this course, dedicated a couple of weeks to of bill buckley's anti communism as a principal and philosophical position. bill buckley once told me late in his life that is most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, the book in which he uncharacteristically barely says or writes anything but in which he creates a sort of literary and philosophical interview with whitaker chambers the odyssey, we see chambers again. so, this time directly to young

now let's i mean we could talk about the course i want to with this is a philosophical difference that i think we're debating here and that's the big elephant in the room right do you realize and i always ask this question to my conservative colleagues and compatriots is do you really feel as though that people are born and they say i'm going to choose to be gay i'm going to choose to be discriminated against i'm going to choose to be bullied do you think like little kids make those type of choices i just really really guys just as if some reality check here let's get something out of the yeah this is the reality. people prefer to be the top producers are this celebrated stars in america the front page of all the coverage preferred over the stodgy old white guys in their traditional ways yes a lot of people would probably prefer to be that way you could tell you that you're actually really a blogger to hold out about yourself so no i don't really have your can you tell me a couple years ago when you when you join the military you weren't allowed to talk about you were allowed to expres

the spanish mystic and philosopher teresa of avila insisted that everyone could experience intense andersonal knowledge of god. igtius loyola, founder of the jesuit teaching order, inspired his followers to go to work with spiritual fervor in the real world, and the missionary francis xavier carried to india and japan the message of the roman church. to fulfill the needs of the resurgent church, artists and architects all over europe flocked into rome. they came to design and ornament the churches that were built in the explosion of activity inspired by the counter reformation. the church reformers called for works of art and architecture that would bring people into the churches, inspire faith and religious commitment. an artistic revival resulted, and a new style. it was an exuberant style reflecting the optimism and assertiveness of the 17th-century church. this style is known as the baroque. the fresco on the ceiling above our heads was painted by pietro da cortona in the 1630s. it decorates the reception hall of barberini palace in rome, home of pope urban viii, a great patron of

total of about 12 million dollars of investment in mcclarin park or we just recently completed the philosopher's trail which supervisor cohen and campos you were there. which is amazing. the 2008 bond, opportunity program has saved mcclarin park applied for a grant to reno vait the playground which is getting done, we are in conversations right now with an organization about renovating the ball field down at sutter. we have renovated and cleaned mcnab lake. we have uspa out there and it has done a great job of stewarding the tennis court area by (inaudible) so there is a lot of good stuff happening there. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> mr. douglas you have residency for 61 years approaching. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is shat, and i will attend when i turn 100 too. >> i was wondering in this maintenance report there is going to be any discussion about the ongoing program to cut down dangerous trees throughout the city and there was a recent call article saying that there was going to be an active

are parasitic on deeper philosophical claims. so i will focus on those deeper philosophical claims. the workral claim -- that he offers comes out of the new natural law theory that has by out for some decades robert jordan of princeton and others, they argue there are some universal human goods, cross-cultural goods such as life, health, knowledge, a french ship. i agree with him about this. their claim is that marriage is such a good, cross culturally universal good, and it is a distinctive kind of bond with its own new value -- its own and itnd structure arises from the bottle union that only a man and a woman can achieve. their challenge has always been to explain what the intrinsic difference is between same-sex and opposite sex couples. the response is the union of opposite sex couples has an intangible assets that same-sex couples cannot possibly participate in. -- read fromooked the new book. "man and woman with a united bodily, they coordinate toward a toward the hole that they form together." this is something the same-sex couple cannot accomplish. there's no bodily good or

there's still some very basic philosophical differences. it's nice they're talking to each other, but let me just say this. you would not have gotten poorer in this town over the last few years betting against a compromise. i h think that's where my money is. the president is going up to capitol hill four times, four times this next week. the last time he had lunch with the republicans is almost three years ago. obviously you don't think this will achieve major structural changes. >> well, we'll see. i asked paul ryan about this. is this charm offensive as it's been called sincere, or is it public relations? he said look, we'll have to wait and see what the substance is. i mean, they're not going to turn over and vote for the president because they think he's a nice guy. they've got to find real common ground on the bic issues of taxes and spending and entitlement reform. i do think this. i think the president came to a conclusion, maybe later rather than sooner, that he can't make a deal with republican leaders and if he does make a deal,

support additional revenue, which isn't just a philosophical issue in the abstract, we've seen them come out and say as a part of any grand bargain they will not support any -- and the idea that they'll be protective, and will be less than willing to come to the table with serious proposals for entitlement reform. no amount of dinner, of bread breaking of pressure from constituents is going to change that. particularly when you look at the timing of this, where the next sort of -- the window of opportunity po templeally closes they end of the summer when congress is likely going to have to raise the debt ceiling again. that comes right at a time when there are going to be primary challengers getting ready to go against particularly republicans who are in any way supportive of increased revenue. so i think just the outside pressure in that way, and the political pressure as well as the philosophical divide is just too vast. >>> let me bring in north dakota senator john hovan. good to see you this morning. >> hi, chris. how are you? >> i'm well. i think the question is what do you thi

