Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Conservative Heart’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 31 July 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Arthur C. Brooks discusses “The Conservative Heart”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Susan Southard talks about “Nagasaki”; readers offer changes to the literary canon; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Why are conservatives so often viewed as uncaring?
0:05.3	Arthur Brooks will join us to talk about his new book, The Conservative Heart, How to
0:09.8	Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America.
0:13.0	The big problem with conservatives is they didn't care about poor people.
0:16.2	They might be good with money, they might be competent or responsible in fiscal management,
0:20.3	but they don't care about the least advantaged among us in our society.
0:24.1	Why do we know so much more about Hiroshima than we do about the second bomb?
0:28.2	Susan Suther would join us to talk about Nagasaki, life after nuclear war.
0:32.7	While he was doing rescue work in the ruins, he had to step over this baby and suddenly
0:38.1	he realized that he didn't want his granddaughter to live through such an experience.
0:43.0	Alexander Altar has the latest from the literary world, Greg Kohl's Has Best Cellar News,
0:48.4	and this week we'll let listeners and readers weigh in on our bookends question who should
0:53.9	be kicked out of the literary canon.
0:56.5	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:58.2	I'm Pamela Kohl.
1:06.1	Arthur Brooks joins us now.
1:07.5	He is the president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of a new book, The
1:12.8	Conservative Heart, How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America.
1:17.9	Hi Arthur.
1:18.9	Hi Pamela.
1:19.9	So I have to start with your rather intriguing pre-AEI background.
1:25.6	According to the jacket copy, you spent, if you're both, you spent 12 years as a professional
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