortune in South African mining. And when he died, he left a will and he created this whole global network. And he really was interested in globalism. He kind of talked about we want to spread English civilization around the world, but I think that was really not his primary objective. But in this book, the historian who writes it explains that actually in the United States, the chief outpost of this international operation is the Council on Foreign Relations. [27:39] So you have the CFR. Now, CFR has corporate members, right, which is interesting. And what you'll find is that a lot of the major media organizations in this country, the conglomerates that own, you know, massive media holdings, in addition to other things, right, not just media, they're corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations. In fact, until not too long ago, News Corporation, which owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, was a corporate member. Some of the Murdochs have been members. In fact, I think some of some of the Murdoch children still are members. And so, yes, the media is absolutely a part of that. Now that doesn't mean that your average bozo who's reading a script on the television is consciously participating in the subversion of American values, but at the highest levels of these companies, absolutely they are. [28:24] And I think the American people have started to see through this. They might not know all the details, but we've been getting poll after poll after poll now that shows the overwhelming majority of Americans realize that the media is not just biased, right? Bias was one thing, everybody's biased. I think even the concept of unbiased media is rather unrealistic. You can be fair, but everybody's got a bias and it shows up in who you're gonna interview, what stories you're gonna choose to write. I mean, we just need to be honest and say that. [28:48] But this is not bias. This is an issue of dishonesty. And the latest poll that I saw, I think this came out within a month or so, was that the overwhelming majority of Americans now recognize that the media is consciously deceiving us. They're lying to us. And that's way beyond bias. And I think, again, the 2016 election showed that pretty clearly. You had the mainstream media absolutely united in lockstep. There was no major media outlet in this country that came out in favour of Donald Trump. Of the big networks, the Media Research Centre did an analysis. It was 92 or 93% negative coverage of Donald Trump. When he was mentioned, it was in some negative context. Of the top 100 newspapers in this country, I think two endorsed Donald Trump. So with all the media united against Donald Trump, What happened? [29:34] He won in a landslide. And so, you know, obviously Americans are not paying as much attention to this nonsense as they used to. And I think in many cases, and I think a lot of the people who control the media realize this, in many cases, when the media says something, Americans are just automatically inclined to disagree with it. Like with Ukraine is a good example. A lot of Americans could have been brought to bear to support Ukraine, but when they see the media supporting and when they see Joe Biden supporting, they're like, no, I don't want anything to do with that. And that's where we are now as a nation. I think the majority of Americans now completely reject the media. Many of them, even to borrow a term from Donald Trump, as enemies of the people, which I think that's a dangerous term, that's a communist term when you start calling people enemies of the people. But I think a lot of Americans are there now. They say, CNN, CBS, ABC, they are enemies of the people, and they might not be wrong. [30:24] One thing that excites me, and if it was all up to, the hope of America being in Fox media wise on the right. That would be depressing, especially as we've seen what's happened to it. But the proliferation of other alternative media outlets, you're obviously very much part of that in the US. And it was great going to CPAC, walking along media row and seeing so many different podcasts, different TV shows. And of course, in the corner, you've got, you couldn't even get past because Real America Voice, Steve Bannon was there, Lindell TV next door. There's so much, and that seems to be more difficult, I guess, to control when it's all independent. And I think for me, that's one thing that it excites me looking ahead. [31:17] Yeah, and I think this trend has been emerging for a long time. The internet really broke it. You know, when I was in journalism school, I was at the University of Florida, which is considered one of the top journalism schools, and they were always telling us, I mean, in class, you know, these professors who had been executive editors of major, you know, left-wing propaganda machines called newspapers in the big cities, they'd always tell us, I mean, just drill it into your head, you all are the gatekeepers. You're gonna control what people are gonna say. And I would just laugh, like, I guess these guys haven't figured out that the internet exists now, right? Because, I mean, already YouTube was out there back before it was owned by the totalitarians at Google, the fascists at Google. You could find anything you wanted, right? And so I think these people were still living like decades earlier, where the media actually was the gatekeepers that had already ended. They just hadn't realized it. And it's taken a while for this to develop. But I do think we're at the point now where probably the politically dominant forces in this country are now largely informed by alternative media. And if you go from state to state, right? You turn off CNN, you turn off Fox and you go just to different state capitals. What you'll find is that the state legislators, the people who are making the decisions that impact our lives, our County commissioners, our mayor, [32:26] they're getting their information from these sources that used to be alternative media or conservative media. Now they're just the media. That's just where people go to get their information. CNN is a joke. CNN has less viewers at prime time than ancient freaking aliens, right? I mean, CNN is a joke. They really, they've lost their viewership. At prime time, they often get less than a million people watching. And most of these people that are watching are not really politically active. It's like people in a nursing home that are forced to watch a CNN or people that are trapped in an airport that have no interest in watching what's on the screens up there. [33:00] You know, these are not the people that are going out and working their hineys off for candidates. These are not the people that are donating to political parties, right? And so I'm really encouraged by this. The media monopoly has been broken. And you saw it so clearly in 2016. I think this is why the fascists at YouTube freaked out. And again, you know, you don't have to agree with everything Alex Jones has ever said. I like Alex Jones. I go on his program sometimes. But, you know, what we saw in the 2016 election, he was absolutely mopping the floor with the fake media. His YouTube channel was getting more views than ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, New York Slimes, Washington Compost combined just on his YouTube channel. And so they saw this and they're freaking out. [33:39] They're like, wow, the people who actually vote, the people who actually determine elections, they're not getting their news from us. We have billions of dollars, but they're getting their news from this guy in Texas, Alex Jones has got a radio show in a TV studio and they panic. And so, you know, the YouTube, it wasn't enough to just shadow ban him, right? Because in a free marketplace of ideas, that the new media was absolutely crushing these people. So they couldn't have a marketplace of ideas, even in a rigged marketplace of ideas. Because first they tried the shadow banning, you know, they tried to break their algorithms so you couldn't find what you were looking for. And still the new media, the alternative media was crushing the legacy fake media. And so they finally said, well, we just can't do this anymore. We just have to delete these people from the internet so that no matter how hard you look, you can't find them. And that still didn't work. And it's not going to work. There's a hunger for truth out there among Americans that no matter how hard the fascists in Silicon Valley [34:32] try to suppress this information. It's not gonna be suppressed and we're seeing that we're gonna continue to see that There are too many millions of Americans who are awake to this now They're gonna have to do something much more drastic than shadow ban us or kick us off of Twitter to stop this information from coming, Out.   I do love how Alex Jones triggers there everyone and it is a joy to behold and how they've gone after him makes you think actually there is something there if they're going after him with such verocity and aggression and beyond anything we've seen before. But you're on, people can watch show on Lindell TV and that's another platform by Mike Lindell who also is vilified by the media at large by the left. And I mean, I love the way someone who in effect is kind of the American dream, where he's come from a back road of addiction. And then now has pulled himself up, has built a business in my pillow, and then also has a TV station. And that kind of the American dream, that's what is needed across the US, across Europe, really. [35:38] It is, it is. And yeah, the media has demonized him like crazy. And guess what? Just recently they did polling to see who was gonna be the most popular candidate to lead the Republican party, to serve as chairman of the RNC. And Mike Lindell was far and away the biggest one, the most popular candidate. So, you know, we're at the point now in America where if the media demonizes you, people like you. If the media says you're bad or you're a conspiracy theorist or you're extreme or whatever, people automatically say, well, that guy must be good. And so this is a good spot to be in, you know? And I don't want people to get the impression that I think everything is just rainbows and unicorns and we're just a clear path to freedom now. I'm not saying that, but we are at a point now where the media has been totally discredited, totally defanged, and now new voices are rising to the top and that's as it should be. And you are one in the United Kingdom and even here in the United States. And there are just this whole new ecosystem of voices and platforms and shows and blogs and websites and magazines. The Epoch Times is another good example. I mean, this was completely unknown two decades ago. Today, it's one of the biggest newspapers in America. It's a number four, if I'm not mistaken, in subscriptions behind the New York Slimes, the Washington Compost and the Wall Street Journal. Last I checked, they're at like 1.7 million subscribers. [36:54] And that happened very, very rapidly. And I write for the Epoch Times. I love the Epoch Times, but how did that happen? It's because they're telling the truth. People are hungry for the truth. And so, you get a newspaper that tells the truth, guess what, people will flock toward it. So this is extremely encouraging in my opinion, Peter. And I think one of the things, obviously, you writing the book on the deep state and discussing it and bringing it out in the open, but then I think over the last three years that's been sped up with many people beginning to question what is happening, question organizations and organizations which were maybe in the shadows have been brought into the light. I mean, I mean, what are your thoughts then on the last three years on how it has exposed what is happening under the deep state? [37:43] I'll tell you what, Peter, everywhere I go in America, and I'm constantly on the road, everywhere I go, I'm meeting people who are like, you know what, before COVID, I was just a mom. I was just, you know, I was worried about getting my kids fed and clothed, you know, had none of this stuff on my radar. And then COVID hit, and they said my kid had to wear a diaper on his face. And they said I couldn't go eat at a restaurant unless I would take this experimental thing. And they woke up. And not only did they wake up, not only did they start saying, what's going on here? Who's behind this? What is really happening? Not only did they do that, After they got educated, they said. [38:17] I'm going to work on stopping this. And so they're forming groups and they're getting together with other moms, they're getting together with other