. >> charles murray invite to middle bury college, he and the professor who invited him both injured. >> right. literally attacked. they were physically assaulted by protesters who thought it was so important to stop what was supposed to be a debate. going to be a debate between murray's perspective and a left of center perspective but they don't want that to happen. when he interview for the book i said don't you think you make charles murray or whoever it look more sympathetic if you're shouting them down and using violence gem them? you're driving people toward them and they say, we are about safety. we are keeping the marginalized anymore our community safe from the harm of charles murray's words and views. so if he ais allow to he speak with he contributed to he emotional or mental up rest of people we care about' is a really different idea i think about how safety works, so much -- it's at the root of this. >> how small are these alt-right and tifa groups. >> they're extremely small. we're talking about at many of these events, dozens of people, maybe hundreds or thousands natio

. >> host: charles murray invited to middlebury college. he and the professor invite him both injured. >> guest: thank you right. literally attack. they were physically assaulted by protesters who thought it was so important to stop over suppoo be a debate, a debate between marie and i left this center perspective. they don't want that to happen. when interviewed for the book and i said don't you think you make charles murray or where what is more sympathetic if you're shutting them down and using violence against them? don't you think your driving people towards them? they say we are about safety. we are keeping the marginalized people in our community safe from harm of charles murray's words and views. if he's allowed to come and speak we have contributed to the emotional or mental unrest of the people we care about. which is a different idea i think about how safety works, that it's the root of so much of this. >> host: how small on these all right and antifa groups that are far on the fringe? >> guest: extremely small, were talking any

don't you think you make charles murray or whoever is. if you're actually using violence against them. and don't you think you are driving people toward them and we are about safety. safe from the harm of the words in views. we had contributed to the emotional and mental unrest of the people we care about. it is the root of so much of this. hundreds of thousands nation wide. the far right shows up. and then they throw things at each other. the news is thing that happens. the challenge is contextualizing them. and not making these things seem like they're happening more often. he is gay but because he is critical of these activities they said that he has no right to cover us. and they beat him up. they reject the idea. that the far right should have rights. i believe it is sort of catching on a little bit. but their philosophy that my enemies should not had rights. >> do you see a solution and you also want that for panic attack. is to just answer that speech with more speech. i will like to hear charles murray talk about a different persp

i went to middlebury college where as george mentioned charles murray was invited to speak.went to evergreen college in oregon and read college, and went to talk to protesters and to standing rock and talk to people who would been arrested and put in prison for protesting there. yeah, i guess to put it bluntly what i found out is free speech means pretty much nothing at all. we think of free speech as this value that we uphold that no matter what our politics are beyond free-speech, that it is the think we can agree on, the classic quote that doesn't actually come from anyone but people district to voltaire. i disagree with what you say but also to my death i will defend your right to say. that's what 95% of americans think. but as it turns out, that's a lot more complicated, and speech doesn't really mean speech in a society where some are so much more able to speak, and equally as importantly be heard sense of many of the people. what i found is that speech, like everything else in this country, falls along the predictable lines of race, , class, gender, and every other fo

i would like to hear charles murray or a different perspective. i want to hear this i want the professors left of center with that robust history of free speech activism that their jobs will be at risk if they say the wrong thing that's on the administrators for the rights of faculty. they don't have to arrest students or throw them out of the campus but just make a safe space to actually express ideas counter to the students and not have them suffer consequences for doing so. >> what your politics quick. >> i am a libertarian i have ideological beliefs but to put me in the center of some of this because with those goals a progressive activist. and then wanting the left to succeed and then to say that the most radically progressive people are the ones you want to organize with even all of you guys don't agree on all of that. >> what about libertarianism quick. >> going up at a republican household that my parents were libertarian. they were pro-business and said yes that is what i am and then to reason magazine and now i work there. >> panic attac

i was in charlottesville, i went to middlebury college, the scientist charles murray, i went to evergreen college in oregon and i went to d.c. and talk to protesters and people who had been arrested and put in prison for protesting there. to put it bluntly, when i found out is that free speech means pretty much nothing at all. we think of free speech is this value that we uphold no matter what our politics are, beyond free speech, that is think we can agree on," that doesn't actually come from anyone, i disagree with what you say but i'll defend to my faith death your right to say. as it turns out, that's a lot more complicated and speech doesn't really mean speech in a society where some are so much more able and equally as important to be heard and so many other people. so what i found is that speech, like everything else is along the predictable lines of race, class, gender and every other form of oppression and most people really have no significant right to free speech and i would argue also no significant rights to liberatory freedom. the first amendment in particular for the whole

those of you that are interest interested, the best is charles murray and catherine cox apollo the race to the moon and if any of you are interested in the individuals who put us there, it would be great to have a human achievement day where we celebrate how do we do that. for those of you watching on tv perhaps, we are in las vegas right now. it's 110 degrees outside. i'm comfortable here because of the air conditioning. where did that come from? there was this guy over 100 years ago. how did he invent it and why. there is a whole fascinating story about that. how did it go from being some use for a particular industrial use to every one has its now. i would like to see in this country celebrating human achievements like the moon landing so we can all appreciate it and have our own moon landing and our own great achievement in the future. anyway, thank you all for coming and i appreciate you coming. [applause] >>> good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. how many have been here all day? great festival

