aristotle did. so yes you can then you should. >> host: we have only got a few minutes left and i don't know if we covered everything in the book that you think is important but maybe i should take the last few minutes and give to you not only in what's important americanism that what will we do about it as citizens? >> guest: i say this from time to time, if we leave the battle of ideas the academics in the intellectual there goes everything because like it or not the academics went out. they control education. they have enormous influence on politicians enormous influence on health care. not the grassroots. the grassroots can have political power but in terms of what kind of society we want to live in unfortunately those decisions are often made by debates so we cannot leave the battle of ideas to the intellectuals and the academics because we know comes to their ideas to the point is learn as much as you can about americanism and learn as much as you can about anti-americanism, progressivism so y

aristotle did picky talked about it. so yes, you can and you should. >> host: we'll have a few minutes left at i don't know if we covered everything in the book that you think is important, but maybe i should leave the last few minutes to you of not what's important to americanism but what we need to do about it as citizens. >> guest: you know, i say to some time to time, which is this. if we leave the battle of ideas to the academics and intellectuals, we are going to lose everything. because like it or not, the academics and intellectuals win out. they win out. they control education. they have a norse influence on politicians, a notice influence on the culture. it's not the grassroots. the grassroots can have a political impact but in terms of a kind of society we want to live in, unfortunately those decisions are often made by debates. so we cannot leave the battle of ideas to the intellectuals and academics because we know what their ideas are. the point is learned as much as you can about americanism learn as much

aristotle, cicero and all the rest. they saw what happened in rome and they saw what happened in greece. they saw what happened in britain to america. they were concerned about centralized government. look at the constitution separation of powers, the senate needs to be chosen by the state legislator in the electoral college and the only directly elected body of the house of representatives and the courts are distinct in that you have lifetime appointment. this is what they were debating. why? didn't want to government. they also they want hypocrisy. the declaration talks about unalienable rights. unalienable rights are not unprovoked. it doesn't matter what your neighbor thanks about your unable right and it doesn't matter if we've applied the cider referendum but these are god-given, eternal truths, universal truths or as aristotle called them universal laws versus particular law. statutes and so forth. they were concerned about that in particular john adams talks about private property law and he said desperate let's

it isn't and i mean there's two reasons why we have texas and this i mean you can literally read aristotle on this and the principal reason is not to raise money the principal reason is to alter behavior it's to do to organize aristotle talked about organizing society in a rational manner by taxing things that you don't like and by lowering taxes on things that you do like and so you know if we don't want more carbon to be used and we do want more alternative energies to be used why not tax the carbon well suddenly than then. gas is a is a sin tax or yes yeah exactly because it's a sense you're killing the paul the planet i don't know who created only your fellow men i mean if there's fifty people dead in texas right now at least a few of the a lot of those people some of the blood of those people is on the hands of the oil industry exactly that might be a little bit extreme but at the same time there are certainly hurricanes out there are scary and and you know our taxes that we do collect right now do go to to programs like noah which which thank goodness that we haven't in twenty fourte

go back to aristotle. it is all about convincing people in another coalition that their interests are better reflected and advanced in your coalition. it is about arguments. it is about making arguments and bringing people over and when you go in front of audiences and all you do is click bait stuff like milo does, which is really entertaining, but persuades no one -- actually, people who are on the fence about an issue are pushed off to the other side when they encounter some of these shock artist charlatans. you see it happen in republican primaries. you have guys going around, listing their seven principles of this and nine principles of bad and claiming that -- nine principles of that and claiming that they are the purest. when you start talking about purest, you are freezing people out. ronald reagan used to say, if you are agree with me on seven out of 10 issues, you are my ally, not my enemy. nowadays, if you don't agree with me 110%, you are a no good rhino squish. again, as a conservative, i would

what aristotle also showing is if the price is right and the properties right, then buyers are there.he critical thing is fizzing with that stretched buyer affordability. it is the northern regions that have steam left. prices have risen for the past six years. wages have gone up that much. london in particular has gone up much. london in particular has gone up more and therefore we're seeing a slowdown. more in london and the south and the benefits from a ripple effect yet. there are still a bit of head room in the north. interest rates still cheap, so if you can get a mortgage, obviously tighter regulations with the review which was designed to slowdown has price increases and i think we're seeing an effect of that here. and in other news: black, asian and minority—ethnic staff who work at pwc in the uk earn almost 13% less than other employees, according to figures provided by the professional services firm. the firm said its bame workers were statistically paid less because more of them worked in administrative and junior roles, rather than senior ones. general motors has been for

