biographies of every president inspired by conversation with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for successful presidency. in this presidential election year as americans decide who should lead our country this collection offers perspectives into the lives and events that forged each president's leadership style. to learn more about all our presidents and the books featured historians visit c-span.org/thepresidents. available in paper gap -- taper back, , hard book an e-book wherever books are sold. >> and now on booktv we would like to whine but some programs from our archives with political satirist p. j. o'rourke. over the past 20 years he has appeared on booktv close to 20 times. first up in 2007 on a monthly call-in program in depth p. j. o'rourke discussed his politics, writers and why he uses humor to address political and social

issues. >> is this picture on the left a real picture of you? >> yes. >> not the week? >> not a week spirit when was that taken? >> i would guess 71. not quite positive. >> what were your politics 1971? >> i think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. i was a left winger, but it didn't make enough sense to actually be a communist are trotskyite or anything like that. >> went to the transformation occur. >> -- when did the transformation occur? >> i just wrote about this. there is a book coming out from the hoover institution is backing this, called why i turned right, and it's the story

of a bunch of us and why we became right. it is a long store and i won't tell it but i'll give the short version of it. i was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. i got a job. i got a job paying $150 a week. i was a messenger in new york when it appeared he don't the week is a lot of money is forced i was concerned. i was living doubt on the lower east side and i was very broke. i get paid every two weeks. i was really looking forward to that 300 bucks. and so was my landlord, i may say. and my drug dealer among other people. i got my first paycheck and i netted out like 178 or something like that. it's supposed to be 300 bucks, but after federal taxes, estate tax, city tax, social security, health care, retirement fund

which i really cared a lot about in those days. i said wait a minute, i've been advocating socialist, marxist, communist for years screaming and yelling and demonstrating in the street. and we all -- already have it. they just took half my pay. i'm not rockefeller. they just took half my pay. we have socialism. that's when i started to snap out of it. took less. >> somebody else who made the switch in their politics is christopher hitchens, and -- >> much more recently. >> right, but back in 1993 i believe here's what he had to say about you. >> he's a guy who gets what my pain with murder. he's another ex-leftist, '60s radical dropout wrote very fondly about what it's like being probally stoned and bombed that an paranoid in the '60s. then became a young republic has been cashing in this chip ever since and has terrific following as a humorist for his books and

essays. the first one quite funny is called republican party reptile. the next one was called, is called holidays and hill and the recent one is called give war a chance. these cell capable among the young much better than any of my books ever had and it gets me down. it is my revenge upon him. i made it. he has -- he's a good guy to hang out with and more. i've reckon you is running on empty with this joke about i know i've been there. i've been the radical now i i e how wonderful it would be to be a completely buttoned up button-down tory. the joke basically depends on a satire on political correctness. okay, so people try not to make jokes about eight. p. j. will make the joke about eight. >> it's that funny to left that cripples. i said look, in the words of the title, that's quite funny but it's not funny enough.

>> christopher christopher christopher. getting away with murder. i might get away with slander, verbal assault. i don't think of everything got away with -- i just a little guy and cowardly. i've never even got away with physical assaults i think he overstates the case. and also of course i am long past the point what i can claim to be up young republican, buttoned-down or not. i'm an old republican now. i close middle-aged white guys. we are all republicans even if we sometimes call ourselves something else like democrat. >> you did know you would get attacked, did you? >> holidays in hell is another p. j. o'rourke book. p. j. o'rourke, all the trouble in the world. "modern manners," connecticut book for rude people. >> first book. >> when was it is put out? >> the original edition was 1983. >> eat the rich.

what was this about? >> eat the rich is what got started me on what ended up being at the smith which have simply puzzled. i didn't understand why some countries a rich and other countries are poor. i started poking around going to rich countries and poor countries and tried try to seei could figure out why this country was rich and other countries were poor. it was from that experience that toby munday, the editor in england who came up with this idea for a for a series of boo, books that changed the world, of which my book on how the smith is what an christopher hitchens has one also on thomas paine, the rights of man. in very good it is. it was because of some at the smith come poking around in ad and smith that toby asked me to write on adam smith. >> you are on with p. j.

o'rourke. go ahead. are you with us? >> new jersey, go ahead. >> caller: i am not sure by mr. o'rourke deserves to be taken seriously or be given all this time on your show. when a man who i suspect never wore the uniform and i suspect from rick about his politics in the vietnam area would a dentist artist to avoid wearing the uniform can be so utterly flippant about war. we have a war now that we should not have had by my likes and i happen to have been a republican for 50 years voting three times richard nixon and twice for ronald reagan. thousands of americans have been killed, tense if that hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed. no useful purposes is served by this war and a think it's abominable that mr. o'rourke can make fun of war and can find something amusing about it. but the question i wanted to you is, he talks about the imperative of free markets.

does mr. o'rourke have any conception of why we have things i can minimum-wage law, ask him our laws and osha laws? does he remember the conditions that exist in america before we had those laws and the way laborers were obliged to work 12 hour days, six days we? is that what he thinks is freedom? >> thank you. we'll get to the free market question that he had in just a second but in speeded that was one republican. >> it was on the democratic light action. >> i'm glad he came in on the democratic light. >> into dedication to give war a chance, here's what you write. like many meant by generation i had an opportunity to get a chance and a promptly chickened out. i went to my credit physical in 1970 with the doctors letter about the history of drug abuse. the letter with four and half pages long with three enough pages devoted to listing the drug i had abuse.

i was moved into the office of the psychiatrist at the end of the 45 minute interview with me was how to his desk and shouting you don't belong in the army picky was certainly right on the first count and possibly write on the second. i didn't had to go but that of course met someone else had to go in my place. i would like to dedicate this book to him. i hope you got back in one piece, fellow. i hope you are more used to your platoon mates than it would have been. i hope you're rich and happy now, and it may consider what would somebody punched me in the face of being the longer piece great, i hope that was you. >> i have a couple nice list because of that dedication from people who thought maybe that punched me in the face and said they appreciated it. to begin with the beginning of what the file on the phone said, i've never asked anybody to take me seriously. as to making fun of war, let's put it this way. a bad situation, and war is a really rotten situation, like a

bad disease, like death itself isn't changed by whether you make fun of it or you don't. we make fun of things not because we approve of them or love them, not because they're cuddly and cute. we make fun of things in order to cope with her own terror, our own unease, our own existential horror, our anger at god, our disappointment with ourselves, et cetera and so forth. schumer is a defense mechanism. you can drink, , you can make a joke, you can take drugs, you can make yourself all pompous and pious, or you could all of those things at once. whether i i make fun of for our don't make fun of for unfortunately will not make war better nor is it going to make worse. as to free market and

minimum-wage and people working in coal mines and working 49 hours a day, nine days a week and so on and so forth, it's interesting when you say you're in favor of free market immediately get that response from lots of people. it's not of course at all what adam smith met. what adam smith was talking about was keeping coercion out of life and keeping coercion out of marketplaces is only one aspect of keeping coercion out of life. adam smith's whole -- "the wealth of nations," the essays that he wrote, a very important book he wrote that no one reads the more called "the theory of moral sentiments" which is about morality was all about making people rely upon persuasion and to give up brute force. that is the core of morality.

