professor noel valis. she is a professor of spanish and portuguese. okay no longer portuguese. [laughter] she was a recipient of the guggenheim fellowship and also a national endowment for the humanities fellowship. she is written on sacred realism, spanish civil war and 19th century spanish novels so without further ado the moderator for the second panel

reno and noel valis. our distinguished speakers very briefly to turn the panel over 2000 to which we will open up the floor for discussion. when i accepted the kind invitation to moderate this panel, i was genuinely delighted to have the opportunity to revisit the classic book. but as i started to read i've realized that i was absolutely dead wrong about it. not about its classic status, but that i actually read the book before. because as i read further i understood had i once read his book, i would never have forgot that. my false memory of having read it probably arose from recognizing the title title that is truly a must read decades ago. i would never have forgotten it because as a professor of literature come in the first thing i noticed was not so much what he was saying, but how he was saying that. in chapter one the contraction of the west he begins while working on this book one morning i happened to come across lingering on a remote shelf and historical atlas left over from my school days long,

professor noel valis. she is a professor of spanish and portuguese. okay no longer portuguese. [laughter] she was a recipient of the guggenheim fellowship and also a national endowment for the humanities fellowship. she is written on sacred realism, spanish civil war and 19th century spanish novels so without further ado the moderator for the second panel liberalism at home and the challenges to western survival. [applause] >> can can you hear me all right all right? welcome to the second panel on this conference on james burnham "suicide of the west" which the william f. buckley program is organized to put together. i should point out that unfortunately james was unable to attend but wonderfully at the massachusetts -- the last moment we have a replacement. avik roy has stepped up and volunteer to fill in for him so we thank him. [applause] our time of consist of james taranto and avik roy. we will open up the floor for discussion. when i accepted lawrence kind invitation to moderate this panel i was genuinely to thought -- delighted to have the opportunity to revisit burnham'

professor noel valis. she is a professor of spanish and portuguese. okay no longer portuguese. [laughter] she was a recipient of the guggenheim fellowship and also a national endowment for the humanities fellowship. she is written on sacred realism, spanish civil