Reading this book now. At 71 I have lived through this but this gentleman really puts it in perspective.

Looking at current society through the filter of a post-1964 CRA split explains so much. I'll be buying (and reading!) his book. Thank you Hillsdale for making this available for free. Here's hoping disagreement doesn't lead us to ruin.

There is a fundamental misconception of the nature of "Rights". "Rights" are all the things I may possibly do as a 'being in the world'. Law does not confer rights. It constrains them.

WE DID NOT LOSE IN VIETNAM... WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO FIGHT TO WIN 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Absolutely one of the most insightful & eloquent analyses of this topic I've seen. I bought & read his book "The Age of Entitlement" after seeing this presentation. Then I watched the presentation again. Along with Victor Davis Hanson and Heather Mac Donald, Chris Caldwell is a person I'll seek out in the future for a fresh perspective on key issues our society faces.

Thanks for sharing this information, especially given how this is counter to groupthink.

I read the book. I'd strongly recommend it.

Christopher Caldwell is one of this current American thinkers that you should listen to.

This is an important step in the improvement of our nation. It is a fair attempt at an unbiased identification of the problem(s). In spite of any imperfections, it will not help to dismiss his good points or to take it as a reason to despair. In spite of extremist efforts on both sides, many are showing more willingness to cooperate and compromise. Escalating hostilities is not a constructive solution.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!

Best analysis I've seen so far of how and why the culture war has developed since the 1960's.

Remember, no other than 'conservative' Justice Gorsuch, Scalia's replacement found that 'transgendered' persons were covered by the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act despite the lack of evidence both in the text or history that shows the act was meant to cover such discrimination. Excellent speech.

Excellent Administrative and judicial totalitarianism vs conservative "bigotry"and democratic determinism

Relative to Vietnam, it would behoove many to read German historian Hans Delbreck's thinking on the inevitable frustration of wars of exhaustion. The Vietnam war was such an example but we didn't learn the lessons of a people and economy that was not ready, nor wanted our version of "false democracy". The Vietnamese fought the Chinese, French, and Americans seeking a unified country-nationalism. Iraq and Afganistan are more recent examples of a landscape that easily requires American military presence for twenty years and beyond that costs trillions of dollars but no satisfactory result ever seems possible. (By "false democracy" I mean the governments we supported in South Vietnam were corrupt and no more democratic than the French occupation.)

This is a very important and well reasoned part of the discussion that must be had.

The sky did fall, but its descent was not immediate.

There is much truth to his thesis. The worst thing is a bad law enacted for addressing a a genuine social problem. Almost impossible to repeal or reform because someone always benefits. As a POC I hate the term POC and reject being placed in a box. The new segregation!

There is no common ground left.

OMG. I have been at such a loss to understand where the insidious invasion of the PC culture came from... everything he spoke about has led to it. You do not see it when you are going through it. I turned 73 yesterday. I am retired and before that life just kept me too busy to notice and this video was an eye-opener. I have been concluding that the political problems we have today were the fault of my generation but I did not know how or why... except we always fell for every moral and ethical change we were told would make us a greater country: abortion, free love, gay marriage, every sexual relationship, religion was no longer needed.... the list continues and that list has us where we are today. I am truly sad at how stupid we were and I do blame parents who were too tired to discipline us and stop so much of our wrongful thinking. So, the Greatest Generation (exhausted after WWII and returning,, probably many with PTSD, to a changed world of women competing in the workplace) through my generation of Baby Boomers (fighting Korean War, Vietnam war, and struggling to keep pace with a fast-paced world that was out of balance). Wow! What a combination. This makes me appreciate the focus and commitment of Mr. Trump all the more. He pulled us back from disaster and is giving us another chance.... I wonder what generation will finally step up and make us whole again?

Rights once discovered should not be determined by the courts...the bill of rights kinda might be a hint as to where they are to be enshrined.

The right will keep losing until its explicit and honest about the real ''roots'' of the upcoming dissolution of America. Immigration has been used both as a way to smash the traditional demographic makeup of America BY DESIGN and to win over more votes to left leaning enterprises. You can read Kevin MacDonald on the 1965 immigration act if you're brave, or Ann Coulter if you don't wanna go on the gestapos database

She forgets that not only SS is a driver of national debt but medicare and medicaid are even larger drivers of national debt that came from the LBJ administration.

Vietnam was not a battlefield loss! It was lost politically...not a single offensive was lost in vietnam.

The sky fell and fell hard

Oh ... where to begin ....

Great talk. It seems that problems with the enforcement of the Rule of Law were the driving force for band-aid laws that attempted to force integrity. It also seems that nationalizing state or geographically localized issues tends to perpetuate regulations and non-traditional solutions that can be over-reaching in their implications for unrelated issues that are not appropriate for national definity. At some point demands for rights beyond those specified in the constitution create entitlements that are toxic to self-reliance and individual ability to secure quality of life based on performance as a member of society.

I am criticizing the impulse to equality in general.

Segregationist in the 1960s unfortunately were correct. They predicted what would happen to this country.

