this. the first part was the attack information, the medical records and all of that stuff. the second part is depicted in the movie where mark salter and i have a discussion operationally that the campaign is going to run. this is how your life is going to change. the third part of the vet was the questionnaire which was really the interview with john mccain. and so what john mccain and sarah palin said to each other is unknown to me. it is known to them. the questionnaire that amy called her house did and the results of it, you know we didn't have the inside of lack of preparedness obviously and we will talk about that more. ..

>> questioning whether students should go to college. whether college can be seen

as a salutary endeavor of the and regeneration of. and a question whether in some ways a disk denied has occurred in to what takes place at the highest level of academia and who the sense of a distance growing of everyman america up. deeper in the backdrop lies arguments in another recent book called coming apart that describes those upwardly mobile citizens and those that tend not to be a part of what you call the

america dick sweepstakes. it is a very timely moment to hear his thoughts about the divide that is open between intellectuals and the broader american citizenry. he is the author of this book "blue collar intellectuals" publish buy isi books. his other book is a conservative history of the american left. appearing in unnumbered mediatek outlets hardball, donahue, fox and friends and numerous other public programs appearing in national glo, the review and american conservative and right some monday column weekly and lives in his native massachusetts with

his wife and children. also like to acknowledge the co-sponsor of this the been to the intercollegiate studies institute we have had a fruitful relationship with them. isi has been teaching future leaders of the time is principles that make america free and prosperous. membership is free to students and professors perhaps even on the students are professors but the benefit from the rich program of on campus events seminars, conferences and fellowship and internship opportunities. those who have not looked into the summer honors program, i recommend it to strong labor is the unviable experience.

three field to fill out a card now please welcome mr. daniel flynn. [applause] >> thank you. 84 having me. coming at the and opportune time i think i could get to a half-hour out of it. i come to you by many different modes of transportation with planes trains and automobiles. i almost did not make it because of the storm. i was reminded why i wrote to "blue collar

intellectuals" you'll learn a lot from people the way they pass a time when they travel. on the plane there was a television set in my face. the airport lounge televisions blaring people cannot be alone with their own thoughts. no quiet place to read. in the back of a cab, a television set. on the train is probably the place to learn about people the most. in my lifetime, the primary activity that people engaged and they read magazines and newspapers and books. most people are playing with gadgets. texting, video games, they are not reading.

i cannot help but notice how they use the leisure time has largely become a waste of time. almost aggressiveness and evasive nest to the stupidity. part of the problem might address lies with the every man. another half lies with intellectuals. there are a lot of intellectuals lament the dummy down but to not -- to not consider them a part of it. i do. we're on the campus right now. campuses are cloistered from the rest of society. you can say they are the intellectual ghetto. academics who speak at conferences and write books and articles that nobody reads a and speak the insider jargon.

they don't even understand. my book is about a time in america the intellectuals open to the conversation to all comers in been dragging his arms ever lower. and then most people think about money with the ameritech a dream. rags riches. and then and then with the betterment that is what blue-collar intellectuals is about. in a more that better fits the description or the american dream with the

fellow who knows well -- will as the gigantic story of civilization. and there is the multicolored set to and will durant the interesting part today is his father was an immigrant has been in december factory a size of 11. but his dad could not read your right. writing a story of philosophy. 1927 this was the best-selling book in the united states. a book about philosophy and

the best-selling book in america starting off as a series of lectures at a place called the labor temple where people came in to pay a quarter or a dime those lectures became what we call the little blue book. man they sold millions of them. those who did not have the money to buy a hard by . >> bought those books than they were bound together in a big book. only known for printing crossword puzzle books. somewhere there is the

illiterate which is the dad but the next generation it tops the best-seller list. that is only in america story part of the american dream. will durant always did what he was not supposed to be doing. i call him the apostate historian. he went to the cemetery and made his mother proud. he did not find a guide, he found atheism. he fell in with a different church of socialist and anarchists. and started to give lectures. somewhere racy and they build them and lecture with sex and the catholic church. and his mother who was so proud to become a catholic priest learned of a front-page better son had

been excommunicated. he was an apostate. literally. they anarchistic september go if you are convert the catholics will accept you but there will not make you the pope said day after tomorrow. the anarchist were so small they were willing to make whoever their pope. and will durant became the principal of their school the principal and guidance counselor all rolled into one. students would build with snowball's random a girl's would get up and start skipping rope. added certain point* will durant went native. spending a lot of time in a