when he talks philosophical beliefs, this stuff, come on. we don't believe it. want to give you something from the last romney appearance. here's romney's previous appearances at cpac, showcased awkward moments. his problem with the conservative base last year was on full display last year when this ad-lib comment came out of his mouth. let's watch. >> i fought against odds in a deep blue state, but i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> those words do not strike me as authentic. >> wait a minute. >> severely conservative? what is that? painfully? >> what does that mean? >> disgustingly? what does it mean? >> these guys -- >> is he authentic? >> he does what he has to do to win. >> yes. >> so do other people. sow does barack obama. >> you don't think obama's authentic? >> i think -- >> i think obama wins with what he is. your thoughts, joe. i think it's authenticity. not an ideology assessment. i think romney up there, you put him on a sodium pedestal and say, i like being rich, like the family i'm in, i like being a mormon. i don't like talking a

little more colorful than the apple kind of stuff out of two of the sands work when i became a philosopher i think we can do better i think we can use science we have to be humble about what we can now we have to use it carefully all right you mention this idea of financial warfare and i want to digress a little bit and go back to look at greece charlie because some argue that greece the problem in greece the collapse in greece was part of their own making but apart from outsiders really using financial warfare using credit default swaps using a member of the banks and wall street goldman sachs you know they paid some debt to elaborate to get into the euro and then made bets against greece later then john paulson made bets against greece a hedge fund manager later isn't a financial warfare and shouldn't there be some a way for a country like greece to seek recourse in the case that they've been attacked in this way your thoughts the things back their mobile parties are such just two sides you know the good guys and the bad guys so to speak i don't think germany wants to destroy greece germ

from understanding what's going on so now it seems sally seems to be something of a frustrated philosopher jamie seem to be a frustrated physicist well not so frustrated max because i've spent ten years or a category of financial of physics as such the. kind of i near this all in a way the pilot pioneered a little bit was applying to capital markets there is a branch called a kind of physics for space the understanding in the economy to physics i prefer complexity theory because i think it's it's straight up you can take good you can take complexity science and it applies very well to capital markets not lead to fourthly but scientifically that the elements are there the dynamics are there and so it's a much better understanding of the fans love i love what's alleged in the black swan into the baseball bat demolish the bell curve you know once and for all someone needed to do that i'm glad he did it but he kind of stopped there he said well models don't work so let's just forget models they said you know stuff happens you know it's a little more colorful than that but kind of stuff out and

on the philosophical hand they want to shift their tact to be able to appeal to minority voters.ctical hand they want to be able to win elections. i think in state legislatures this is one way, restrictive voter id measures and other voting rights restrictionrestri a way they see they can diminish the vote of those that would likely vote against them and therefore stand a better chance of winning. they're really at odds there. >> for another dose, jonathan, karl rove apparently doesn't think that same-sex marriage is a problem for the gop. i want you to take a listen to what he said today. >> i think republicans on both sides of this issue have a healthy respect for -- for those who may not agree with them inside the party. at least that's been my experience thus far. >> really? >> no, they don't. >> karl rove's experience is that republicans have respect for both sides -- did i wake up in oz? >> you probably did. and i probably did, too. or i'm overly tired from being up so early. look, i don't know what he's talking about. the republican party for presidential cycles, for years

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i am a philosopher. as a philosopher, i can analyze the arguments and try to show what i think the arguments go wrong. >> i did not mean to put you on the spot. >> would he think the people on my side are missing? >> it is not hard for me to understand why people are thinking about this and it is a question of how he will treat friends and family members for gay marriage. i think it has become a symbol for many people, even many people who are probably not even going to enter gay marriage. it has become a symbol of the idea of respect for gay people and their relationships. >> sometimes when you say them all, no people on my side think the were being dismissive. but symbols are important. >> yes, they are. >> but we both understand. >> you know, if you come at it from a cultural perspective, symbols are the sacred objects by which we constitute realities. there are people on my side, the conservative side that say, it is just a symbol. i don't know if i necessarily agree that that is real in how we will

it is a philosophic position. it would be interesting for people to live in a world as people did at the beginning of the modern era and centuries before. people were not relentlessly comodified, the way they are now. people should live in an environment where nothing is bought and sold, just to see what it is like. you know what that is like, within families. there are family that fight about inherited, property, but in any decent family, you are not buying and selling to one another, you are giving. that is a gift economy. it is predicated on the idea that some things have an unconditional value. you cannot put a price on it. we just said, everything is a gift in our city. you cannot buy or sell anything. there is no advertising. you are not surrounded by this nattering pandemonium of commercial messages, which is so relentless. and lo and behold, we discovered, had a certain point in a community, when everyone is giving, -- people began to have experiences that were revelatory. they began to feel like they were

