co-authors fred burton and samuel katz recount the fatal kidnapping of cia station chief william buckley in lennon in 1984. -- lebanon in 1984. our list continues with a look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is vicki alger. her book, "failure: the federal miseducation of america's children," came out in 2016. ms. alger, is it any better today than it was in 2016 when you wrote your book, in your view? >> guest: sadly, no. test scores haven't gone up. we have slipped in the international rankings a bit. common core's been fully entrenched, and we didn't see the improvements, and we saw some losses. so, no, things aren't ge

time i am welcoming a guest back to "firing line" who appeared on the original program with william f. buckley jr. oliver north, welcome back to "firing line." >> it's good to be back. thank you. it's been a few years. >> it's been 47 years exactly, and you were a marine captain in 1971 when william f. buckley jr. introduced you this way. and you have had quite a career since then. colonel north has been a political commentator, a television host, military historian, author, and perhaps most famously, the national security staff member during the reagan administration who testified about the good, the bad, and the ugly in the iran-contra affair. earlier this year, the national rifle association selected colonel north as its new president. colonel north leads the nra as it faces new challenges. new york governor andrew cuomo has pursued financial sanctions, the organization faces reports of declines in membership, and recent revelations have implicated the nra in the fight over russian influence in american politics. but the biggest challenge colonel north faces is responding to the seemingly n

rules," co-authors fred burton and samuel katz recount the fatal kidnapping of cia station chief william buckley in lennon in 1984. -- lebanon in 1984. our list continues with a look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is vicki alger. her book, "failure: the federal miseducation of america's

. >> sean: william buckley loves you..uc >> rush: i will tell you a story about him in a minute. you were to ask me where he would be on trump. the answer to that ise pretty simple. but they don't like trump because of his manners. trump is implementing issues that these people have devoted lives to being passed, and they are opposing it. they are running away from it. never must have been about the issues. it must be about the proper manners and making sure we don't offend our liberalal friends in washington and all of that. trump does all of that. "i can't abide this, this is so offensive to me, i can't do this." "yuck!" >> sean: [laughs] >> rush: meanwhile, everything that is happening is making america great, exactly as conservatives said it would, and they don't want to be on the bus. >> sean: i say this to people and they say, what? he governs as strong a conservative as we have seen in our lifetime. >> rush: he does. i don't think the divide in america is left and right so much. is still there -- >> sean: conservativeea principles. >> rush: conservative principles -- >> se

conservatives in america wanted to separate themselves from crazies on right, john birch society, william buckleyved in that. is this now a moment where the democrats have to decide crazies on the left, many out protesting kavanaugh and decent folks in the middle? >> i'm not sure how many decent folks in the middle there are anymore in the democratic party leadership. i think party is captured by the left, lock, stock and barrel. you never hear them telling no on violence. you didn't hear nancy pelosi apologizing for any of her own rhetoric. david: that's true. >> you don't hear them reining in maxine waters. all ignorance being spewed by the left these day, the people in congress are afraid of them as well. if chuck schumer or nancy pelosi goes against this tide, they will be swept away by it. so, in effect, they are enabling it by their silence. david: well if the blue tide turns into a red tide and democrats lose, they will have to rethink all of their alliances with the left, with saul alinsky types who look to be taking over the party. quickly. >> i don't think there will be a red tide. i th

rules," co-hours fred burton and samuel katz recount the fatal kidnapping of cia station chief william buckley in lebanon in 1984. our look at this week's new book releases continues with historians david and gene hideler's look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. boston college law professor and former supreme court clerk kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood in "corporations are people too." and in "nine pints," rose george shares her research on the science and commodification of blood. look for these titles in bookstores coming week, and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> so quite honestly, the reason that i wrote this book had to do with the elections of 2016, the british vote to leave the european union in the brexit vote and donald trump's election in november of 19 -- of 2016. i think that both of these events are connected to a broader series of developments around the world which are often times referred to as the rise of a kind of global populism in this which you have d

