our guest this month is jonah goldberg. jonah goldberg is the author of liberal fascism, he's the editor of proud to be right. he's the editor of the national review online. he's a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. he's a blogger. he's a columnist. you can read him at his website. you can read him at aei. you can read him at national review. you can read him in several newspapers around the country. he's our guest for the next two and a half hours. i'm going to put the phone lines up on the screen if you would like to dial in and talk to jonah goldberg. a doctor jonah goldberg. if you live in east and central time zones, (202) 737-0001. those of you in about a pacific time zones, (202) 737-0002. you can also send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span dot board. >> unfortunately our twitter is not working today so we can't take any tweets. for jonah goldberg but if you want to get updates on booktv you can go to twitter.com/booktv. mr. goldberg in proud to be right, voices of the next conservative generation,

our guest this month is jonah goldberg. jonah goldberg is the author of "liberal fascism." editor of the "proud to be right." editor of the "national review online." is a leading scholar at the american enterprise institute. he is a blogger, a columnist that you can reach him at his website that you can read them at aei did you can read them at "national review." you can read them in several newspapers around the country. he's our guest for the next two and half hours. going to put the phone lines up on the screen if elected out in a doctor jonah goldberg. if you live in east and central time zones, (202) 737-0001. those of you in about a pacific time zones, (202) 737-0002. you can also send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span dot board. unfortunately, our twitter is not working today so we can't take any tweets for jonah goldberg but if you want to get updates on booktv go to twitter.com/booktv. mr. goldberg, and "proud to be right: voices of the next conservative generation" essays on gay rights, drug laws, isolationism. sex at a young i. homeschool religion. there seems to

had net, you are on with jonah goldberg. >> caller: thank you for this intellectual discussion. i am in the position of looking down the road and looking to solve this great divide in our country is going to take people like you that can look at some ideas that liberals have and say that might not be a bad idea and we have to look at the republicans and say that might not be a bad idea. let's see if we can work this out. what do you think is going to take to get us to that point and you said something very nice about liberals and then turn around and give the counter argument as to why that is bad. i would love for you to say something nice about a liberal and i challenge liberals to do the same. >> host: this is not to say liberals are badly in tension. i agree with the caller in the sense that some point you need to fashion some kind of bipartisan compromise. how that is done and when that happens depends on a lot of things. i'm not a big fan on difference splitting for its own sake. if one says 2 plus 2 = 4 and the other says 2 plus 2 = 10 saying let's compromise at 6 or some

. >> today on booktv's "in depth," jonah goldberg, best selling author and editor at large of "national review online" discusses the election results, the conservative movement and the next wave of leaders on the right. and our three hour conversation with your calls, e-mails and tweets today at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv. every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, biography and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> in addition to a questionnaire that covered a wide variety of background items, the yaf members were asked to imagine the nation's history from 1966 to the end of the century. in other words, the year 2000. and so they were looking ahead for 34 years and imagining what they perceived, or what they were viewing ask what would happen to our country for the remainder of the century. and a graduate student who is doing this study, richard brown guard, was surprised by what he described as the belief of yaffer members that a continued drift to the wealth their state and socialism, and moral decay would be reversed in the near future by an aw

next three hours is your chance to participate in a discussion with all of author and columnist jonah goldberga syndicated column carried by newspapers nationwide. the pulitzer prize nominee is a columnist is author of new york times best-seller liberal fascism and editor of proud to be right. >> you write that fascism is a religion of the state. what do you mean? >> guest: nice to be here. what i mean by that is that it is -- i did much of my thinking from the philosopher who believes that all of the progressive totalitarianisms of the 20th century, progressivism, fascism, socialism, fabianism, go down the list, they are all, in effect, stand-ins for what he called the political religion, this idea that politics should really be religion by other means, in effect. ..

. >> this weekend on "in depth" jonah goldberg discussed the election results, the conservative movement, and the next wave of leaders on the right. join our conversation with your calls, e-mails, and tweets sunday noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> up next, book tv attended a reception for arianna huffington, editor and chief for the "huffington post" on her book "third world america: how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and destroying the american dream." the program runs just over 30 minutes. >> how are you? >> you don't even -- >> john. >> aisle -- i'm dylan. >> i have to warn everybody that i'm wired. everything that you say -- >> she was doing all of the stuff for you. you weren't noticing. >> this is a lifestyle. >> yeah, it's a lifestyle thing. it's surrounding her. >> i figure you need to warn people. anything that -- maybe i should be wearing a thing. >> you should wear a sign around your neck, i'm wired, be careful, i'll put it on the front of the "huffington post." >> thank you. >> if you are greek, you are in. [laughter] >> that's great. >> thank you very mu