patriots, they're getting together with other Republicans and they're getting involved politically. They're joining Republican executive committees. They're running for office. They're lobbying their state legislators. They're running for Congress. And so we're in a really unique moment, I think, in American history. A lot of people are starting to call it a great awakening and that has very strong Christian overtones. So, you know, I don't know that I'm ready to say that we're quite there yet, but something is happening. You know, a lot of people who just a few years ago were not paying any attention, they really didn't care. They've suddenly realized that they're now in a battle for the heart and soul of their nation, in an existential battle for the very future of their family, for the future of their country, for the future of their church, for the future of their liberties. And you know, once people realize that, once people realize that like, there's been a war declared on you, and if you don't do something, it's gonna end really badly, people get activated. And I would submit to you, and I don't have any numbers on this, but I would submit to you that there are many millions, millions of Americans who within the last three years, they were completely out of the fight before and they are now very active participants. [39:29] And they're gonna grow and they're gonna develop and they're gonna move up the ranks and they're gonna get higher and higher in elected office. And so, my big concern now is that, and the deep state recognizes this, they've got wonderful forecasting models, they've got people like Peter Schwab or Peter Schwartz, excuse me, over at the World Economic Forum, that do a future scenario planning. I mean, they've charted this all out. They realize that we're on a trajectory now where if people keep waking up at this rate, they're gonna be in big trouble. And so my concern is we may see something wild, something dramatic to try to put a stop to this. Something like, you know, the World Economic Forum not too long ago did the cyber polygon exercises that were the communications and the grid would go down. You know, so I think the deep state recognizes that they're in a very vulnerable position right now. They've completely lost the support of the public. And you saw this on YouTube. I think that's why YouTube had to get rid of the thumbs down. Every time World Economic Forum would put up one of their dumb propaganda videos, it'd get like two thumbs up, right? It's the guys on stage. And then a million thumbs down. So, oh, wow, people woke up. So they're in a very dangerous place. And just like a dangerous animal. Once you get them in the corner, you know, they're liable to lash out and behave all crazy. [40:37] That's where we are right now. Too many people are waking up too quickly, thanks to what happened with COVID, thanks to what happened with the 2016 election, thanks to what happened with the 2020 election. And, you know, they're going to need something a lot bigger than a January 6th PSYOP to try to put this toothpaste back into the tube. Yeah. You mentioned the Great Awakening in that biblical context. And when I was with you yesterday you had mentioned that you'd been preaching a church on Sunday. And that link, I mean, growing up as a pastor's kid, very involved in my local church, and that is the most important thing to us as Christians, that Jesus is the most important thing. It's intriguing that mix in the States, and especially with this pushback, that there are churches, not necessarily across the board, but maybe who were more passively involved, there is that spark. What is that like for you, kind of in two different camps, a media camp, a church camp? Tell us about that mix. [41:41] Yeah, what I'm seeing is just, it's really encouraging. It's wonderful. And in fact, I think COVID had a profound effect on the churches. You know, what the enemy meant for evil, God absolutely is using for good, right? The enemy wanted to shut down all the schools so that all the kids could be forced online so they could gather all the data. Well, what actually happened? Parents started of seeing what was happening in their kids' schools and they're yanked their kids out of public schools. Millions of families have fled the government's indoctrination systems. And something similar happened with churches. The enemy thought, hey, this is gonna be a great way to attack the church. We're gonna force these Christians to stop meeting and stop praying and stop singing. And what actually happened? A lot of pastors grew a backbone. A lot of pastors that were basically out of the fight, you know, just, you know, preaching 18,000 different versions of a John 3, 16 sermon, largely out of context. [42:24] They were like, wait a minute here, what's going on? This is like, wow, this is serious. And so a lot of the fake churches actually crumbled. I read somewhere that one in five churches shuttered and didn't open again. And you know, that sounds terrible. It makes you want to cry. And then you realize that the overwhelming majority of those churches were not Bible believing churches. They were not. Truly preaching the word of God. The people in that congregation did not truly have a relationship with Jesus Christ. And what happened? The people who did actually went to the good churches. This church that I just preached at, I preached all four morning services at this wonderful church in Idaho. [42:58] The Christian Candlelight Fellowship in Coeur d'Alene. It's now the biggest church in the region. And what happened during COVID is they just absolutely exploded. They became huge. People were coming from everywhere to the point where they've massively outgrown their church. They're having to do four different, I've never been to a church with four services in one morning. That's how rapidly that church grew. And this is happening, I mean, I just mentioned that one because it was last weekend, but this was happening all over the country, Peter. [43:22] The churches that remained faithful to the word of God, the churches that said, like John MacArthur in California, you know, just brilliant. The guy had always been, you know, Romans 13 means you must submit to the government and everything, don't ever ask any questions, don't even be involved politically, right? And then this comes along and he says, wait a minute, Sorry, Governor Newsom, but you're not the head of the church. You can't order us to shut down. Jesus Christ is the head of the church and we're gonna have to stay open. You know, we respect you, we honour you as the government authority, but you don't have that authority. We're gonna have to stay open. And so now this pastor who, you know, influences tens of thousands of other pastors across this country is preaching sermons on how governments are making themselves illegitimate by doing the opposite of what government was instituted by God to do. Instead of punishing evil and protecting good, They're punishing good and protecting evil. So you have this huge awakening happening in the church and it's extraordinary to see, it's amazing. I think God is doing something hugely significant in this country. Yeah, I think one of the big reasons that we're in this mess, Peter, is because churches and pastors have not been preaching the whole counsel of God. [44:30] I've been working in, we've been doing pastors summits all across the country. They're called the Liberty Pastors Summits and we're doing them all over the country. We're bringing hundreds of pastors. We've done thousands of pastors now all over the country, bringing them together and teaching them a series of different things just straight out of the Bible. So I've been teaching on globalism and education. Pastor Paul Blair, who's kind of leading and Dan Fisher, who are kind of organizing, leading this, are pastors out of Oklahoma. They're teaching, you know, what does the Bible say on government? What does the Bible say on all these critical issues? And I love what Pastor Paul Blair always says. Jesus cannot just be the Lord of your Sunday morning. Jesus needs to be the Lord of every single area of your life. That includes your family, that includes your business, that includes your politics, that includes your government. Every area of your life needs to be in submission to Christ. And that has profound implications. And that's something that's been largely lost in our country. the reason our country was born. Is because the pastors were preaching the truth from the pulpit. [45:26] And this has been largely forgotten, but we had the Black Robe Regiment. Without the Black Robe Regiment, we probably, and I know this is a sensitive subject for Brits, so I won't rub it in, but we never would have actually declared independence. It was because the pastors were saying, this king is acting out of line. He doesn't have the authority to do these things. This is ungodly. We are not going to be okay with that. And that's why our country was born. It was because the pastors were preaching in their pulpits. And that's the history of our nation. And this was, you know, shortly after the great awakening when John Edwards and others were preaching these fiery sermons and just the spirit of God was moving across this country. Our founding fathers were kids listening in the pulpits to this. Of course, they were inspired by the great Christians of Britain, right? Oliver Cromwell, of course, you know, our founding fathers had him in mind where he said, you know, Lex Rex, the law is king and who ultimately establishes the law, that's God. And even the king has to submit to the laws of God, right? The king cannot ignore the laws and the commands of God. The king must be in submission to them as well. So all of the ideas that are at the centre of our country, that are at the centre of our constitution, that are at the centre of our civilization, have been lost now through multiple generations of indoctrination in the public schools, through multiple generations of pastors being too scared to preach the truth. [46:39] Because the IRS threatens they're gonna go after anybody who says anything that they don't like for their tax exemption. And now that's all crumbling. Now we're seeing pastors and congregations and Christians realizing that no, this all, the Bible is the answer to these things. And that's how our country was born. That's how Western civilization was born. If there's gonna be any hope of reclaiming it, it's gonna have to be through reacquainting ourselves with the word of God and through courage in our pulpits, in our churches and among the body of Christ. [47:09] I think we'll end on that. That's absolutely perfect. Alex, I really appreciate you coming along. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you so much, Peter. It's an honour and a pleasure. Really appreciate all that you're doing. Hopefully we'll meet again very soon. I hope you get back to the United States or maybe I'll be on the other side of the pond this summer. So let's keep in touch. Either or. And can I just finish here, obviously on gab GETTR truth and I know libertycentral.org. Just remind the viewers kind of what is the best place to find you and what can they find on the website? Well, thank you so much. So my personal website is libertysentinel.org. I put up a really eclectic mix of things there, everything from some of my shows, podcasts, articles that I and others write. I'm the volunteer executive director of a ministry called Public School Exit. We're actually helping churches and families, not just across the United States, but around the world, figure out how to get God's people out of the government schools and into the safe sanctuary of home schools, Christian schools, private schools, et cetera. You can find that at publicschoolexit.com. I'm senior editor of the New American Magazine. You can find us at thenewamerican.com. Even if you don't subscribe to the print magazine, you can get the daily headlines for free in your inbox by email. [48:15] I write for the Epoch Times. And yeah, I do a lot of other things. I write for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief. It goes out to every police chief and sheriff in the country, but people are welcome to get that as well if they want. So a lot of different things, but you can find me on Twitter or post a big mix of stuff there, at Alex Newman underscore J-O-U. And of course, Gab GETTR. I'm still on Fascist Book, although I don't use it all that much. But thanks again, Peter. Really, it's an honour to be here with you. Thank you for all that you're doing and God bless you, sir. God bless. joining us today, Alex.

Lesson is... if you've got the roo suit on, just commit!Kate continues her hilarious and extraordinary theme of convicts from time past. If you have never heard of William Buckley and his unbelievable story of survival, you must tune in.Oh and if you are ever in need of a truly iconic idea of how to escape prison Billy Hunt deserves an academy Award for his ingenuity.

In this episode Jed attempts to tell the multi-generational story of Yarramundi, Colebee and Maria of the Boorooberongal clan of the Dharug people of what is now Western Sydney. From the first encounters between the Dharug and the British on Dyarubbin in 1791, to the first ever land grant from the British regime to the original inhabitants of Australia in 1816, from Macquarie's aborted ‘native institute', the first Indigenous/British marriage and all through the stolen generation to the present day, Yarramundi's family have been at the centre of the unfolding relations amongst the people that call Western Sydney home. In this podcast we discuss The History Listen podcast episode Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin and the Sydney University research that debunks one of the stories they tell. As with anything do with the people of Dyarubbin, Grace Karskens research is wonderfully helpful and the State Government published Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River that she was involved with is well worth a look if you're interested in the specific geography of these last few episodes. Lastly, at the end of the episode we plug The Australian Histories Podcast and Jed also mentions a book he read on William Buckley, which is Jock Serong's Buckley's Chance.

William Buckley attracted a lot of attention—and we're all the better for it. But his big brother Jim was no small player in the conservative rebound that saved the country in the late 20th Century. On March 9th the elder Buckley celebrated his 100th birthday, and Jack Fowler joins to remind us of the significance of the WWII veteran and member of the small club of public servants who've served in... Source

William Buckley attracted a lot of attention and we're all the better for it, but his big brother James was no small player in the conservative rebound that saved the country in the late 20th Century. On March 9th, the elder Buckley celebrated his 100th birthday, and Jack Fowler joins to remind us of the significance of the WWII veteran and member of the small club of public servants who've served in high positions in all three branches of the federal government.  Ricochet's merry trio also get into the Twitter Files hearings and latest developments south of the border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

William Buckley attracted a lot of attention—and we’re all the better for it. But his big brother Jim was no small player in the conservative rebound that saved the country in the late 20th Century. On March 9th the elder Buckley celebrated his 100th birthday, and Jack Fowler joins to remind us of the significance of […]

Registret står inte särskilt högt i kurs i Sverige, men i England finns ett eget skrå för indexmakare. Fredrik Sjöberg gör några nedslag i bokregistrets fascinerande historia. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Den amerikanske författaren Norman Mailer sägs ha varit både fåfäng och självupptagen. Alla som känner någon författare vet att egenskaperna i fråga inte var unika för just honom, men möjligen var han ändå värre än andra. Så berättas till exempel att han brukade börja läsningen av nya böcker med att leta i registret efter sitt eget namn, vilket för yngre lyssnare kan jämföras med att googla sig själv, alltså en vederbörligen skambelagd form av självbefläckelse.Detta visste Mailers kollega William Buckley, så när han en gång på 1960-talet skickade en av sina många böcker till Mailer, skrev han ingen dedikation på försättsbladet, sådär som man brukar göra. Istället slog han upp sidan 339, tog fram sin röda kulspetspenna och plitade dit ett hurtfriskt ”Hi there!”, intill registerordet ”Mailer, Norman”. Hur denne uppfattade tilltaget är inte känt, men eftersom han behöll boken livet ut får man anta att han tog det med fattning.Själv skriver jag dedikationer med blyerts, helt enkelt av hänsyn till mottagarna. Alla äger ett suddgummi och ibland är dedicerade böcker bara ett kvitto på att ingen brydde sig om att köpa dem, varför upphovsmannen tvingades ge bort dem. Zoologen Olof Ryberg, även kallad Lopp-Olle, är ett bra exempel. Hans avhandling om de svenska fladdermössens parasitfauna är väldigt svår att få tag på utan dedikation; ibland är det flera stycken, för när böckerna kom ut på andrahandsmarknaden köpte han dem själv och gav bort dem igen.Men vi kommer bort från ämnet, som inte är dedikationer, utan själva registret, vars utveckling från medeltiden och framåt visar sig vara en intressant historia. Den som en vacker dag gör sig omaket att röja upp i mitt efterlämnade bibliotek ska upptäcka att nästan allt är fackböcker i vitt skilda ämnen, men med en sak gemensam: i alla finns register. Sådana böcker brukar jag nämligen spara. De utan register brukar jag kasta bort eller dumpa på närmsta antikvariat. Att läsa dem kan vara nog så nöjsamt, men sen är de oanvändbara.Ämnet belyses i boken Index, A History of the, av engelsmannen Dennis Duncan. Registrets historia, alltså. Lite begränsat kan tyckas, men faktum är att också de som med diagnosmanualmässig hetta verkligen älskar förteckningar i alfabetisk ordning har mycket nytt att lära. Oväntade saker, som att Erasmus av Rotterdam på 1500-talet skrev en hel bok där han strök texten och endast gav ut registret. Folk läser ändå inget annat, sa han surt.Till pjäsen hör även att boktryckare, åtminstone i England, förr kunde komponera fientliga register för att på den vägen kritisera böckernas innehåll. Många politiska strider utspelade sig i registren, och även rent litterära debatter, varav det bästa exemplet är en 1700-talsroman som hette The Man of Feeling och som senare, under den viktorianska eran, ansågs beskriva en man av alltför klent virke, så när en litteraturprofessor gav ut den där romanen igen försåg han den med ett Index of tears, ett register som förtecknar alla de ställen där huvudpersonen gråter. Den sträve professorn ville därmed visa sitt förakt för bokens, som det hette, emotionella inkontinens. Det blev ett långt register, och då var han ändå tydlig med att han bara förtecknade tårar, inte suckar och snyftningar.Här bör inflikas att vi i Sverige har lite andra traditioner, liksom enklare. Skönlitteratur har över huvud taget sällan register och fackböcker avslutas oftast bara med ett personregister som görs i all hast av redaktören eller korrekturläsaren. Den brittiska litteraturens mer avancerade sakregister har sin grund i att man där håller sig med professionella registermakare som är organiserade i Society of Indexers, en intresseorganisation som säkert har egna julfester också, då man samlas och sänker en bägare på någon avsides pub och gratulerar varandra till särskilt lyckade uppslagsord.Även fransmännen är av tradition påfallande noga, låt vara att ingen ännu har lyckats upprepa den bragd som vid mitten av 1800-talet utfördes av den katolske teologen Jacques Paul Migne. Han kom på den briljanta idén att låta trycka samtliga kyrkofäder i ett enda bokverk. Sagt och gjort. Verket Patrologia Latina gavs ut i 217 volymer, vilket oss emellan låter som ett sömnpiller för elefanter; hur som helst var det slutligen dags att skriva registret. Detta kom att omfatta fyra tjocka böcker och var så detaljerat att man till sist fann sig tvungen att även göra ett register till registret. Enligt legenden ska den fromme prästen ha hyrt in femtio registermakare som arbetade oavbrutet i tio år.Från början, före Gutenberg och boktryckarkonsten, var det naturligt nog mest kyrkans män som höll på med register och innehållsförteckningar, allt för att underlätta spridningen av Bibelns djupsinnigheter, men det hela komplicerades av att böckerna då skrevs för hand av kopister, och inte ens Bibeln var indelad i kapitel och verser på den tiden, så det var ofta svårt att hitta. Den alfabetiska ordningen upptäcktes visserligen redan under antiken, men det krävdes en helt annan innovation för att man skulle få snurr på verksamheten och vi talar nu om den litterära världens motsvarighet till uppfinningen av hjulet, nämligen sidnumreringen.Detta tekniska alexanderhugg inträffade år 1470, två år efter Gutenbergs död. Böcker tryckta på papper hade således funnits en tid, men ingen hade förut kommit på det där med paginering. Nuförtiden är sidnumren så självklara att vi inte tänker på vilken revolution de innebar.Fast det är klart, undantag finns. Det vore tjänstefel att här inte nämna Lars Norén, vars dagböcker väckte sådan uppståndelse, inte bara på grund av att författaren ansågs vara både fåfäng och självupptagen, utan också för att hans med god marginal tusensidiga böcker saknar sidnummer. Detta retade framför allt kulturjournalister. De skribenter Norén beskrev som idioter, och de var många, kunde nu inte tipsa varandra om vilken sida angreppet fanns på.Kanske, slår det mig, sitter nu den gode Norén i sin himmel och ler ikapp med Erasmus av Rotterdam under överinseende av Sankte Per, vars blick för människornas brott rimligen leder till slutsatsen att förtal av journalister ändå inte är så farligt. Förresten går väl skärselden på sparlåga av energipolitiska skäl, och i det läget får man prioritera, naturligtvis med utgångspunkt från syndaregistret – som säkerligen, tråkigt nog, är längst av alla.Fredrik Sjöberg, författare och biolog LitteraturDennis Duncan: Index, A History of the – Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. W. W. Norton Company, 2022.

In Part 2 of William Buckley's story, living amongst the Wathawurrung people who adopted him, we hear how he adapted and learned a great many skills.  He was able to record many of the practices that allowed his mob to live so successfully, in country that almost killed him.  And we learn of tragedies that deeply disturbed him.  (62mins) Brilliant stories from Australia's past  Enjoying the podcast?  Help support the show with a one-off donation AustralianHistoriesPodcast.com.au

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William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived amongst the Wathawurrung people for more than 30 years.  Adopted as Murrangurk, he had the opportunity to participate in, witness and later record some of the lifestyle and cultural practices of these First Nations people, at a time before they had substantial contact with colonial newcomers, when their way of life was altered.  Buckley's story is an exceptional one and we begin in Part 1 by learning how he found himself on this side of the world and living amongst the Wuthawurrung. (63 mins) Brilliant stories from Australia's past  Enjoying the podcast?  Help support the show with a one-off donation AustralianHistoriesPodcast.com.au  

David is joined today by a very special guest, Larry Kudlow. The 2022 honoree of the William F. Buckley Prize for Leadership in Political Thought, Larry has a long history with National Review, with William Buckley, and of course, with the cause of defending free enterprise. In this deep and heavy conversation, David and Larry discuss how work is the heart of economics and the formula to economic prosperity, and they also look at the role of civility and friendship in maintaining a fulfilling life. It is truly an episode that strikes at the very heart of a free and virtuous society.

He’s in the news again this week — after persuading Joe Manchin that the climate and healthcare bill he’s pushing isn’t inflationary. Larry Summers has had a storied career, as the chief economist of the World Bank, the treasury secretary under Clinton, and the director of the National Economic Council under Obama. He also was the president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006 and remains there as the Charles W. Eliot University Professor. You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app). For two clips of our convo — on how the US government spent way too little during the Great Recession and way too much during the pandemic, and how we can help the working class cope — pop over to our YouTube page.The episode has a lot of thematic overlap with our recent discussion with David Goodhart, author of Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect. Here’s a new transcript. And below is a clip from that episode on how our economy overvalues white-collar brain power:Back to inflation talk, here’s a dissent:I’ve been reading your blog for a little over a year now, and listening to Dishcast, which is great. I’ve noticed a few things, however, that I would like you to perhaps respond to, or at least consider. First, what you refer to as “wokeness” on the left is, I agree, an obnoxious problem that has been exacerbated by social media. But I think your recent guest Francis Fukuyama has it mostly correct in his new book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, when he identifies illiberal trends on the political left as being more of an annoyance, or at the very least, far less of a threat to the republic than illiberal trends on the right. Second, I completely disagree with this rather lazy salvo from you: “Biden’s legacy — an abandonment of his mandate for moderation, soaring inflation, an imminent recession, yet another new war, and woker-than-woke extremism — has only deepened it.” It simply is not the case that Biden has not, especially when forced to, hewed towards moderation. Yes, he is attempting to respond to a leftward shift in the Democratic Party by trying to govern more from the left, but this is simply a reflection of political reality. In addition, much of his agenda has been batted down, but more on that in a moment. Next, inflation and an imminent recession have a lot more to do with what the Fed has done over the last four decades — and definitely since the financial crisis of 2008 — than with Joe Biden. On this theme of a highly financialized economy nearing the end of the neoliberal era, I recommend Rana Foroohar on Ezra Klein’s latest podcast, where she talks about the popping of the “Everything Bubble.” Asset-value inflation, deindustrialization, a perverse focus on shareholder value rather than investing in Main Street or even R&D, and an utter lack of policy solutions, have caused this. In addition, as Foroohar herself says, the changes we need to make in our economy are going to be, in the short-to-medium term, inflationary. This means policymakers have to start making policy that actually helps both people and infrastructure, which means spending money. Unfortunately, the garden has gone untended for so long that we’re teetering on the brink of becoming a really shitty country if we don’t take more aggressive action. In addition, with regard to an upcoming recession, Noah Smith wrote on his Substack recently that Keynesian economics would suggest that a quick recession now in order to stomp out inflation would be better in the long run than milquetoast attempts to curb it by raising interest rates too slowly. The idea is that recessions — especially fast and somewhat shallow ones — can be weathered, but inflation that goes on for too long leaves lasting scars on the economy. (Smith identifies the Volker recessions as probably permanently damaging the Rust Belt.) Personally, what I worry about more on the left is not “woke-ism,” but the trendy socialist/ironic/weird outlets like Jacobin or Chapo Trap House, which seem to be doing their damndest to convince younger, more impressionable and less educated people that the whole country is fucked; it’s designed to be fucked because capitalism is fucked; and only its imminent collapse will allow for problems to be solved through revolution/redistribution. Believe me, that sentiment is becoming a real problem, and the people who buy into it are every bit as ideologically rigid, illiberal, and closed to inquiry as those on the rabid right.Next up, listeners sound off on last week’s episode with Fraser Nelson, the British journalist who sized up the prime minister race. The first comment comes from “a long-time libertarian in Massachusetts”:I’ve been reading the Dish for about a year and finally subscribed thanks to your fascinating interview with Fraser Nelson. I was particularly glad to be alerted to Kemi Badenoch.It’s taken awhile to pull the trigger on subscribing to the Dish because of your Trump bashing, since you sound more like Hillary Clinton than William Buckley. I’m perfectly fine with bashing Trump, but I prefer to see it paired with an acknowledgment of the forces that created him, i.e. the abandonment of the middle class by the two major parties, particularly the Democrats. I do think half the country would lose its mind if Trump runs again, so in that sense I sympathize with your sentiments. But the larger context is essential.Some episodes our listener might appreciate — ones sympathetic to the concerns of middle-class Trump voters — include Michael Anton, Mickey Kaus, Ann Coulter and David French. More on the Fraser Nelson pod:Thank you for an outstanding episode. Nelson has almost persuaded me to take out a Spectator subscription! I thought he summed up eloquently and fairly the state of the Conservative Party, Johnson, Sunak and Truss, and the challenges that lie ahead.Like many Brexiteers — and Nelson half-acknowledges this — the Tories have not grappled with the realities of Brexit. The most obvious lacuna in your discussion was the economy. You cannot leave the EU and not increase the size of the state. You have to have more customs arrangements (as we have recently seen at Dover), more vets, more checks and so on, ad nauseam. It’s all very well for conservatives to argue for a smaller state, but they haven’t defined what that will look like and how the services people use now (education, transport, local government, the legal system etc) will be improved, i.e. funded to a better extent than now. Underfunding is obvious and no amount of arguing “we can do it more efficiently” will cut it — the Tories have had 12 years to fix this.Moreover, picking fights with the EU has meant less investment, reduced business confidence and increased uncertainty — except of course in Northern Ireland, which has access to the single market and where business is booming. Listen to NFU President Minette Batters talk about the issues surrounding Truss’s free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, or fishermen now dealing with the consequences of Brexit. They were once fans. Not so much now.James Carville once said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Promising tax cuts now when much of the Western world is likely to enter a recession is ridiculously irresponsible, but hey ho, it’s a political campaign and reality will bite once we have a new prime minister, whoever she is.Also, I look forward to hearing Marina Hyde on the Dishcast!This next listener takes issue with some of my phrasing:I enjoyed the Nelson episode overall! But I have to take issue with a rare faux pas from you, where you said that Rishi Sunak is “himself obviously a globalist, just by his very career and nature.” I can’t really understand how you came to this conclusion. Is anyone who worked overseas for some time a “globalist”? Are you a “globalist” because your moved to America? What about Sunak’s “nature” makes him so?Back in 2016, Sunak supported Brexit, which was seen as the losing bet, despite much pressure from David Cameron. And he has set out very clearly in his leadership campaign that he thinks, for example, we need to be tougher on border control. Neither of these things strike me as globalist, nor a return to the Cameron era.On the other hand, I agree with your characterisation of Truss — who voted Remain before undergoing a miraculous and instantaneous change of heart the day after her side lost — as a “dime-store Thatcher.”Speaking of border control, here’s David Goodhart — also from a British perspective — on why elites favor open borders:One more listener on Fraser pod:As a Spectator subscriber (and Glasgow Uni man), I very much enjoyed Fraser Nelson. Mishearing (I think) at around the 37 minute mark when he seemed to refer to Boris getting a first at Oxford, I was reminded of this fine b****y exchange with David Cameron in the Sunday Times back in the day:Surely Boris has been the man Cameron had to beat, ever since they were at school together. 'This is one of the great myths of politics', says the PM [Cameron]. 'These things grow up and it's so long ago no one challenges them, but I don't think we really knew each other at school, he was a couple of years ahead of me. He was very clever.'Then Cameron explodes into a beaming grin. 'But', he says exultantly. 'Boris didn't get a First! I only discovered that on the Panorama programme the other night... I didn't know that'. He is suddenly lit up, almost punching the air with joy.And in that outburst of public-schoolboy competitiveness — Cameron, of course, did get a First — he reveals everything we've always thought about him.Also, when Boris was described as believing the untrue things he said at the time he said them, I’m reminded of George Costanza’s credo that “it’s not a lie if you believe it!” (which, for a fairly left liberal Tory, you’d perhaps take over a Trump analogy).Lastly, a listener looks to a potential guest:If you wish to continue to mine the vein of the global power landscape, its recent evolution this century, and its implications: Condoleezza Rice. She has an interesting perspective from one whose expertise is Russia and is a past practitioner of American statecraft with Russia and China.Thanks, as always, for the suggestion. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Robert Fojo welcomes Josh Lewis.  Josh is the host of his own podcast: Saving Elephants: Millennials Defending and Expressing Conservative Values.  He is also a CPA in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Josh is a student of the conservative movement championed by Edmund Burke, Russel Kirk, William F. Buckley, Thomas Sowell, and many others.  He is passionate about conservatism surviving and thriving in the 21st century.  He is interested in sharing how the conservative worldview offers solutions to our unique challenges, including learning ways to celebrate and revitalize the uniqueness of the multitude of sub-cultures within America, addressing the loss of civil society and institutions that provide our lives with meaning and community, and continuously striving to balance order and liberty in the soul of the individual and our nation.  Robert and Josh discussed how to define conservatism, the history of conservatism, who shaped conservative thought, how best to explain and teach conservative values to others, whether the Republican Party embodies conservative ideas, Donald Trump's political philosophy, whether conservative ideas can bridge the deep politicized divide between the right and the left in today's society, and Josh's affinity for polar bear plunging.  

[1:35] Why filter bubbles are getting stronger.[8:55] Bursting David's bubble on climate change.[14:54] Why David banned politics from the workplace chat room.[26:46] Politics as a new religion.[29:06] Diversity & Inclusion at workplaces[39:37] The backlash against D&I.[45:48] Learning from Joe Rogan and William Buckley[49:50] Denmark vs the U.S. politically and socially.

Rubrique:histoire Auteur: edouard-auguste-spoll Lecture: Daniel LuttringerDurée: 19min Fichier: 13 Mo Résumé du livre audio: « Depuis le héros de Daniel de Foë, chaque pays a voulu avoir son Robinson. Celui de l'Australie s'appelle William Buckley et son nom y est bien connu. » Article de Edouard-Auguste Spoll (1833-18..?) paru dans Le Journal des voyages en 1899. Cet enregistrement est mis à disposition sous un contrat Creative Commons.