was hosted by a prominent voice and personality of the modern american conservative movement, william f. buckley, who invited clare boothe luce, a politician and a former ambassador and a prominent voice in the american feminist movement from the conservative side, to talk about feminism and the role between men and women, especially in the workplace, here on this program. i'd like you to react to something she says. "when men figure out that discrimination against women costs them more than it's worth." and she thinks that will have been a long time. are men beginning to figure it out? >> i think some of them do. i know when i see my sons, when i see their friends, i think those millennium kids understand better the value of each and every human being, and i hope that it continues at their level. i have huge faith in the young generation. >> i do, too. i do, too. still, the highest levels of corporate finance, especially in the united states -- 47% of the united states workforce is women, and yet only 17% of its corporate boards are represented by women. we've talked about the lower rung of the

in beirut rules co-authors fred burton and samuel katz recount the fatal kidnapping of william buckley in lebanon in 1984. our look at this week's new book releases continues with historians david and jean and the look at how andrew jackson was elected president in 1828. kent greenfield weighs in on the supreme court's decision to grant corporations with personhood and corporations are people too. and 9 pints, rose george shares research on blood. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future a book to be on c-span2. >> good morning, you almost made me cry maybe i'm not a morning person. first, i want to thank everyone who made this possible. i know a ton of work must have gone into making this happen and i am so very grateful to be a part of it. thank you to the mississippi arts commission, the humanities council and everyone in the state government who allowed this and made this possible. i hate to do this but my prepared remarks are on my phone. i apologize for being rude. everywhere i go journalists asked me why i choose y

i'd like to show you william f. buckley articulating these points. all right. so, this was in 1966. so, in 1966, you begin to see the articulation of a conservative view about the court'overreach and that the court should be doing some things but not other things. so, can you explain or reflect on the history that led conservatives toreate these arguments which has, frankly, led to this prevailing view -- fast-forward 30 years -- of origalism and the sort of guiding philosophy behind the federalist society. >> well, there were rely two phases to it. the first phase were situations where the court was creating rights that people couldn't find in the constitution or eliminating rights that early were there, and that's what buckley was talking about on that clip you showed. the second phase was -- and this is why i don't like the term judicial activism. the second phase is, the court has a duty to enforce the limits on government power contained in the constitution -- separation of powers, federalism, checks and balances. and that, really, is the most important bulwark for protecting f

. >> as you know, william f. buckley jr. was the original host of "firing line." and we have a repository of all of his best moments. here's one, the argument of which you may recognize. take a look. >> wow. lots of meat and lots to argue with there. >> lots of meat and lots to argue with, but i've got to ask you -- in 2014, you ran. i mean, you had been a senate-confirmed appointee in the department of health and human services in the bush administration. you ran in 2014, largely on a platform about repealing the affordable care act. you got to the senate. republicans had, after trump won the election, the senate, the house, and the white house. finally, there was an opportunity to deliver on a promise that republicans and conservatives have promised their constituencies for years. that was a big thing, and you argue we should go big things. why wasn't the senate able to do something big? >> yeah. 'cause it turns out, lots and lots of republicans wanted to be against obamacare but not actually be for a system of free-market healthcare, and so when you had to actu

i was taught the basics how to be a journalist by the great william f buckley who said great writing means first trying to put yourself in the position of your reader. and remember you have to be engaging and logical and entertaining hopefully. all of those things. informative. but i will also confess freely that in my world it really has changed the last couple of years because of the changing nature of the conservative movement now less like it was when i was coming up from the nationalist may readers were very unhappy with me so it is a little bit of a struggle when i sit down to write to say to myself there is a little bit of writer's block that can creep in if you think maybe the audience would not like this but then you give yourself the peptalk but your job is to give them your best judgment not what they want to hear so that's what i try to do but it definitely has change the world for me. >> i remember seeing you on television with these debate shows and one thing it seems that we still have that debate but were not on the same set now they are different networks. so you liv