classroom with a 15 year-old. he fell in love with her. even at the time it was scandalous. cheryl the skated to city hall for their wedding ceremony. the judge was presiding durant as a cradle robber under no circumstance can you consummate the marriage until she is 16. the socialists love tim and called himself a socialist to the end of the day's. so win it he went to the soviet union and realize the country of his dreams did not match up with his reality, rather than come home as some eight

ideological tourists have done to proclaim the soviet union, will came back after months and the soviet union to tell the fellow leftists this ticket to prison, they did not like this there would not publish the articles in "harper's" or the land take, they said don't dare publish a book on this. the apostate historian because they have the high-density to write the history of the world greco his ph.d. was in full loss of the. worse than adding his wife she had not graduated from college. historians did not look kindly upon this. this is when historian zero more and more he was a

general list. and this is the time of the proverbial historian with the handicapped was bn in the fiji islands. it was that narrow. >> historians did not care for that. >> but he always marched to the beat of his own drummer. someone who did his own thing. looking at a snapshot he is damaging himself. over the long haul, this was a good thing. everyone found a way to like will durant.

this historian gave him so much grief. 1968 awarded the pulitzer prize. his politics, if you look at that, he was a stalwart fdr, truman, a and in 1970 as a republican president of the presidential medal of freedom. being destined to fail lasting 68 years. and people talk about not living with someone else? they died within days of each other 1981.

eve been his religion the catholic church excommunicated him. they can around. said in a stirring last rates and actually had catholic university's would invite him to give to graduation day commencement address this. one intellectual disliked him intensely. when on the cusp end of the story of philosophy on the bestseller less -- list. a guy by the name of mortimer from working-class background in the grandparents also went to

columbia and is basically exiled because he could not quite hector ringgit john do we prepare you contradict yourself and as durant was that the village doing the same thing at the people's institute. it is like coke and pepsi. you cannot always tell the difference but there is a fierce rivalry. it shows do that being such enthusiast this not necessarily make you a good man. u.s. so jealous he wanted to read a review of the book cassette to appear in the

nation magazine. not always the most admirable of characters. ulysses c2 dislike. one that is very seductive the basic philosophy is education should not be the avocation of youth but the vocation of a lifetime. something you do throw your life. but in large part they come about mortar merge dropped out of high-school never bothered to finish the undergraduate degree but yet one edition it up with a ph.d. from the i believe

education. who does that? taking a degree of fame and in 1953 on the cover of "time" magazine and should they commit suicide? [laughter] adler was a professor. education ashley middle mambro by johnnie the appleseed. right after world war ii we just defeated the nazis and the japanese with a new challenge on the cold war. americans want to know what is about our civilization worth defending? great books provide them with that.

the union halls, new york mca, nurses come and mechanics mean to discuss shakespeare in "the federalist papers." surely it is a great thing. offering education and that was the big project that set of books sold by a two britannica door-to-door. that is why a people resent him because he could sell the product. they could sell flat wire. before 80 era of good door to door rapist.

the 80 antidote's door to door with the 54 volumes said it also goes to something about the american people to buttress the idea the best educated people in the history of the world. i think it was. if you go door to door to give away 1 million sets i don't think he would find 1 million willing recipients. but somehow they sold 54 million. absolutely amazing. the basic dilemma and challenge to america, the middle of american democracy , how you get to the education reserve to four the ruby even the of

nine democratic societies? heidi make that of everybody in a democratic society? everybody hears education is fit for a king. if he does not get this education the kingdom may become a tyranny and everyone is in trouble. maybe a utopian proposition to think education fit for a king is education for every body. to the extent to which we don't have the education fit for a king of the democracy will suffer. in the kingdom, the one guy rules. in america we have 300 million. but aguilera's colleague and friend, the chancellor and

president of the university of chicago, if you don't have that liberal arts education in a free society you have people who were ill-equipped to govern their fellow citizens and cannot equip to govern their own souls. having big dreams it did not have been. of the biggest one day kill the original munsters of the midway what does the ball have to do with education? but they got rid of the

football team but when of the things when hutton's is running they hired a guy by the name of milton friedman. and his memoirs he remembered years year chicago days during the hutchins' adler era of baptist institution to which the good presbyterian center children to be converted to catholicism of by a two. it is tempting to think of milton friedman as having been born in chicago economics department coming out fully formed in a banker's suit with inert glass is. that is not the way it went. milton friedman was awesome wire very different. he was from new jersey.

from there is in a grant family had and home businesses. he would skip ice cream and the ice-cream parlor that his family yawned and got a state scholarship to rutgers. he also waited tables. not for a wage. they gave him food and he remembers the resulted he had to rush to his nec's class and could never make it on time. also shattering the later economic outlook is enthusiasm for capitalism. quite the on to procure at rutgers. they had them corny antiquated traditions where all the freshmen had to weird green ties and white socks. he went to the freshman

dorms door to door selling creed ties -- green ties and white socks. he partnered with barnes & noble for the book buyback scheme where the three men got a cut of all of the books barnes & noble bought back then got another cut when they sold them back to the next dance sometimes he would resell them on his own. he is an entrepreneur. my point* is milton friedman was a guy rather controversial made the statement economic source scientific theory is only useful in relations to how much it can fro -- conforms to the world that we levin. milton friedman economics works because milton

friedman works. if you contrast him with the other great economist with john maynard keynes, not just different philosophies of backgrounds. he was born into academia his mom was the social gospel do-gooder like a professional volunteer. maynard keynes went to eat-in and fancy other british schools. he cavorted with the socialist bisexual click known as the bloomsbury group. you really cannot get further away from new jersey as that. sometimes people who live in comfort can afford to have ideas that the work in their real world. keynes was living up in the third.

he pushed a lot of ethereal theories. you cannot say that about mehl turned -- milton friedman were also say he was just an economist that appealed to others. winning the nobel prize 1976 but the reason why so many others know of him that these of which she could convey complex idea is to delay man. he did this sta starting in 1966, his book and certainly on pbs with his tempore series free to choose. competing with the likes of the dukes of hazzard drying millions of viewers every week in the 1980's. i don't know if that point* will comprehended what they were watching watching the seventies turn into the 80s and the template layout was

the policies partly here and partly a broad. and he related very interesting story and around that time he called a man very different from milton friedman. being led diminutive professor, calling of very different man the fourth great period of time a longshoreman was quite mysterious. and a man of mystery.

hoffer said i don't to mean three men. he did not bother to meet with him. the may never have heard of eric hoffer if not for the american general stationed in france 1951. everybody wants to read what the president is reading. betty wanted to read eric offer. a bizarre phenomenon that intellectual was not a harvard professor or someone on tv but a longshoreman who had a day job quoting and unloading ships on the docks

of san francisco and one pom chopped off working the dangerous job. he kept that job for the next 15 years. he was a writer and the longshoremen. a working man first. he was assessed with the hitler stolid and decade. one of the best books of the 20th century it tells you why so many smart people did stupid things in the 1930's and '40's. why so many independent people joined a herd. and then into the next decade eric copper began a one-man rebuttal to the counter culture.

198, 1967 lyndon johnson saw him on television with a one hour special on cbs news. johnson liked it so much he invited him into the white house what was supposed if five men it but what turns into 55 minute they hit it off. at&t 10 apologize to johnson to not being able to attend a state dinner he was invited to because hoffer did not own a tie. johnson said that is okay. next time show up without your tie and i will take mine off in solidarity. they toasted from scut together. [laughter] in this very strange meeting between johnson and the only intellectual who liked him at the time. fast or over a generation

and the beer summit obama's obama's, the former harvard law student meeting with officer james crowley and because they had arrested

eric hoffer did not own a telephone or a television did not drive a car.

had no tie. three bradbury the science-fiction writer, the strange creature, technophobia sci-fi writer. when he was growing up he did not have a lot going for him. first of all, unlike eric hoffer he was done third nerd and move to los angeles when he was 14 and good right around i n rollerskates hounding judy garland and clark gable for autographs. the vision of this saying give me your autograph. it was enough to scare the outcast. he was the outcast among outcasts. the of a finning is he was very poor. so poor that ray bradbury

and the brother shared a pullout couch in the living room all the way until bradbury got married. i read about that in the american conservative i also write about him in blue-collar intellectuals. but the point* is when it came time to graduate high-school 1938 to and go to college, the tragedy is he could not. just like rick's santorum was talking. he did not have the money. it was a depression. rather than go to college you went to the library three days a week. he did this for years. you read and read and read. it struck me at 18 years old he had a better understanding of education

and then our society does all of these years later. today, all people care about is that piece of paper. they could care less the learning and the education that comes in between. ray bradbury could care less about the diploma. he cared about the learning. one of those intellectuals that is still alive where did you go to college? the proud alumnus of the los angeles public library. that is wonderful. my voice needed that. the common denominator denominator, lowe's, minh intellectuals the outlook all over the board.

philosophy, economics, histo ry, one common denominator. it is books. reading. people who better themselves to make america better because they are readers. i cannot help look of the society to see the book is under assault. we see the closing of borders books last year as a sign of this. but even more so every midsized cities sees the bookstore is closing. a governor wants to replace the books for school kids with ipads. in my home state of massachusetts fees of the preschool people a few years ago headmaster made a

decision to get rid of all of the books in the library. $40,000 per year for an education. instead of taking the money they would normally use on books to buy 35 screen television and a cappuccino machine and renamed the library of learning center. he said this is 1984. if you know, his book, a lot of people the surface reading is that it is about censorship. on one level it is. but did deeper meaning of fahrenheit 451 it is it is about a society hold in to the literacy for passive entertainment.

nobody cared because nobody read books anymore. i am not saying that is rarely are but this seems we have taken a few steps in that direction. to illustrate this point* i will close. i did a lot of research for the book was archives and interviews. not to embarrass anyone but with a few under j. quotations we're be kayak as a society, it is a new form of letters say. chairman jane the emotional intelligence, number three, who cares if the kid can't read? the value of books is overstated. number four, if you're not on myspace you do not exist. number five.

we need multitasking as much as we need air. black is white. down it is up. stupid is the news wire. thank you very much. i look forward to your questions. [applause] in. >> that was very interesting. i have been concerned about another development at the academic institution a world which is limiting of language.

there is a jar again that has developed. a few years ago i was reading a lot of reports. i noticed the crossover from one discipline to another, about 1,000 words is what we are limited to. have you noted anything like that? >> problematic? [laughter] social construction and? [laughter] >> i see it more in the u.n. system and humanitarian assistance and international law. it is very concerning. they do not get the nuances. >> the question is about jargon?

even mechanics have jargon. there is a marine jargon you look at me like i had nine heads. to an extent even the academics have jargon but it is a healthy thing. my broker help demonstrates this it is healthy for those intellectuals to ring gauge with the world. you have a difficult time if all of your communications is laced with jargon. 15 years ago of professor pohl top-ranked from the year can never city. the post modernity constructionist journal was contained the academic articles that did not make sense to him. he decided to ride a parity of the articles to make every disclaims regarding physics and social sciences

like how fat to contributed to mathematicians. he sent it on a lark and it was published. it says something about academia that something like that would be published. it should have been a reality check. the professors should have gotten mad at themselves but unfortunately they got mad at the guy pulling the prank. that is even funnier. >> all of the blue-collar intellectuals report are there any reason to

blue-collar intellectuals? but the people do not have more than a high-school degree but to a lot of great people. this is the opportunity for blue-collar intellectuals? >> of course. but there is less of them. there is a void. not many who are reaching out to two curious educated laypeople. they want to talk among themselves. one guy who why do not want to agree with, ken burns makes these films every two years. i wrote to a scathing column but at least the makes an ever. people think again burns has

a ph.d.. i don't think so. he has a history degree like i do. he makes the past, live which is not easy to do. thomas all and every in like myself, he writes books on economics every few years. he is another example but it is few and far between. i have not read this book but a would say about the whole controversy and santorum comment about college not been for everybody the easy part of the equation is college is not for everybody. the harder part that people don't get that everyboby is not for college. once you let everybody yen, you dbody the easy part of the equation is college is not for everybody. the harder part that people don't get that everyboby is not for college. once you let everybody yen, you do not uplift them but to bring college-bound a few notches.