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss Jonah Goldberg's public rejection of Ayn Rand, and what that shows about the conservative movement. Among the topics covered: Why Goldberg's comments matter;How Goldberg's adamant rejection of Ayn Rand betrays his ambivalence about the value of freedom;Why Goldberg says Rand doesn't belong in the conservative movement;Whittaker Chambers's dishonest, anti-American article about Atlas Shrugged;Why Ayn Rand's opposition to religion threatens conservatives;The irrationality of Goldberg's conservative view that everyone must respect religion;The anti-intellectuality of Goldberg's reaction to Ayn Rand;How conservative critics of Trump fail to see him as essentially religious;Ayn Rand's response to a question about similarities with William Buckley. Mentioned in the discussion are the book Essays on Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's talk A Nation's Unity. This podcast was recorded on November 3, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/VmIHFi8Jzrs Podcast audio:

States' rights is one of the arguments we hear today to justify the G.O.P.‘s sweep in passing restrictive voting laws. But what does states' rights actually mean? Where does the idea come from? And why is it that something the Democratic Party of the 1800's argued for is now argued by the Republican Party of today? Join host Ty Wycoff as he explores equality as a zero-sum game, the dark history behind states' rights, and what one President did to take on the Ku Klux Klan.Written, produced, and hosted by Ty WycoffEpisode music and theme music by Ty WycoffFollow the show on Instagram @thishistoric for political updates in between episodes.Check out some of Ty's articles on MediumA huge thanks to all of my Patrons for making this show happen! Derek Lichtner, Joshua Covill, Brandon Suthard, Rebecca Wycoff, Dale Wycoff, Chris Krager, Stevie Covill, Jamie Cody-Ferguson, Aurora Darling, Ásta Bowen, Chelsea O'Hara, Steve Hermes, Spencer Harris, Larissa Wycoff, Ally Nagel, Natali Kragh, Kailey Adams, Yosef SmidHave a topic idea you want covered? Found something I said that is incorrect? Shoot an email to: ty@thishistoric.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thishistoric)

At the end of this interview, Dan Wakefield says ‘'I guess that's it. That's everything I know. That's doubtful of course, but the amount of insider history covered in this podcast is wide ranging. One of the first practitioners of what was called “The New Journalism,” he tells stories from the great age of celebrity profiles. Wakefield covered Senator Adam Clayton Powell's trial for tax evasion and sat in on lunches with Powell and Murray Kemption. He tells stories about William Buckley, Gay Talese, his dates with Mia Farrow, and his friendship with some of the great editors of the time, including Sam Lawrence—editor of Katherine Anne Porter, Donleavy, Jim Harrison, Frank Conroy, Vonnegut, and Wakefield himself. This great storyteller remembers conversations and places as though they took place yesterday.

Wakefield began his journalism career as a civil rights reporter for The Nation, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The New York Times. After his coverage of the Emmett Till trial, he continued being fascinated by trials. “It was like reading a novel,” he explains in this episode. He talks about the James Jones From Here to Eternity trial and the Adam Clayton Powell tax evasion trial, and he talks about Dorothy Day, Norman Mailer, and William Buckley. In 1968 he wrote a longform piece about the Vietnam War, “Supernation at War and Peace” that came out as an entire issue of the Atlantic and was reprinted as a book. That reporting took him to San Francisco, where he spent time with his old New York friends Joan Didion and John Donne. During this reporting assignment, he interviewed Dean Rusk and Hubert Humphrey.

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Episode: 197 Host: Alpha Mike Intro: Alpha welcomes the Nation to episode #197. How to contact us RaiderCop.Com and RaiderCopNation.com. Parler is back so join us on, Parler @RaiderCop and our other social media outlets attached below MEWE, Winkin, Clouthub, Gab, Parler, Facebook, Instagram, and Rumble. Alpha talks about the death of his Grandmother which was just short of 103. Alpha gives us an Intro on Mr. Thomas Sowell. Word of the Week: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. James 1:22-24 Main Topic: Thomas Sowell, Why We Should listen Born in Gastonia NC, on June 30, 1930 Born poor, Thomas Father would die before his birth and his mother would die at child birthday Thomas as adopted by a Great Aunt and raised by her and her two adult daughters At the age of 8, Thomas would move to NYC Harlem with his adoptive family Never having a t.v. as a child they would have a telephone and radio (reaching the big time) Family friend names Eddie Map would mentor Thomas Sowell Dropping out of Stuyvesant High School, Thomas would join the USMC with an MOS of photographer during the Korean War With an Honorable Discharge, he would get into Civil Service living in Washington D.C. Attending night classes at Howard University, Thomas scored very high in the college board exams Thomas would also attend Harvard University and receive a BA in Economics in 1958 Thomas would earn a Masters Degree from Columbia University During his 20's, young Thomas would see himself as a Marxist Thomas would learn and understand Marxism was nonsense, while working for the government Early in Thomas Sowell, professional publications  he wrote "Sympathetic Examination Marxist Thought Vs. Marxist-Leninist Practices' Thomas would learn the raising the minimum wage, hurts the poor Thomas would receive a Doctor in Philosophy in Economic University of Chicago Thomas would study under George Stigler, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics Thomas, would have Milton Friedman as his mentor, another 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences Thomas Sowell would go from Professor to Fellow at the Hoover Institute Thomas would appear on the William Buckley show Firing Line. Thomas, would write articles for up to 300 newspapers for many many years calling it quits on December 27, 2016, but many would be rewarded with YouTube interviews Books, many, many books giving each reader his knowledge and wisdom Thomas Sowell, wanted to become a professional baseball player and wwould suffer a right should injury, so he taught himself to throw left handed. Thomas Sowell, "I survived two months of Paris Island" Up Next: Tony Ducks #198 Reference: Common Sense in a Senseless World Thomas Sowell Late Talking Children Thomas Sowell on Black History MYTHS Promoted by the Left Thomas Sowell's Ultimate MIC DROP Moment Thomas Sowell on YouTube Instagram @milo_raider_cop  Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming in 2021 Spotify   Stitcher  PodBean Join the Raider-Cop Nation Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc MeWe, WimKin, Rumble.ApplePodcast GooglePodcast Pandora  Parler: @RaiderCop  CloutHub: @RaiderCopWimkin: @Martinino and Raider Cop PodcastMeWe: Raider-Cop Podcast & Alpha MikeGab: @RaiderCopPodcast#JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries #TheWord #Buccaneer #RaiderCopPodcast #BeLikeJack #Corrections #RaiderCop #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgiaYoutube Free Music: Triumph by Yung Logos, Rodeo Show by The Green Orbs, Minor Blues for Booker E’s Jammy Jams, Happy Birthday Mambo, by E’s Jammy James. The Awakening Patrick jazz Space, The Current Blues, Blue Infusion, Front Porch Blues, Crazy Blues, Midnight Special, Super Blues, Bright Eyed Blues, Bleeker Street Blues, Olde Salooner Blues, Miles Beyond, D.J. Freedem, Causmic, Verified Picasso, Coyote Hearing, Diamond Ortiz, Nico Staf Brooklyn & The Bridge,PatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder.

William J. Bennett joins Seth to talk about Rush Limbaugh’s life and legacy. Rush Limbaugh's appearance on William Buckley's show, "Firing Line", in 1992. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nick Buccola (https://www.nicholasbuccola.com) joins Tom and Sarah to talk about his book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr, and the Debate over Race in America. We talk about Buckley's opposition to civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 60s, the role of Christianity in Buckley and Baldwin's thought, and Baldwin's views of Western civilization and the canon. We discuss Baldwin's books The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. Links for the episode: [The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Debate over Race in America.](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-upon-Us-Baldwin-William/dp/0691210772/ref=sr11?crid=1XUI1YITBRXL9&dchild=1&keywords=the+fire+is+upon+us+by+nicholas+buccola&qid=1612989229&sprefix=fire+is+%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1) The Buckley-Baldwin Debate video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek9h3a5wQ) James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. (https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/dp/067974472X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=601A5ZJ5J0OB&dchild=1&keywords=the+fire+next+time+by+james+baldwin&qid=1612989393&sprefix=fire+ne%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-1) James Baldwin, [Notes of a Native Son.](https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Native-Son-James-Baldwin/dp/0807006238/ref=pdbxgyimg3/143-9475481-2911919?encoding=UTF8&pdrdi=0807006238&pdrdr=4e97fa13-57b9-4127-beac-91e8266fd86e&pdrdw=GMzdx&pdrdwg=fh1kZ&pfrdp=f325d01c-4658-4593-be83-3e12ca663f0e&pfrdr=Y4FB54J2ABREVM545YC9&psc=1&refRID=Y4FB54J2ABREVM545YC9) William F. Buckley on Fresh Air with Terry Gross in 1989 (https://freshairarchive.org/segments/conservative-icon-william-f-buckley).

Alex Berenson joins Seth to talk about his newest book, "Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks." The greatness of William Buckley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

World Anti-Communist League, WACL series, We've Read the Documents, Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, Moonies, Asian People's Anti-Communist League, Syngman Rhee, Walter Propheta, American Orthodox Catholic Church, wandering bishops, Peter Levenda, William Buckley, Blessed Child, Washington Times, Koreagate, Richard Viguerie, Council for National Policy, Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority, God and Freedom Banquet, cults, Moonie defector

Guinevere Hall from Typeface Books in Applecross joins us once a month on "Remember When" to talk historical books. In this segment we discuss the books: "Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse" by Cassandra Pybus - The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Aborigine'. "The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the theft of Kulin Country" by Adam Courtenay - Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

For an early podcast this Friday, we crack open a bottle of a new Aussie Rye Whisky - Buckley's. James, Jack and John discuss the legend of William Buckley, taste the scrummy drop live on the podcast, and then segway into whisky drinking in general. To cap off the week, we round out 30 days of BH Daily videos, gee-up for an afternoon of golf on Sydney Harbour and discuss the best wine bars in Australia. Enjoy.

