well the same dilemma they had opposite solutions aristotle proposed what we would nowadays call a welfare state and try to reduce inequality. so the same problem absent solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem and the other is reduced democracy. if you look at the history of the united states it's a constant struggle between these 2 tendencies democratizing tendencies that's mostly coming from the population pressure from below and you get these constant battle going on periods or gratian periods of progress in 1906 for example were a period of significant democratization. sectors of the fucking lation that were usually passive avocet it became organized active story pressing their demand. and they became more and more involved in decision making and activism and so on. they just changed consciousness in ways. minority rights. we don't want. women's rights. or. concern for the. american as. they say. safety nets survival opposition to aggression free to those who criticize us. dissent they are serious about law. provided for the vietnamese people for our own black people

well the same dilemma they had opposite solutions aristotle proposed what we would nowadays call a welfare state to try to reduce inequality. so the same problem absent solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem and the other is reduced monikers. if you look at the history of the united states it's a constant struggle between these 2 tendencies democratizing tendencies that's mostly coming from the population pressure from below and you get these constant battle going on periods regression periods of progress in 1906 for example were a period of significant democratization. sectors of the folk elation that were usually passive apis it became organized active story pressing their demand. and they became more and more involved in decision making activism and so on. it just changed consciousness and always. minority rights. we don't want. women's rights. in terms of the. american is. seeking to survive opposition to the creation. criticize us. dissent they are serious about law. and the vietnamese people black people and. in turn for other people. are millions of people in amer

even though kirk starts his book with burke, burke is the inheritor of socrates, plato, and aristotle, and all the greats through the western tradition. burke represents that. so for that idea to come forward, that is kirk's understanding that we as americans -- and i would even, for the audience especially and those watching c-span, look at ronald reagan. if you go back and look at ronald reagan's speeches in 1981 and 1982, he will talk about the greatness of america, but what he talks about so importantly is america defending the greatness of the west. and he, like kirk, he draws that in. later, i think, reagan becomes a little more nationalistic, but in his earlier years, he is concerned with the western tradition and really the best of the western tradition. and that is why kirk picks burke as well. john: "the conservative mind" at the table for kirk's career. he was a writer who out his life, helped found "the national review," with william buckley, where he was a syndicated columnist, widely read across the country. several other books, important book on t.s. eliot, among others

host: one of the things we have not talked about at all that kind of weaves through your book is aristotle and confucius and plato and diogenes, and nico, if i can pronounce it, ethics. what is your standpoint on that? prof. ginsberg: very often when we try to learn, it is important to go back to first principles. you look at the first principles from which we have often diverged, confused, and the ancient athenians were the first to encounter democracy and plato and aristotle wrote about what is democracy, what is it all about, so plato and other athenian thinkers thought that officials should be subject to the annual audit, and all public officials in athens were audited every year. it was not simply a financial audit, but the popular assembly, they would hear competing views about whether this official did a good job or not. even priests and priestesses were subject to the audit, an interesting idea. and officials who were found wanting were dismissed. now, that audit was, you know, sort of the ancestor of our election, but we have exempted most of our officials from it, and i think tha

host: one of the things we have not talked about at all that kind of weaves through your book is aristotle and confucius and plato and diogenes, and nico, if i can pronounce it, ethics. what is that all about from your standpoint? athens and athenian thinking. prof. ginsberg: very often when we are trying to learn, it is important to go back to first principles. you look at the first principles on which we have often diverged, gotten confused, and the ancient athenians were the first to encounter democracy and plato and aristotle wrote about what is democracy, what is it all about, so plato and other athenian thinkers thought that officials should be subject to the annual audit, and all public officials in athens were audited every year. it was not simply a financial audit, but the popular assembly, the ecclesia, they would hear competing views about whether this official did a good job or not. even priests and priestesses were subject to the audit, an interesting idea. and officials who were found wanting were dismissed. now, that audit was, you know, sort of the ancestor of our election,

