And the Hey everyone is Andrew Clayman with this week's interview with Amity Schles, a terrific

writer about American history. One of my favorites actually about American history.

And I wanted to talk to her because I feel there are two major problems with political discussion

in America.

One is this, that everything in life is a trade-off and we never talk about that.

We never talk about the fact that nothing is free because our culture is thoroughly

corrupted by leftism. Our arguments are generally put in terms of leftist solutions versus why you're hateful.

And instead of putting possible solutions to problems as what are its costs, what are its

moral hazards and drawbacks, we just don't have those debates.

And I think that needs more, we need more knowledge in order to have those debates.

The second problem, I think is this, our young people, many of them are schooled in ignorance.

Literature, history, politics are never taught to them as facts

and processes but are glossed over by leftist political opinions

of their academics.

And our students know that, for for instance from the river to the sea

Palestine must be free but they don't know which river which sea or what Palestine is if it's

anything and so a lot of times on the show I talk about where, how we've gotten to where we've gotten,

and I mention the Great Society.

And the other day I was talking to a young friend of mine who was a very intelligent guy,

and I made a comment about the Great Society, he said I don't know what that is and

this is a guy who works in the literary world and he's very smart and has read a lot of stuff

and he did not know what the Great Society is.

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