detriment of wider society. in >> thank you. [applause] >> stay as long as he would like. please buy the book. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress with their reading this summer. >> first of all, thanks to c-span for all you do on this front.

it's a very important service to get to the country. my folks are watching us. my kids would get a kick out of it. i got a pretty extensive reading list coming up now not only for the summer but the next year. i thought i would start out with recommendations for folks prayer for people under pressure written by a former member of the dutch parliament. he knows about pressure and i can confirm him. i knew one, troublesome young men has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliamentary ms. churchill. and motivated by a member of the house freedom caucus. we have 40 or 50 great folks tried to get their country back on straight. just kind of represent the people more closely. do what the people want to do. this book will give me a little motivation there. next-line the title may not give

it away but it's caught on civilization by greg coughlin. he came in breach and foreign policy one day and just an amazing mind on foreign policy. and i'm so much from him. his subtitle is urban geopolitics in a time of chaos. maybe at first bludgeon, unlike my source of grounding for international policy, but his thesis is that of the certainty and instability and chaos we see around the globe, which we are clearly seen is driven by the urban rural split in our country. with the growth of the urban cities, a little bit more detachment from the jeffersonian yeoman farmer, teacher of themcome and nationalism in the positive sense and that may be

we need a little bigger dose of history and i haven't finished the book. i started reading about it. next-line common desire of nations that oliver o. donovan with high the recommended that political theology. obviously that's probably the issue of our day with isis and debate over archons to tuition, role of the judeo-christian tradition, and how did islam get into this conversation in the desired nation crisis, most of you probably know the jewish tradition and christianity really is to have a nice conversation around aristotle about her 1000. the conversation is possible but it requires community of thought. aristotle is one nice place to be. plenty of berries. they mention a few coming up. we need to err brothers and sisters in the hotspots that a

reformation might not be a bad idea and enlightenment would be a good idea. those are the things i'll be reading about a map. more temporary extortion by peter schweizer. i read it a few years back. i will give it another look. where the politics broken. everyone back home thinks there's this left wing right wing war going on between the parties, right-wingers, left-wingers. i talked to bernie sanders at a white house christmas party in a shared my view that's not the case. most of the case has to do with maybe the middle doling out $4 trillion to the insider cronies in d.c. that is a stronger explanation for why the politics is broken. schweizer pursues that really well. correlated with elections, committee assignments, everything up here. voting records, et cetera.

he traces them with the thin evidence. the next one is a shameless plug called american underdog by congressman named david brat. unplug a man stuff. as wide ranging. i have a friend helping me put it together. i put together lecture notes over 20 years when i taught economics. basically since i ran out its american themes. since then, i went 30,000 feet up in the air. the three pillars that have made our civilization the greatest i think, the greatest country on earth. the three pillars that hold up the foundation include the judeo-christian tradition. i went to print them seminary of economics and not offend.

roughly the princeton seminary and studied hebrew. the shale christian tradition is the fact that local law and then in 1776, also dividing intervention or not you can make up your mind that not one. adams myth conjured up free-market across the pond in england, scotland doing economics and ethics as well. and so, a lot of great thinkers living together. religion, philosophy, economics, political philosophy in the past. not so many doing it today. that is kind of like these books for my reading list at the next one is given to me by a four-star general a few weeks ago. combat ready by thomas hampton. by all accounts are military army, navy, air force and the weakest level since post-world

war ii troops, ships, planes, if better. it is an analysis of combat readiness and i recommend that one highly based on what i've heard. the next one, how god became king. new testament scholar of note. political theology, political philosophy. how god became king and not necessarily what you might think at first blush. maybe a david and goliath malcolm gladwell explanation that the king in this case is a humble king. next-line by sociologists, again not a hostile time, but if you look at the countries who have strong civil liberties, strong political rights, women in the workforce, protections, all sort christianity. the reformation and i want to explore little more deeply.

biography, george washington are trying to make my way through by jerry newcombe was given to me as a gift about a year ago after he entered office at them going to do my best on that one. washington is one of those amazing figures when you read about him that i say about him. all men and women loved him and respect him. there is something to this guy that affects your critique other extra significant and why read about him, the more i see that i can never get enough teamwork resonates with such an founder and some argue the founder, the indispensable man, the one to whom all the others looked up and loved and did. he did take notes on people like that.

again, thank you c-span for the opportunity to share a few books i'll take a peek at. the meetings around the 10 counties and most people get stimulated by this intellectual exchange. i sure do. thank you for i do. happy reading. thank you.

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