but most intellectuals to fall into that category, and certainly karl marx did because he didn't think people mattered at all. what he thought mattered were ideas particularly his own. so i am rather proud of the book because i managed not merely to identify the great weakness and intellectuals, that concern for ideas rather than people, but i managed to get quite a lot of jokes particularly dealing with scoundrels and so forth. i got some good jokes in there. i often get postcards from readers saying thanks for all the jokes you put into intellectuals and that gratifies me because one of the things i think is that they are -- there isn't enough humor in books particularly solid and formidable books. they tend to be written in a spirit of cumulus less. now i try to get in as many jokes as i can because i think jokes are very, very important. the world is a sad place. it's full of sadness and ends in sadness for most of us and the more jokes we can laugh at during our lives, the better. so one of my games as a writer is to put more jokes and i think i was very successful in that particu

titanic theorist like karl marx and other thinkers never really stopped to ask what may make religion come and go yet christianity has not gone to hell in a swoop although it has been strong in some places and weaker in the others but one logical way to approach the question of what is missing it seems to me is to look at what else is going on in when religion is on the upswing. looking at the beginning of the '60s as historians and sociologists have documented those who you may remember those years saw a remarkable revival of christianity across the western world. church attendance was up and affiliation was up ceremonies increase, religious language and ideas influenced public speech for even popular culture like movies not only in the united states but across the western world as brown and has independently documented for costly a great britain germany and more countries or most of the west better secular today the anticipated rise of a belief but in the united states was so pronounced with a revival that some people assumed it would only continue this way not its decline would be

all the life and works of karl marx and he told me that he couldn't find this in astoria. [speaking spanish] so i began looking in my books and i couldn't find it, but i was absolutely sure that it was a sentence of marks. so i answered to my translator, don't worry. this sentence is a sentence of marks but he forgot to write it. [laughter] [applause] >> i like especially what eduardo said that each of us contains a little heaven and a little hell. it's a wonderful concept. >> is some people's hell is so much bigger. [laughter] >> and in the small things lies that have been. i want to thank eduardo very very much for being with us tonight. it's been absolutely wonderful. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> intense discussions and arguments within "national review" that i have alluded to berg primarily, not totally part primarily in the 60s as they were still feeling their way in the conservative movement was still jelling. in the 1970s, russia's focus is on, is initially on the possibility of replacing the republican party with a new conservative party. i found a letter in

, and days and nights happen to be a specialist on the life and works of karl marx and he told me hecouldn't find a sentence in his story a -- no, [speaking in spanish] and so, i began looking myself in that books cannot couldn't find it, but i was absolutely sure i had read it and it was a sentence of marx, silly answer to my translator, don't worry, this sentence is a sentence of marx, that he forgot to write it. [laughter] [applause] >> i like especially what eduardo said that each of us contains a little heaven and a little. it's a wonderful concept. >> some people contain much bigger. [laughter] >> in the small things like to have it. i want to think eduardo very, very much for being with us tonight. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> well, i'm the author of finding our way in the next america which just came out in paperback. i don't think i'm going to read that for a while. my three good books for the summer is the unwinding it i'm almost there with that, so i could recommend having read it. it's a gripping tale of basically the unwinding of the middle class. it's almost geor

this is where the workers revolt began 60 years ago, now known as karl marx alley. this man was 16 at the time. he followed the thousands of protesters who were marching to demand higher wages and more freedom. >> there were a lot of tanks to meet them, circling and shooting in the air. then i saw one of the construction workers i had followed that morning. he was wearing a rain jacket. he had been run over and was dead. >> the protests then spread across east germany. more than one million people rallied to call for free elections. that the protesters were brutally silenced highest soviet army crackdown -- that the protesters -- but the protesters were brutally silenced by a soviet army crackdown. this serves as a reminder that government action must always be rooted in the support of its citizens. >> the global media forum kicks off. international broadcasting is under the spotlight. >> to celebrate the occasion, many political figures and media experts joined dw director general eric federman -- erik bettermann. >> performed by singers from all 30 broadcast langu