>> i think it is probably designed more philosophical than that.is designed to begin the discussion over when life begins. and it's not an easy discussion. we're divided as a country on it. i don't think we're in any real rush toward the new legislation to tell you the truth. it is an important philosophical discussion because all of our rights to do anything we choose to do as individuals sort of stem from an individual right to life. all of us agree at some point in time. for the 6-month-old baby that's been born and is home in a crib the state will step in if a mother or father abuses it. we all agree we'll protect the 6-month-old and pretty much all agree on the 1-day-old. before that we have some disagreements. my intention is to bring it forward, have a healthy, philosophic and moral discussion over what we should do, what the state should be involved with. when should life be protected? i don't think we are ready yet for society to change any laws maybe but i think it is worth while having the discussion if we can keep it from being too flip

instead of making a philosophical point, he wanted to make it an accounting discussion.blems, we have to do this. >> i think this is key to this. the debt operates under a weird set of rules in washington, that reporters and everybody else, reporters are able to openly cheer for deficit reduction,

is this a sign of the philosophical divide in your party, sean? >> i can't speak for cpac. can tell you he is a member of our party, a tremendous governor in new jersey, reforming pensions, saving the folks of new jersey a lot of money, but ensuring he does so to allow essential services to the people in new jersey. so as a leading governor, he's definitely someone in our party that is out front, as is governor engine dad and governor mcdonald, snyder, kasich, corbett. so we've got a tremendous amount of talent at the gubernatorial level out there doing great things for the people in their state. i think when it comes to 2016, whether it's one of those governor, some of those top senators, there's not going to be a lack of top talent to choose from. >> let me go down to the congressional campaign level, they raised 6.1 million in, the rncc, 4.4, the democrats say that's their best fund-raising month effort. do you have numbers for february? and will you get out-raised? you. >> we've got i think close to 10s million, with barely enough to keep their lights on, so i think whe

you have to have an authentic person out there of the party position who comes from the philosophicale or it's never going to work. the american people get a lot of exposure to the candidates. they watch them week after week after week. >> they didn't want him in their living room. >> obama may not be the greatest president in history. going to see. yet to prove his second term yet. i'm not completely convinced we're going in the right direction right now. i'm waiting for obama to come in with the log bam. thank you, laura ashburn and joe. we don't have you on enough. >> i'm here. >> well said. lauren, you're always great. >>> up next, this year's must-have souvenirs for the right-winger in your family. this is "hardball." the place for politics. there is no mass produced human. so we created the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. a collection of innovations designed around a bed with dualair technology that allows you to adjust to the support your body needs - each of your bodies. you'll only find sleep number at one of our over 400 stores nationwide. where queen ma

commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophicald spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former sovie

the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for inviting me. it's a great pleasure for me to be here and i want to thank, in particular, professor mcfeek and hillary flynn, who made this possible. i'm going to first read from blood feud, sort of give you a small portrait of the protagonist in the novel. kenny had the soft, delicate looks of his mother, a girl who i

they went right back to the great greek philosophers.e also wrote a history of florence, starting with roman times. and in this great work, he put historical writing onto a new footing, both in terms of its literary content and its scholarly underpinning. and there he lies, his history on his breast, surrounded by wealth of classical detail, his bier supported by the roman eagles and his hope of heaven in the roundel of the virgin and child above his head. this monument in itself is a wordless combination of the christian and the classical. this is the pantheon, the most perfectly preserved temple of ancient rome. scholars like bruni and the artists of renaissance florence had a passionate love affair with antiquity. the humanists recovered and translated the texts, the artists studied the statues and the frescoes. but they were not simply copying the achievements of the ancient world-- they were transforming them. this renaissance design for an ideal city uses classical architecture to create a perfect environment based upon reason and

this is a question of philosophers have explored over the ages. time after time, this is what we like to explore with people facing disabilities and life challenges. i am curious, when you thought about what would be critical for a good life, how many of you listed family and friends? how about making a contribution or participating? being engaged? how about good health and having choices? all of these are core elements. you know how most of our efforts are focused? yes, this is it. this is how we have a whole industry thinking about future planning and what a good life is. it is focused on money. you can see some canadian money up there. in any case, i am curious about how come how money is easy to plan for, and but what about planning for people? what about those loved ones, those friends that we all say are so critical for having a good life? how many of you, when you thought about a good life, put friends and family first? how many put friends and family being the critical number one element? what do you think it is? what makes it easy to thin

many times i discuss with the democrats, it's philosophical. they think that the person would make a wrong choice. that the government would make the choice for you. >> greta: there's no catch or left services or pay more. there's no catch? >> you're going to have a greater option. and as a member of congress, if we all get a set amount of money, based upon we're working for govee get a whole l insurance options and we can take the same amount and we go in and pick which one. you know what judy and i would do when we were younger we'd look for one that covered braces for our children. and now that we are older-- i know what's best for our family, my wife and i will make that decision. and why can't americans, why can't they decide what happens with their bodies and not the government. that's a difference that the republicans and democrats have. i believe in the individual, i believe they're more efficient than governor. >> greta: congressman, nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> greta: do you think that president obama could have gotten

." >> "he philosophically believed it was best for the country and politically best for him, and now he needed because he has no choice." tell us more. >> he needed for his legacy, and he needs something, but he does not think it is going to be a grand bargain now. think he is coming to the point where incrementally he wants to make some bargains, but maybe giving up on the larger package. >> i don't think so. i think the white house understands that if they don't get a grand bargain, and the odds are, they will be doing this every month, all the time, and it will divert from every other priority they have, whether it is immigration, alternative energy, you name it. >> this is a political town. he can read polls, the members of congress can read paul's. what they are reading is not heartwarming. >> my colleagues are not cynical enough. obama has a strategy. he wins in november, he wins going away, he wins on the fiscal cliff. he as the republicans on the rhine. the only obstacle to the agenda he announced in the inaugural address, a liberal agenda, if i want to be generous -- the onl

the artist stands proud in the company of philosophers.n the facing wall is the disputa, raphael's depiction of theology. at the center, beneath the christian trinity, is the bread of christ symbolizing his body-- god made flesh. contemporary churchmen engage in debate with religious figures from all ages. on the side walls of the pope's library are representations of justice and literature. the christian and pagan worlds are brought together without conflict. the classical god apollo is surrounded by his muses. they preside over the ancient writers-- sappho, virgil, homer, and the almost contemporary, dante. [kathleen weil-garris brandt] there is a continuity between the golden age of antiquity and the new golden age that julius ii was attempting to generate in his own papal rome. we know that he saw himself as the ecclesiastical, the churchly successor to the emperors of ancient rome. you can imagine that people who came here and saw the pope here came away with a very strong feeling of the church's unity, power, wisdom, and wealth-- per

you have to have an authentic person out there of the party position who comes from the philosophicalase or it's never going to work. the american people get a lot of exposure to the candidates. they watch them week after week after week. >> they didn't want him in their living room. >> obama may not be the greatest president in history. going to see. yet to prove his second term yet. i'm not completely convinced we're going in the right direction right now. i'm waiting for obama to come in with the log bam. thank you, laura ashburn and joe. we don't have you on enough. >> i'm here. >> well said. lauren, you're always great. >>> up next, this year's must-have souvenirs for the right-winger in your family. this is "hardball." the place for politics. ♪ [ male announcer ] from the way the bristles move to the way they clean, once you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you'll never go back to a regular manual brush. its three cleaning zones with dynamic power bristles reach between teeth with more brush movements to remove up to 100% more plaque than a regular manual brush. and even 76

an italian diplomat and philosopher who wrote the prince 500 years ago. next a boston university forum on the immediate and long-term effect of the book. this is an hour and a half. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to this evening an event to mark the 500th anniversary of the appearance of niccolo machiavelli's the prince. i am a member of the department of history. this is the second of three moments the history department is marking of landmarks in history. we have marked the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis and later this year we will mark the martin luther king speech the lincoln memorial. tonight we are talking about the prince. we have invited to guests who are eminently suited to do what we want to do which is to look at the past and its own terms and to look at the ways the past is still present now. that is edward muir, one of the country's leading preeminent historians of renaissance italy, and michael ignatieff, a thinker, writer, public figure directly engaged in global affairs and very familiar the electoral politics.

>> underneath the partisan maneuvering, lester, there really is a deep philosophic divide. republicans want to shrink the size of government by more than the public supports right now, but president obama can't force republicans to raise taxes to pay for government as it is. and in that way, they reflect the contradictions of the american people, who collectively like receiving government benefits more than they like paying for it. >> what's not going to get done while this standoff continues? >> well, it may be that the two sides, lester, blow the whistle, take a timeout, work on things that they can agree on, like immigration. maybe even some gun control measures. but this fiscal debate could come back in the next few months, either because of the sequester backlash or because republicans decide they really do need to rein in spending on those big programs of medicare and social security, and the only way they can make that happen is by accepting more tax increases, lester. >> john harwood, good see you. thank you, john. >>> this was a sad day in one neighborhood in centr