it's the core of a free society. it's the core of democracy even though adam smith in some ways didn't know that. he lived in a pre-democratic era. he didn't quite understand that democracy could work. but he did understand the freedom could work. he was a moral and a practical and just a plain sort of sympathetic advocate afraid of. at the root of freedom is persuasion. the idea that you want free markets does not mean that you want markets ruled by force. it doesn't mean that you what markets ruled by anarchy. it implies a rule of law and it implies that we are all equal before the law. it is not prescriptive. it doesn't tell us exactly how to conduct the free market it doesn't give us exact rules. it tells us that there should be rules and that we should all obey the rules but it doesn't say quite exactly what those

rules are. in book five of "the wealth of nations" adam smith tries to lay down some rules. he tries to take his theories and make them prescriptive, actually give us political policy. he becomes a policy wonk. it's interesting, it's the one failed the book in the wealth, there are five books in "the wealth of nations." the fifth book stinks. when adam smith turns into a policy wonk he becomes as foolish as the rest of of the student when we become policy wonks. he becomes like they've had in this white house and likely will have in this congress. so to the very angry caller, i would just like to say this first i have no idea why three hours should be wasted on me and i'm not going to say there is a good reason. they asked me. what can i tell you? but because you have certain ideas how freedom should be

conducted and you may well be right and i respect those ideas and those ideas are worth arguing about, but don't just because you want to limit certain freedoms in the market. you may be wise and it may be the correct thing to do to limit those freedoms but don't be smug about your desire to limit freedom. everybody who wants to limit freedom from those who desire that there be human slavery to the taliban, to people who are in favor of minimum wage laws, everybody is smug about their desire to limit human freedoms. some human freedoms really do need to be limited. that doesn't make you a good person for recognizing that. it may make you a wise person or a sensible person, assuming your arguments are good but you're not a good person. you deserve no smugness and you don't deserve to be, to vent

your anger on foolish innocent humorous just because you have some desire to limit, so there. >> p. j. o'rourke has appeared on booktv close to 20 times over the past 20 years. up next he provides a tribute to the american automobile while discussing his book "driving like crazy." this event was held at the peterson automotive museum in los angeles in june 2009. >> it is i'm afraid the last time to say, how shall we put it, sayonara to the american car. american automobile companies, ford, gm, chrysler will live on in some form, a kind of marley's ghost dragging their

chains at taxpayers expense. the fools in the corner offices of detroit and the fool officials at detroit units will retire to the vacation homes in palm beach and st. petersburg respectively. they don't deserve our sympathy anymore than the malevolent trolls under the capitol dome in washington do but pity the poor american car when congress and the white house get through with it. a lightweight vehicle with a small carbon footprint using alternative energy and renewable resources to operate in a sustainable way. when i was a kid we called it a schwinn. i guess it's been a great 110 years, it has been a great run. 110 years since the brothers of built the first automobile in springfield, massachusetts. and if it'd been a success springfield, massachusetts, i be today's motor city full of abandoned houses, unemployment, drug dealing, violent crime and racial tension, which as a so happens springfield,

massachusetts, is full of anyway. but we owe the american car, we owe it a lot more than the entertaining spectacle of detroit's various felon mayors. many people my age we owe our very existence to the car or to the cars backseat. where if you check our parents wedding anniversary with our birthdate and find them a little too close to comfort that is probably where we were conceived. there was no premarital sex and america before the invention of the internal combustion engine. it's true. you couldn't sneak a girl into the rec room of your farmhouse because your mom and dad didn't have a car so he couldn't commute so they were stuck home all day working on the farm. your farmhouse didn't have rec room because recreation had not been discovered due to all the farm work. odd saturday that you could take

your girl out in a buggy but it was hard to get her into the mood to let you bust into her corset because you were facing behind in of the course and it just spoils the atmosphere. the cars let us out of the barn and while the car was added the car destroyed the american nuclear family and anyone who's had an american nuclear family can tell you that was a relief to all concerned. cars caused america to be paved. there are much worse things you do to the country than pave it as the sudanese have proven over in darfur. one of the things i wonder is we never hear a thank you, not a word of thanks as car people forget all america paid for the kids in the body cast who skateboard all the time. not a word of thanks. cars provided america with an in the oval standard of living. -- enviable. you could not get a steady job with high wages and health retirement benefits working on the general livestock corporation assembly-line

putting utters on cows. it just couldn't be done. the american car was a source of intellectual stimulation, intellectual stimulation. think of the innovation. the invention, the sheer genius that transformed the 1908 model t ford into the 1968 shelby cobra gt500 in the course of one single human lifetime full of speeding tickets. compare this to the progress in the previous mode of transportation. horse production, horse design unchanged for thousands of years. when it comes to creativity with the horse i did research on this when i was writing about the stuff. i looked at it. nobody thought to put a stirrup, nobody thought to hang a stirrup from a saddle until about 500 a.d., the stirrup was invented.

people have been riding horses for thousands of years and took them until 500 a.d. to invent this. where were they putting their feet? if automobile design and engineering had proceeded at the same pace as horse design and engineering we would be powering ourselves down the road by running with both our feet stuck through hole on the floor like fred flintstone, although it may come to that with the 2010 obama mobile. but most important of all, most important of all was the cars fulfilled the ideal of america's founding fathers. of all the truths that we hold to be self evident, of all of the unalienable rights with which we are endowed, which one is most important to the american dream? it is right there front and center, flat in the name of the declaration of independence, freedom to leave.

