as thinking people to fight against orthodoxy. you know what i mean by that. that there's -- and frankly i don't think it's the orthodoxy of the republican house members i have to worry about. in some sense their dog mattism is too obvious. it's the orthodoxy of the left, the good people. when i talked earlier about education and the metaphor, education equals business, that's orthodoxy. that's something that everyone genuflects in front of. i object so i don't want to be in that camp, and when you think about it. what do we accept as normal that 30 or 40 years from now another generation will say, what -- you guys were crazy, and i want to object to the orthodoxy of common sense. so i find myself railing against the nation. in a regular basis. the new york times every day, npr, pretty much eave day. not because i think i know everything but because i think you have to be inargument with in order to find out who you actually are. if you just take it and drink the kool-aid alongside it you're dead as a thinker. >> host: do you ever

it's the orthodoxy of the left, of the good people. when i talked earlier about education and i talked about the metaphor education equals business, that's orthodoxy. that's something that everyone genuflects in front of. i object, so i don't want to be in that camp. when you think about it, what do we accept as normal that 30 or 40 years from now another generation will say, really? you guys are crazy. and i want to object to the orthodoxy of common sense. so, yes, i find myself railing against the nation in a regular basis, "the new york times" every day, npr pretty much every day. not because i think i know everything, but because i think you have to be in argument with in order to find out who you actually are. if you just take it and drink the kool-aid alongside of it, you're dead as a thinker and as a citizen. >> host: do you ever pick up the weekly standard or national review or something you know you're going to -- >> guest: i know i'm going to disagree with the new york times, that's the beautiful thing. i don't read those jou

they will ge tell you what the government orthodoxy is. i'm going to qualify this in a second, the orthodoxy in american liberal arts colleges is what i would call a neocommunist orthodoxy, that is, it teaches that america is a racist, sexist, homophobic imperialist country. and the people who teach that it's imperialist, teach that it's about the global imperialist system in the courses on global feminism, have credentials in comparative literature, women's studies, doctorates in education. i have yet to come across a woman studies professor who's teaching global feminisms and the global economy, who is an economist. so there's never massive consumer fraud going on also. in our universities. the qualification i will make is this. that is, that this amounts to about 10% of the curriculum. 10%. 90% of professors are what we always understood professors to be, quite decent, and your scholars. i think there is always going to be a problem if you have 90% of your faculty have political views from one side of the spectrum. having been on both s

he showed us that orthodoxy is a one-way ticket to the wilderness. when our party had to break some china, al from was the donkey in the china shop we needed. [applause] >> most of all, al showed us that in the end the fickle fashions of washington don't really matter. he never cared who was up and who was down. he just woke up every day determined to keep fighting for the same principles he believed the night before. it is a rare man that can stay true to his heart for a lifetime in this town and we are forever thankful for him to it. he didn't do it alone. he couldn't have done did without you who stood by the d.l.c. the last quarter century. he couldn't have done it without the inspiration of his papers who immigrated to south bend, indiana and rayed their son to believe -- raised their son to believe that opportunity for all is america's promise. and he certainly couldn't have done it without the woman he met in the civil rights movement and worked with on the war on poverty, the patron saint of the d.l.c., mother of jenny and sarah and love of h

he showed us that orthodoxy is a one-way ticket to the wilderness, and the path of least resistance is a dead-end street. when the party wanted to break some china, how was adopted in a china shop and needed -- al was the donkey in a china shop that we needed. [applause] and most of all, he showed us that in the end, the fickle fashions of washington did not really matter. we did not care -- he did not care who was up one who was down, he just wanted to keep fighting for the same principles he believed. all of you who stood by the dlc, and the commitment to the ideals of the new democratic movement a stronger than ever. his parents emigrated to indiana and raise our son to believe the opportunity for all was the democrats mission. the patron saint of the dlc, the love of his life, ginger from. [applause] he spent the last quarter- century willing the democratic party back from the dead. he is going to spend the next quarter century on a more quixotic cause, when the cubs back to the world series. tonight, all of us pledge to honor his legacy with a new wave of new democrats on the rise

