john quincy adams, alexis de tocqueville, john wesley jesser sen so there wasn't a single figure like that in the personnel of the arabist? >> amongst the arabists, there is this belief in a need for christian and muslim civilizations to move closer together in the religions in the ways of life and sharing things in common. for some of the older arabists like william eddie eddie who is perhaps sort of the founding father of u.s. espionage in the middle east almost cast this mystical belief in the links between islam and christianity and he sees himself almost as a kind of a bridge figure between the two civilizations. i think his happiest moment comes when he acts as the interpreter between franklin roosevelt and king saud at the end of world war ii. it's in the book yeah so he is the interpreter because he knows arabic. i'm not sure that the roosevelt cousins have quite this kind of intense belief in the convergence of christianity and islam that somebody like eddie did but it's still there i think. the american friends in the middle east is geared towards trying to generate dialogue

there is a little bit of humor in alexis de tocqueville that you might find refreshing. he says on page 388, there is nothing more annoying in the experience of life from this irritable patriotism of the americans. the former would gladly to praise a great deal in their country, but he would want them to allow them to find fault with something. and that is what they absolutely refused. we don't have to go to these lengths. i'll describe them to you. is america a patriotic country? do you think we are more or less patriotic than other countries around the world? we have high marks for patriotism in world value surveys. these are surveys that are conducted by social scientists and does prove the fact that americans love their country and more so than other people love their country. but where is the paradox here? do we trust our government? the president's trust numbers are very low. congress' are very low. they would be thrilled to have 38% approval and trust. isn't that strange. we love our country but don't trust anything about it. this might be part of the american way

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one thing that alexis de tocqueville really deployed in america in 1830 is something that he would calloday political correctness. he believed that there was a stifling of debate in a free society that he found to be perplexing and counterproductive. he argues, in america the majority draws a formidable circle around thought. within these limits the writer is free. but woe to him if he dares to go beyond them. a political career is closely. he has defended the only power that has the ability to open it to you. he gives and finally under the daily effort. heels and returns to silence as though he felt remorse for having told the truth. you all know what a definition of a gap is in washington? telling a truth, right? and then apologizing. we will not go through the links but i was trying to think of some interesting mavericks who may not be politically correct. of course, i wanted to make sure we had a wide variety. without going into the my first is barry goldwater. my second is jon anderson. remember the 1980s? he said in 1980 that we have to replace the private automobile. and he was a