that's one for reasons i'm here another freedomfest. libertarians have it right when counties to economics, not so good when it comes to the social issue chez why i'm a conservative, not a libertarian. >> host: you have another book coming. >> guest: it's taken me about 40 years. it is me memoir, looking back on the last 40 or maybe even 50 years and what i have been able to be part of the the conservative movement. working with people like barry goldwater, writing about ronald reagan, getting to know big buckley. the greet giants of americantive tim. >> host: entitled "just right." >> guest: yes. >> host: we invited you to talk about the cold war. when and how did the cold war begin? >> guest: that's one of the reasons why elizabeth and i wrote this book. elizabeth, our daughter, who is a professor at clermont mckenna college and i'm still teaching at catholic university. both of us teaching foreign policy, national security. we weren't satisfied with the textbooks we saw out there and so we decided we write a history of the cold war,

. >> become tar has attended freedomfest many times. i you want to go to other free phenomenon defendant author goes to or ones, book tow.org and type freedomfest, one word, into the search are bar. you can view other interviews online. >> tonight on "after words," suzie hansen on her book, notes on a foreign country and american abroad in a post american world. she is interviewed. >> there's that question of are we sensual and the question of -- exceptional and why had i never thought this was a form of propaganda and thought to question where was this concept coming from and what was the joint was doing for individual americans? and i think that one thing i was realizing this took a long time to realize in fact, is that the very language that we used when we talked about foreign countries had been kind of determined for us a very long time ago because we tended to look at muss cub -- muslim countries, were they catching up with us or behind us. that prevents you from being able to see the country on its own terms. >> watch "after word

here at freedomfest. thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you so much. i appreciate it. ...

joining us now from the freedomfest convention is author lee edwards, his most recent book is a brief history of the cold war. before we get into the cold war, mr. edwards, how many books is this for you? >> guest: probably 25, 26. but who is counting. >> host: what topics? >> guest: basically about american conservatism. i'm got the best job in the washington, dc. i'm there at the heritage foundation. i'm their inhouse historian. they let me write becomes so

here at freedomfest. thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you so much. i appreciate it. ... [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay, guys, we might getg. started. thank you so much for everyone to come to the event. weekly journal of literature, culture based in london with interest in the united states and sponsored by pan-america. tota delight to discuss issue of free speech which never seems to go away. i thought i begin things with literary angle. poet milton, polemic, in it he said this, give me the liberty to know to utter and argue freely according to liberties. those with otherwise come fault that they found liablists, the fire and the executioner will be the timeliest and most affectual remedy that can follow. godfather that i believe in free expressions but which has been f active ever sense. as we discuss over 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. the question before us today is how much it should be championed specially in universities and those rights might include the right not to be offended but also the right to live free