. >> this is the private mediterranean island paradise of aristotle onassis. >> onassis was the world's most successful shipping tycoon. she was a self-made man, and she respected that. he went after what he wanted, and she liked that. because she went after what she wanted. >> everywhere, you can see the evidence of what being one of the world's richest men can do. >> she went to greece and married aristotle onassis. >> mrs. kennedy arrived in greece for the wedding. >> jackie married onassis in part because he could provide her not only with a fabulous lifestyle, but with security. and she felt her children would be safe, so she married him. >> for most of us, it almost would have been easier if mrs. kennedy decided to marry howard hughes. >> his security people were all over anyone that were trying to get pictures of them. >> john kennedy jr. was the first kennedy to be photographed in greece. his presence also provoked the first confrontation between reporters and the onassis people.he relationship between jackie and aristotle onassis, during the school year, jackie lived with the c

we havee of the things not talked about at all that kind of weaves through your book is aristotle and confucius and plato and diogenes, and nico, if i can pronounce it, ethics. what is your standpoint on that? what is your standpoint on that? athenian thinking. prof. ginsberg: very often when we are trying to learn, it is important to go back to first principles. you look at the first principles on which we have often diverged, gotten confused, and the ancient athenians were the first to encounter democracy and plato and aristotle wrote about what is democracy, what is it all about, so plato and other athenian thinkers thought that officials should be subject to the annual audit, and all public officials in athens were audited every year. every year. it was not simply a financial audit, but the popular assembly, they would hear competing views about whether this official did a good job or not. even priests and priestesses were subject to the audit, an interesting idea. and officials who were found wanting were dismissed. you know,audit was, sort of the ancestor of our election, but we

mentioned several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of preparation just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand so we know we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the mention there's also a discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able to be conte

according to the seismological centre of the aristotle university in thessaloniki, the epicentre of the quake was in the town of magoula, 22 kilometres north—west of the greek capital. translation: we are thoroughly searching the area in case anyone is trapped and so far the results are negative. measuring five points one magnitude, the quaich brought down several buildings are knocked out phone networks in parts of the city. this hospital in downtown athens was evacuated. while in the port city of piraeus, an abandoned structure on the quayside was destroyed. two old buildings reportedly collapsed in two districts of the city but the world—renowned acropolis, a complex of ancient greek buildings, overlooking the capital from a rocky hilltop, survived intact. translation: i was very scared. i have a fear of earthquakes. ijust didn't know how to react at that moment. we waited for the quake to stop and then we went out. to athenians, friday brought back terrifying memories of a similarly powerful earthquake which devastated the city 20 years ago, killing 143 people. this was a lucky

mentioned several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of prepress just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand and so we we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the mention there's also were discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able to be conten

mention several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of preparation just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trouble understanding so we know we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the mention there's also a discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions on a day. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able to b

according to the seismological centre of the aristotle university in thessaloniki, the epicentre of the quake was in the town of magoula, 22 kilometres north—west of the greek capital. translation: we are thoroughly searching the area in case anyone is trapped and so far the results are negative. with tremors continuing to reverberate, people gathered in open spaces, urgently trying to contact loved ones. measuring 5.1 on the richter scale, the quake brought down several buildings and knocked out phone networks in parts of the city. this hospital in downtown athens was evacuated. whilst in the port city of piraeus, an abandoned structure on the quayside was destroyed. two old buildings reportedly collapsed in two districts of the city but the world—renowned acropolis, a complex of ancient greek buildings, overlooking the capital from a rocky hilltop, survived intact. translation: i was very scared. i have a fear of earthquakes. ijust didn't know how to react at that moment. we waited for the quake to stop and then we went out. to athenians, friday brought back terrifying memories of

mentioned several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of preparation just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand so we we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the 3rd dimension there's also a discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions on a day. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able t

mentioned several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of prepress just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand and so we we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the mention there's also were discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions on a day. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able to

mention several dimensions subjective well being overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of prepress just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand and so we we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the mention there's also a discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions on a day. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able to be

mention several dimensions subjective wellbeing overall life satisfaction every day motions and what aristotle referred to as you do morning in the sense of prepress just sounds of striving for good how important is the latter so it's one of the areas we actually have most trying to understand so we know we know a lot in terms of life satisfaction overall happiness with life we know a lot of what drives that and we also know quite a bit of the emotions we experience on a daily basis both positive and negative ones and how that impact lives satisfaction we know less about the 3rd dimension there's also a discussion around how do we measure that level of purpose that level of meaning in life. we can see some things drive it like having kids have a wonderful positive impact on that sense of purpose. so when it comes to to life satisfaction we can see the best predictor of that from the other domains is actually experiencing positive emotions on a day. you also author of the bestselling book on the. concept of enjoying a little comforts of life and i think even more broadly it's kind of being able

