. >> host: who was thomas paine? >> guest: he was an english born in america. he was eight years younger than burke. his story is different. he began life in a working-class family in england. found himself to be a bankrupt accountant. and he encountered benjamin franklin and he got to know him a little and suggested to him that he should try going to america and starting over. and thomas paine did that and became an important figure in the circles in philadelphia. he was the editor of a small magazine called the "pennsylvania magazine" and a writer. as the american revolution brew, he wrote common sense, the great pamplet that persuaded female back the cause of independence. he played the part. and ten years later, less known, thomas paine went to france and became a spokesperson for the french revolution. he made the case for a radlicalism for the revolution in france through british and american audiences. he was a believer in the need to break with the past in order to undo the terrible injustice the european regimes were committing on his people. he wanted

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in the reagan administration so we are fond of quoting ronald reagan and he was fond of quoting thomas paineo you and he would recite an. an. campaign stop after a campaign stop that or he's running in the republican primaries were in the general election. ronald reagan wasn't a part of the establishment. he was an outsider, and like you and so many others throughout history the courage to stand up and be counted. also like you reagan and the supporters are disparaged and dismissed by the same ruling class and i will give you a few examples. george will, 1974. reagan is 63 and he looks at. his hair is free of gray that around the neck he looks like an old man and he's never demonstrated national appeal. his hard-core support today consists merely of the common cause the conservatives who thought the 1960s goldwater campaign was fun as there is reason to doubt that he is well suited to appeal to the elect are at that produced a democratic landslide. george will. chuck percy the former senator from illinois. a reagan nomination and defeat likely to follow could signal the beginning of the part

>> the great love change with burke thomas paine and the meeting of past. >> host: so that looms very large and you touched on that a a little bit but can you talk a little bit? >> guest: that is where it ends as it goes through dramatic the interpretations questioning the beating of the past because the disagreements about to a disagreement what the past should be. burke believes human beings be long and a context and this was inescapable so to a trustee in society it is a mistake this society users to those chosen obligations in this should be set up in a way to beat those to the family or the community or the nation. but we should not escape the past because the only reason why we don't live in savagery the inheritance the cultural and social is how we progress. use forward so key traditionalist bbb the present is better than the past. some think the past was perfect to have access do perfect truth decadently be reached by the way our fathers did. and that the future can be better still of the freeze is a the means by which the president -- the president becomes better than the pas

pain-killer. . >> hi there, good to have you with us on al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. >> just days ago viktor yanukovych was the president of ukraine. now he's on the run. a warrant is expected to be issued for his arrest. the country he led is moving forward. ukraine's parliament appointed its former speaker as interim president. a new presidential election campaign will start on tuesday. as jennifer glasse reports, there's plenty of uncertainty. >> kiev got back to work today, its streets filled with people. not long ago away from independence square, the capital was like a ghost town. >> last week i was afraid to go out of my house. now, thinks are better. >> in the place where it started three months ago, where the deadly violence flared, the biggest working day crowd. they came on their lunch hours, after work, or took the day off. >> ukrainians came to independence square in their thousands to pay their respects. they are hoping that a government worthy of those who died to help put it in power. >> the people say they'll stay until they have the governme

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pain and suffering and unwed moms and interrupted opportunities. great question. >> host: next call from mary ellen in livermore, from bonnie morris's book "women's history for beginners" who was the slave who bore thomas jefferson's children? >> caller: i cannot -- not quite getting it. >> guest: sally headings. >> host: go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: this is fabulous. i want to be in the book club but there seems to be some really strong voices in pop music today. katie perry has a huge following, i turn on the radio and hear these powerful women and then there is miley cyrus and a lady gaga and i am wondering if you have any comments on that? >> guest: i don't want to say that all the music i listened to was in the 70s, i am a big fan of a lot of contemporary musicians. one of the things we are looking at is how women present themselves. we have to present yourself as a sexually provocative way in order to be considered commercially viable, do you have to appeal primarily to the male audience in the commercial contract, if you don't present yourself in a certain way will you be dropped or rebuked? shin 8 o'connor shaved head, to look more feminine. my students are concerned with

of the past or what was the title transfer it was called the great law of change edmund burke, thomas paine and the meaning of the past and democratic life. >> host: you touched on them a little bit, but can you talk lived about that? >> guest: that's what the book ends. the book goes through a series of dramatic interpretations of the differences and inns on the question of the meaning of the past because a lot of differences, disagreements about other subjects amount to disagreement about what the past shipping to the present. at the end of the day burke believes that human beings exist in the context, that we're all born into world that existed before us and that this is an inescapable fact. we don't have a choice about it and so to understand society is fundamentally the choice is a te kind of mistake. society institute unchosen obligations and should be set up in a way that allows us to meet unchosen obligations. to the family, the community, the nation, the people around us. he that we could not escape the past and we shouldn't want to because the past is the only reason why we don't