freedom to get out of town. freedom to get the hell out of here. king george, can i have the keys? that's in the declaration of independence. i have to tell you the saga of the american car, this is not an abstract matter to me. this is the subject of fanciful theories. nancy pelosi may think she was transported home from the maternity ward on pink fluffy clouds supported by seraphim. low carbon seraphim. but i know it was the car that got me to where i am. my grandfather, jacob, he was born in 1877. he was he was born on a farm about the size of this podium here. in lime city, ohio, which is not a city and didn't even have any lime. he was one of ten kids.

grandpa was one of ten kids who grew up in a one-room unpainted shack. i have a photograph of them lined up by age staring at the photographer amazed to see someone in shoes. my great-grandfather barney was a woodcutter in the midwest where there are no trees. unemployed quite a lot. also drunk, also illiterate. i've got a copy of his marriage certificate with his x right there. his only accomplishment aside from the prices he want on a corn shocks stuffing, he trained a pair of old next to hold him home dead drunk. he would fall out of the tavern, pass out in the wagon and the horses would bring him home. that is what he accomplished in his life. grandpa jake left home armed with a fifth-grade education heading for the bright lights of toledo, ohio. and he went to work as a buggy mechanic, a buggy mechanic, and

then one day a horseless buggy pulled up at the shop and grandpa saw that and he saw the future. he fixed that, too, and it didn't take grandpa along to realize clean hands were dead and more money was to be made selling those things is that repairing them. so anyway he got in the car business and by the time that i came along in the 1940s we had a buick law. we all worked out on the car lot cleaning and waxing the cars.

my cousin would go on to run the a while car dealer association and i would go on to do whatever it is that i do in this book, write about cars and stuff. even in these dark days for the american automobile there are times i wish i'd stayed in toledo and taken over the agency. those late-night tv local car dealership ads, i got this whole idea of want to do hybrid hats treasure island buick. come out with a parrot on my shoulder and one of those big cats, and eyepatch come on down to pirate patch where prices walk the plank. don't miss our pieces of v-8 used-car lot for free chocolate doubloons for the kids. been a great life. grandpa died in 1960, honors from the rotary and lions club and the moose lodge.

my family, , we owe everything o the american car. without the car we couldn't read and have food and stuff. so our history begins with the beginning of the american car. and by now some of us have even gone to college. we didn't go far at college or do very well but we went. so i take the demise of the american car. i take this personally. i'm looking around for somebody to blame. i'm mad. i want to blame somebody like ralph nader. what fun it would be to jump on ralph nader with both feet and send pink marks is due coming out of his crack a kid. but it took more than one man it is a good and well written book "unsafe at any speed" to wreck the most important industry the nation. that was the corvair ralph was attacking at "unsafe at any speed," the corvair. ralph was just wrong about the

corvair because my high school girlfriend had a corvair and connie was the worst driver in the world and one of the fastest. if connie couldn't get yourself killed in the corvair it couldn't be done. so ralph was all wrong. the pundits are all telling us there's plenty of blame to go around for the death of the american car at a not sure about that either. it's true the car executives are knuckleheads but all executives are knuckleheads. look at bill gates. if you were worth against billion dollars, wouldn't you go to a barber college and get a decent five-dollar haircut? come on. labor union leadership is maddening. it's one thing to be mad at them but it's nothing to expect to be down at the uaw hall stand on the chair saying we demand less money from the bosses. this is not going to happen.

car workers make $600 an hour, or so i'm told. they get laid off every time a camel farts as an opec meeting. maybe their pay is too high but like they're getting that paid. so now i think to understand what doomed the american automobile we have to give up on economics and we have to turn to melodrama. politicians, journalists, financial analysts, the purveyors of the banal, they been looking at cars as if a convertible were a business. fire the mba's come higher a poet. the fake detroit is not a matter of financial crisis of foreign competition, corporate greed, union intransigence, energy costs or measuring the shoe size of the footprint in the carbon. a tragic romance, a tragic romance. it's about unreleased passion,

titanic clashes, lost love and wild horses, especially wild horses. >> we've opened up our archives to look at author programs satirist p. j. o'rourke, the author of 19 books. in 2010 he appeared at the get institute in washington, d.c. where he's also a senior fellow to offer his thoughts on politicians and the federal government. >> i will not be satisfied until every seat in the house and senate is filled by a regular person, a regular person who quite reasonably hates being there. i want government to be like jury duty. and not jury duty for some exciting crime like the o.j. simpson murder. i want government to be like jury duty for a long, boring, complex, confusing trial concerning tax law.

let me suggest indicting our federal tax code just for starts, which is nothing but fraud. i want government to be dull, dull and onerous responsibility like attending a parent-teacher conference, something that to be undertaken with weary reluctance because good citizenship requires it. i want every congressman, every senator, every president, every supreme court justice to be wishing, longing, begging to go back to his or her real job, real life. i want them hoping and pleading to be allowed to return to the private interests and personal advocations. i want them using to be sitting in front of the tv with a beer watching ed crane lose money on

his world series bets. i want our elected officials to say that they intend to spend more time with their families and mean it, mean it. we will know when we have won an election. we will know when we have won an election when every single candidate who is voted into office begins his or her victory speech by saying oh, shit. now, i'm working on, in this new book, on the new theory of political science and instead of basing my theory on the work of deep political thinkers such as john locke and tom paine, john stuart mill and ed crane, i'm basing my theory on a dumb game played at all-night giggle sessions in girls boarding schools. my wife told me about this. the game is called kill, screw,

marry. what happens is the girls picked three men and they go around the room and every girl have to decide which one of the three she would kill, which one she would screw and which one she would settle down for life embrace the family. i think the example my wife gave when she was telling about this was i think for example, was conan o'brien, david letterman and jay leno. the girls could do like nbc did, kill conan and screw letterman, all the other interns did, and marry jay leno. i'm laughing but then it struck me, kill, screw, marry that's politics, that's how we pick the president of the united states. take example 1992 presidential election george h.w. bush, bill clinton, ross perot. we killed ross perot. we could hardly avoid a screw from bill clinton and we marry kindly old george h.w. bush.