It happened on a Thursday.February 18, 1965. The exact moment we fell in love with James Baldwin.It wasn’t because he was a boy genius who spent every day at the library. It wasn't event his fiery church sermons as a teen or loving debates with Malcolm X as a young man. It was on this day, that he was propelled onto the world stage. He was raw, nervous, authentic. A Black man with vocabulary as arsenal, able to tag a full picture of our pain. This was his opus. His coming out as our Jimmy, our defender against bullies on the schoolyard. Baldwin stood toe-to-toe with “the father of conservatism,” segregationist William Buckley in the hallowed halls of Oxford under the glare of entitled white boys. By himself. With a cloak of our peoples' sorrow and swag flying from his tiny frame. He said, not today. At that moment, he became our tragic hero - an outcast, small, gay, committed, way too smart for any neighborhood. It was swoon-worthy. And from there he went on a world tour of verbal lashing and protest speeches, articles, and books to demand the total liberation of Black people. Let’s go on a victory lap for this man’s life.Join the second edition of GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp at blackhistorybootcamp.com to receive specially curated emails with inspiring words, survival tips, speeches + dedicated songs to listen to for each episode. Together we will discover the stories and explore the pivotal moments from some of the most powerful movements in Black history.Disclaimer: We do not own the rights to the music or speech excerpt played during this broadcast. Original content can be found here:Janelle Monáe - Tightrope:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbcJames Baldwin and Paul Weiss Debate Discrimination In America | The Dick Cavett Show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzH5IDnLaBA&feature=youtu.be

James Baldwin would turn 96 years old today. Omar Moore looks at Baldwin the philosopher, activist, writer, thinker, scholar, intellectual and anti-racist educator through Baldwin's 1965 debate with William Buckley at Cambridge University in England, and Baldwin's appearances on Dick Cavett (in 1969) and Florida Forum (1963). NOTE: Omar will host a Zoom discussion on James Baldwin and the Baldwin documentary I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO this Friday Aug. 7 at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern as part of the Mechanics Institute's CinemaLit series Black Lives On Film. Please sign up for free NOW at: https://www.milibrary.org/events. Also: Important voter information for Iowa and Kansas. Iowa voters: https://sos.iowa.gov Kansas voters: https://kssos.org Omar's NEW story at Medium: Susan Rice Will Be Biden's VP Pick (A Prediction). https://bit.ly/2BRAWs8 Please check your voter registration weekly through October. Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Nicholas Buccola’s background in American political thought led him to write his book, “The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America.” Nicholas connected with Chanda to talk about how James Baldwin and William Buckley’s infamous debate came to fruition, the fortress of white supremacy, and why we need to come to terms with our history in order to move forward with justice.

This week has been remarkable in so many ways. In my neck of the woods in Brooklyn, thousands of protestors walking down my block, down the main arteries of my neighborhood, is a daily occurrence. I’ve been able to participate in the protests. The memory of the black, brown, and white faces will forever bring a smile to my face. Wherever you live in this country or the world, I’m sure you’ve seen and hopefully participated in peaceful protests against this country’s systemic brutality against Black people. Today, I’m not going to do a writing Monday Motivation, but I want to share a 25-minute clip from one of my heroes, James Baldwin’s. In 1965, Baldwin debated William Buckley at Cambridge University. I encourage you to go listen to the entire debate, but this clip is powerful and raw and so so important. On a quick note, I’ve intentionally kept this podcast as non-political as possible, because I believe everyone has a story to tell, regardless if you a democrat or republican. And, authentic storytelling brings people together, it always sparks progress because it is rooted in truth and honesty. Dishonest writing is merely propaganda. But, the Black Lives Matter movement is not political. To fight and advocate for human rights and dignity is not political. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you have a wonderful week of writing. Support the show (http://www.howwriterswrite.com)

This episode features Prof. Tiffany Gayle Chenault's "28," a story about running and grief. You'll also hear undergraduate student Abby Crogan's interview with a chipped coffee cup (a concept borrowed from the podcast, "Everything is Alive"), Lana D'Addieco's uncovering of history via old radiators in Salem, and Cassandra Pearson's public history piece on Gore Vidal and William Buckley. 

In early 19th century Australia, escaping from a penal colony was not an easy task, mostly because there was no where to go. Six foot five William Buckley did just that, however, wandering though the wild Australian bush before being taken in by a tribe of aborigines, close to death. For the next thirty-two years he would live with the tribe, before finally meeting famed bushranger and bounty hunter John Batman.  My guest, Adam Courtenay, is an Australian author and historian, and he joins me to talk about this legendary character and his role in one of the most dangerous and tragic eras in Australia's history. His book is called "The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal, William Buckley, and the demise of civil discourse in America. Other films include William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton,the Stax Records story Respect Yourself, and Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied.  Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right.”      Keith Richards   An emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don’t know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you.”      Elvis Costello *Memphis Rent Party soundtrack now available! www.TheRobertGordon.com  

Australia was in its infancy when convict William Buckley fled into the land of the Kulin nation to take his chances in the wilderness.

Why escaped convict William Buckley was welcomed as family into Aboriginal clan and stayed 32 years. Subscribe to the Herald Sun. Go to www.heraldsun.com.au/IBAW and click on any article to begin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jan talks about his upcoming performance detailing the amazing local story of William Murrungurk Buckley.He'll be performing at the Deans Marsh Community Hall on Saturday 22nd of February.Tickets available at www.trybooking.com/BHYIK or 5236 3388

Walkley Award winning journalist, Garry Linnell talks politics and then spins a yarn about the fascinating life of William Buckley, and the book he wrote about him, Buckley's Chance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 28: Non-fiction Australian Reads for Summer This summer has been a particularly challenging one for the Australian landscape and with Australia Day upon us, there are a number of great books that demonstrate just how vast this land is, how diverse and rich is its history. Join Katherine and Nisa for the third and final episode of the ‘Summer’ series of podcasts. Books mentioned in this episode include: Buckley’s chance: the incredible true story of William Buckley and how he conquered a new world / Garry Linnell. Penguin Random House, October 2019. Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture / Bruce Pascoe. Magabala Books, June 2018 [earlier published as Dark Emu:  Black Seeds: Agriculture or accident in 2014] Young Dark Emu: a truer history / Bruce Pascoe. Magabala Books, June 2019 Tracks / Robyn Davidson. Bloomsbury, November 2019. Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia / Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy. ANU, ABS and Macquarie Dictionary, August 2019.

Asmat Hussain, Corporate Director of Governance tells Rachael Tiffen of CIFAS what happened next after the High Court's overturn of its 2014 mayoral election The former mayor was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices, including vote-rigging, by an election court in 2015, so the council needed to rebuild trust with the authorities, staff and local residents. Asmat became Tower Hamlets' statutory monitoring officer after the fraud had happened, along with a whole new leadership team including chief executive William Buckley and a new financial director. With commissioners in charge following a PriceWaterhouseCoopers investigation, the council developed a delivery plan, putting in place measures to ensure members' decisions were made within the rules; greater transparency and openness around mayoral decisions; relaunch of whilstleblowing procedures; staff training and a website where members of the public can report concerns about fraud. Tower Hamlets underwent a Peer Review conducted by the LGA in June 2019, which concluded among more detailed findings that they were now ‘a normal council'. At the time of this interview, in November 2019, the council was just starting preparations for the December 2019 general election.

GRP 138-For this week's podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Fred Burton. Mr. Burton is one of the world's foremost authorities on security and terrorism. He oversees Stratfor's analysis of global security developments. Before joining Stratfor, Mr. Burton served as a counterterrorism agent with the U.S. State Department from 1985 to 1999. Mr. Burton was deputy chief of counterterrorism at the Diplomatic Security Service, where he was in charge of preventing and investigating attacks against diplomatic personnel and facilities. During his 14-year career, Mr. Burton was involved in many high-profile investigations, including the search for and arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Fred is a New York Times Best Selling Author. We discussed his fourth book, Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America (Penguin Random House, 2018) recounts the 1980s kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley in Lebanon. We talked about transnational terrorism, the role Iran played in the abduction of westerners during the 1980s, and much more. Enjoy. 0:00-Intro to Fred Burton 8:37-The development of modern terrorism. Black September and the Mossad 32:15-The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 37:58-Bengazi, and the story of William Buckley, the CIA station Chief of Beirut, who was kidnapped and tortured to death. Follow Global Recon below:   www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/globalreconpodcast www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/   Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv

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Join Caroline Wilson, Corrie Perkin and special guest writer and journalist Garry Linnell for Ep 109 'Darling. . .I'm Not Really A Ghost'.  Tickets are ON SALE NOW for our Live Christmas Podcast Event WHEN – Tuesday December the 10th, 6.30pm – 8.30pm with special guests Peggy O'Neal, Anna from the Op-Shop and Julia Wilson.  WHERE – the rooftop at Bells in South Melbourne.   HOW TO BOOK – Tickets are $80 and include food and drinks. Please email Tara via events@crocmedia.com or phone (03) 8825 6605 to book your tickets now! We begin with a discussion about Garry's new book Buckley's Chance: The Incredible True Story of William Buckley and How He Conquered A New World (available from My Bookshop HERE).  From Buckley's remarkable story of survival in colonial Australia we move on to the British Royal family and Prince Andrew's appalling interview and his attempt to distance himself from the Jeffery Epstein scandal. Plus season three of The Crown has just hit Netflix, we get Caro and Corrie's early reviews.  Garry's 'Crush of the Week' is Nigella Lawson for being an ever present foodie inspiration - just don't call it 'food porn' or you'll make Caro even grumpier. Food porn, travel porn, garden porn - it's just not right says Caro.  It's a bumper edition of 'BSF' - Garry's recommending Lonsome Dove by Larry McMurtry and A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie. Caro's been to see Ford v Ferrari and Corrie serves up a chocolate torte with blood plum compote (see recipe on the Facebook page soon HERE. ).  For videos and pics make sure you follow us on Instagram @DontShootPod. Like our Facebook page and hit 'Sign Up' to receive weekly updates HERE.  Email the show via feedback@dontshootpod.com.au 'Don't Shoot The Messenger' is produced, engineered and edited by Jane Nield for Crocmedia.       Flourless Chocolate Torte with Blood Plum Compote(From Feasting: A New Take on Jewish Cooking by Amanda Ruben) IngredientsOlive oil spray for greasing6 eggs100g caster (superfine) sugar100g light brown sugar300g dairy-free dark chocolate couverture, roughly chopped2 tablespoons good-quality ground coffee1 tablespoons Dutch (unsweetened) cocoa powder, to serve Blood Plum Compote1 kg blood plums, quartered, stones removed and roughly choppedJuice of 2 oranges6 long strips of orange zest, approximately 2cm thick85g caster (superfine) sugar1 teaspoon vanilla paste Preheat the oven to 180degrees C. Grease a 25cm (10 inch) round cake tin with olive oil spray and line it with baking paper. In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk the eggs and sugars for about 5 minutes, or until light and creamy. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and leave to cool to room temperature, then slowly pour the melted chocolate into the egg mixture, whisking continuously. Gently fold in the coffee powder. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and place in the oven. Bake for 30minutes, until the torte has risen and feels slightly firm. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin. While the torte is baking, make the blood plum compote. Combine the plums, orange juice and zest and sugar in a large saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer, stirring from time to time, for about 15 minutes, then mix in the vanilla paste and remove from the heat. The fruit should be softened but still holding its shape. To serve, turn the torte out of its tin and transfer to a platter. Dust generously with cocoa powder and serve with the blood plum compote.    

My guest today is a man of many talents and a level of resilience and determination, few possess. We got deep on his latest project, a story about William Buckley. My mind was blown by this story. James is constantly creating and driving the dream forward. I was very fortunate to have him on the show.

Margaret Hoover is the host of “Firing Line,” a public affairs show on PBS that was previously hosted by William Buckley. She joined Errol to discuss her efforts to set the record straight about the legacy of her great-grandfather, President Herbert Hoover, including his food relief efforts in Belgium during World War I. And she weighed in on the future of the modern conservative movement and the Republican Party in the era of the Trump administration. MENTIONED IN THE SHOW American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party John Avlon: A Centrist’s Reality in the Age of Trump Cenk Uygur: How to Lead a Progressive Revolution Maggie Haberman: From City Hall to Trump in the White House JOIN THE CONVERSATION Share your thoughts with the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message.

He stopped what would have been another Indigenous massacre in Victoria, and some see him as the founder of that state.

After living with the Wathaurong aboriginal people for 32 years, Buckley is surprised one day to see a group of white men encamped on a beach.

William Buckley and the Wathaurong people live in the wild of South Western Victoria. Buckley witnesses a lot of internecine violence during this period of many years.

Defining what conservatism is, with help from: The Sharon Statement, Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative, and William Buckley’s Up from Liberalism. We're joined by John Dombroski, founder and president of Grand Canyon Planning. A new Gallup poll finds that immigration is the biggest issue for the Americans surveyed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Half-Arsed History, explore the story of William Buckley, a convict who was transported to Australia only to make a daring escape and live amongst the local indigenous population for decades.

Welcome to Episode 25 of "The Dry CleanerCast" On this months podcast, we are joined by Fred Burton. Fred was the deputy chief of the Counterterrorism division for the State Departments, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). He is currently the vice president of Stratfor, a strategic intelligence and analysis firm tracking global security and international affairs. On this episode we discuss Fred's new book “Beirut Rules”, that looks at the 1984 kidnapping and murder of CIA station William Buckley. You can purchase "Beirut Rules" via our Amazon link here: https://amzn.to/2FMDVks DID YOU ENJOY THIS EPISODE? If so please leave me a tip via PayPal https://www.paypal.me/DRYCLEANERCAST?LOCALE.X=EN_GB SUPPORT THE SHOW PATREON https://www.patreon.com/DryCleanerCast CONNECT WITH US TWITTER https://twitter.com/DryCleanerCast FACEBOOK Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drycleanercast/

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine super early European to Australia William Buckley SOURCES TOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH 

William Buckley conitinues his solitary wanderings in Wathaurong country before making contact with the aboriginal people and being warmly accepted into their midst.

The tale of an escaped convict who lived in the bush for 32 years with the Wathuroung aboriginal people before the settlement of Melbourne.

On April 18, 1983, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated in front of the United States Embassy in Beirut. Those killed in the suicide attack included the entire U.S. intelligence presence in Lebanon at that time. The man sent by the CIA to pick up the pieces was William Buckley.Buckley’s story is the focus of the latest book from New York Times best selling authors Fred Burton and Samuel Katz. In this episode of the podcast, host Ben Sheen sits down with Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton to discuss Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America.Read our latest analysis on global affairs as well as historical perspectives on World War II and more at Stratfor Worldview. If you’re not already a Worldview member, you can subscribe today at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/subscribeRelated Reading: Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America by Fred Burton and Samuel Katz - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532325/beirut-rules-by-fred-burton-and-samuel-m-katz/9781101987469Lessons from Old Case Files by Fred Burton on Stratfor Worldview - https://worldview.stratfor.com/series/lessons-old-case-filesConversation with Former Hostage Charles Glass - https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/conversation-former-hostage-charles-glassHave a question or comment for the Stratfor Podcast? Leave us a message and we may include your comment in a future episode. You can leave a message for our podcast team at 1-512-744-4300 x 3917 or email us at podcast@stratfor.com.

Katherine Hattam who has been a finalist in the National Works on Paper eleven times. Katherine talks about her two stage process of making work, her repeating motif of the table covered in everyday objects and why she is fascinated by the William Buckley story, featured in her 2018 National Works on Paper work He Forgot How To Speak English. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Our 13th episode in the new run (and 195th episode overall) features the Creative Horror Crew all together in the aftermath of Midsummer Scream, reading a story they started to cover at the Midnight Marinara panel the day before! David, Kaela, Allen, Seid, Abysmii, Papreeka and Matt Holley (with special guest appearances by Gracey) wonder: is this verbose tale of a creepy cookbook worth the effort to finish?"The Book of the Ravenous" is credited to William Buckley. Read along here.

Emerging from the Victorian bush in 1835 after thirty-two years with the Wadawurrung people, William Buckley has never ceased surprising Australians. In this episode, hear how an illiterate escaped convict became a rare link between alien cultures. Buckley changed Victorian history forever, and even today his story can still offer us rare insight into pre-colonial […]

Living With The Locals explores the experiences of early European colonists and their relationship with Aboriginal people.

Escaped convict William Buckley lived with the Wathawurung people for more than 30 years. Some say this is where the Aussie saying 'Buckley's chance' came from. Don't miss the second episode of Living With The Locals, as told by historians John Maynard and Victoria Haskins.

In 1835, settlers in Australia discovered a European man dressed in kangaroo skins, a convict who had escaped an earlier settlement and spent 32 years living among the natives of southern Victoria. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review the extraordinary life of William Buckley, the so-called "wild white man" of colonial Australia. We'll also try to fend off scurvy and puzzle over some colorful letters. Intro: Radar pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote a poem about ironically being stopped by a radar gun. The programming language Ook! is designed to be understood by orangutans. Sources for our feature on William Buckley: John Morgan, Life and Adventures of William Buckley, 1852. R.S. Brain, Letters From Victorian Pioneers, 1898. Francis Peter Labillière, Early History of the Colony of Victoria, 1878. James Bonwick, Port Phillip Settlement, 1883. William Thomas Pyke, Savage Life in Australia, 1889. Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Stories of Australia in the Early Days, 1897. John M. White, "Before the Mission Station: From First Encounters to the Incorporation of Settlers Into Indigenous Relations of Obligation," in Natasha Fijn, Ian Keen, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Pickering, eds., Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II, 2012. Patrick Brantlinger, "Eating Tongues: Australian Colonial Literature and 'the Great Silence'," Yearbook of English Studies 41:2 (2011), 125-139. Richard Broome, "Buckley, William," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004. Marjorie J. Tipping, "Buckley, William (1780–1856)," Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1966. Reminiscenses of James Buckley Who Lived for Thirty Years Among the Wallawarro or Watourong Tribes at Geelong Port Phillip, Communicated by Him to George Langhorne (manuscript), State Library of Victoria (accessed Jan. 28, 2018). "William Buckley," Culture Victoria (accessed Jan. 28, 2018). Jill Singer, "Here's a True Hero," [Melbourne] Herald Sun, June 8, 2001, 22. "Australia's Most Brazen, Infamous Jailbreaks," ABC Premium News, Aug. 19, 2015. "Extraordinary Tale of Our Early Days," Centralian Advocate, April 6, 2010, 13. Bridget McManus, "Buckley's Story Revisited: Documentary," The Age, April 8, 2010, 15. Albert McKnight, "Legend Behind Saying 'You've Got Buckley's'," Bega District News, Oct. 21, 2016, 11. David Adams, "Wild Man Lives Anew," [Melbourne] Sunday Age, Feb. 16, 2003, 5. Leighton Spencer, "Convict Still a Controversial Figure," Echo, Jan. 10, 2013, 14. "Fed: Museum Buys Indigenous Drawings of Convict," AAP General News Wire, April 23, 2012. The drawing above is Buckley Ran Away From Ship, by the Koorie artist Tommy McRae, likely drawn in the 1880s. From Culture Victoria. Listener mail: Yoshifumi Sugiyama and Akihiro Seita, "Kanehiro Takaki and the Control of Beriberi in the Japanese Navy," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 106:8 (August 2013), 332–334. Wikipedia, "Takaki Kanehiro" (accessed Feb. 9, 2018). Yoshinori Itokawa, "Kanehiro Takaki (1849–1920): A Biographical Sketch," Journal of Nutrition 106:5, 581–8. Alan Hawk, "The Great Disease Enemy, Kak’ke (Beriberi) and the Imperial Japanese Army," Military Medicine 171:4 (April 2006), 333-339. Alexander R. Bay, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease, 2012. "Scott and Scurvy," Idle Words, March 6, 2010. Marcus White, "James Lind: The Man Who Helped to Cure Scurvy With Lemons," BBC News, Oct. 4, 2016. Jonathan Lamb, "Captain Cook and the Scourge of Scurvy," BBC History, Feb. 17, 2011. Wikipedia, "Vitamin C: Discovery" (accessed Feb. 9, 2018). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Miles, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

