that is james baldwin whom you quote in this book "the age of illusion."rofessor bacevich, explain why you chose this as the epigraph to your book and why you understand a consensus that was reached by the foreign policy and military establishment elites following the cold war, you say led to the election of donald trump in 2016. >> i believeve that quotation by james baldwin captures where we were -- where we came to be as a country by november 2016 in the election that installed donaldd trump in office. ththat is to say that the people who were bewildered and enraged who felt they had no place to stand turned the country over to someone who is manifestly ill-equippeded to serve as presidident because they were intent on repudiaiating the poly consensusus that had existed duringng the post-cold war peri. that is a phrase i use in the book to refer to the period rougughly quarr century between the end of the cold war, fall of 16. enormous moment of euphoria. we believed we h had one. we had triumphed.. we believeved in the famous tite of the e essay that t

germany an immigrant and a jew he knows what exclusion feels like buddy quote from american writer james baldwin give some hope. i'm wearing a bracelet here. i cannot be a pessimist because i'm alive. and i have nothing to applebaum. or leave it continues to fight for his beliefs for tolerance for a better world and his fans celebrate him for that as well as far as we. are unbelievably admirable man and joining me to talk for about a miscount rockstro thanks for coming in again scott igor live it has been very outspoken against racism and right wing violence and hatred for some time now which of course has made him a target of extremists but it seems to only make him stronger yet i think it's significant because he's such an important figure in the classical world i mean he's one of the greatest classical pianist of his generation and he's been very politically acceptable for quite some time now i mean a couple of years ago he received an echo which is sort of the german equivalent of a grammy award and he gave the echo back because the organization that gives them out also gave one of these awa

in selecting great james baldwin. he went to church but he almost had to leave the church in order to bring the gospel. because the churches were just too narrow and cowardly. to accommodating. and then he said, and we know history is something which is always the history of the present prince of the best in the present are always intertwined. the third dimension of the future is always is the object of our vision mediated through our understanding. in our actions. that is a great speech that martin k. thank god he had the courage to give it. host: because of the speech with a refrain about being dissatisfied. so the ark of the speech itself, is to get to devoid is what he calls divine dissatisfaction. cornel west: yes. host: but then a refrain let us not be satisfied, let us be dissatisfied until every man can happen in freedom and have human dignity for his. cornel west: you can see how that in and of itself, is a message in the age of obama, where you have intellectuals who have become obama policies were no longer

james baldwin. he is not a natural.[laughter] >> he worked hard, too. >> very liberating in that way. he denounced the other text that i, at the time, was really into. he was very much against in that way. already made of so many different things. the one thing reading has always meant for me is freedom and restoration. i hate that word diversity. people are made up of so many different things. >> range. yes. >> i noticed that the books, excuse me -- [laughter] what are we doing? posture. >> sorry. .... .... >> it is partly to remember that feeling of first reading. it's also that, you know, whitman is almost insane in his optimism. >> but that quote, i contain multitudes is but the quote is more modest. >> no. >> and subtle to me. >> well, maybe, but he -- i just thought for something so uncertain in its conclusions that maybe whitman was a bit reassuring, it seems to me, because i do think of him as this rather, you know, determined to find, i don't know, the best, almost, you know, that's why william james sees him a

james baldwin said we have to defeat the racial delusion. i'm paraphrasing.'m asking the impossible but we all our children nothing less than the impossible. race is a delusion and we have to defeat all dilutions. >> you are going back to france? >> on saturday. that's home for now. >> what's the next book? >> that's a good question. it's not going to be another memoir. if i do a third memoir before the age of 40. >> so it's a novel perhaps? >> maybe i will try a new novel. what i think i might want to do is step outside myself and get into reforming. >> we stepped out of our time. it's been very good talking to you. i wish you all the best for this book and the project of helping us all perhaps, escape from raised. >> it's been a pleasure. thanks so much. ♪. >> the house will be in order. >> for three years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage ofcongress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington d.c. and around the country . so you can make up your own mind. creating by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to

james baldwin said ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice. and so we've got power in donald trump and we have the senate trying to decide whether or not they're going to stay ignorant. and the ignorance is by allowing him to make these even admissions about his obstruction and the potential for it to unravel his presidency, and yet we shouldn't have to have any discussion at this point anymore about whether or not there will be witnesses and documents coming in, particularly after such a powerful presentation. and it wasn't just by adam schiff, who i agree with everyone was brilliant, but several of the house managers used the opportunity to weave in this is enough evidence, this is enough evidence, but don't you want to know the rest of the story? don't you want to know? and remember, because they are sitting members of the senate one of the powers that they have is to legislate even if they don't vote to remove him, is to understand what happened and determine whether or not they should legislate some changes in order to protect the nationa