. >> jonah goldberg discusses the election results, the con servetive movement, and the next wave ofeaders on the right. join our three hour conversation with our calls, e-mails, and tweets, sunday at noon eastern on c-span2 booktv. >> this weekend on c-span3 american history it have, we'll show the art created by japanese americans during their time in world war ii intermment camps and the 50th an anniversary. american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. saturdays, landmark supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> the school district calls the voluntary bible reading. there's nothing voluntary about the bible reading. >> this week in part two, involving prayer in public schools and freedom of religion, mr. schempp felt students should not be required to read from the bible before class on saturday at 6 p.m. eastern. nationwide on xm channel 132, and online at c-spanradio.org. >> president obama left today on a 10-day trip to asia for meetings. >> c-span2, one of c-span's public affairs offerings. weekdays, live coverage of the u.s. senate, and weekends booktv. 48 hours

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, joans weekend on booktv.or of goldberger discusses the next wave of leaders on the right -- jonah goldberg discusses the next wave of leaders on the right. >> saturday, a landmark supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> there is nothing voluntarily about a bible reading. >> this wiegand focuses on schools and freedom of -- this weekend focuses on schools and freedom of religion. saturday on c-span radio and -- in washington d.c. at 90.1 f.m. and nationwide on xm satellite radio. >> every weekend, experience american history tv, starting saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern. the year historic speeches by national leaders and i would his accounts that shape our nation, visit museums, historical sites, and college campuses as professors and the historians delve into america's past. american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c- span3. >> "washington journal" continues. host: ziad ojakli is the government and community relations vice-president with the mortar -- the ford motor company. he is here to talk to us about jobs in the auto industry. first, the detroit free press has an article about

in-his weekend on "booktv's depth," jonah goldberg, editor at large of national review online, discusses the conservative movement and the next wave of leaders on the right. join our conversation with your calls, emails, and tweets sunday at noon eastern on "booktv." >> this year's student cam video documentary competition is in full swing. washington d.c., through my lens. upload your video before the january 20 deadline for your chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. there is $50,000 in total prize as per the competition is open to middle and high school students' grades 6 through 12. for all the rules and how to upload your video, go online to studentcam.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: hello, michael kinsley. michael is now a columnist at politico. we have seen him over the years in various posts as he has been commented on this town for years. i tell people that you argue against the concept of american exception was in but did not expect that did not explain your reasoning. guest: well, what is to explain? i was trying to make a point in this column not that america

. >> this weekend on booktv's "in depth" jonah goldberg discussed the political move, the wave, and leaderson the right. join us with your calls, e-mails, and tweets, sunday noon eastern on c-span2 booktv. >> every weekend on c-span3 experience american history tv. starting saturday at 8 p.m. eastern. 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. hear historic speak -- speeches by national leaders. visit museums, historical sites, and campuses as we delve into america's past. american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> coming up on a special weeknight edition of booktv. : that i never thought i would be writing. a miti

this weekend, and jonah goldberg discusses the election results, the conservative movement, and the next wave of leaders on the right. join us for the conversation on sunday at noon eastern. >> up next, candidates for the washington senate meet for a debate held last month. patty murray is running for a fourth term. she is joined by dino rossi. they spoke about a number of issues, including immigration, water rights, and college tuition. the race has been labeled a tossup. this is about one hour. good evening. this debate is being seen locally and we are also being heard on news radio 1920. i want to begin by introducing the candidates to you. patty murray is seeking her fourth term. she is challenged in the race by republican dino rossi. each candidate will answer questions submitted by the viewers. from the "spokesman review" -- we are joined tonight by a studio audience. thanks to all of you for coming. we want to get to as many questions in the next hour as we can, so we would ask that you hold your applause until the end. a coin flip before the debate determined that mr. rossi would

[applause] >> this week in on booktv's and depth, jonah goldberg, best-selling author discusses the election results, the conservative movement and the next wave of leaders on the right. >> we continue our coverage now of the recent conference on the implementation of the new financial regulation law. in this portion, one of the people who worked on the new regulations, donald kohn, worked for the fed for 40 years. this portion is about 35 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> moving right along, as they say, we now come to the final part of today's program, which is a keynote speech by a person with a very broad experience and understanding. and so, they should be a true high point of the program. donald kohn served as vice president of the federal reserve system in 2006 to 2010. in that role he advised ben bernanke throughout the 2008 and nine financial crises and also served as key advisor to mr. bernanke's predecessor, alan greenspan. he is now a senior fellow at the brookings and duchenne. dr. kohn is a 40 year veteran of the federal reserve. prior to serving on the board he was an advi

this weekend joinous three-hour conversation with wesseling author jonah goldberg as we discuss the electionresults, conservative moment, and next wave of leaders on the right. nonfiction books and authors every weekend on c-span2's booktv. >> saturday landmark supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> the school calls it the voluntary bible reading statute. there's nothing voluntary about the bible reading. >> this week involving prayer in public schools, mr. schempp felt students should not be required to read from the bible in class. in washington, d.c. on 90.1, nationwide on channel 132, and nationwide at c-spanradio.org. >> next, "madison and jefferson." they were recently invited to speech at jefferson's home in monticello. >> good morning, i studied here at month monticello. it's my pleasure to invite nancy and andrew on their book "madison and jefferson." they are both his ton yours, and written on the early 19th century done two books on jefferson. "jefferson's secret" which was published in 2005, and "the inner jefferson" published in 1995. nancy earlier published on the origins of t