he called aristotle and socrates greek home loans. i mean, he got his start with the first of the modern racial hoaxes, this girl, teenage girl, stayed out past her curfew and decided to tell her angry father that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted by a white mob, including a young assistant district attorney. it was a giant story in new york and it was a total racial hoax and there was two people involved. sharpton, and a black lawyer by the name of the sea byrne and mason he ended up getting disbarred but tucker, as you well know, a man of god is protected by the first amendment. they couldn't just bar al sharpton and he just went on his merry way and that's when he had his radio show with the white interlopers were marked. six people ended up dead on the hundred 25th street on but harlan. none of them, who were white, by the way. and he used to run around new york in the end the lord jumpsuit, he weighed 400 pounds and he always spoke through a blow horn end, you know, as you say, he was a character in tom wolf's famous n

joining me now is aristotle kallis, british historian and professor of modern and contemporary history at the school of humanities, keele university. thank you forjoining us. can you define for us in simple terms what you think extremism actually is? well, that is actually the most important question in this discussion. extremism can mean many things. it can mean the ideas people have about a particular phenomenon. it can also mean the way, the tone, the expression, the language in which these ideas are expressed. when we talk about extremism, we talk about these two things at the same time and we confuse them. extremism can be any idea, it can cover a number of the ideological spectrums, but also expressed in a particularly angry, extreme, nonmainstream manner. the two overla p nonmainstream manner. the two overlap but sometimes we take them for granted. an idea that can be seen for granted. an idea that can be seen by some people as not so extreme can still be expressed and communicated in an extreme way in public. so, do you think extremism either in the ideas themselves, or in the

>> well, there is a reason, there's a reason, tucker, that aristotle said courage was the most important virtue. without courage, you can't practice any of the others. and i think bad, to a very large extent, it is a lack of courage. it is the herd mentality. people want to be liked, they want to go to the right cocktail parties. they want to get the blessing of "the new york times" and cnn and msnbc. and they know that if they buck the trend, they won't be. they will be excluded. and they are unwilling to stand up for what they deep down you know is right in order to be liked. >> tucker: i think that is exactly right. by the way, you speak as well as you write, roger kimball, and that is a high compliment. thank you very much for coming on here hope we will see you again. >> my pleasure. thanks. >> tucker: the president, as we told at the outset, is speaking in greenville, north carolina, we want to rejoin him for a moment on our way out. >> president trump: i think that is like a poem, right? that is like a poem, because when biden goes out, i see sleepy joe, they had 150 people show u

>> well, there is a reason, there's a reason, tucker, that aristotle said courage was the most important virtue. without courage, you can't practice any of the others. and i think that, to a very large extent, it is a lack of courage. it is the herd mentality. people want to be liked, theyge want to go to the right cocktail parties. they want to get the blessing of "the new york times" and cnn and msnbc. and they know that if they buck the trend, they won't be. they will be excluded. and they are unwilling to stand up for what they deep down know is right in order to be liked. >> tucker: i think that is exactly right. by the way, you speak as well as you write, roger kimball, and that is a high compliment. thank you very much for coming a on here, i hope we will see you oragain. >> my pleasure. thanks. >> tucker: the president, as we told you at the outset, is speaking in greenville, north carolina, we want to rejoin him for a moment on our way out. >> president trump: i think that is like a poll, right? that is like a poll, because when biden goes out, i see sleepy joe, they had 115 peo

understand. 1954 was a little known episodes in which the new king gave a contracted to a gentleman named aristotle onassis, that would have ended the oil industry. thenhower personally gave order to make sure the contract order never went into effect. i know about this episode because it was the subject of my recent book, which is accepted on this issue of middle east policy. thank you for coming. great book. -- oil embargo, when you read telephone transcripts and cable traffic coming you see he refers to to the -- referred to the arabs that savages, which will give you the idea of the esteem. kissinger, when he went to saudi arabia, received a gift from the king, which was a bound copy of the protocol of the elders of zion, which is not what i would give it to every day of the week. 1979, the saudi's made carter very under -- very unhappy by not only not endorsing him, but refusing to accept the egypt/ israel peace treaty. the last time i was in baghdad 1979 time in spring of when foreign ministers got together and flew egypt out. as much effort as jimmy carden , itimmy carter had put in was not

episode a little-known in which the new king gave a contract to a gentleman named aristotle onassis that would have ended the american oil monopoly. eisenhower personally gave the order to make sure that contract never went into effect. i know about this episode because it was the subject of my recent book, which is middle east policy. great book. sold multiple copies. then came the or, oil embargo, when you read telephone transcripts and cable traffic, you see he refers to to the, referred to the arabs that savages whichof , will give you the idea of the esteem. kissinger, when he went to saudi arabia, received a gift from the king, which was a bound copy of the protocol of the elders of zion, which is not what i would give a jew every day of the week. in 1979, the saudi's made carter very unhappy by not only not endorsing, but refusing to accept the egypt/ israel peace treaty. the last time i was in baghdad was a time in spring of 1979 when foreign ministers got together and flew egypt out. as much effort as jimmy carden, jimmy carter had put in, it was not enough. in 1988, the united