james baldwin said ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.o we've got power in donald trump and we have the senate trying to decide whether or not they're going to stay ignorant. and the ignorance is by allowing him to make these even admissions about his obstruction and the potential for it to unravel his presidency, and yet we shouldn't have to have any discussion at this point anymore about whether or not there will be witnesses and documents coming in, particularly after such a powerful presentation. and it wasn't just by adam schiff, who i agree with everyone was brilliant, but several of the house managers used the opportunity to weave in this is enough evidence, this is enough evidence, but don't you want to know the rest of the story? don't you want to know? and remember, because they are sitting members of the senate one of the powers that they have is to legislate even if they don't vote to remove him, is to understand what happened and determine whether or not they should legislate some changes in order to protect the national secu

even like the great james baldwin. but they almost had to leave the church. it was just too narrow. and then to accommodating. and we know history. and as the object to be mediated through our understanding. and the actions is a great speech that martin gave. >> in bed with a refrain about being dissatisfied. so the ark of the speech itself du bois calls divine dissatisfaction. and then the refrain let us not be satisfied. that led us to be dissatisfied so every man has human dignity. >> you can see that in and of itself is the message in the age of obama, to have intellectuals that are obama apologists that are no longer dissatisfied enough to acknowledge all street crimes. not one wall street executive goes to jail. >> that's what he's talking about. >> one fine detail. but i do think they hold the attorney general's office. >> the wall street executives that are tied to the operation. it was on another level personally. and then to have a criminal justice system. every 28 hours shooting a policeman or a security guard and keep the order and the homeland security secretary that we

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he talked about how for james baldwin, martin luther king wasn't progressive enough. ath baldwin spiralled into depression, and understood what a great man was lost. and that's something that all of america understands all these years later. there's no better way to honor dr. martin luther king than working together in the spirit of reconciliation. not just in politics but in your church, ssynagogue, home, community. >> heart open to it. >>> now to our top story, president trump's long-awaited impeachment trial resume tomorrow. and the president's impeachment defense team will see white house counsel and personal attorney sekulow playing leading roles. with the addition of alan dershowitz and ken starr, they're hardly the most profile members. dershowitz and starr were two of the biggest legal names of the 90s. dershowitz helping with o.j. simp simpson's murder defense, and starr investigated bill clinton. in the 2000s they found a common client in disgraced billionaire and pedophile jeffrey epstein. dershowitz, a friend of epstein until his suicide sued a victim for d

but france also a h long tradition of being a sanctuary for artists, including pablo picasso and james baldwinthe idea here was to give artists a place to conct with one another, to work on an exhibit their crafts help with all the practical challenges of living as a refugee. >> they helped us find a place to live. they helpedk us get a worsa. some people needed psychologists. >> d a kurdish actor ama lateer fled turkey in 2017 why did you leave turkey? >> because it is complicated living there. i am a conscientious objector. an-military. i try to make art and theater in the kurdish language but when we make kurdish art or ytheater, t say it is terrorist propaganda. how can lanage the terrorist propaganda? >> in 2018, a graffiti artist and painter fled her native yemen and its years long civil war. she says she faced added persecution for her family's roots. and for her wanting to be an artist as a woman. she left everyone and everying behind and says she still doesn't know if it was the right decision. >> all of us are without our family. so we feel there's a lot of problems. keep fighting. s

i had no way of running that mormor i was coming to feel it wasn't an option then you quote james baldwin there is never which where we will work out the salvation challenges the time is now. there are people in san francisco said who are you to run for district attorney quex why did you feel that was necessary to jump in their? >> in 2003 to challenge the incumbent he had been in office two terms. his nickname was ko because he would be a boxer and knock people out i decided to run because i thought i could do the job better. people said to me nobody like you has ever done this before and they will not be ready for that or you are too young or just wait or it's not your turn they would say it will be so difficult so we ran away from hard work. i didn't listen i was all excited and then i was sitting in a room waiting for my first poll numbers and they were handed to me it was healthy six points that is six out of 100. [laughter] i said if we can get to 12 i know we can win. because i know if we doubled the went monash doubled the number we could win. and we did. that key in that election

in my mid-20s i found what i considered to be what i picked up somewhat belatedly the books of james baldwin. moving aside for the moment the music of baldwin sentences the grandness of his vision the wisdom and lyricism he brings to expressing the anger and ache of being black in america he was the first model i found one who brought everything he had to bear on opposing racism without being racist himself. in the underappreciated how long the train has been gone and his nonfiction no more eloquent than the fire next time of the Ãbloves deeply and without regard to the pigmentation. while the assassinations of malcolm x and martin luther king jr. along with other aspects of the backlash against the civil rights movement left baldwin embittered and disillusioned they did not ultimately compromise his humanity or make them into a racist he remained for me a model of how to conduct one's self with regards to race. yet i still felt confusion, there was one substance of difference between me and the white people in my circle, being white i discovered to make one exempt from the question of who o

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