Hitchens & Buckley: The New Left Out (3/5)

In the third segment of this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, entitled "YOU SAID YOU WANTED A REVOLUTION: 1968 and the Counter-Counterculture," Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson interviews Christopher Hitchens and William F. Buckley on the legacy of Barry Goldwater. (Filmed: 7/29/98)

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[docmoriarti]

Chris is wrong, unfortunately. They haven't preserved the ideology. Republican party of Goldwater died when Nixon became its leader. It went from be a party of reason to a party that struck a compromise with religious movements. For a good reason: they saw socialists as the common enemy. And they thought they could use each other. But the religious right eventually overtook the party until it got to what it is today: all reason is gone and religious dogma is all that's left.

[sirrobpeel]

Peter Robinson is a rock star.

[carioca56]

You can't hear a thing anyone is saying because everyone is interrupting each other. 

[SnakGod]

@TheTypicalGirl probably just find him attractive....typical :D

[TheTypicalGirl]

@docmoriarti Oh hush. I see no religious dogma behind the appeal and success of Paul Ryan.

[Capt777harris]

@docmoriarti Quite true.

[lipsbach]

I read that Buckley spoke French and Spanish and played the harpsichord. Where are these skills displayed for the world to see?

[Myndir]

Certain questions are ALWAYS considered closed within educational systems or indeed any self-selecting group. This is not a new phenomena.

There were things that were not open for questions prior to the 1960s, just as there are things that are not open to questioning after the 1960s. It's not a special feature of the 1960s.

[joegibbskins]

in any case, it could also be said that the women's liberation and sexual revolutions had their origins on the national scale in the 1920s, most of the hard left was intellectually formed in the 30s and that the civil rights movement began in earnest in th 1950s rendering your judgement of that era untrue.

[joegibbskins]

he was a child of privledge and then in the 50s the scourge of academia. his statement is to be read within this context. he just means that certain questions are considered closed within the educational system that were debated at the time. it isn't a particular novel observation nor one that is specific to that time. it is deserving of more respect than a snide comment perpetuating the sterotype of the squareness of the pre60s generations.

[aweiss]

lol

there really arent religious issues in governance, religion is a non-issue.