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UnavailableShow 309 NRO part 2  Interviews with 6 book authors. From National Review Online
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Show 309 NRO part 2 Interviews with 6 book authors. From National Review Online

FromAmerican Conservative University Podcast


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Show 309 NRO part 2 Interviews with 6 book authors. From National Review Online

FromAmerican Conservative University Podcast

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode

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Show 309 Interviews with 6 book authors. From National Review Online program called Between the Covers (as in Book covers) with John J Miller. Visit the website at http://radio.nationalreview.com/betweenthecovers/  We found dozens of interviews with generally conservative authors.  
1. Walter E. Williams on Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism
"Socialism is a form of tyranny…we have to recognize…the only way the government can get one American citizen one dollar is to first through intimidation, threats and coercion confiscate that dollar from some other American,” says Walter E. Williams, author of Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays.
2.  Brian Anderson on A Manifesto for Media Freedom. 
Speaking of the fairness doctrine, Brian Anderson, co-author of A Manifesto for Media Freedom, says  it's the idea that government can regulate speech for fairness and quality which is truly pernicious and which will result in a completely regulated press.
3.  Iain Murray on The Really Inconvenient Truths
Iain Murray, author of The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don"t Want You to Know About — Because They Helped Cause Them, explains for John J. Miller why misinformation is so rife in the environmental movement: "they take a germ of truth and then blow it up out of all proportion; they take a mole hill and they make a mountain.”
 4. Brian Fagan on The Great Warming
Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, tells John J. Miller that the warming period of 800-1200 A.D. had its good and bad sides. In Europe, Fagan says, “There was more food. The growing seasons lengthened. You got people growing cereal crops in Norway . . . They were growing wine in central England.” However, “I was shocked to find that over enormous areas of the world, there were prolonged, even epochal, droughts, particularly in the American west and over much of the Pacific.”
5.  Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
John J. Miller asks Thomas Sowell, author most recently of Economic Facts and Fallacies, if Americans are economically illiterate. Sowell replies, “Oh yes, good heavens, yes. There need to be at least ten more books like this because I'm too old to think about writing them all by myself.”
 6. Dan Perrin on America's Health Care Crisis Solved
Dan Perrin, co-author with J. Patrick Rooney of America"s Health Care Crisis Solved, tells John J. Miller that today’s health-care crisis is one of affordability, and that his book “provides a series of solutions for specific problems that are contributing to this overall health-care inflation.”
Released:
Jan 7, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode