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David Davenport, a counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the genesis of modern conservatism.  Modern American conservatism, Davenport avers, was born in the 1930s, when Herbert Hoover took on the excesses of the New Deal. The New Deal overturned the way in which the United States worked and was governed. Eighty years later the New Deal is still the paradigm for US domestic policy. Obama is adding to the New Deal ideology with many of his policies, which are undermining US liberty and its rugged individualism. In his recent book, The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry, Davenport goes back to the 1930s to illustrate how the twenty-first-century discourse between progressives and conservatives grew out of the Roosevelt-Hoover debate of the 1930s.

Davenport: The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: Then and Now

Was Matthew Shepard murdered because he was gay?  The Book of Matt by Stephen Jimenez  

Was Matthew Shepard murdered because he was gay?  Dennis Prager speaks with author Stephen Jimenez

Shelby Steele, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and author of Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country , joins Peter Robinson to discuss race relations in the United States. Steele tells stories about growing up in segregated Chicago and the fights he and his family went through to end segregation in their neighborhood schools. He draws upon his own experiences facing racism while growing up in order to inform his opinions on current events. Steele and Robinson go on to discuss more recent African-American movements, including Steele’s thoughts on the NFL protests, Black Lives Matter, and recent rumors about Oprah Winfrey running for office.

Shelby Steele On “How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country”

Larry discusses reaction to the State of the Union address.

Democrats Can't Even Applaud Record Low Black Unemployment

Ordinarily, the second-place finisher in a presidential election doesn’t have a second political act. But the times aren’t ordinary and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, is now a US Senate candidate in Utah. Hoover research fellow Lanhee Chen, Romney’s 2012 policy director, discusses what compelled his former boss to make the run and whether Romney will be a Trump White House ally or nemesis.
	
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Act II: Mitt Romney vs. the White House

Victor Davis Hanson describes the philosophical conceits employed by defenders of illegal immigration — and explains how they’re undermining American society.

The Ideology of Illegal Immigration

The media turn the New Zealand white supremacist terrorist attack into a referendum on Trump, Kirsten Gillibrand experiences failure to launch, and Trump goes wild on Twitter.	
	
Date: 3-18-2019

Shelby Steele On “How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country”

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