go back to conversations with great minds and joined by dr corey robin leading scholar on conservatism and neo conservatism in america and author of the reactionary mind conservatism from edmund burke to sarah pailin let's get back to it dr robin did you want to finish that thought that you were on one when i interrupted you. no i was just you know as you're always we're wrapping up those just to say that the conservative movement the reason why it has historically opposed national political power and defended local government or state government or you know and sometimes perfectly no government at all is really because they have seen and i think again rightly so the national government as the wing of the arm of the instrument of the great social movements of the left the abolitionist movement the workers' movement the feminist movement civil rights movement and so that's why they're always in this battle and sometimes they're very forthright about this barry goldwater inconscious to a conservative says that the bearer of the state's rights principle today writing in one nine hundred s

coming up in this half hour we revisit a conversation i had earlier this month the doctor corey robin in that interview dr robin talked about the true nature of conservatism and what's behind the onset of neoconservatism and the tea party in america today here's a look at. for tonight's conversations of great minds i'm joined by dr corey robin dr robert is one of america's foremost scholars on contemporary forms of conservatism in american society his writings appear in the new york times harper's the london review and a variety of other publications he's a widely recognized for his work his blog has been awarded to the char charm work for the third place award by three steely the best writing in politics and social science in two thousand and eight he was named the lawrence as rockefeller a visiting fellow and a fellow in the program and ethics and public affairs at princeton university currently he's an associate professor of political science at brooklyn college in the city university of new york graduate center and the author of multiple books including his most recent the reactio

on our politicians as it were and keep a lot of wind on their backs to move this thing along dr corey robin thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you it's a very it's a pleasure an honor to have you with us to watch this conversation again as well as other conversations of great minds go to our web site of conversations of great minds. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites of thom hartmann to free speech dot org and. also check out our two youtube channels there are links to thom hartmann dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and you can visit our marvin dot com to download the audio podcast of our daily new three radio show and we have a free tom our of an i phone or i pad app at the app store he said his feedback on twitter of tom underscore hartman on facebook at tom underscore arbonne in our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tom hartman dot com and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there and get active tag you're it. world of the. science technology

on our politicians as it were and keep a lot of wind on their backs to move this thing along dr corey robin thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you it's a very it's a pleasure an honor to have you with us to watch this conversation again as well as other conversations of great minds go to our web site of conversations with great minds. after the break looks like the keystone x.l. pipeline is packed. with republicans continue to use it as a lab rigid legislation negotiations more on that and other topics coming up in tonight's big picture rubble. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think the bombing is feeding on the well. whenever the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you get their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry is a big issue. for . are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's big picture rumble neil mckay mccabe excuse me c