understand. 1954 was a little known episode in which the new king gave a contract to a gentleman named aristotle onassis that would have ended the oil monopoly. izeeisenhower gave the order to make sure that never went into affect. it's the subject of my most recent book which is excerpted in this issue. great book. you should buy multiple copies. then came the oil embargo of '73. when you read kissinger's cable traffic, you will see he referred to the arabs as savages, which will give you the idea of which -- after all, it was even -- kissinger when he went to saudi arabia received a gift from the king which was a bound copy of the rules of the elders of zion which is not what i would give a jew. in 1979, the saudis made carter very unhappy by not only refusing -- not only not endorsing but refusing to accept the egypt/israel peace treaty. the last time i was in baghdad, was the time in the spring of '79 when all the arab foreign ministers threw egypt out of the arab league. as much effort as carter put in on courting the saudis, it wasn't enough. in 1988, came the peculiar episode in which the

aristotle is showing scattered high cosmically across central california over the past 24 hours. right now still some patchy fog trying to regroup and portions of the coast and around the bay, even up in the north bay around nine counties still some low clouds at least developing this hour. current numbers, santa rosa has warmed up a little bit, 52 degrees, santa rosa 54, san jose 56 and walnut creek in the mid- 50s. for this area of low pressure has been keeping us somewhat on the left side, at least capping our temperatures. no major heat in the forecast at all. minor changes this week with night and morning fog. 60s, 70s and 80s and by the weekend we could have a few neighborhoods floating in and around the 90 degree mark. wills taking the fourth of july forecast with warm numbers in 80s towards santa rosa, concorde and san jose. closer to the y temperatures in the 70s and the beaches, including san francisco mainly in the low to mid 60s for tomorrow. we are today, we have some patchy fog, the forecast is not showing it, or partly to sunny skies. tomorrow morning fourth of jul

and then aristotle onassis. >> when you think of the trauma he experienced as a child, not only is he witnessing those events, especially the assassination ofis father and uncle,ut be's moving all the time. he moves from the only house he knew, the white house,ot to anr place in washington, to another place, and within a year, four different places. >> what was jackieike in grief? >> she had a difficult time. understandably so. and john used to say that shes wa emotionally absent for a while. he mentioned at one point she drank a little more thanhe should have. but she was struggling with her own grief. which is part of the trauma that john experienced. he experienced trauma through his mother. >> you also write that he wasoi probably to get into electoral politics when he died. >> i'm certain of that. one of the ways i measure that is the way he referred to his father. john, when i first knew him, referred to him as president kennedy. inhe '90s, he started calling him my father. the last couple years, he called him my daddy. i think for met tha was john finally coming to terms with t

then his father figure in robert kennedy, and then aristotle onassis. >> you think of the trauma that he experienced as a child, not only is he witnessing those, these events, especially the assassination of his father and uncle, but he's moving all the time he's moving from the white house, to another place in washington, and another place. within a year he's lived in four different places. >> what was jackie like in grief? people don't talk about that very often >> you know she had a difficult time, understandably so, and john used to say that she was emotionally absent for a while he mentioned at one point that she drank a little more than she should have, but she was struggling with her own grief, which was part of the trauma that john experienced. he experienced trauma through his mother >> you also write that he was probably going to get into electoral politics when he died? >> i'm certain of that one of the ways i measure that is the way he referred to his father so john when i first knew him, referred to him as president kennedy. in the '90s he started calling him my father. t

in 1954, it was a little-known episode in which the new king gave a contract to a gentleman named aristotle onassis that would have ended the american oil monopoly on the saudi oil industry. eisenhower personally gave the order to make sure that contract never went into effect. i know about this episode because it was the subject of my most recent book which i'm happy to say is accepted in this issue of middle east policy, thank you for coming. great book. sold by multiple copies. then of course came the oil embargo of 73 have and 74, when he read kissinger's telephone transcripts and cable traffic, you will see that he referred to the arabs as a bunch of savages which will give you an idea of the esteem in which, after all, even kissinger, when he finally went to saudi arabia, a gift from the king which was a bound copy of the protocols of the elders of zion which is not the thing i would give a jewish person every day of the week but in 1979, the saudis made jimmy carter very unhappy by not only refusing, by not only not endorsing but refusing to accept the egypt-israel peace treaty. and,