the outcome of the game is not always a foregone conclusion. witness are mysteries moment with built in stead of the walk down the aisle with the george. the 2000 presidential election america was divided about whether to screw george w. or gets screwed by al gore to think we all agreed on killing ralph nader. i won't venture in examples from more recent elections for fear of attracting attention from the secret service, hard as that sometimes seems to be in the obama white house, but anyway, kill, screw, marry, it's got me thinking. the game works on the parts of government. you kill the postal service, get in bed with fema housing, marry the armed forces. screw agricultural subsidies, marry social security and health care reform kills us. i mean kill, screw, marry. it's a great tool of political analysis because in a free and democratic country politics as a sort of a three legged stool.

politics is balanced on a tripod of power, freedom, and responsibility -- kill, screw, marry. we live in a free and democratic country, less democratic than it was before last night which is fine with me. also kill, screw, marry is great tool of political analysis because we are so passionate about our politics and how to passion affairs in the? in a passion usually come in a crime of passion sometimes and occasionally they turn into stable permanent legal arrangements which is to say the endless peevish quarrel known as marriage. so how do we approach the political institutions of a free and democratic country. do we overthrow them with violence? do we screw around cheating on them while they screw around cheating on us or do we build something that is lasting or boring, worthy and annoy, marvelously virtuous and at the

same time gratefully stifling, a marriage. powered freedom responsibility -- kill, screw, marry. now, when i first began to think about politics, when mastodons and nixon roamed the earth, i was obsessed with the freedom, with the screw part of kill, screw, marry. i had a messy idea of freedom back in those days, drinking bong water, but i had a tidy idea that freedom was the central issue of politics. i loved politics. many young people do. kids can spot a means of gaining without merit. this may be the reason that professional politicians retain a certain youthful zest. ted kennedy was the boil right down to his last aged disease racked moment. i was wrong about the lovable nature of politics but i was sure i was right about the preeminent place freedom should

have in a political system. but there are lots of definitions of free. 36 definitions of free in webster's third international dictionary. plenty of people are theoretically in favor of freedom. we are all but overrun with theoretical allies. we have got collaborators in the fight for freedom that we don't even want. the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. it's the second to bless sins of the commerce manifesto, and the creepy echo of it in the refrain of kris kristofferson and bobby mcgee. mao announced leading 100 flowers blossom and 100 schools of thought. half a million people died in the definition of freedom. we should probably keep in mind that the original definition of the word free in english is not in bondage.

the most meaningful thing about freedom is that mankind has a sickening history of slavery. here in america we have freedom because we have rights. the same way we can get mixed up about freedom, we can get mixed up about our rights. there are two kinds of rights, clinical scientists call the positive rights and negative rights. sometimes we call them opportunities and privileges. i call them get out of here rights and gimme rights. politicians are always telling us about our gimme rights especially the politician we have in the white house right now. as in give me some healthcare insurance. our bill of rights doesn't mention any gimme rights. our bill of rights is all about our freedom to say i have got god, guns, and a big mouth and if the jury finds me guilty the judge will throw my bail.

this is a get out of here right. our right to be left alone, our freedom from interference use from government but also from our fellow citizens with what is to sober up, quit yelling, put the gun down and go back in the trailer. politicians don't like -- they only like gimme rights. they do not like get out of here rights. they don't like get out of here rights because one thing all legislative of being invited to get out of here and for another thing strict adherence to get out of here rights would leave little scope for legislation something that legislators dearly love to do. gimme rights much more politically alluring and this is how we find ourselves tempted with the right to education, the right to housing, right to a living wage, to oil spill beach clean-up, high-speed internet access, three french hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference

between get out of here and gimme rights. and blighted by the council everything that makes them popular that honestly may not be able to tell. but there is evidence that the confusion about these rights was originally presented to the public malice of forethought. president franklin roosevelt's four freedoms appeared to be at first glance as natural as well match as heidi a composition as those norman rockwell illustrations for them. freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear. but notice how the beggar, number three, freedom from want, has slipped in among the more respectable members of the freedom family. want what, we ask? saying as roosevelt did that we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms and one is the freedom from want, this is not an expression of generosity.

declarations like freedom from want are never generosity. there were 6 million jews in europe who wanted nothing but a safe place to go, and where was roosevelt there? when rights consist of special privileges and positive benefits, rights killed freedom. wrong rights are the source of the abusive political power. it's years before i realized this, years after i first got interested in politics before i realized the central issue politics is power, not freedom. kill, not screw. only an idiot would not have seen this and i was one. i wasn't alone. liberals, moderates, even some conservatives considered the sweeping gimme rights created by half a century of social welfare programs to be extensions of freedom in the opportunity right

since. people were being given the opportunity to not starve to death. that's not a purely evil way of looking at things. and not all the social welfare programs were bad, but the electorate, the candidates and me failed to properly scrutinize social welfare programs. it's not that we failed to examine whether the programs were needed or unneeded or well or poorly run. what we failed to look at was the enormous power being taken from people and given to politics. we let freedom be turned into power. f off and die, the politicians told us. politicians are careless about promising gimme rights. they are cynical about delivering them. and gimme rights in turn are absurdly expandable. the government gives me the right to get married. this indicates i have right to a good marriage otherwise why bother getting that right to me. my marriage is made a lot better

by my children's right to daycare so the brats are not in my face all day. be deprived of the right to a nurturing development environment. every child has the right to a happy childhood so i have the right to happy children. richer children are happier. give me some of angelina jolie's. the expense of all these rights makes politicians happy if they get to do the spending. they even get out of your rights are not free. they entail a military, a judiciary and a considerable expenditure patients by our neighbors when you want us to sober up and put the gun down and go back into the trailer. but gimme rights require no end of money and money is the least of the rights. every one of such rights means the transfer of goods and services from one group of citizens to another. the first group of citizens loses those goods and services but all citizens lose the power that must be given to a

political authority to enforce that transfer. we didn't want to understand that power. this is particularly true of people my age of the baby boom. it was obviously in the way we reacted when politicians attempted to use the power to limit our freedom by drafting us into the war in vietnam. we fought the establishment by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. a pathetic bunch. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 and we're taking a look at author programs with political satirist p. j. o'rourke, a former editor chief of national lampoon. in 2014 he offered a critique of the baby boom generation as one of the over 70 million boomers and reflected on his relationships with his parents and children. >> we are the generation that changed everything.

the generation tatedhe self, divided the light of the self from the darkness of the self and said let there be self. if you were born between 1946-1964 you may have noticed y selfish means too concerned with the self, and were not. self isn't something we are just concerned with. we are self. before self, before us was void before self, before us was void with our parents and dumpy clothes. then we came along and now the personal is political, the social economic, the religious and the secular, the science and the arts. the personal is everything that creeps upon the earth after his and her kind. if the baby boom has done one thing it is to be get a personal universe, and our apologies for anyone who happens to be personally a jerk. self is kind of like fish

preferably speaking. -- proverbially. you give a man a fish and you're fighting for david teach a man to fish and if he turns into a drive like a catch and release angling fanatic, deliver icy water testing crop with his three-pound test line with the thousand dollar graphite rod, though, least his life partners led to have an out of the house. so here we are in "the baby boom" cosmos formed in our image, personally tailored to our individual needs and predetermined to be eternally fresh and novel, and we saw that it was good, or pretty good anyway. we should've had a cooler name. the way the lost generation did. good luck to anyone who tells us to get lost. it's too late now, we're stuck with being described as exploding. maybe it's time now that we splattered ourselves all over the place for the baby boom to look back and think, what made

us who we are and what caused us to act the way we do and what the [bleep]? the truth is if we hadn't decided to be young forever, we would be old. [applause] youngest baby boomer was born in the last year when anybody thought it was hip to like lyndon johnson. they are turning 50 and we would be sad about getting old if we were not busy remarrying younger wives and reviving careers that hit glass ceilings when the children arrived and renewing prescriptions for drugs that keep us from being sad. we will never retire. we can't. the mortgages underwater. we are in debt up to the row gains with the kids college education, and it serves us right because with the

generation who insisted that a passion for living should replace working for one. still, it's an appropriate moment for us to weigh what we have rought and tallied what we've added you and subtracted from existence. we reached the age of accountability, the world is our fault. we are the generation that has an excuse for everything. one of our greatest contributions to modern life. but the world is still our fault. it's just a matter of power and privilege. whenever anything happens anywhere, somebody over 50 signed the bill for it. and the baby boom seated as we are at the head of life table is hearing generation x, generation y and the millennials all say check, please. >> wonderful. [applause]

>> i actually, i also chose another just a couple of paragraphs to ask p. j. to read. do you need your reading glasses? >> yes. >> this is near the end of the book. it's a bit of a summing up and so you can see sort of where p. j. lands with this. >> what is -- >> from their, turn the page >> got it. thank you. and yet we are the best generation in history which goes to show history stinks. >> but at least we are fabulous by historical standards. the baby boom, baby boomer was a carefully conducted scientific experiment. the empirical results are posted -- are us. you take the biggest generation in the most important country and you put them all into excessively happy families, give

him too much affection, extravagant freedoms, plenty of money, a modicum of peace if they dodged the draft, a profusion of opportunity and the collapse of traditional social standards. and you get better people. .. careless, rash, pain, entitled but you know we are still swell #. >> love that, thank you. so this book actually has a very interesting structure, the chapters are essay length and you blending some real memoir stuff about your life along with

a lot of broader thinking about baby boomers and how we got this way. you start by, as we all know, the baby boom started in 1946, and lasted, the last year was in 1964, pj you were born on one end of the spectrum, i on the other, although it is a defining character of baby boomers that we all look the same age. [laughter] >> about 18. [laughter] by rough estimation. >> but you describe the baby boom experience as seniors, perfect thai school, seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen. >> i'm in the senior class, me, share, hillary clinton and bill, they are seniors.

[laughter] my speech is the seniors, where the voyage of exploration and it would be the baby boom, we were tethered very closely behind our parents, the greatest generation and we got dragged under the boat and if we wound up a little soggy as financial advisors. [laughter] they tried to start tea party protests, we are to be forgiven. >> your senior class was really on the vanguard of so many things including vietnam and drug taking in sacks and by the time the freshman class came along, i think in my case, i'm the youngest of four i watch my three older siblings do all of these things and it scared me witless, i grew up in the 50s.

>> the younger baby boomers are more cautious and as i put in the book, they embraced sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll and the deep solo fossil coal underpinning. >> but they seen us in action, they've seen the older baby boomers in action and they knew what works in general does not always works when the ball sets fire to the beanbag chair. [laughter] it gets better behaved as a goes along. >> one delightful aspect of this book, you start by describing what sounds like a very good memory in toledo ohio. where you are watching the world through the picture window of your brand-new house. >> i'm standing there and i'm too young to go to school and watching them with the big kids going to school and is one of my early memories, this is a silent

generation and they weren't silent, they were yelling and screaming and i say at this moment in the book that all generations of kids that wanted to be grown-ups except us. we wanted to be bigger kids. [laughter] >> you make an observation about childhood that really struck me, you say children of baby boom children were in control of their own childhood, our parents worked as children, our children worked like maniacs and yet we are generation of childhood. >> yeah, they get out of the house, get out of the house at the beautiful day. but it's raining and it's 30, they said to beautiful day, get out of the house.

so i've never figured out the parenting style, we kicked a lot of grief for being helicopter parents, but our parents, they were strange they could be so cautious and fearful of things, don't get to know people who are not from europe, that would be scary and on the other hand fourth of july would come around and dad would handout the in 80s. [laughter] here's some explosives that should probably take a license. [laughter] everybody's got the uncles, my uncle mikey mike and actually this is my respectable uncle my businessman uncle who did this, he would give us the firecrackers at the cottage at the lake and it would blow up on the fourth of july and he gives us each a lit cigarette. [laughter] >> those were the days.