. >> this weekend on booktv's "in depth," jonah goldberg, best-selling author discusses the election results, the conservative movement and the next wave of leaders on the right. join our three-hour conversation with your calls, e-mails and tweets sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> in addition to all of the season's campaign coverage and archived debates, there's lots more at the c-span video library including nonfiction authors and everything we've aired since 1987 all free and indexed online at the >> and we take you life, now, for remarks by former homeland security secretary tom ridge. he'll be talking about existing and emerging terror threats including last week's discovery of explosive materials aboard u.s.-bound cargo planes from yemen. this forum is being hosted by george washington university's homeland security policy institute. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> okay, everybody, we're going to get started in about two minutes. we're live on c-span2. when you ask your questions at the end, realize we're on live tv. thank you, we'll get started in about two mi

. >> this week, jonah goldberg discusses the election results, the conservative movement, and the nextave of leaders on the right. join us with your calls, e-mails, and tweets, sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's book booktv. >> until live coverage continues, here's some of the viewer calls on "washington journal." >> host: let's begin with the front page of usa today with the headline "now what?" compromiseo you expect gridlock? the balance of power stands right now in the house democrats 186 new democrats, 239 republicans, and as we said, we don't know about 10 house races that are still left out there that hasn't been called yet. if that happens today, we'll let you know. as we get the word from the associated press. by the way, you can follow along on our web site, c-span.org. we still are aggregating the election results there, courtesy of the associated press. we have a map that you can go to and find out where it all stands. in the senate, democrats have 50 new senates, republican 46, and then there are two independents that will likely caucus that will happen and will continue

this weekend on book tv's in-depth, jonah goldberg and editor at large of national review online discusses the election results, the conservative movement and the next wave of leaders on the right. join our three-hour conversation sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. now, a discussion on the impact of tuesday's elections on state legislatures from one of the country. from today's "washington journal," this is about 45 minutes. staff writer for politifact. what we will do is look at results in state legislatures. here is the headline from a piece you wrote. historic gains for gop. give me the scope. guest: well, really, it measures up to the gains from 1994 and from 1974, the post-watergate year. we have 19 gop takeover is so far. that could grow up to 22, i believe. actually, these often take longer to resolve because he had multiple members running. it recounts and even party switches can delay things. at least 19 for the gop. one democratic chamber turned into t. zero democratic takeovers. and there are still three that are currently democratic held that you could not let to the

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv "in depth" jonah goldbergcussed the election results, the conservative movement, and the next wave of leaders on the right. join our three-hour conversation with your calls, e-mails, and tweets, sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> saturdays landmark supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> the school always calls it a voluntary bible reading statute. there's nothing voluntary about the bible reading. >> this week in part two of the edward schempp, reading from the bible in school, he felt students should not have to. on 90.1fm, and online at c-spanradio.org. >> georgetown business school held a conference on the implementation of the financial regulation law. scholars and regulators discuss the different elements, including how to regulate companies that may pose risk to entire financial systems and how to effectively enforce the new regulations. this portion is about 35 minutes. >> my name is george daly, i'm dean of the georgetown university mcdonogh school of business. we are, of course, in our ne

. >> this weekend on booktv "in depth" jonah goldberg, discusses the election results, the conservativeovement, and the next wave on the right. sunday at noon eastern on c-span2 booktv. >> every weekend on c-span3, experience american history tv starting saturday at 8 a.m. eastern. 45 hours of people and events telling the american story. hear historic speeches by national leaders and eyewitness accounts of events that shape our nation. visit museums as top history professors and historians. american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> more now from a conference focusing on the u.s. and world economy. this event was hosted by ihs global insight, a company that uses economic modeling and foreverring. -- forecasting. in this 45 minute portion, william gale on the history of the deficit since 2001 and reasons for the national debt. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we started around the issue of fiscal policy a little bit. we talked about it this morning. i did. nigel did. huge questions around us, going forward, timing, expense, details, and our next s

. >> this weekend on "book tv pumped up jonah kohlberg, best- selling author and editor at large -- journal goldberg, best- selling author and editor at large of "national review." sunday at noon eastern on c- 2's booktv. >> always calls this a bible- reading statutes for there's nothing voluntary about the bible reading. >> this week, part 2 of abington school district vs. edward schempp. saturday at 6:00 p.m. on c-span radio. nationwide on xm channel 132 and online at c-span radio.org. "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with dick armey of freedomworks, part of the tea party movement. "our latest tea party candidates let down republicans at the final hurdle." "tuesday night was in some respects a failure. never has the house of representatives changed hands without the senate following suit, and the tea party movement should take the lion's share of the blade. the republicans fell at least four seats short of taking the senate. there were responsible for the book cost of at least three senate seats that were essentially there for the taking. guest: i got a kick out of that story. wha