is that how most americans are better strangely absolutist and pluralist at the same time?my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your right to the wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that. >> host: on one hand you provide the conversation about surviving are struggling anywhere but at the same time you come to this realization as it pertains to religion in particular that what you once thought was maybe acumen isn't within the walls might be about philadelphia neighborhoods and the stories of new men entering the prison and somehow an older man recognizing him as the son of a former friend from elementary or high school or something like that. i'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about the ecology of philadelphia's graterford and the way they are allied to both faces. >> guest: i would say not this tortured at acumen is some is merely a bunch of guys hanging out in the neighborhood. but i have freed up to do is the way that i've played with the thesis and the analysis is argument but more subjunctive and more provisional. it is muslims and christians hav

of that is unique to prison and is that how most americans are who strangely part absolutist and pluralisticthe same time. i recognize from truths. >> guest: i don't know the answer to that question. >> host: on the one hand they were meant to be having conversations about surviving are struggling anywhere but at the same time you come to this realization as it pertains to religion in particular that once you thought maybe this was a kenya was some and remarkable within the walls and might actually be just above philadelphia neighborhoods and there is a story of new men entering the prison and somehow an older man recognizing him as the sun of a former friend from elementary or high school or something like that. but i wonder if you can talk a little bit about just the ecology of the adelphi a grant and the way that they are alive in both places. >> guest: i would say this portrait is a bunch of guys hanging out in the neighborhood. that is the way that lightly with a thesis and the analysis is argument but it's more subjective and provisional and it is also muslims and christians having arg

it helps a little bit more about that pluralistic or reverse -- what looks like. >> guest: it is an irony of the book that inside of this monument to the american and the freedom and not just gratherford but those that house 2.2 million of our citizens you do find a showcase. one of our cardinal freedom that we declared in the first amendment and that's important to us and to them about who they are. the right to the exercise of the way they structure their alliance. that is all very real. and it really is an achievement albeit april 1st 1. 15 years ago at gratherford, you would have the right to practice collis as some or judaism and that is where the wright comes around in the 60's as the federal courts are looking to play ball because the 1965 immigrants have come to the country and you have hindus and buddhists and what sense are we going to make of this and the prisoners plush and they take their side and the administrators eventually give and have this tiny sliver of real-estate. you have the jews and protestants and christian jehovah's witnesses coming you have in the geological tr

they have a version of their religion that negates a pluralistic democracy or tolerance or free speechtainly. so what is realistic. the other issue to consider. if we see the oil price spike -- >> david: it has. >> right. >> we could tip the u.s. to recession. >> david: good point. the question is priority. where we are spending the money. >> i would rather spend more on the security than the windmills that aren't working. >> i couldn't agree with you more. china is ambitious about the high technology warfare. they will put unmanned vehicle on the moon quickly. i don't think europe has the guts to stop them. we have issues out there. let's not kid ourselves. we have should spend 5-6% of the gdp on the defense. >> david: this could spin out of control. >> we are changing that to the relative values of doing this. i got to say there must be something in the drinking water in washington, d.c., because john tandy is kind of making sense. >> david: he make sense all the time! >> go ahead. >> president obama faced with up believably difficult choice here. he can't win either way he goes. i w

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but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free pluralistic democratic syria and so we're not all being the rebels this are cilia r t london. after the break head of the fifth anniversary of the military conflict in south oksana boyko sits down with russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev. wow revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of moloch tough cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the gover

but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free pluralistic democratic syria and so we're not all being the rebels this are cilia r t london and i spoke to the father of a belgian man who went off to syria to fight alongside the islamist radicals he told us of his ordeal as he tried to get his son to come back home. busta went to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they became eighteen and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday discover the wall to know and after. that they may send as much as theirs in cairo that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that they pay money to study to continue the study of this muslim religion and sufism you know but i didn't trust it i had a feeling that something was going wrong i start to discover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my all son in a video with other belgian guys so i moved to syria i was in the way i've seen so many cruel things even one in the fighting group and got to where they kidnapped me that put the cap on me i was al

but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free pluralistic democratic syria and so we're not being the rebels this are cilia r t london. and jonathan steele the guardian columnist an international affairs author he believes it's not likely the u.k. government will proceed with arming the syrian rebels because of staunch political opposition to the measure and. i don't think the british government will arm the government at all because there just suffered a major political defeat in the british parliament because there was a backbench motion and a huge number of conservative backbenchers labor backbenchers and lib dems backbenchers voted to against the issue very actually voted for sorry to say that the government should bring the issue to parliament before sending any weapons to syria we'll never get that vote through parliament they will not agree to it so they feel that they were cheated over libya they feel that britain went in on a military intervention with france against libya against going to gadhafi without coming to parliament and th

question, is that unique to prison, is that how most americans are who are strangely absolutist and pluralist at the same time? you know, my treat is the one true truth, but i recognize go right to some wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that question. >> absolutely. >> joshua do book on religion and theology at pennsylvania back some security prison tonight at 9:00 on after words, part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> former pentecostal preacher turned atheist recalls his loss of faith and the subsequent termination of his relationship with his wife, france, and parishioners in louisiana. this is about an hour. >> it is truly a pleasure to be with you. i cannot get a high enough or strong enough appreciation for the great turnout. thank you. you have been with me from the very beginning. if chammy great kindness. it would not -- but would not have to talk about it very much longer for me to tear up. thank you. thank you. i am every day amazed -- i am amazed at how many things that were lost have been replaced. and is intellectually people are stepping up to replace all of those li

