Roger Kimball

So we try, or, uh, Ralph Peters, people like that.

And then we try to get some public intellectual that are, you know, like Roger Kimball or somebody.

And it's a very...

And I don't have a ideological litmus test, so they're all, they're all across the political spectrum.

Well, well, I'm on a, a writer in residence this, uh, year at The New Criterion, and they're having a series on Western civilization to remind people what a unique culture that we all inherit.

So Roger Kimball, the editor, said, "Maybe you could write the inaugural essay and come up with a topic that sets the foundation and... 'cause other people are gonna be writing specifically about science, technology, war, politics, et cetera.

But is there a concept that you could, you could develop that would be an introduction to all of those sub-disciplines?" I said, "Yeah." So I asked myself, "Why are there 300,000 students from China here, and there's only 10,000 in America, and there's 300,000 in Europe, and there's about 15,000 from Europe in China? And why when I go around the world, when I go to the Middle East," I think I've been to all the Middle East countries, but two or three do things, except for the Gulf states, they don't work.

"And why can't I say what I want in those countries? And why when I went to Mexico, I got sick every time I drank a glass of water? And why, uh, why is Africa still a mess? And why are people coming here from all over the world?" And the answer is, we are the legacy of a different type of knowledge or wisdom or rational than other places.

Yeah

... and Roger Kimball is the editor, and he, he brought a budget to us, um, and he spent an enormous amount of money not just getting scholars who appreciated the story from Greece to the present, art, literature, history, et cetera.

But it's so beautifully produced, the, the-

Yeah

But anyway, um, Bill McClay that you and I, the author of the best-selling "Land of Hope." And when I was on the encounter...

I am on the encounter board, and with Roger Kimball, I mean, when he published that, there were people who said, "This might..." You know, who wants a corrective of Howard Zinn? It turns out that half the country wants a corrective, and it's beautifully produced, beautifully written.

So he, he introduced me, and he, uh, led a, a, a birthday song quite unexpectedly.

And it was a really ironic, witty introduction, and I really appreciated that.

Yep, or the acceptance of Trump's constant stream of corruption and lies.

So the textbook's publisher is a guy named Roger Kimball, who is a conservative activist who they asked him about the book, the AP did.

And here's what they wrote.

The book's publisher, Roger Kimball, says it was peer-reviewed by 15 experts.

Quote, as the proud publisher of this incomparable work, I stand behind it in every

detail.

... can, can you, can you reverse...

This is Roger Kimball and, you know, the book he wrote, The Long March, uh, that, you know, off of Clousard-Piven and what they've, uh, Zelinsky, what they've tried and done.

The, the 100-year, or ever since the Frankfurt School came here, I guess in the '20s and '30s, from, from Germany, basically, from Europe, that long march, you said we're in the last mile of that.

Can one-third, can 35% of the population stop that long march and begin to reverse it? Is that what you're saying?