George Janko
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Well, yes, the book is available at all the online booksellers. It's available in both paperback and, as I just learned, in hardcover, wherever books are sold.
Well, yes, the book is available at all the online booksellers. It's available in both paperback and, as I just learned, in hardcover, wherever books are sold.
We've written a lot of little essays together, but this is our first book project.
We've written a lot of little essays together, but this is our first book project.
And I, Charlie, I'm going to let your listeners in on a little secret here. There is nobody, there is no conservative scholar, including myself, who knows more about or has a deeper appreciation of the conservative intellectual tradition than Brother Cornell West here. Now, he just revealed a little of that with his reference to Brad Bircher's book about Russell Kirk. Cornell is a student.
And I, Charlie, I'm going to let your listeners in on a little secret here. There is nobody, there is no conservative scholar, including myself, who knows more about or has a deeper appreciation of the conservative intellectual tradition than Brother Cornell West here. Now, he just revealed a little of that with his reference to Brad Bircher's book about Russell Kirk. Cornell is a student.
He understands Russell Kirk and not just Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, Burke and Kirk, Leo Strauss. Eric Vogelin. One place you're always going to find Cornel West is at the Vogelin meeting of the American Political Science Association. So Cornel, again, is practicing what he's preaching. He's walking the walk, not just talking the talk.
He understands Russell Kirk and not just Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, Burke and Kirk, Leo Strauss. Eric Vogelin. One place you're always going to find Cornel West is at the Vogelin meeting of the American Political Science Association. So Cornel, again, is practicing what he's preaching. He's walking the walk, not just talking the talk.
He has done his best to understand, and he does appreciate the conservative tradition. We have some wonderful dialogues about this. I mean, I'll tell you something. He knows Burke better than I know Marx. I've tried to understand Marx, but he knows Burke better than I know Marx.
He has done his best to understand, and he does appreciate the conservative tradition. We have some wonderful dialogues about this. I mean, I'll tell you something. He knows Burke better than I know Marx. I've tried to understand Marx, but he knows Burke better than I know Marx.
Absolutely. I completely agree with what Cornell just said. Let me just add this. If you want humanity, practice humility. It is very difficult to be inhumane, to treat other people as things or objects or even as enemies to be destroyed if you have humility. And humility is the fruit of our recognition of our own fallibility, our own weakness, our own failings.
Absolutely. I completely agree with what Cornell just said. Let me just add this. If you want humanity, practice humility. It is very difficult to be inhumane, to treat other people as things or objects or even as enemies to be destroyed if you have humility. And humility is the fruit of our recognition of our own fallibility, our own weakness, our own failings.
When we recognize that, not just notionally, but existentially, we genuinely acknowledge our fallibility, our weaknesses, then we can relate to others with humility. And you need intellectual humility if you're going to be a truth seeker. And then the other virtue that I think we all need to practice and model, especially for our children and for our students, is the virtue of courage.
When we recognize that, not just notionally, but existentially, we genuinely acknowledge our fallibility, our weaknesses, then we can relate to others with humility. And you need intellectual humility if you're going to be a truth seeker. And then the other virtue that I think we all need to practice and model, especially for our children and for our students, is the virtue of courage.
Being willing to state your opinion. with love toward others who disagree, but nevertheless, to be willing to take a chance, speak an unpopular truth, that takes courage. And we need courage. If we would just bring together humility and courage, we'd be nine-tenths of the way to where we need to be.
Being willing to state your opinion. with love toward others who disagree, but nevertheless, to be willing to take a chance, speak an unpopular truth, that takes courage. And we need courage. If we would just bring together humility and courage, we'd be nine-tenths of the way to where we need to be.
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Your best thinking got you a front row seat in AA. Do you ever feel like sometimes you want to walk away from the industry and just be a family guy? I want to talk about God with you.
Your best thinking got you a front row seat in AA. Do you ever feel like sometimes you want to walk away from the industry and just be a family guy? I want to talk about God with you.