you will not uplift education indicator to the uneducated. you see this with a inflation and the quid pro quo phenomenon where someone pays the tuition that is so exorbitant they feel entitled to get a grade and there is pressure -- pressure on those professors to give the upgrades because a lot of money comes into the institution. that is part of the problem and there is a debate if college is for everybody. if it costs $40,000 per year, it is not for everybody if they want to go or not. >> along the same lines talk about how people go to college today, they can put

it resume. something i have noticed that charles murray brought up to speak at the school that a lot of students feel one of the reasons they go to school to get to a piece of paper attitude, they understand why they have judaic fed general education courses with a political science major to take a fine arts. does college need to do better job to explain why they need the zero well-rounded education or it is a path to specialized education? >> was greatly influenced by a book called the higher learning in america. basically what they wanted to do was essentially provide a great books education that someone who

wanted professional training would be better off going to the professions themselves or set up professional schools but to have that side-by-side one overtakes see other. they want to have a faculty to teach all of this among other goals that they had. there is the notion of the liberal arts education. that they are equipped to be a free man in a free society. without it you are ill-equipped to to govern your own soul. i think the more and more we see college associated as a utilitarian four years with the payoff of the good job that we do not see college

in the right light beer. if you do take the liberal arts courses, urie equipped to do a lot of things. i am a sure some of the language that they don't use anymore and stuff gets obsolete. why don't we stick with this stuff that works? >> i am from the american conservative magazine. i thought i would challenge what you brought up one reason why the program is useful because in a democracy it is important the general citizenry have the knowledge so they are fit to roll. you may be familiar with will more kendall who argued it is not the intellectual

qualifications but moral qualification. that ground for general education may not be as high. conversely, those who will exert that disproportionate influence on society, and the upper crust, don't they need to be the focus? isn't that why it is a good, the idea colleges limited to the most ambitious and intellectually capable other than a general education? >> the first part, i did not read a lot of will more can go. there is not a lot and reading this section of friendship that is about morals. it is the instruction to his son how to live the good life it is intellectual but it is also moral instruction.

the bible was a great book. levying both fellow on french ship. have many of those people have the event in your life? these books better intellectual endeavors is a moral component. bringing up adler before who was obsessed with great books but did not make him a great man. he had a big ego somebody who gets into the verbal spats with john to read gertrude stein lower the publishers simon & schuster. simon said you understand philosophy. i will give day tutorial.

i will be socrates. he came off as a bit error again. and his life, despite reading of the great books, i am reading his letters and the papers at the university chicago. writing letters basically to manipulate her to sue him for divorce which she eventually succeeds in doing and had bad girlfriend also up to be the new mrs. adler. unbeknownst to him, the new much younger mrs. adolor had a boyfriend who had a criminal background. some of gatherers friends were concerned and took out a private investigator and found that he was insured to a great amount of money and

suspected the worst. so adler got his divorce but the pending nuptial look in his face. if you pay attention to the books he was promoting it may not work out that way. he did marry a lady a few years later with gave him $0.2. he is in easy punching bag and in a lot of stuff that is sketchy but sometimes people who were flawed make great contributions. it is such as the saints. it does hit the question. some intellectual stuff, this is making the moral%? he was into every fad that came along. the ozone there, but i could

not help to admire that a guy. they have the right idea about education. >> i am with the army staff with all on time now the department the over educated white guy. [laughter] but the leading intellectuals did fine in the old country. the whole idea of america is based on the idea that blue-collar people have the intellectual and artistic capabilities and they could run with those. my son and began to read like a maniac i knew he would do great things. going to libraries but i

wonder if you count the mondays terrific intellectual some of the great union leaders other early 20th century. they were very intellectual and very blue-collar. in the '60s and '70s there was some fantastically brilliant spring mayors. budget to one area now that is open not intellectual and the private space but. >> one of the guys in the book eric hoffer was a longtime union member part of the international longshoremen and white house union. and his union was run by

harry bridges who was a communist. eric hoffer to the union as a second family. he had one family in the sand and cisco, the osbourne and a second family, the union. even though harry bridges was on the other side of the fence politically, eric hoffer never really raised his voice. he was more of a cause and a union it. >> strange? he wrote the book called the true believer. did he do that as a union member? when he got out and was known as the professor, .

>> added know there's a lot of people like eric hoffer to be the most fascinating figure the 20th century because reno everything there is no about everyone. we don't know when iraqi was born. and two-- filling out a security and the big birthday boy a got blind then miraculously he regains his site and is reading everything he could get his hands on. it is believable because he was so ridiculous it. his father died then he went to west like so many people in america up. i am convinced 95% is made up.