c-span: john lukacs? >> guest: john lukacs, he's a historian. mostly writes about world war ii, but also about america. c-span: conservative? >> guest: no, he's denied that he is one. he's by himself. c-span: where does he live? >> guest: pennsylvania. c-span: richard neuhaus. >> guest: former lutheran minister, now converted to catholicism. a student of american religion. c-span: and what did you talk to him about? religion? >> guest: right. c-span: terry teachout. >> guest: works for the daily news, young conservative journalist working on a biography of h.l. mencken. c-span: in new york? >> guest: in new york. c-span: you mention mencken a lot in the book. why? >> guest: well, i mention mencken because he's sort of the great enemy of wasp values. he loathed wasps and he loathed their values, and he was a very eloquent critic of them. c-span: ernest van den haag. >> guest: long time contributor to national review, economist, professor -- another person who knows everything. c-span: "my thanks to them all. rich vigilante has been telling me wha