This is thinking in public a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Mowie, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

My guest today is Christopher Caldwell.

He has long been a part of the nation's public

conversation, a public intellectual and author and writer. He was known for many years as a

writer for the Weekly Standard. He's also written as a columnist for the Financial Times of London.

His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and a myriad of other publications.

In 2010, he wrote a major book entitled Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.

Immigration, Islam, and the West. His most recent book and the topic of our conversation today is the age of entitlement.

America since the 60s. And that's actually the topic of our conversation today, not only the book,

but what it means to look at American history

from the 60s to the present. Since the 60s opens, well, an entire avenue of conversation, and that's

why I'm looking forward to this conversation today.

Christopher Caldwell, welcome to thinking in public.

Christopher, you have really been in the nation's intellectual conversation for a matter of decades now at the weekly standard and elsewhere.

The Financial Times of London and Claremont Review places such as that, and your most recent book, The Age of Entitlement,

America since the 60s, has engendered a good deal of conversation.

And that's why an author writes a book.

Tell me the conversation that you wanted to bring about by the publication of this book

Well, that's a that's a very confusing way into it.

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