it is shiia orthodoxy to use religion as an instrument for state. at the beginning of the revolution the divisiveness was among the different ranks of clerics on the highest levels. one of your listeners alluded to a leader from the beginning of the revolution who was more highly ranked than ayatollah khamenei who came out against creating an islamic state. he said it would be the end of islam. he was harassed. his followers were arrested. this is interesting. everyone thinks that iran is monolithic. this is not true. part of the fight is to save religion from the state, in fact. host: let me make san this piece from "the new york times." it says one of the mysteries behind this week's demonstrations is who was cordoning them. some suspect of the hidden hand of the par for the position of the former president is. his daughter, a former member of parliament, was spotted at a march. what are your thoughts on that? guest: yes, he has openly voiced his discontent and this agreement with mr. ayatollah khamenei on some points. but there have been influent

i imagined myself as a latter-day martin luther, taping rather than hammering out criticisms of orthodoxy for all to see. i generated my posters by typing them out over and over on the black typewriter using carbon paper to produce more copies at a time. i had only 12 contentious theses, not luther's 95. after a nights work, i gave my posters to the world on the 15th. . . deer bob off the beginning of my letter, added a conclusion and send it away. months passed without a word from national review. i assumed they had not liked the submission and thrown away. this was standard procedure in journalism. after the new year, i got a letter from a c hçó simon, the managing editor, deer mr. brookhiser, please forgive our slowness in dealing with your manuscript. it somehow got buried on my desk. this, i would learn, action was standard procedure. priscilla buckley, bill's older sister and managing editor, and i have read it and weçó want to publish it. anyone who submit something for the approval of the world expects in somee1 corner of his mind that he will be approved but when approval actuall

but we thought we needed to break out of the orthodoxy of the past. then, after i got elected, some of our critics said, we must not believe in anything since we wanted politics that went beyond the partisan divides of the 1980's. by 2008, the same people thought that was a good thing to be. and i understood it. it was so easy to cover politics until we came along. it was like the gunfight at the o.k. corral. playing checkers, there are two kinds of pieces. it was one color, the other is the other. its spirit of the trouble of thinking. it was like a prize fight, you pick one fighter and waited to see not the other one out. except, we had waits around our ankles, and it was hard to move. then, there were those who said after this was all said and done, we finally saw what could happen when we elect an extremely able and brilliant person president in an environment where we finally have a cultural majority and lots of interesting problems to work on, and great talent, that somehow the dlc has become irrelevant. i read all of this stuff. i of you this f

there has been an orthodoxy that many different people have tried to push, including some governments in the middle east. that is this notion that we have to have peace between the israelis and palestinians before we can pursue anything else. when i was working in the state department, i spent time working on democracy programs to bring market economics, to work on the empowerment of women in the middle east. . . the palestinians have the obligation to dismantle terrorist organizations, and that is an obligation that happens in the road map near where the same place that the israelis are asked to stop building settlements. it is not just say improve security. i think we need to work hard on this issue, but i think we need to be very clear about the fact we're not putting it at above these other issues and bring peace between israelis and palestinians, in my view, will not resolve all those other issues. we still have the issue of terrorists, radical islamic terrorists who do not believe in the things we believe in and would like to destroy us and our way of life. although they use the

anti-protests protest on the school wall i enlarged -- imagine myself a latter-day martin luther hanging up orthodoxy for all to see. i generated by posters by typing them out over and over on the black typewriter using carbon paper to produce four copies at a time. i had only 12 species, not withers 95 procter one night's work i gave my posters to the world on the 15th. all of my efforts on the more organized protest by helped to deflate that went in my weekends letter to my brother it made for a longer storey than usual and the next letter home he said he had enjoyed it but my father said why don't you send it to "national review"? no one in my family knew anything about journalism. we knew william f. buckley, jr. from television and we had been subscribing to his magazines for happier maybe that is enough. i took it dear bob off of the beginning of my letter added a conclusion and assented away. months past without a word from "national review" play assumed they have not like to the submission and have thrown away and this was standard procedure in journalism. then after the new year i got a lette