conference, once that institution was reestablished, and he operated behind the scenes in a system--a pluralistic sys--and complex system of decision-making, whereby he was always responding to--it was made to appear that he was responding to sanctioning decisions made by the cabinet. but the reality was hirohito--hirohito taking part in a system of decision-making that diverged more and more from the meiji constitution, a system of decision-making in which he would receive informal reports on what was being planned, what was being discussed and he would freely make his views known, and then at particular times, he would come forward in a more visible way, and put his imprimatur, his seal, on the documents. now all orders to the armed forces of--you know, fleet commanders and field commanders were read by him, and sealed by him, and he was very fussy, very careful about what he approved and what he disapproved. c-span: the public think he was doing that at the time? >> guest: the--from about 1936, a great propaganda effort is mounted to present hirohito as a shinsei, direct ruler of thea man who

is that how most americans are who are strangely absolutists and pluralist at the same time? my truth is the one true truth i recognize your right to some wrong truth? i don't know the answer to that. >> host: absolutely. on the one hand you provide the conversation about surviving are struggling anywhere, but at the same time you come to this realization as it pertains to religion in particular that what you once thought was maybe a communism within the walls might s.o.b. just about philadelphia neighborhoods. there's these stories of new men entering the prison and somehow an older man recognizing him as the son of a former friend from elementary or high school, something like that. i wonder if you could talk a little bit about the ecology of philadelphia's graterford, the way in which they are always outlined in both places. >> guest: not this portrait of a communism is merely a bunch of guys hang out in neighborhoods but i think what i am freed up to do with the way that i play with the feces and analysis is excitement but it's more subjunctive, more provisional is it's a

there's no pluralistic impulse.t, judy, took us in this country, it took us 100 years and a self war to accept diversity and grant rights. it took us 150 years before we allowed women to vote. so the idea that this is going to happen-- we go from mubarak to a democratic well-being in 24 months, you know, is beyond unrealistic. but i think the president is right. he was right yesterday to emphasize that and to emphasize that it took us a long time to get there. i mean, we weren't born as a fulfilled society, a complete society. >> would say we understood, even from 1787, that the people who lost the election got to have a role in the society, which doesn't seem to be respected, at least among the elites, in egypt. i would say we have two things to worry about. the first is we should not be allowing people to massacre their own citizens and we've allowed it to happen in are you wand and syria and syria sent a message, this works. you can do it. nobody else will do anything. when we decide not to go into syria, we have

is that how most americans are who are, you know, strangely absolutists and pluralists at the same time? like that, you know, my truth is the one true truth, but i recognize your right to some wrong truth? i don't know the answer to that question. >> absolutely. >> joshua dubler on religion and theology at the maximum security prison sunday night at nine on "after words" part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> earlier this week, house financial services chairman outlines legislation to change housing finance by eliminating fannie mae and freddie mack saying the legislation would not end at to-year fixed mortgages. held by the bipartisan policy center, this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you, mr. secretary, for the kind introduction. i don't know if you can see me. this is a rather large podium. it reminds me of what i frequently tell my washington colleagues, "everything's bigger in texas, but me." [laughter] if you can't see me, at least you can hear me. anyway, i was delighted to accept the invitation to speak before the bipartisan policy center for a couple reasons. numb

how much -- is that you need to prisons, that how most americans are, strangely absolutists and pluralistthe same time, my truth is the one true truth, but i recognize your right to have a wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that question. >> joshua dubler on religion and theology. sunday night at 9:00 on afterwards, part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. to welcome back brad woodhouse, former spokesperson for the democratic national committee, and now president for americans united for change, which is what? guest: it is a progressive group. it was founded about eight years ago to fight president bush's social security. once up i was overcome a morphed into an organization that really focuses on progressive causes across the spectrum. mostly economic or do we are very involved the summer on going on offense on the obamacare, reporting immigration reform. we have been involved in the debate to reduce gun violence, so we are involved in the big issue of the day. it is not dissimilar to some of the stuff i was doing at the democratic national committe

much is that unique to prisons, is that how most americans are who are strangely absolutist and pluralist at the same time? piano, my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your right to some wrong truth? >> maximum security prison sunday night at 9:00 p.m. on after it words, part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> representative greg walden, what is on your summer reading list? >> i just finished a victory lap, political stuff on the side. that talks a lot about persuasion, visual data, and how the world has changed. i am hoping this summer to get to the biography on jefferson which i have, pile. then i have a new one on roosevelt, teddy roosevelt. a big fan of roosevelt and the reform movement and his energy and style. i have one that deals, i think, mainly with this time down in south america, so it should be interesting. >> let us know what you are reading this summer. @booktv, posted on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail. >> next, a pioneer in the field of virtual reality argues that the rise of digital networks contributed to our economic recession and weak and the mid

is that unique to prisons and is that how most americans are who are strangely absolutists and pluralistsat the same time, my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your right to your wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that. >> sunday night at 9:00 on afterwards, part of book tv on c-span two. >> next a conversation about the u.s. prison system and ways to address issues of overcrowding and high incarceration costs. this is an hour from this morning's washington journal. for our next hour a discussion on the prison systems particularly overcrowding and what it means for sentencing. this is spurred on by the skwroerpb general who spoke this week on this topic and at the meeting at the american bar association he talked about proposals he made to end mandatory minimum sentences for non violent drug offenders and he had bipartisan congressional support. here's what he had to say. >> why i have mandateed a modification of the justice department's charging policies so certain low-level non violent drug offenders who have no ties to cartels or organizations will no longer be charged w