ine is goldwater calling him michigan and saying, my two favorite authors are you and friedrich hayek. i need to know what i need to say to make this work. how will i convince people? and i think a young kirk was pretty flattered by that. i think he was taken in by that and he became very involved -- goldwater call to mother time. goldwater call to mother time. they met in places like florida. they strategized, how do we take out the berkshires? -- the birchers? the radicalke out right? these people should not be part of conservatism. that was a good team for a while. the goldwater team went off in different directions. and kirk did not get involved in politics after 1964. if you wanted an honest politician, kirk is fantastic. if you want a winning politician, kirk is not that good. john: along the way, he obviously supported reagan and he also supported eugene mccarthy, pat buchanan -- bradley: he loved norman thomas, a socialist, voted for norman thomas. i think he was much more concerned with personality and who he thought was honest. there's a lot of names and influences that kirk

as you know, tonight we are hosted in an auditorium for economist friedrich hayek. to paraphrase his nobel price acceptance speech, "if man is to do more good than harm in efforts to improve the social order, he won't shape the result as a craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather cultivate growth by providing the appropriate environment, like the gardener does for his plants." this gardener has two choices -- he can abandon his plants to subsist alone, shrivel up and die, or number two, the gardener can water his plants, place them in sunlight and give them rich soil so they can bloom. the point of hayek's garden is this -- when the government sets the right conditions the , political community flourishes. that is not to say the gardener will micromanager engineer his plants according to a landscape design, but he can create the environment where they produce fruit. conservatives and libertarians have enjoyed a mutually-beneficial alliance. together we have rallied support , for the free market and defeated communism, but in the tradition of the founders, conserva

goldwater calling him from washington, d.c., saying "my two favorite authors are you and friedrich hayek. i need to know what to say to make this work. how will i convince people?" i think a young kirk was pretty flattered by that. he became very involved. goldwater called him all the ime. they met at times in places like florida. they with william f buckley strategized, "how do we take out the birchers? we we don't want these people on our side. how do we take out the radical right? none of these people should be a part of genuine conservatism." then the goldwater movement took off in different directions. kirk did not get involved much past 1964. and he was not good at it. he was good, if you want an honest politician, kirk is fantastic. if you want a winning politician, kirk is not that good. john: along the way, kirk supported reagan, supported gene mccarthy's run in 1976, pat buchanan later on. bradley: he loved norman homas. i think he was much more concerned with personality and who he thought was honest. john: you know, there's obviously a lot of names and influences that kirk en

bill buckley's god and man at yale, friedrich hayek's the road to serfdom. we have about eight, is it eight or nine different categories. we took these 109 books and put them into various states, economics, politics, history and so forth. and what we did was to take a book like, say, the road to serfdom, and then to boil it down to just a page or page and a half to try to get people to see what it is, perhaps to spark their interest in it and make them pick up the whole book and read it. .. a book and then condense it down to three or 400 words. that really it's not easy. that takes an amount of concentration and focus to do that. i couldn't do it for more than a couple of books in any one day. it took us a while. to come up with a hundred and nine books. visit our website a book to be dark. and on the index tab at the top of the page.