well for more on this let's bring in ben hur but saying experts china and asia pacific at the bertelsmann instead then are just one we heard described in the pastis national security law as the beginning of the end for one country 2 systems is he right. he is right unfortunately this law is really a devastating blow to the freedoms and autonomy of hong kong it is a big blow to the hong kong people who are asking themselves now their political right are being taken away with the other rights that are going to be taken away next for example still has free media to some extent and free internet is that going to be taken away and of course a lot of the economic freedoms are also at stake so this is very dire for. ben had china's resolve was severely tested last year when the protests where i'm at an extradition law but it didn't move an inch what chance beijing would why even or accept anything other than exactly what president jiang wants this time there is no chance that aging will waive. the protests that have been going on for about a year no absolutely surprised and shocked aging and. th

the civil war general more famous as the author of "ben hur." i don't think he got any movie rights. it's a counterfactual. i don't know. >> he was governor of the territory. dr. pitcaithley: he was the governor, exactly right. mexico went for the slave code because a representative of congress at the time, a man named miguel otero, believed that the winds were blowing that way. toward the south. or with the south, i should say. he convinced the territorial legislature to enact this slave code. miguel otero went to congress, being hispanic from new mexico, but he fell in love with a southern belle from south carolina. she had three brothers very involved in politics and they turned his head. he became this advocate and just misjudged it. but without a war, it's different. yes? >> two questions. one is, the theology question that you brought up. how did, did northern theologians counter it, or was it just the southern ones? dr. pitcaithley: i can't answer that. the material i have looked at was focused on defending slavery, not the other side. so

more famous of the -- as the author of ben-hur. i don't think he got the movie rights, i think charlton hasn't got those. it's the counter factual, i do not know. i do not know. >> he was the governor of the territories. >> he was the governor of the territories. exactly right. new mexico went for the slave code because the representative congress of the time believed that the winds were blowing that way. towards the south. or with the south i should say. he convinced the territorial legislature to an act this slave code. miguel otero went to congress, the hispanic from new mexico, he felt it's -- in love with a southern belle from south carolina. her family was involved in south -- in politics. she had three brothers involved in politics. they turned his head and he became this advocate and just miss judged. but without a war, it's different. it's a different ball game. yes? >> two questions. one is the theology question that you brought up that was used. how did northern feel lotions counter it? or was it just the southern one? >

the general who is famous for a two things, getting lost at shiloh and writing ben hur after the war coming he knew a little something about drama and he said that if grant had studied to be undramatic, he could not have succeeded better. and i think grant new wood he was doing but was also someone that absented himself. he feels absent from the memoirs. scrupulous in not recounting any battle that he was not a part of but he is not the hero of his own tail in that way. in that way.le he does not put himself forward as sherman did in his own memoirs. and he is not a villain. sherman, and this is one of the epigraph that you were referred to at the beginning of the book says grant is a mystery to him and he thinks grant was a mystery to himself. i think sherman is being a little coin there. i think he understood him quite well but there is a sense that grant was not studied in that way and was not performing but was just sort of doing what came naturally to him in that he also combined that with the fact that he was not a great talker. not a great speech maker. and was a listener. and

the general who is famous for two things, getting off at shiloh and writing in -- ben writing been her hur, was dramatic. grant knew what he was doing, but was also someone who absented himself. he is scrupulous. he really is not the hero of his own tail in that way. he does not put himself forward in the way that sherman does to a greater degree in his own memoirs. he is also not the villain. he is hard to cast as a villain. says that grant is a mystery to him. he thinks that grant was a mystery to himself. i think sherman is being a little coy there. i think sherman understood grant well. there was a sense that grant was not studied in that way, not performing, but was doing what came naturally to him. he also combined that with the fact that he was not a great talker, not a great speech maker, and was a listener. i think that kind of inaccessibility probably did contribute to the difficulties perhaps with which subsequent biographers and historians have had to contend. gen. petraeus: including you. prof. samet: right. gen. petraeus: the market was flooded with civil war memoirs during t