i was taught the basics of how to be a journalist by william as buckley who said the great writing means trying to put yourself in the position of your reader. ,ou have to be logical entertaining, hopefully, informative. that in my world, it has changed. because of the changing nature of the conservative movement and is becoming less like it was when i was coming up and it is more nationalist now. there are readers a bit are unhappy with me and i am aware of that. -- readers that are unhappy with me and i am aware of that. there is writer's block that can creep and if you think my audience will not like this so maybe i should not say this. but yournot like it job is to give them your best judgment, not what they want to hear. that is what i try to do but it has changed for me. >> i remember seeing you on on some of these debate shows. we are still having that debate but they are not on the same set. they are on separate networks. you lived at the on the same set experience. how has that changed our discourse? think, for many years, i was on a cnn chat show. it was a little bit of an iceb

>> william f. buckley's great contribution to america and american conservatism was to kick the crazies out of the conservative movement. probably a longer discussion than we have time for tonight, but unfortunately, looking back, that the word liberal became an epithet. small l liberalism, conservatism is a root branch of it and the democratic parties and the republican parties, both liberal parties, compete in the arena of ideas -- >> a democratic society -- >> to move the country forward. what we are seeing is the co-option of the conservative republican party in a personality which is fundamentally unconservative led by donald trump, that is authoritarian in nature, that is antithetical to the orthodox is of the republican party and the conservative movement as they have existed over the last 40 years. but it is something more. it is the incitement. imagine, after a bomb was sent to cnn, the president of the united states goes and says, the press, the free press, is the enemies of the people and then he

i remember when william buckley, jr. was asked that question about george w.ush, who said he is conservative, but not a conservative. i think that president trump's impulses are very different from andident bush's instincts impulses. i think he does revive the nationstate, the that the united states is a specific country with its own interests. i think that president trump conservative some impulses on issues like immigration, but also other areas. he's not a philosophical man in but not philosophically conservative on issues of women in government, the constitution. backe certainly bringing trillions of dollars in -- fairly rapid economic growth, very conservative practice. dick cheney said deficits don't matter, but in the long-term, they do. there are some conservative things and some not so conservative things about him. which i think can be said about republican presidents. editorames antle is the of the american conservative. he is a graduate of ohio wesleyan university. up on our line for republicans, north carolina. respect, ih all due have to disagree

thousands of authors and book festivals including over 30 events with the conservative commentator william f buckleyn 2000, he appeared at our monthly: program "in-depth". >> there was a poll published that said between 75 and 80% of people engage in television, journalism have voted democratic in the last election. when i was at yale a professor to whom i was very attached disclosed a poll taken of 10 professors-- professors at the political time. there were 23 of them and they were questioned duly or trimming, 23 dooley-- 23 truman, doing on. one doesn't have to recite the data of this kind because it sort of uniformly known that by and large the academic media and the radio and journalists are liberal, democrat versus republican. >> you can watch this and all other book to be programs for the past 20 years at the tv.org. type the author's name and the word book in the search bar at the top of the page.

buckley. steven williams. doug ginsburg. david santel. conservative all-stars, every one. the longest time any of them had to wait between nomination and confirmation was four months. majority, in fact, were confirmed in less than two months. what about their confirmation votes? well, this will surprise you. seven of the eight were confirmed either by voice vote or unanimous consent. only judge buckley had a roll call vote and his vote was 84-11. that means a lot of president reagan's eight d.c. circuit nominees, only one received any no votes. only one, can you imagine that happening today? never. let's turn back now to the supreme court. as i discussed earlier, in 1986, justice scalia was confirmed 98-0. and chief justice rehnquist was confirmed 65-33. even rehnquist who had faced a fairly contentious confirmation process for the time was confronted and confirmed by a 2-1 margin. then came 1987. then came bork. one of the truly greatest judges in the country at the time. maybe ever, in my eyes. ever. for those who came to age in the law or politics after 1987, it's diffi

