david keene was a guest lecturer at the citadel college in charleston, south carolina. in a course called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by professor mallory factor. join us each saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of american history. lectures in history are also available as podcasts. visit our website at c-span.org/history/podcasts. or download them from itunes. >>> during world war ii ruth cowan nash worked as a reporter for "the associated press." she traveled overseas to africa and europe covering stories on the war and was often attached to the women's army corps. coming up next, an interview with ruth cowan nash from the women in journalism promject. this is about 50 minutes. >> let me ask you first, i want to concentrate on the time you did spend overseas during world war ii. >> you did what? >> i want to talk mostly about world war ii. >> right. >> how tdid you get the assignment to go over? how did that come about? >> you mean

this week, david keene, president of the national rifle association, talks with the modern political conservative philosophy of william buckley jr. mr. buckley was the founder of the national review magazine. david keene was a guest lecturer at the citadel military college in a course called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by professor mallory factor. this is just over an hour and a half. >> thank you very much. let me begin by thanking mallory and indeed, the citadel for this opportunity to talk to you about my old friend and mentor, bill buckley. you should know that the opportunity to attend a course like this is almost unique in american higher education. i'd like to just begin by reading a reference to this sort of thing from the chronicle review, the chronicle of higher education written not too many years ago by a columbia professor. he says the unfortunate fact is that american academics have until very recently shown little curiosity about conservative ideas. even though those ideas have utterly transformed american and british politics over the las

. >>> next week on "lectures in history, david keene, president of the nra, talks about modern conservative fill offy of william f. buckley jr. who died in 2008 was the founder of national review magazine. david keene was a guest lecturer at sit dell military college in south carolina in a course called conservative intellectual. join us each sasat 8 p.m. and midnight for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and errors of american history. "lecture in history" are also available as podcasts. visit our website at c-span.org/history/podcasts or download them from itunes. >> you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. for more information, follow us on twitter @cspanhistory. >>> during world war ii ruth cowan nash was a reporter for associated press, she traveled overseas covering stories on the war and often attached to women's army corps. coming up next an interview with ruth cowan nash from women in journalism project. this is about 50 minutes. >> well, let me ask you first, i time you. -- you did spend overseas in e the -- during w

with me is david keene. and we're now going to take questions from the cadets. question. >> sir, you described the political and economic landscape post world war ii as a collectivist faith in government sort of dominating. but to me, i kind of see that not a lot has changed. we still look to the government for entitlements, stupid loans, national disasters, and even today, health care and birth control. has anything really changed? >> in some ways it has. it depends on whether you look at the glass as half full or half empty. the reagan years changed the way in which people looked at government programs. prior to reagan and post-roosevelt, there was an assumption that if there was a problem, the solution was to spend money on it. and anybody who questioned that obviously didn't want to solve the problem. after reagan, there was and that, of course, was a rebuttable presumption. after reagan there was a presumption and you still see it that if you have a problem and you want to spend money on it, that's not the answer. that's rebut nl, as well. so it changed the