Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
Blue Yeti ·
December 6, 2012 at 8:46pm
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, the first of our interviews recorded on the National Review post-election cruise. This week, AEI scholar and National Review Online founding editor Jonah Goldberg and National Review's editor-at-large John O'Sullivan on the election and the GOP's future.
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Dec '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
You would post it right when I'm heading back out on a job...
Oct '10
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If you are as frustrated as I am about the three refresh cycles that each reset the player to the start point, click on the address bar at the top so you get the direct YouTube version without interruptions.
Oct '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan spoke the oft repeated phrase that soon other countries will realize we are going broke and stop lending money to the US. They already realize it.
Since at least 2010 the Federal Reserve has been purchasing 75-80% of the US deficit. That is, printing money.
America is more like the Weimar Republic than it is like Greece.
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
Good point. I'll see if we can find a work around for that.
May '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
What?! No audio-only? I like to have Peter and his guests on my iPod. Or did I miss it?
Feb '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
You can get the audio only version from the iTunes store for free.
Edited on December 7, 2012 at 12:05amRe: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
raycon and lindacon: John O'Sullivan spoke the oft repeated phrase that soon other countries will realize we are going broke and stop lending money to the US. They already realize it.
Since at least 2010 the Federal Reserve has been purchasing 75-80% of the US deficit. That is, printing money.
America is more like the Weimar Republic than it is like Greece. · 2 hours ago
Good point, Ray- and Lindacon. Dispiriting, but good.
May '10
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
Peter Robinson
raycon and lindacon: John O'Sullivan spoke the oft repeated phrase that soon other countries will realize we are going broke and stop lending money to the US. They already realize it.
Since at least 2010 the Federal Reserve has been purchasing 75-80% of the US deficit. That is, printing money.
America is more like the Weimar Republic than it is like Greece. · 2 hours ago
Good point, Ray- and Lindacon. Dispiriting, but good. · 2 hours ago
Except that the remaining percentage is still being purchased at very low rates, so we retain our least-bad-bet status worldwide, amazingly enough.
We are, as John Podhoretz said in his "case for optimism", the one-eyed king in the land of the blind. (And our plan is to gouge our remaining eye.)
Apr '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
Nevermind Irish and Blacks. Look at what government dependence has done for the Indians.
May '10
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No Caesar
You can get the audio only version from the iTunes store for free. · 19 hours ago
Edited 18 hours ago
Odd, it did not come up in my iTunes (I am subscribed). When I downloaded it, it created another Uncommon Knowledge file in my podcast list. That makes, like, four now.
Apr '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
I enjoyed this Uncommon Knowledge very much. One question, though. On at least four occasions toward the end John O'Sullivan used a phrase that sounded like "Chaos and earl night." What would be the correct transcription of the syllable before "night"? Am I the only one who couldn't understand what he said?
Apr '11
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
good question
Jan '12
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
I couldn't catch it too.
Jan '12
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan talked about the melting pot and how Americans had absorbed immigrants into being Americans and that it would happen again. I'm not so sure.
I feel that the web and the internet culture is quite capable of keeping minorities as such for a very long time. So if you do want to absorb immigrants into american society make sure that the immigrants are culturally close in the first place.
Edited on December 9, 2012 at 8:30pmMay '11
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Stephen Bishop: I couldn't catch it too. · 55 minutes ago
I think it's supposed to be "chaos and all night".
Jun '11
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Dan
Stephen Bishop: I couldn't catch it too. · 55 minutes ago
I think it's supposed to be "chaos and all night". · 23 hours ago
I agree. I've heard what he's describing as "chaos and eternal night" so I took him to be saying "chaos and all night." FWIW, I think he's correct.
Jan '12
Re: Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Jonah Goldberg and John O'Sullivan
Gee these limeys need to learn how to enunciate.
Apr '11
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Update to Comment number 11 (December 9, 2012, 1:54 AM.) In re what I heard as "Chaos and earl night," I checked the index of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations under "Chaos." One entry is for "Chaos and Old Night"---part of the longer phrase "Reign of Chaos and Old Night." The source is Book I, line 543 of Paradise Lost. At that point in Milton's poem, Satan has lead his rebellion of the angels and been expelled from Heaven, all prior to the creation of the world. God has not yet yet said, "Let there be light." The absence of light in the world as it then existed thus furnishes one interpretation of "Old Night."
Apr '11
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(Continuation of the last post): One interpretation of the syllable that sounds to me like "earl" in "earl night" is "Ol" as in "Ol' Reliable." I presume that man as literate as John O'Sullivan would not use the phrase "Chaos and Ol' Night" four times unless it were part of the English canon. Paradise Lost qualifies. I therefore propose "Chaos and Ol' Night" as the proper transcription of what I heard as "Chaos and earl night."
Apr '11
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Terry, I am favorably disposed to the hypothesis that "earl" is a spoken version of "eternal." There is ample precedent in English for the spoken version of a word to have fewer syllables than the written version (e.g Gloucester or Worcestershire).
Terry
Dan
Stephen Bishop: I couldn't catch it too. · 55 minutes ago
I think it's supposed to be "chaos and all night". · 23 hours ago
I agree. I've heard what he's describing as "chaos and eternal night" so I took him to be saying "chaos and all night." FWIW, I think he's correct. · 9 hours ago