>> not to smoke but because that was the safeway to light the firecracker. [laughter] if we piddle with matches we might hurt herself. and then they drink, they were real strict all day long until about 630. [laughter] and then they would say i don't only ten but can i take the car, sure. [laughter] >> in 2017 pj o'rourke published a book on the 2016 election entitled how the hell did this happen. in march of that year he spoke with the commonwealth club in san francisco to provide his thoughts on president trump and the reasons for his victory. here's a portion. >> how could a person like donald trump possibly become president. maybe it is just a matter of what the great political mink and said democracy is the theory

that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. [laughter] or more likely it's part of something larger, here in the united states were not alone in having up little awkward moment, we seem to be in the midst of a global revolt against the political elites. the political elites who created the post-world war ii international order and for the past 70 years have been running everything, running everything into the ground as far as a lot of ordinary voters are concerned, internationally we see a rise in xenophobia and authoritarianism and it ranges from the spectacle of the european union in shambles to the deeply sinister activities of vladimir putin and xi jinpi jinping, taking measurements for new iron curtain.

you would think that this would seem worse to ordinary voters in a mere standard issue political elite is a job bush or hillary clinton. but the elites did in part create their own problem. over the past four generations, the hallmark of the political elites is the expansion of political power, political power expanded in size and expense, one third of the gdp is now spent by the politicians and government around the world from a one early everything things that you make is grabbed by government. if your cat has three kittens, one is a government agent. political power has expanded in scope, politics casts its net over every little aspect of life, nothing is so private that isn't tangled up in politics,

transgender bathrooms, we do politics is crab and now we find out where we take one is a political issue. i have to say to the political elites, when are you guys going to realize, guys and gals going to realize that politics is a two-way street, the elite politicians have spent four generations creating a powerful huge heavy unstoppable monster truck of a government and then those same elite politicians get all shocked and weepy what a horrible politician the test gets behind the wheel, turned around and runs them over. we need to make the truck smaller, yank the engine and install foot pedals, make the government into a kiddie car so the worst it can happen it bangs us in the shins. the people all over the world are saying were sick of the elites, were tired of the

experts, to hell with the deep thinkers who think we know what we should have better than we do and who while they're at it are grabbing everything that we got. we see this in the revolt against the elites for example in the break that boat. we see it in the eyes of the political parties in europe on both ends of the political spectrum, greens on the left and nationals on the right. we can see and result were almost every politician in the country left, right or the middle-of-the-road has been charged with corruption for the simple reason that the guilty. [laughter] in the case of brexit britain's political elite, business elite in trade union elite were all opposed to brexit. and that's to say that the people who supported the iraq war plus the people who caused the 2008 global financial crisis plus the people who nationalize the british automobile industry, they were all in unprecedented

agreement on one issue and the voters felt they could not go wrong, voting against the trifecta he's in latin america, very similar case in columbia, colombia's elites spent five years negotiating a peace treaty with us a starving rabble of communists who had been marauding in the countries into last since 1964. the plebe site was held to ratify the agreement callin caug columbia's voters to ask what after 52 years of murder, kidnapping and trafficking and narcotics the guerrillas are getting retirement benefits. we failed. even adult politics of australia have been in turmoil, the politics and australia are so dull that the name of the conservative party is the liberal party. [laughter] but australia had five prime ministers in six years in the

last election nearly resulted in a hung parliament, hung parliament must've been tempting. i suppose it's hanging legislators and moral and probably illegal to accept in queens land of the parliamentary caught chasing sheep. politics of canada, even dole her in the politics of australia, and canada they have a premier who is completely unexperienced dashing celebrity name justin, i am not google canadian politics because who would, but i'm assuming justin is weird. and of course here in america obviously, we saw the revolt against the elites and the ridiculous of rise of donald trump. and i'm thinking, i understand the desire to shape things up, wide trump of all people. trump maybe a rich guy and maybe he's a member of the 1% like he

says he is but there is nothing elite about it for sure. nothing elite about the way he sounds, he sounds like the rest of us that he sounds like the rest of us after we've had six drinks. he doesn't even drink. he is a jerk, jerk but you can imagine playing around a golf with him. he treats, but so do y. imagine golfing with hillary clinton. 20 harvard graduate caddies who read all the books about golf but never been on the links. they spend the whole match telling you, not her, but you what club do you use an secret service is there to make sure that you use hillary's advisor suggestion that you hit from the fairway with a sandwich. and after your trip shot get moved closer to hillary's lie inappropriate term to use any game hillary is playing in the

scorecard winds up on hillary's personal e-mail server, of course on the other hand i don't know if i could stand how long i'd last playing a round of golf with donald trump before i gave into temptation to a titleist in the back of his skull while he's standing on the green nudging his ball with his foot to create an alternative fact about how close it is to the whole. but anyway, global revolt against the elites. in many ways, it's a little puzzling, i didn't really fuel the power of this myself while i was reporting on this, and in certain ways beginning of the 21st century seems like an odd time to have revolt against the elites, especially in a country like ours where things are going fairly well, we are not in desperate financial streets, the great recession of 2008, that was painful and a certain amount of waking up on friends couches after somebody took the house

but these days practically everybody in america has had a divorce, we've been through that before and it's something we could survive, if any redline string the great recession, they were not handing out lobes of low-carb thin slim, the obesity crisis abides. we are embroiled in the long w war, more than 7000 american combatants have died during 15 year of the war on terror but more than 7800 american combatants died at the battle of gettysburg. streets are not filled with protesters against the war were in now, hippies are not sticking daisies and drones. we are culturally and politically polarized in america these days but not in a way that would startle an old-school history professor and jolted him awake from his nap in the faculty lounge. dear 1861, that was polarized in fort sumner is not taking any income at the moment as far as i

know and yet the american people are fearful and they blame their fears on the political elite and one of the reasons for this, the important reason is because the political elite has done a lousy job dealing with certain problems, the middle east for example in the demons have been unleashed in the middle east, elites failed to address the problem that caused the demons to be unleashed in the elites seem to be breeding demons in the elite diplomacy of the geopolitics in the elite military strategy. and then those elites turn those demon th loose as if demons have ever been in endangered species in the region as if the elites were trying to reintroduce demons. one result that has been murder all over the world, how much further away from the corals and the hatreds of the middle east could a person get then to be a

latin night and again, nightclub in orlando florida. another result of this mishandling of the middle east is a refugee crisis in europe, the europeans are going what do the elites care, the refugees are not crowding the stairways in the corridor and jostling the elites in the halls of the european parliament in brussels, the refugees are not building towns on the tennis courts of the elites private country clubs, immigration needs country means nannies, fund new ethnic restaurants, elites don't seem to see any similarity between the wall that donald trump has promised us and the gated communities in which the elites live. and another problem that the elites have caused for themselves, they have been promised that politics can fix everything, when you promise that you can fix everything then

everything that is broken is your fault. if political elites say the politics can fix climate change then i want to see bill clinton shoveling my driveway, i know he has heart trouble but thanks to global warming, my driveway only had a few inches of snow this winter. so what were seen in the global revolt against the elites is the elites ending up getting blamed for everything, whether or not it is their fault, including getting blame for the fact that we live in a time of rapid change. and nevermind much of that change is good change, number of people worldwide living in extreme poverty and living on less than a dollar a day, that has been reduced by half since the year 2000, an amazing project. and yet and also despite recent backsliding, it's been a overall