. >> charles murray he and the river who invited him injured. >> guest: right. literally attacked. physically assaulted by protesters who thought it was so important to stop what was supposed supposed to be a debate between purposery's privilege and a left of center perspective and but they don't want that to happen. when i interviewed from the book and said down you think you make charles murray look more sympathetic if your shouting them down and using violence? they say we're about safety. we are keeping the marginalized people in our community safe from the harm of charles murray's words and views. so if he allowed to speak we have contributed to the easterly moore mental unrest of the people we care about, which is kind of really different idea, i think, how safety works. so much -- it's the root of so much of this. >> how small are this at right and tifa groups. >> guest: i think they're extremely small. we're talking about -- at many events dozens of people, maybe hundreds or thousands nationwide. and they feed each other. the far right shows up and then the far left and the

charles murray who is a controversial guy, an important social scientist and writer on social policyn our time is not a neo-nazi, not a threat to public safety, not a white nationalist, not the things he gets described as being, kind of a liberal democrat. but still people meet him on campuses and other things with violence and calls to have him for bidden to speak and this is just not a morally or intellectually defensible position. >> host: the cover of the book, birds dropping nuclear bonds. >> guest: i never understood the nuclear bombs. the idea was world war ii propaganda posters with bombers going out, twitter birds doing that. i wish i could take credit for that. that's not my idea for the cover. i went back and forth on it but i decided i like it. >> host: kevin williamson, his latest book is called "the smallest minority: independent thinking in the age of mob politics". independent thinking in the age of mob politics. thanks for being on booktv. >> thanks so much. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television

charles murray who is a very controversial guy, but i think a very important social scientists and writern social policy in our time is not a neo-nazi, not a threat to public safety or white nationalist or the things he's described as being. is kind of a liberal democrat in some ways, but still people meet him on campuses and other things with violence and calls to have him for britain to seek. this is just not a morally or intellectually decision, i think. host: cover of the book here, birds dropping nuclear bombs. guest: i don't know that they are supposed to be nuclear bombs the idea was this great old world war ii propaganda bombers going out and that's the little twitter birds doing that. i wish i could take credit for that. it wasn't my idea, but i went back and forth on it, but i think i decided i like it. host: kevin williamson and his latest book called us-- "the smallest minority" independent thinking and age of mom politics thanks for being on book tv. >> your some current best-selling nonfiction audiobooks according to audible. topping the list is talking to strangers, new yor

by the way, those of you who are interested, the best book on it is charles murray and catherine cox, apollo: the race to the moon and i encourage any of you if you're interested in the individuals who put us there, what it took and so forth, read that book but it would be great to have a human achievement day where the, we celebrate this sort of thing and not just celebrate but ask how did we do it -mark for those of you watching on tv, we're in las vegas right now, it's 110 degrees outside . i'm very comfortable here because of air-conditioning . where did that come from? there was this guy named carrier who invented it, why did he invent it? there's a whole fascinating story about that, out of air-conditioning go from something used for a particular industrial use to everyone as it now -mark i'd love to see a holiday in this country celebrating human achievement like the moon landing so we can appreciate it and have our own moon landings and our own great achievements in the future. thank you all for coming and i appreciate your attention. [applause] >> at the international spy mus

by the way, those who are interested, the best book on it is charles murray and katherine cox, apollothe race to the moon, and i encourage if you're interested in the individuals who put us there, what it took and so forth, read the book. it would be great to have a human achievement day where we celebrate this sort of thing and not just celebrate it but ask, hough did we do it? for those watching on tv, perhaps, we're in las vegas right now. it's 110 degrees outside. i'm very comfortable here because of air conditioning. where did that come from and a guy named carrier over 100 years ago, he invented it. how? why? there's a whole fascinating story about that. how did air conditioning go from being something that was used for a particular industrial use, to everyone has it now. i'd love to see a holiday in this country celebrating human achievement like the moon landing so we can all appreciate it and we can have our own moon landings and our own great achievements in the future. thank you all for coming. i appreciate your attention. [applause] are are's blog are are [inaudible conver

fraught on his he kept announcing speakers that would come with him and then one day charles murray wasoming and i thought, i doubt that. i would say i wouldn't go with that. i told the chancellor's office. i said obviously he's trying to fleece donors. the chancellor was cool and said tell us what we need. fess, it was a fraud on his part. wrote -- brokee the fever. the contingent answer is that you should spend whatever it takes to maintain the authority of the campus to control the campus. there's no objective figure for that. muche lawyer in me has a more pragmatic answer that actually works. --ould say that you should it will have a great effect of paying for security and reducing the number of protests. all the time that you need to spend on security, the dollar shelley transferred from the diversity inclusion office dollar for dollar. i like that better. [laughter] ati'm going to be debating berkeley against a very left-wing professor and i hope i'm going to have the appropriate security. i sort of have been thinking i'm not a national name but it is sort of worrying. >> steve wi

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