The concept of Hard America vs. Soft America. A clip from William Buckley's show Firing Line in 1966, with guest Hugh Hefner. Hefner's (negative) impact on the culture. The guardrails that keep a society on track.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

William Buckley, who would at various times also be known as "The Wild White Man" and "The Anglo-Australian giant", was a man who bore little respect for convention, authority, nor the confines of society. Over the course of his life his experiences would range from fighting in the Napoleonic wars, sailing across the globe, and spending a significant part of his life living in the Australian bush, prior to the settlement of the continent's south-east. After him, the expression "you've got Buckley's chance" has come to describe having no chance for success, or endurance. So was his life a success or failure?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Buckley, Terry Anderson, the Lebanon Hostage Crisis and the Iran Contra Scandal...On This Day.   Additional Music: 06 Ghosts l by NIN

A very historic episode in which we escape from Alcatraz, Vicki disputes the height of convict William Buckley and Ben rescues a comatose friend. - We betray our papier mâché instructor by abusing the craft to escape prison. - We dispute the height of convict William Buckley. - Ben attends a bachelor party, argues about Endor and rescues a comatose friend. - Ben cuts Coke out of his diet and expects his dick V to show up at any minute. - Vicki asks someone out and gets ‘the brushoff’.

A very historic episode in which we escape from Alcatraz, Vicki disputes the height of convict William Buckley and Ben rescues a comatose friend. - We betray our papier mâché instructor by abusing the craft to escape prison. - We dispute the height of convict William Buckley. - Ben attends a bachelor party, argues about Endor and rescues a comatose friend. - Ben cuts Coke out of his diet and expects his dick V to show up at any minute. - Vicki asks someone out and gets ‘the brushoff’.

Na edição desta semana do PBX (uma parceria Expresso / Radar) há “Ligações Perigosas” – revisitamos o romance francês alvo de inúmeras adaptações e que serviu de base ao texto de Heiner Muller para “Quarteto”, peça em cena nos Artistas Unidos. Fomos ao teatro mas também falamos de cinema: “Best of Enemies” é o documentário sobre os 10 debates televisivos que juntaram Gore Vidal e William Buckley em 1968. E a música do tempo em que havia PBX: Psicopátria, os GNR em 1986

This week we have sexpert Darnell joining us to discuss all things sex and penis size. Women who have orgasms walk differently,  Blasphemy in India, The Story of William Buckley, Pot for prisoners and the future of internet and freedom. featuring the panel from our 1st ever show (+Andy) - Fred Nations, J Dot, Andy Establishment and Darnell for this unique, sometimes crass, liberated syndication that has been downloaded worldwide.   @highhorseradio on twitter & High Horse Radio @ iTunes + libsyn.com to download and  subscribe     (@frednations, @jdotgater)      

I think that many smart people, particularly on the Left, make a really ill-considered assumption, to wit, that “Republican” means “Conservative.” I don't mean lower case “c” conservative, as in wanting to maintain the status quo. Nearly all (there are important exceptions) twentieth-century Republicans were conservatives in that generic sense. Rather, I mean capital “c” conservative, that is, pro-religion, traditional family centered, militarily hawkish, arch-patriotic, Constitution protecting, States rights shielding, free enterprise loving, individual responsibility promoting, values matter Conservative. It was only in the 1980s that a goodly number of Republicans endorsed this set of beliefs. They were believers, it's just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it's fair to say they still don't. In his wonderfully written, witty, and engaging book The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2010), David Farber tells the story of how Conservatives took over the Republican Party and reshaped American politics. He does so using a devise that I find particularly appropriate for any story of political change, namely, through the lives of the people who founded, grew, and led the movement. Farber, who clearly believes that leadership matters a great deal in democratic politics (I couldn't agree more), has a talent for linking biography to political history. Farber's sketches of Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush show us the degree to which their personalities shaped the rise (and fall) of American Conservatism. Each vignette is a pleasure to read and full of enlightening and entertaining observations. And though Farber pulls no punches (he does not shrink, for example, from calling a liar a liar), it's clear that he respects his subjects and suggests that we should respect them too. In his estimation (and mine as well), they were not the collection of benighted, fearful, blinkered, country-bumpkin bigots that you can read about in The Nation. They were believers, it's just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it's fair to say they still don't. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think that many smart people, particularly on the Left, make a really ill-considered assumption, to wit, that “Republican” means “Conservative.” I don’t mean lower case “c” conservative, as in wanting to maintain the status quo. Nearly all (there are important exceptions) twentieth-century Republicans were conservatives in that generic sense. Rather, I mean capital “c” conservative, that is, pro-religion, traditional family centered, militarily hawkish, arch-patriotic, Constitution protecting, States rights shielding, free enterprise loving, individual responsibility promoting, values matter Conservative. It was only in the 1980s that a goodly number of Republicans endorsed this set of beliefs. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. In his wonderfully written, witty, and engaging book The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2010), David Farber tells the story of how Conservatives took over the Republican Party and reshaped American politics. He does so using a devise that I find particularly appropriate for any story of political change, namely, through the lives of the people who founded, grew, and led the movement. Farber, who clearly believes that leadership matters a great deal in democratic politics (I couldn’t agree more), has a talent for linking biography to political history. Farber’s sketches of Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush show us the degree to which their personalities shaped the rise (and fall) of American Conservatism. Each vignette is a pleasure to read and full of enlightening and entertaining observations. And though Farber pulls no punches (he does not shrink, for example, from calling a liar a liar), it’s clear that he respects his subjects and suggests that we should respect them too. In his estimation (and mine as well), they were not the collection of benighted, fearful, blinkered, country-bumpkin bigots that you can read about in The Nation. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think that many smart people, particularly on the Left, make a really ill-considered assumption, to wit, that “Republican” means “Conservative.” I don’t mean lower case “c” conservative, as in wanting to maintain the status quo. Nearly all (there are important exceptions) twentieth-century Republicans were conservatives in that generic sense. Rather, I mean capital “c” conservative, that is, pro-religion, traditional family centered, militarily hawkish, arch-patriotic, Constitution protecting, States rights shielding, free enterprise loving, individual responsibility promoting, values matter Conservative. It was only in the 1980s that a goodly number of Republicans endorsed this set of beliefs. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. In his wonderfully written, witty, and engaging book The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2010), David Farber tells the story of how Conservatives took over the Republican Party and reshaped American politics. He does so using a devise that I find particularly appropriate for any story of political change, namely, through the lives of the people who founded, grew, and led the movement. Farber, who clearly believes that leadership matters a great deal in democratic politics (I couldn’t agree more), has a talent for linking biography to political history. Farber’s sketches of Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush show us the degree to which their personalities shaped the rise (and fall) of American Conservatism. Each vignette is a pleasure to read and full of enlightening and entertaining observations. And though Farber pulls no punches (he does not shrink, for example, from calling a liar a liar), it’s clear that he respects his subjects and suggests that we should respect them too. In his estimation (and mine as well), they were not the collection of benighted, fearful, blinkered, country-bumpkin bigots that you can read about in The Nation. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think that many smart people, particularly on the Left, make a really ill-considered assumption, to wit, that “Republican” means “Conservative.” I don’t mean lower case “c” conservative, as in wanting to maintain the status quo. Nearly all (there are important exceptions) twentieth-century Republicans were conservatives in that generic sense. Rather, I mean capital “c” conservative, that is, pro-religion, traditional family centered, militarily hawkish, arch-patriotic, Constitution protecting, States rights shielding, free enterprise loving, individual responsibility promoting, values matter Conservative. It was only in the 1980s that a goodly number of Republicans endorsed this set of beliefs. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. In his wonderfully written, witty, and engaging book The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2010), David Farber tells the story of how Conservatives took over the Republican Party and reshaped American politics. He does so using a devise that I find particularly appropriate for any story of political change, namely, through the lives of the people who founded, grew, and led the movement. Farber, who clearly believes that leadership matters a great deal in democratic politics (I couldn’t agree more), has a talent for linking biography to political history. Farber’s sketches of Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush show us the degree to which their personalities shaped the rise (and fall) of American Conservatism. Each vignette is a pleasure to read and full of enlightening and entertaining observations. And though Farber pulls no punches (he does not shrink, for example, from calling a liar a liar), it’s clear that he respects his subjects and suggests that we should respect them too. In his estimation (and mine as well), they were not the collection of benighted, fearful, blinkered, country-bumpkin bigots that you can read about in The Nation. They were believers, it’s just that they believed things that most members of the East Coast commentariat (at least before the rise of Limbaugh, et al.) did not. From the results of the recent mid-term elections in the United States, I think it’s fair to say they still don’t. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William F. Buckley, the apologist for the terror that was, enjoys the good life.[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE] Script titbit:Those of you that see conservatism as vile, may I raise a small voice of protest? It's not that we don't have an ideology, we do, the sole purpose of our Ideology is to satisfy those of our constituents that don't have the requisite analytical powers to understand that which doesn't exist. The world has elements in it that are so complex that the exercise of trying to change it for an undemonstrated credo appears to me to be impertinent! There has to be an authority even if they're judged to be wrong... Because the alternative to that is reason and that simply won't do you know, our praetorian duty will always be to keep Pandora's box firmly closed.Links:Noam Chomsky on William F. Buckley's "The Firing Line" in 1969 Noam Chomsky's Obituary on the Big think William Buckley and Gore Vidal: 1968 Democratic Convention Chicago Music:Charlie Parker: Old FolksRomones and Lemmy: R.O.M.O.N.E.S