growth of human liberty over the past 30 years, definitely since 1989 fall of the berlin wall, and to be fair to the elites, rapid change creates problems for them to, speedy transformation in social mores, economic norms confused everybody, it confuses everybody especially those who thought they were leading the parade. mankind no longer has to marginalize steps, people are becoming individual persons instead of masses on review. this is great but certain difficulties arise on the parade ground when the stride is broken. when the band breaks up, it can leave the tube to be a bierbaum and the fellow with the bass drum sitting on the curb playing the solo, the trombone is using the slide with the player and nobody left who can spell. and meanwhile the elite drum

majors did some dork wearing a goofy half and waving a stick. swift improvements and transport, and communication in technical capabilities, you have combined to produce this thing that we call globalization, international trade, shrinking the true pluto size planet. that is great sometimes. we love having everything from everywhere brought right toward door except when we don't, we love going to yellowstone park but how much do we love having the herds of bison, the geysers, the trees and the bears all in a wreck room, we will need to clean the carpet. and then we go to work in the morning and find out of the job. while it's a smaller place now to just make the political elites think that it would have a smaller world naked everyone get along, try it with your

kids, put them in a small place such as the backseat of your car. now take them to see the world and for an example yellowstone park, from new jersey, how are your kids getting along. i guess political elites do not take family car trips, i guess political elites don't even fly economy class. then there is a curse, wherever it is that is going on with the internet of which i would be the wrong person to ask, i finally got myspace figured out, only to discover the only person in myspace is me, incidentally, concerning the internet, whose bright idea was it to make sure that every idiot in the world is in communication with every other idiot. but i take it on trust that the digital revolution would change everything and for all i know it's done so already, didn't they used to be a bookstore next

to -- rated sears go, i am glad i can comparison shop for refrigerator online by any brand that exist and have it delivered the next day through shipping, but the kenmore retirement at sears, he is now enlisted as a foot soldier in america's opioid addiction attack and how do i get my refrigerator into the ups dropbox when the icemaker quits working. all change is disruptive, all change is scary, changing a diaper, change in life, any change. frightening people asking first bear change on the street, we got a little them. in contemporary social and economic change are combined with contemporary distrust of political elites, and distress that in some cases have been earned, the results can be very

disturbing, russia's ugly new nationalism comes from vladimir putin harnessing popular outrage at the incompetent kleptomaniacs political elites that took possession of russia after the strike up, she's in pings makes use of the anger of all the tea in china scale of corruption among chinese elites and deed the anti-elite aspects to a fanatical interpretation of dion, isis terrorist, they hate elites so much that they have suicide squads of elites that gold chain around killing themselves. modern world is a scary world. and fear is a bad school alarm. we have got a monster at the blackboard and how can people in the democratic country learn even the one plus one fundamentals of democracy when all they can think of is slimy,

scaly and has tentacles growing out of his head. so what happens, the peoples in the class turn for help to the big stupid bully at the back of the classroom. and that is donald trump. >> the look at b jail works program concludes a discussion of his most recent book, none of my business which looks into the history of currency it is thoughts on finance. >> one reason that the concept of money so often violates common sense is a government do so many non-sensible things without money. another reason that money violates common sense is that we don't have to use real commodities as money, we can use written promises to deliver those real commodities, paper money, this is fiduciary money from the latin word to trust and to not be too quick to do so, trust to verify said one of the

presidents, the only president that we had not even possessed some libertarian inclinations. actually has a libertarian origin and it's a free market invention, at least in europe, paper money was developed privately in the 13th century from bills of exchange traded among merchants and receipts given by goldsmiths to him precious metals have been entrusted for safekeeping. but it did not take long for political authorities to steal the idea, government fiduciary money in the west was first printed in sweden, traditional sweetest money came in copperplate, thus in sweden a large fortune was a large fortune and in 1656, the stockholm bungle began issuing more convenient paper notes and the bank issued too many notes in the swedish government went

broke. in 1716, scotsman john help the french government establish the bank royal issuing notes back by the value of france's land holding west of the mississippi, bank royal issue too many notes, the french government went broke. most extensive premodern experiment was fiduciary money happen right here in america in 1775, the cotton tunnel congress not only create a paper money and passed along with refusing to accept it, the issue too many notes in a pattern begins to emerge. while fiduciary money is backed by commodity even if the bankers are lying about the amount of that commodity, historically the most common commodity has been gold in the 19th century of currency of the world was based on gold led by the most major of all those currencies which is the british pound. this is a monetary stability and

not quinn suddenly economic growth. some people think that we should go back on the gold standard, not all of them live income has in idaho. and money should be worth something. gold seems as good as whatever. the high value of gold is a social convention, haven't left over from the days of bright unblemished things, people included were rare, gold made a lot of fashion, generation may come along in gold is gross and immoral the way millennial's regard veal in them. gold is a product, and to get huge new amounts of it. this happened to the spanish when they conquered the new world they had tons of gold. melted it down and sent it to a minute. it never occurred to the spanish that they were creating more money, not creating more things to buy with it. in between 151600 prices in

spain went up to 400%. and presented with a vast wealth of america's oceans, fields, forest, stained took to gold. it is if somebody robbed a bank and sold nothing but deposits. so gold is not an absolutely perfect all for currency. but the real problem with fiduciary money from a government standpoint it's not that it's irrational but it's inconvenient. a currency that can be converted into a commodity limits the amount of currency that can be printed. the government has to have some of that commodity or the world makes a laughing stock out of its banknotes not worth the conical. with fiduciary money governments lie about having the precious metals to redeem their paper currency in the government do worse than lie, people holding fiduciary money can wake up, the way that they did on apriapril ,

1933 when fdr signed the executive order, 6102, banning the ownership of gold, people can wake up and find out the redo mean paper currency for what the law says it's worth is against the law, if a government can life and steal to support its currency, why can't a government lie about and steal everything to do with its currency. and that is exactly what all governments have done. instead of passing the law saying 1 dollar equals x amount of gold, our government has passed a law saying 1 dollar equals 1 dollar. this is beyond money. from the latin word for a binding and from an italian word for cheap and not very reliable car. fiat money is backed by nothing but fate that a government won't keep printing money until were using it in place of much more

important such as toilet paper which makes us come to venezuela. , it is not just by any means of venezuela boulevard, no values involved in any fiat money, it is just a pronouncement of exponential-ism from government central banks. trillions and trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, men entering the end our singing we are here because were here because were here. which was a popular tune in the trenches in world war i appropriately enough when went fiat money came into general use. all of the money in the world today is fiat money, we gotta because the government says we got to. it is supposed to be worth something which is called the lousy parent reason. frustrated and that government tells us we frustrated and to tell her parents because i said so. his crypto currency the answer.

