russians voted by the russian people who have lived through this work item, peter the great and joseph stalin, and this shows the persistence of this and the demonstrators out they're going for the katulis on without the foggiest idea what they're going to replace it with having thought through the problem how do you get people to work, how do you give them incentives, never having given a second thought to that. .. no conflict basically. if you think you can create no poverty, it if you think no war, if you can create such a world what crime will you not commit to achieve it? what lie would you not tell or if you don't have the stomach for committing the crime, what crime would you not support? the american left, in its majority, is supporting one way or another hamas, which is an organization which is dedicated to killing the jewish. it says so in its own charter. how can progressive people, people who say they are for social justice, be supporters of hamas? they can because they have this vision of a redeemed future and who is standing in the way of it? it is america and the jewish. and ho

he said adolf hitler, joseph stalin and walter o'malley. your audience may not know who o'malley was, but he was the owner of the dodgers who moved them to los angeles. but i grew up in brooklyn and went to school here. c-span: where? >> guest: actually i started at ccny many years ago. c-span: city college. >> guest: i went to city college, but then went on to the state university of new york in the western part of the state in fredonia, which is a notorious place because in one of the marx brothers' movies, there's a place called fredonia. but then i went on for my graduate work to columbia. c-span: and your degree is in what? >> guest: i started out as an english teacher, and my graduate work was largely in linguistics. my first job was at san francisco state college teaching linguistics. c-span: thirteen books -- or is this the 14th? >> guest: actually it's 20 if you count the textbooks, but we'll settle for 14. c-span: just reading the liner notes. it says 13 books. which one of those 13, at least the consumer books, sold the most? >>

russians voted by the russian people who have lived through this work item, peter the great and joseph stalin, and this shows the persistence of this and the demonstrators out they're going for the katulis on without the foggiest idea what they're going to replace it with having thought through the problem how do you get people to work, how do you give them incentives, never having given a second thought to that. .. >> there's one other dimension to this, which is this. if you believe that you can create the kingdom of heaven on earth which is what every fantasy of social justice is about, it's about a world where there's no suffering, where there's no inequality, where there's no racism, sexism, homophobia, no conflict, basically. if you think you can create nol. poverty, if you think that war, if you think you can create such a world, what crime will you no commit to achieve it? what lie would you not tell?e or if you don't have the stomach for committing a crime, what crimepo wouldrt you not support? the american left, you know, in it majority you're supporting in one way or another hamas

. >> i would love -- i would give anything to see your dad sitting across the table from joseph stalin. somebody who had prosecuted gangsters all of his life. >> let's try to get a couple more phone calls and hear as we wrap up tonight's "the contenders." >> thank you very much for this wonderful program, part of a wonderful series. historically toward the end we did get back to the question of foreign affairs. my question has to deal with toofessor smith's reference his role of an adviser in for policy at what the relation between the two was and what that had to do with dallas becoming the secretary of state in the cabinet. >> i think you are absolutely right. they all fit together. the relationship was a uniquely close one. intellectually substantive. at one point, your dad appointed him to the united states senate seat which he was unable to hold onto in the election. there is no doubt that john foster dulles became dwight eisenhower's secretary of state as an of growth of the long record of association of creative foreign-policy position he had had with tom dewey. >> he was one --

. >> i would love -- i would give anything to see your dad sitting across the table from joseph stalin. somebody who had prosecuted gangsters all of his life. couples try to get a more phone calls and hear as we wrap up tonight's "the contenders." >> thank you very much for this wonderful program, part of a wonderful series. historically toward the end we did get back to the question of foreign affairs. my question has to deal with professor smith's reference to his role of an adviser in for policy at what the relation between the two was and what that had to do with dulles becoming the secretary of state in the cabinet. >> i think you are absolutely right. they all fit together. the relationship was a uniquely close one. intellectually substantive. at one point, your dad appointed him to the united states senate seat which he was unable to hold onto in the election. there is no doubt that john foster dulles became dwight eisenhower's secretary of state as an outgrowth of the long record of association of creative foreign-policy position he had had with tom dewey. >> he was one -- mayb

. >> i would give anything to see your dad sitting across the table from joseph stalin. somebody who had prosecuted gangsters all of his life. >> let's try to get a couple more phone calls and hear as we wrap up tonight's "the contenders." >> thank you very much for this wonderful program, part of a wonderful series. historically toward the end we did get back to the question of foreign affairs. my question has to deal with professor smith's reference to his role of an adviser in for policy at what the relation between the two was and what that had to do with dulles becoming the secretary of state in the cabinet. >> i think you are absolutely right. they all fit together. the relationship was a uniquely close one. intellectually substantive. at one point, your dad appointed him to the united states senate seat which he was unable to hold onto in the election. there is no doubt that john foster dulles became dwight eisenhower's secretary of state as an of growth of the long record of association of creative foreign-policy position he had had with tom dewey. >> he may be t