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regular attendees know if you'd like to ask a question please do the traditional thing and cindy aristotle nonthreatening signal and i will happily call on one and all in the time we have available. given the number of reporters today, please try to confine yourself to one question and to others have had a chance. we will start off by offering our guest the opportunity to make some opening comments and they moved to question from around the table. and with that, they seek and for doing this. the four is yours. >> i'll be very brief because i'm anxious to get your questions, thank you for hosting me, a special thanks to david and linda for hospitality this morning for me and my team. i know christian science monitor has been a leader in helping to not just cover the news but help fridays and we appreciate -- [inaudible] >> we appreciate it. i'm honored that you included me. >> thank you. >> the trump administration has been and remains refocused on jumpstarting the american economy. and allowing the private sector to create jobs. what we've seen already is the president take unprecedented s

but there are -- aristotle said you shouldn't start to the study philosophy till you're in your 30s. you're not mature enough to understand it till then. >> argument to be made that even though buy longcally we gaip became dulls did younger but emotionally becoming adults later because of school and not having to sort of do adult things at a very young age like military and stuff. they're not being forced to grow up at an early age. >> you have the idea that children don't have to engage or be socially adults till a much later date because societies provides for them. their paints provide for them. they have disposable income. in the early 20th century, even the adults didn't have much disposable income. there wasn't much money to spend on entertainment. now the adults have it and allow their kids to have it and able to indulge in the kind you have consumer culture patterson zprinz deferring the aim which people have to be adults is certainly taking place here. this had never happened before in human history. no society had the resources to be able to support such a large seg the of

aristotle said you are not mature enough to study philosophy until you are in your 30s. >> arguments to be made that even though biologically you are adults younger but emotionally you become adults later because of school, not having to do adult things at a very young age, like mill father and get a job and stuff. they are not being forced to he gro up. >> the idea is that children don't have to engage or be socially adults until a much later date because society provides for them. their parents provide for them. they have disposable income. again, before the -- early 20th century, even adults didn't have much disposable income. there wasn't much money to spend on entertainment and things like that. now the adults have and it they allow their kids to have it. they are able to indulge in the consumer culture the kind of consumer culture that patterson describes. deferring the age at which children have to be adults is what is going referred to. no society in history had the resources to be able to support such a large segment of the population without being productive. in a way you c

there's this chapter where john adam, his father, says it's not sufficient for him to read aristotle and plato in english. he's got to go learn the classics. i was thinking to myself, what has happened to american politics? from the time -- i mean, it was thinkers who really founded this country. it's amazing their level -- they were so proud of their education. they were so proud to have been well read. and thoughtful. i respect pollsters. if our consultants had gotten their hands on his 2004 democratic convention speech, it wouldn't have been a great speech. part of what made it extraordinary is he actually had intelligence thin law enforcement thin intelligent things to say. i don't think we have to shy away from thoughtful conversation or complicated sentences. i think that's very different than showing respect. it can't be one of not showing up or condescension or some sense of "i'm better than you." i think we have to do a better job of showing up. then being authentic. i do believe there's a large number of people who will respond to a thoughtful message. and if you look at, y

to say is this doesn't happen right with the conservative interpreter of ar as to thele or the -- aristotle or the breitbart folks that want to use the value of the university to put forward noxious dunes. >> that affirmative action is the debate around that, it's something that's universal and exclusive to the fringe o. republican party? because it's a misreading of the republican party. there is a real debate. to disengage from it is to say it doesn't exist. >> affirmative action in the context -- sorry. >> i want to go to catty kay and go back to eddie. we've done absolutely no news, i have got to say, i am more proud of this segment than any segment we've ever done. >> reporter: eddie, i will take objection to what you said. it will be the only time there are objections on people on campus for when they were genuinely were neo-nazis, alt right, antesubmitic. or women. look at 2014 when condoleeza rice and christine le guard had to withdraw themselves from giving speeches at rutgers and smith universities because one worked in the bush administration and because one was the head of the i