, that is i'm glad you asked that question as politicians running for office toys said and what they mean by that, and idea what the answer is. as a libertarian, i want a medium of exchange, a kind of money that adheres to libertarian principles. actually, money that adheres to one libertarian principle would suffice as far as i'm concerned, this is the privacy principle. what i do that does not physically harm anyone else is none of anyone else's business. business is conducted with money, crypto currency would seem to be the private kind of money, libertarians want. it is private and the two most important senses of privacy. crypto currency is not public and it does not subject to government public policy.

in government public policy is to issue as much as the government feels like issuing. government treats money like a stalker treats posting things on your facebook page. a couple of clicks of the federal reserve keyboard and another creepy ring, arena did not have much value in subsequent are worthless and worrying. but unfriending the government, very difficult to do. second crypto currency encrypts transactions, what you're buying or selling is not revealed to a nosy snoop and that nosy snoop been once again the government. fairly law-abiding guy, wait for the walk sign on in d street co-owner in the middle of the night and i don't even cheat on my taxes anymore then federally mandated tax loopholes require me too do. i would not use crypto currency for any criminal scheme, maybe cuban cigars but no matter how legal the purchases i make are,

i don't like those private purchases being on the public record in sales receipts and credit card records available to who knows who, who knows what nosy snoop government agency. and i don't like other people's purposes being on the public record either. and somebody buys a plastic inflatable, anatomically correct for intimate relations in the privacy of the home, i don't want to know about it. and i don't want the government to know about it either because for fear of the epa may impose endangered plastic rodent regulations on all of us, or some high-minded epa functionary leave unchained leak to the store to be vandalized where my car is parked nearby distance. a much more worried about government abusing its police powers then eyeing him about individuals abusing their purchasing powers.

so that's the case in favor of crypto currency to tell you the truth i don't own any and i have no use for crypto currency. bitcoin is down this morning, i checked it's been hovering lately around $7000. i got a banged up old volvo station wagon that i got for my kids and if you offer me one bitcoin for that station wagon i would tell you to bite me. i'm ignorant and confused by the computer program block chains that underlie crypto currencies, i'm confused about a lot of things. i'm confused by women which did not stop me from marrying a delightful one. i fly on airplanes all the time when no idea why they take off or how they land. but our particular confused by

the internet and look at the internet and i think whose bright idea was it to make sure that every idiot in the world is in touch with every other idiot. as far as i can tell, the internet is an enormous hacking industry service by a small global interconnected computer network. and i fear that somehow crypto currency is the invention of outlaw nerds with rules and high school evil math club, right now some pear-shaped 15-year-old wearing amodei pajamas is in his bedroom with the floor covered in empty snickers wrappers logging on to make himself a billionaire on the darknet. i hope walgreens except crypto currency for acne cream. so to sum up, money is the root of libertarianism anybody who isn't confused by money is insane. in the extra confusion of crypto

currency is probably not the antipsychotic medication that is needed. we worry about money, we worry about our median of exchange, we worry that our media never exchange collapses our society will collapse. back in number of years ago, i thought about this and i thought maybe the way to understand that worry about society collapsing is to go someplace where society has collapsed already, back in 1992, i went to somalia to cover the u.s. military missions to save somalia, and actually from total anarchy. and let me pause for a moment and talk a little bit about anarchy. because we libertarians are often confused with or accused of being anarchist, this is not true, libertarians believe in social structure, we believe in the social structure that protects individual liberty, dignity and insurers responsible

the. this is very different from believing in no social structure at all, somalia had no social structure at all. it was true anarchy. a vicious dictatorship had been overthrown in the somali celebrated their independence by shooting each other. fighting broke out everywhere and it was not traditional african tribal warfare. because the somalis all belong to the same tribe. in the tribe has six clans and they have hundreds of sub clans in each sub clan is divided into infinite murder spirits, they fought each other with rifles, machine guns, and judge by the look of lives of filth. in the old town, not one stone stood upon another. in the new part it had been built out of concrete and had been blasted back in the kyles of aggregate portland cement.

there is no water or electricity and at night the only illumination was from tracer bullets, every tree and bush had been snatched for firewood welds up to the pavement that was left, mounds of sand blue through the streets, rubbish was dumped in goat grazed. everything that guns can accomplish had been achieved. so if there was not some place i go alone, i signed as a radio reporter from abc news and abc had managed to find a mansion more or less intact and they hired a 40 man army of somali mercenaries to protect this compound and then 20 some of us reporters, camera crews, producers, we were bedded down in shifts while our security as they like to be called in the

courtyard. and it was impossible to go outside of the compound without security, even with the gunman along, there are always people massing up the bag and theme in fingers nipped and no foreigner can make a move with demanding more from and cursing and whining and smearing people, the young men waving ak-47 assault wife roles pushed among the crowd with the pickup trucks of gun mount welded into their beds that sputtered around on predatory aryans, there is another abc reporter and he had been into molly after six months, and leon offered to take me to the market and i said sure, i wanted to see and what were the somalis buying and

selling. i learned an important lesson about medium of exchange in that market. i learned that there will always be a medium of exchange, the currency may not be what you expect but no matter how totally society collapses, there will be a form of currency. so were traveling with an armed somali driver and a translator in the requisite truck full of armed security, even so, when we get down to the market, my friend leon gets out of the car and he pulls out a 9-millimeter glock pistol and he waves it over his head in a dramatic gesture and wraps a bullet into the chamber and i'm looking at him and he looks at me and he's grinning like a maniac and i

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coming up on c-span2 book tv author samantha shares her thoughts on identity, body image and her writing style, her book of essays is well, no thank you. in douglas, the associate editor talks about brexit in the culture wars in the united kingdom and the impact of covid-19 on the uk. in later barbara on economic inequality in the united states and the pandemic. >> thank you will