i remember walter berns criticizing goldwater.i was persuaded by that at the time probably, although looking back i'm not sure that was the right position to take. but in any case, you know, i was very sympathetic--and during the vietnam war, of course, you couldn't help--at that time i was very much of age to go to fight, and i couldn't help thinking about these questions and where i should stand on them. and, yeah, i'd say my teachers had a--had helped a lot in giving me a sensible framework in which to think about all those partisan questions. c-span: but as you know, rush limbaugh and newt gingrich spent a lot of time over the years talking about--that the--one of the big problems in america is academia, the politics of professors. would you agree with that? >> guest: i do. yeah. i think that the--i mean, what i found out in writing this "vindicating the founders" is that there is a massive distortion out there going on about the principles of the american founding and about the actions and beliefs of the founders themselves.