i imagine myself as a latter day martin luther taping rather than hammering up criticisms of orthodoxy all to see. i generated my posters by typing them out over and over on the black typewriter using carbon paper to produce four copies at a time. i had only 12 contentious thesis, not luther's 95. after a night's work, i gave my posters to the world on the 15th. all my efforts and the more organized protests i hopeyydñ t deflate went into that weekend's letter of my brother. it made for a longer story than usual and in his next letter home he said he enjoyed it. my father said, why don't you said it to national review. no one in my family knew anything about journalism. we knew william f. buckley from television and we've been subscribing to his magazine for half a year. perhaps that would be entree enough. i took dear bob off the beginning of my letter, added a conclusion and sent it away. [laughter] >> months passed without a word from national review. i assumed they had not liked the submission and thrown it away. and that this was standard procedure in journalism. then after the ne

there has been a sort of orthodoxy that many different people have tried to push including some governments in the middle east, and that is this notion we have to have peace between the israelis and palestinians before we can pursue anything else. when i was at the state department i spent a lot of time working on democracy programs to bring market economics to work on the in power but of women in the mideast and often governments would say those are important things but we can't do anything until we have peace between israelis and palestinians. so i think the issue of peace is critically important. but i think we have to understand how difficult it is now that hamas controls gaza. the road maps were barely mentioned in the president's cairo speech. they have and you are the same place the israelis are asked to stop settlement building. but it says dismantle terrorist organizations it doesn't just say improve security. so i think we need to work hard on this issue but i think we need to be very clear about the fact we are not putting it above these other issues and that in fact, bringing pe

but we thought we needed to break out of the or owe docks si of -- orthodoxy of the past. then after i was elected some critics said we must not be anything because we wanted politics that went beyond the partisan dichdz vides of the 19. but 2008 some thought that was a good thing to do. and i understood it. it was so easy to cover politics until we came along. just like the gun fight at the o.k. corral, or playing checkers, there are two kinds of pieces. one is one color and the other is the other and it spared you the trouble of thinking. it was like a prizefight. you just picked one fighter and waited for one to knock the other out. except we had weights around our ankles and it was hard to move in the ring. then there were those who said, after this was all said and done and we finally saw what could happen when we elected an extremely able and brilliant person president in an environment where we finally have a cultural majority and lots of interesting problems to work on and great talent, that somehow the d.l.c. has become irrelevant. i read all of this stuff. i owe

two questions, first is when it be fair to say that the efficient market theory is worse than an orthodoxy actually of theology? and secondly, there once was a wonderful build an american economist named robert tipton and he predicted it way ahead of his time that there was a terrible dilemma awaiting the american economy. where were these men preparing us for what came in the last few years? thank you. >> starting with robert, whom i have known very well, he was a very nice guy in the last 10 years of his life he didn't do any of economics, he was just interested in history as a sideline. what did he say? the world has a dilemma because you are dependent on the dollar to keep the machine going and if you don't create another mechanism to yet the liquidity for the world economy you will always depend on what the americans are doing. that is basically what he said and that is basically where we still are today. i mean, it's a little bit too easy and that's not because i am here at an american audience, to blame the united states for all these situations. there was nobody obliging in europea

you know, there's sort of been an orthodoxy that many different people have tried to push, including some governments in the middle east. and that is this notion that we have to have peace between the israelis and the palestinians before we can pursue anything else. when i was working at the state department, i spent a lot of time working on democracy to bring market economics and empowerment of women in the middle east and very often governments would say to us, those are all really important things but we really can't do anything about it until we have peace between the israelis and the palestinians. the issue of peace is a critically important one but i think we have to understand how difficult it is now that hamas controls gaza. the palestinians' obligations in the roadmap were barely mentioned by the president in his cairo speech, you know, they have the obligation to dismantle terrorist organizations. and that is an obligation that, you know, happens in the roadmap near the same place where the israelis are asked to stop settlement-building. but it says dismantle terrorist orga