they remember what was dismantled, and when you sit down with a figure like riceman, the lonely crowd or the power lever of mills, it's not just how precedent their analysis is, but how they knew the consequences and how they saw what decent gracious would bring. of those great last public intellectuals who wrote to be read unlike most academics. i'm not sure who they write for, but these are people who understood and knew language is a form of thought. go ahead. >> yeah, i'd like to quote a definition of a liberal that i saw on a bathroom wall in wisconsin in 1970. a lib ram is someone who listens to both sides of the argument and then cuts the baby in half. anyway, my question is i'm glad to see the bigger use of the a as an anarchist word. has something changed in your thinking because you genuinely seem -- and i'm critical of the deterrence and genuinely a critique of authority design other than the right authority. >> i'm critical of the institutional structure. >> but, you know, i'm by anybody right at any time -- [inaudible] the role problems with authoritarianism and any anarc

i rely on the writers of the '50s, mills, riceman, jacobs because i think -- and they resonate with me with a tremendous power. there's a beautiful book, by the way, by malcolm cowley called "exile's return," which is an intellectual history of the bohemian movement after world war i. it's a brilliant and kind of sering analysis of how the bo with hemoyangs and, ultimately, the new left essentially embrace the corporate values of here donism. really stunning book. again, beautifully written. so, yeah, there are a lot of books that, you know, when you begin and when you write a book you read around a book that are very, very humbling. and they're out there. but i think that that '50s generation is important to me because they still remember what was destroyed. they remember what was dismantled. and when you sit down with a figure like riceman, the lonely crowd or mills, what's stunning is not only how prescient their analysis is, but how they knew the consequences. it's just almost eerie that they saw what that disintegration would bring. so those last great public individuals who actua