William Bennett
Commentator and former United States Secretary of EducationWikipedia
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Nov 5, 2026
Seth LeibsohnHOST
about something.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
Yeah, well, I mean, when you say that, it makes me worry about something my old boss and mentor Bill Bennett once said in a different period of time, which it was, we've become the kind of country we used to send missionaries to.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
When you talk about those other countries, Kurt, you think about what it is that has led them to such anachronistic civility or uncivil life.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
The first ingredient is their governing philosophy.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Both Gingrich and Dick Armey, as well as the Clinton administration, are opposed to controlling legal immigration at all, and our beloved neoconservative friends are militantly opposed to any reform.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Indeed, as Morton Kondracke wrote in his column in Roll Call last year, it was William Kristol, now editor of the neoconservative Weekly Reader-- Excuse me, I mean the Weekly Standard, [audience laughing] who, who, who persuaded Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett that it would be a terrific idea for them to come out against 187 on the eve of the election.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was, in fact, a terrific idea because more than anything else, the Kemp Bennett denunciation of 187 led to the collapse of their political careers.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[audience laughing] As an encore, the same three have been pushing the Colin Powell ca-candidacy, which has now turned out to be even more of a bigger bomb for them than their earlier brainstorm.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Indeed, as Morton Kondracke wrote in his column in Roll Call last year, it was William Kristol, now editor of the neoconservative Weekly Reader...
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Excuse me, I mean the Weekly Standard [laughing] Who, who, who persuaded Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett that it would be a terrific idea for them to come out against 187 on the eve of the election.
Sam FrancisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was, in fact, a terrific idea, because more than anything else, the Kemp-Bennett denunciation of 187 led to the collapse of their political careers.
Dark EnlightenmentPANELIST
Yeah.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
And you have to have a small, you know, small-R Republican idea of citizenship.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
And I hate talking about virtue because it makes me sound like William Bennett and like...
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
You know, there's a difference between the virtue of citizenship and, like, private morality.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
But when you talk about virtue, it's not like you're saying, I'm a really good person, which anyone who knows me knows is not the case.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
And you have to have a small, you know, small-R Republican idea of citizenship.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
And I hate talking about virtue because it makes me sound like William Bennett and like...
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
You know, there's a difference between the virtue of citizenship and, like, private morality.
Kevin WilliamsonGUEST
But when you talk about virtue, it's not like you're saying, I'm a really good person, which anyone who knows me knows is not the case.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
And the whole system was, of course, supported by the growing availability of student loans.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
In 1987, Ronald Reagan's Education Secretary William Bennett wrote in the New York Times that federal aid was letting colleges raise tuition, confident that federal loans would cover the increase.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Later, the New York Fed found that indeed, when federal subsidized loan limits went up, about 60 cents of every new dollar showed up in tuition.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
The effect was biggest where prices were already highest — the most expensive degrees, private colleges, and two-year and vocational programs.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
in the trump administration despite the fact that leading neoconservatives whatever troopers but they deserve it enough people allied with Trump to have influence.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
I mean, people like Bill Bennett, certainly Bolton.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
Norman Podoritz was a strong backer of Trump, although his son John, who's a very, very left-leaning Republican, was a never-Trumper and I think supported Kasich.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
But there was enough of a neoconservative presence in the Trump administration to give them some influence there.
Steve ForbesGUEST
You won a couple primaries.
Steve ForbesGUEST
I did, but I was headed up an organization called Empower America, founded by Jack Kemp and noted supply-sider Gene Kirkpatrick and Bill Bennett.
Steve ForbesGUEST
We all thought at the time that Jack Kemp was going to run for president in 1996.
Steve ForbesGUEST
Then near Christmas in 1994, when you'd normally be getting ready to gear up for a campaign, he called us into his office and shocked us with the announcement he wasn't running.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
in the trump administration despite the fact that leading neoconservatives whenever truckers but they think they've had enough people allied with Trump to have influence.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
I mean, people like Bill Bennett, certainly Bolton.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
Norman Podoritz was a strong backer of Trump, although his son John, who's a very, very left-leaning Republican, was a never-Trumper and I think supported Kasich.
Paul GottfriedGUEST
But there was enough of a neoconservative presence in the Trump administration to get them some influence there.
Rick ThomasHOST
None other than On This Day in American History.
Rick ThomasHOST
And, of course, for On This Day in American History, we read from the American Patriots' Almanac, written by William J. Bennett and John T. E. Cribb, chock full of all kinds of information and factoids about this wonderful country.
Rick ThomasHOST
This absolutely fabulous country that
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