>> edmund burke is somebody that i admire enormously. i think he combines theory and practice in politics and philosophy in a way that is very instructive. his conservatism is a way of thinking that i looked to to guide. everyways and not in respects. things have changed a lot. edmund burke was an irish born he was politician he was born 1729 and died in 1797. and he was very important in a very eventual timing kurdish politics. -- in british politics. the era of the french revolution come of the american revolution, the great regency crisis. and burke was a voice for a new kind of reform minded conservatism. >> how long was he a member of the british element? >> 32 years. that was really his great arena. he is thought of now is a clinical thinker. -- as a political thinker. he only wrote one book before he entered politics. he wrote a lot of pamphlets and essays and gave a lot of great speeches. so he was an active politician who connected his political practice to political ideas. >> why did you combine him with thomas payne? >> the id

>> most histories actually trace the birth of conservatism back to edmund burke, a britishstate.at everything he stood for and said was said about a decade after earlier by the american founding in service so it's actually rather strange and fascinating that conservatism, which is all about tradition and heritage, the roots of its own heritage. these founding in service founded modern conservatism. in fact, i argued that modern3 conservatism was born on july july 41776. lou: and the thinkers, the intellectuals, often cremating thomas jefferson, a conservative? >>>jefferson was actually far more radical and one of the surprising things that discover in the book is john adams is also tattered as a conservative and is quite radical drop most of the revolution. he changes his thinking at the end of it. lou: conservatism itself, give us your view today was stated is india's i have to tell you, i cannot always recognize a conservative. >> i think that founding conservatives offered to really important lessons. the first is that they compromised. they fought tooth and nail, then me emph

so much so that when the french revolution rates a both its greatest opponents, edmund burke, understands, in england, under since the french revolution as a victory of the jews over the nobility of europe, and its greatest proponent or one of its great proponents, the german philosopher, under since the french evolution as a vigorous victory over judaism in the history of your. both sides can see the same event in anti-jewish terms even though come again, .001, or something like this, on the population of france. so i tried to show how in modern thought, for example, in modern philosophy to take one example this logic is constantly working its way through the western tradition. kant understood himself as the first philosopher to overcome jewish superstition. hegel on the other hand understood kant as a judaizers. and in his history of philosophy he situates kant among diversities doing this from another key places him right among the jews and he and his friend used to call hagel, just a golf kant the moses of our nation. that's hagel. who comes next? schopenhauer sure looks at a glance a

i think edmund burke said all that is necessary for the goodph government is for men to do nothing. you have encouraged other people throughout the country to come forward. you do not have to be afraid of this government. the fear only exist if you allow it to continue. to not let that happen to you. i traveled to the district last week and i can't tell you the number of people that came to me and said i would like to say something but you use my name, i'm afraid it will come after me. is that what we have come to? call the decoration day but i know it is called memorial day. a guy came up to me afterwards and asked to talk to me. he said we were denied our status. i ask what happens. he said was some kind of certification. wondering if it is penn township group is maybe we are made up reports of republicans and are targeted? the american people were frozen with fear. we have gone far beyond being chilling. we have succeeded and gone way over what this government is supposed to be able to do. when i talk to you all and see you hear and understand what it is you are going through, yo

>> edmund burke has a great line about the social contract. he says "the social contract is between the generations. it's between the living and the dead and the living and the unborn." our democracy has broken that contract in a really profound way. when we talk about public debts, all the understood funded liabilities of medical and social security, we're talking about that breach of contract because what the baby boomers have done with democracy is that they have lived at the expense of future generations. >> rose: they've spent like there's no tomorrow. and there may not be. >> tomorrow for them may not come but it will come and end. >> rose: leaving their kids with heavy debt. >> so the next generation and the generation after that have is going to be clearing up a pretty enormous mess. >> rose: or not be able to pay off the commitments. >> that's the channel. what's going to happen? either future generations will have much higher taxs than the current generation has got used to or they won't get the entitlements the current generation is

i think edmund burke said all that is necessary for the triumph government is for good men to do nothing. i hope that you have encouraged other people throughout the country to come forward. you do not have to be afraid of this government. the fear only exists if you allow it to continue. to not let that happen to you. i traveled to the district last week and i can't tell you the number of people that came to me and said i would like to say something but you use my name, i'm afraid it will come after me. my god, is that what we have come to? i call the decoration day but i know it is called memorial day. a guy came up to me afterwards and asked to talk to me. he said we were denied our status. i ask what happened. he said was some kind of certification. he was wondering if it is because the penn township group is maybe we are made up reports of republicans and are targeted? the american people were frozen with fear. we have gone far beyond being chilling. we have exceeded and gone way over what this government is supposed to be able to do. when i talk to you all and see you here and unde

edmund burke says all that is necessary for the triumph of evil for good men to do nothing. i thank you for coming here today. i hope by appearing here today that you encouraged other people throughout the country to come forward. you do not have to be afraid of this. go. the fear only exists if you allow it to continue. don't let that happen to you. i traveled through the district last week. i can't share the number of people came up to me, you know what i would like to say something, if i use my name i'm afraid they will come after me. my god, is that what we come to? i call it decoration day. i know it is memorial day. but i call it deck race day about honoring our war dead. a guy came up to me. mr. kelly, can i talk to you. sure. what? we were denied our status. here's the problem with this i have said really, what happened? well, some kind of a certification was the problem. but here's his fear. he goes, but i'm wondering now if it is because this, the township veterans association is made up mostly of republicans that maybe we're targeted? think about that. we've talke