robert bork, antonin scalia, ken starr, larry silverman, jim buckley, stephen williams, doug ginsburg, david sentelle. conservative all-stars everyone. the longest time in as it had to wait between nomination and confirmation was four months. majority in fact, were confirmed in less than ten months. what about her confirmation votes? this will surprise you. seven of the eight were confirmed either by voice vote or unanimous consent. only judge buckley had a roll call vote and his vote was 84-11. that means a lot of president reagan's eight d.c. circuit nominees, only one received any no vote. only one. can you imagine that happening today? never. let's turn back now to the supreme court. as i discussed earlier, 1986 justice scalia was confirmed 98 to zero. chief justice rehnquist was confirmed 65 to 33. even rehnquist to have faced a fairly contentious confirmation process for the time was confronted, confirmed by a two to one margin. then came 1987. then came bork, one of the truly greatest judges in the country at the time. maybe ever. in my eyes, ever. for those who came of age of

retirement or have given up the a lot of republicans have come to the conclusion that, in fact, william f. buckleylot of these lurking problems ever since the mid '60s and the republican party's movement, a lot of these things have been amplified by the internet, have been given a home. and the president of the united states of america now encourages division, hatred and exploiting this for purely electoral means. >> which i was going to get to the second part of that. but 90% of republicans still support a president who is claiming, just like fox news, that this phantom invasion of migrants is going to bring smallpox and leprosy. it is a pure out and out appeal to racism. and 90% of the trump republican party is supporting it. >> i would ask you to contrast barack obama's reaction to the killings in south carolina to donald trump's reaction to pipe bombs in the mail and the killings that we've just seen in pittsburgh. character matters, moral foundation in a human being and a politician matters. it never matters as much as when that person is a leader, a leader of an entire nation. what we see no

pete: i'm kind of with william b. buckleyrvard faculty. ivory to.er trish: president trump slamming democrats' view on immigration. trump: democrats want to abolish i.c.e., and they to want turn america into a giant sanctuary. trish: thomas holman is here to weigh in on the new push from leaders in congress to crack down on border security and build that wall! pete: and we're tailgating on the fox square. don't do what i did yesterday which was leave my grill on for 24 hours straight. i forgot about it. we've got all the top gear like this tv you can put on your flatbed to make sure you're the envy of the tailgate. ed: we're going to check it out. (burke) that's what we call a huge drag. seriously, that's what we call it. officially. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ ed: so before you head to the game today, ready to tailgate? who's not? we've got the top guerre that will make you the envy of the tail gat.rs pete: shopp

authors and book festivals including over 30 events with the late conservative commentator william f. buckleyon our monthly call-in program, " in depth." >> there was a poll published that said between 75-80% of people engaged in television journalism had vote democratic in the last election. when i was at yale, a professor to whom i was very attached disclosed a poll taken of tenured professors in the department of political science, there were 23 of them. question. dewey or truman? 23, truman. dewey, none. it -- one doesn't have to, one doesn't really have to recite data of this kind, because it's uniformly known that, by and large, the academic, media and the television and radio and the journalists are political. democrat versus republican. >> you can watch this and all other booktv of programs from the past 20 years at booktv.org. type the author's name and the word "book" in the search bar at top of the page. >>> here are some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. topping the list is dare to lead followed by fox news host tucker carlson's thoughts

of authors and book festivals including over 30 events with a late conservative commentator william f. buckley in 2000 appeared on monthly call-in program indepght. it was a published two years ago said between 75 and 80% of the people engaged in television -- journalism have voted democratic in the last election. now that yale, a professor whom i was very attached disclosed a poll taken of ten professors in the department of political science 23 of them questions do we, with truman 23 truman dewey none. one doesn't have to -- really have to recite da of this kind because it is not known -- but by and large the academic media and the television radio and journalist are liberal. democrat versus republican. you can watch this and all other booktv programs from past 20 years at booktv.org. type the authors name and wordbook in the search bar at the top of the page. fall is busy time for book fairs across the country here's a look at some that are coming up this weekend it is live coverage of the wisconsin book festival, on october 27th and 28th tune in for our live coverage of the texas book fest