this is where the workers revolt began 60 years ago, now known as karl marx alley. this man was 16 at the time. he followed the thousands of protesters who were marching to demand higher wages and more freedom. >> there were a lot of tanks to meet them, circling and shooting in the air. then i saw one of the construction workers i had followed that morning. he was wearing a rain jacket. he had been run over and was dead. >> the protests then spread across east germany. more than one million people rallied to call for free elections. that the protesters were brutally silenced highest soviet army crackdown -- that the protesters -- but the protesters were brutally silenced by a soviet army crackdown. this serves as a reminder that government action must always be rooted in the support of its citizens. >> the global media forum kicks off. international broadcasting is under the spotlight. >> to celebrate the occasion, many political figures and media experts joined dw director general eric federman -- erik bettermann. >> performed by singers from all 30 broadcast langu

chinese] [laughter] [laughter] >> translator: the state-planned economy, the system started from karl marx, was introduce to the soviet union then brought to china. [speaking mandarin chinese] >> >> translator: i wrote another book how impossible they -- [inaudible] [speaking mandarin chinese] >> translator: the national economy is a complicated fluid system. which changes every second. [speaking mandarin chinese] expwhroit >> translator: the plans cannot go with the changes. [speaking mandarin chinese] >> >> translator: each and every five-year plan from the china government had been a failure. [speaking mandarin chinese] >> translator: every time when the failure happened with those huge waste of resources. >> reminds of the stimulus plan -- [laughter] , you know, if we didn't enact it would go to 8.5%. we did enact it and it went to 10. [speaking mandarin chinese] >> translator: the planned economy really it was provided the political base and system for a dictatorship. it's about abandoning the government. [speaking mandarin chinese] >> translator: it's the government with the -- [inau

snowden, who i guess got his itinerary booked by the karl marx travel agency.re are dissidents taking on the abuse by those three governments that are not democratic and abusive of their governmental power. that is a hero. instead of something flying all over the world. >> it's interesting where you say he is going to a place where there are political prisoners and aren't rights because he stands the best chance right here in the united states. >> the majority of americans think he should be prosecuted. people are divided. >> majority of americans who are paying attention to it. i think it's more of a journalism story and government story. >> paula deen is getting way more coverage. >> paula deen's twitter thing is trending. >> paula deen needs to -- can i tell you? paula deen needs to send edward snowden a big box of smithfield ham. this has been a long press weekend for her but for him. >> thank you, both. always a great conversation with both of you. >>> south africans coming to grips with the reality that nelson mandela, the man that defined the end of apar

titanic theorists like karl marx and a lot of other secular thinkers never release stopped to ask what might make religion come and go in the world most likely because it did not occur to them that it could come as well as go. yet christianity, to repeat, has not gone straight to hell in a downward singles with, rather it has been strong in some places and times, weaker and others so one logical way of approaching that question about what is missing, it seems to me, is to look more closely at what else is going on when religion seems to be on the upswing. let's take the years between the end of world war ii and the beginning of the 1960s. as historians and sociologists have documented, some people in this room who were around the might anecdotally remember, those particular years sought a remarkable revival of christianity across the western world. church attendance was up, denominational affiliation was up, baptism and related ceremonies increased, religious language and religious ideas influenced public speech, was, art, even popular culture like movies as many classics from the 1950

that in turn strongly influence the 19th century thinkers and they mentioned in particular karl marx. if you read the early marks, from the 1840s marks is really at that time it technology writer concerned with precisely this issue. i describe in the book i was driving a i think on the elmo and i was listening to kpfa but i didn't know it was. there was somebody going on and on about how they were going to lower the barriers and going to all this stuff. it's another one of the silicon valley startups and i cannot listen to another one of these but he was actually reading mark's. i thought might god. if you forget about it, i'm not a marxist. i think his proposal has been proven to fail but if you read his descriptive work on what was going on with human life in the world of technology wow he is contemporary. it really is extraordinary stuff. there aren't that many thoughts for the 19th century familiar to us but the ballad of john henry is one and it's about a guy who is laying railroad tracks and manages to win but dies from exhaustion. it was sort of the tragic ironic people in a ra