Caldwell is correct. I'm a brown skinned minority. I've earned every benefit I've received. In some ways I resent the Equal Opportunity movement. I appreciate the goals and the advances made by this movement, but some will look at me and think I was given an unfair hand up. I wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for the Equality movement. Wrong! I worked my way thru college. I earned my Army commission. I was scrutinized for every management or technical position I held. I studied hard for my college degrees. I was not given the answers to tests nor was I given grants in aid. Discrimination and prejudice will always exist. I hate discrimination, including discrimination in education and college admissions for or against minorities. I realize that some people need help, so I wouldn't favor eliminating programs or turning back the clock. I was raised to be self reliant. I'm proud of it.

Hmm so the divide is essentially between those (ie middle Americans) who view 'rights' more as 'liberties' (which restrict state power) and those (generally from fashionable identity groups) who view rights as special privileges to be provided by the state (invariably at the expense of everyone else).

It's good for them. We the People are an after thought with mixed results that more or less sustain the hope and rhetoric that we actually matter.

33:00 The constitution of the totalitarians presumes that no progress has been made (by having no targets and no objective metrics to signal a just outcome), and that "we are all created equal" which are giant lies. Some people have good and other people have poor aptitudes for certain mental processes, whereas some people are tall, muscular, fit, athletic, warriors, others are meek mannered geeks who read books and visualize transdimentional complex geometries in their heads. These differences are down the lines of race. With the totalitarians, competency for geeks is thrown out the window, but competency for athletics rises to the top. Their system is a complete one sided scam that is crap and has to go. In a country where lives and civilization depend on the competency of people operating the system, it is no time to collapse that system just so that someone incompetent can come in and get a responsible job that pays well. Jordan Peterson explains that as soon as you try to become better, you are striving to be different, more competent. To prevent this by overriding it with proactive quotas/affirmative action is just asking for extreme trouble, and harm to yourself and your loved ones... www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&q=south+africa+100%25+failure+rate+medical+school Counter racist South Africa is genociding white people. As such they must transition their society to try to remain a civil high society as the colonials were running it by using replacement black personnel in all the key responsibility areas. This has proven very unwise because the competency of the colonists was way way under appreciated by the foolish / stupid anti white racist observers. www.google.com/search?q=african+language+and+the+african+mind+professor+Eugene+Valberg&newwindow=1&tbm=vid&tbs=dur:l&sa=X

Well done. Everyone needs to understand that the civil rights bill was written to give equal rights to African Americans. For schools and voting etc; not for gay marriage and trans gender to alter the first amendment by forcing people to use certain pronouns and to teach our children these ways of life. The judges in our country have way to much sway in there judgement. It has gone so far that we’re going back to segregation. The progressive movement and there policies have gone so far left that it has created a divide between those that believe in a republic run by the people and those that want the government bureaucracy to rule them using the judicial branch of government to pass laws without the consent of the legislative there by with out the consent of the majority. These people will be crying all the way to there internment camps wondering how there utopian ideas went terribly wrong for trusting in the government to take care of them. Very sad selfish and evil. The founding fathers were very intelligent men. They understood that there will be those that fear God and those that will not. They understood the previous empires of the world and what cussed there demise. Every empire that had forsaken the one true God and worshiped the kingdom of Satan knowingly or unknowingly brought about there destruction. The government is there to provide services for the people and to keep order. It has no right to be involved in moral issues. Because it has no moral authority. Keep the power in the hands of the people and get back to fiscal responsibility, morality and ethics. God Bless America.

Brilliant!

Fantastic speech.

Read the works of René Girard

I have a napkin theory of the insurrection, with three key elements: casuistry, revision and stealth. Casuistry: framing the founding documents as universal, enlightenment ideas dwelling in Platonic ether; rather than organic expression of English common law, custom and tradition. Revision: framing American history as a quest for equality, e.g. 1619 project, rather than a quest for liberty; thus, making the atrocious war of the 1860s a 'second founding'. (I have never liked the idiotic oxymoron, civil war.) Stealth: penetrating our institutions by lying to agree with their rules and principles, inwardly harboring all the while the desire to break the rules and subvert the principles. (Hamilton was the king of lying and oath breaking.) Use this theory, along with the general theory of human nature, and you will find it very difficult indeed to tell me I am wrong.

It’s sad that in trying to help a group against racism the politicians actually created a system the discriminates against another group. Once a group gets a special right (privilege) they will never give it up. I believe if we just lived by the original intent of our “1st” constitution and applied it to everyone we would be better off. It’s better for it to be somewhat vague and blind so we can take out race, sex, sexual orientation etc and just apply it to everyone as an individual.

This and all that is discovered is absolutely wonderful,but how do you get these squirrels from hiding their nuts ,that they steal from society in the name of justice.

Thanks for censoring my thoughtful comment. You'll not see another nickel from me or from the rest of my family. Shame on you.

The supply of marriages is not limited. Legalizing (and legitimizing) same-sex marriage did not take away anyone else's opportunity to get married. Here, no group is favored over any other. All are treated as equals.There are no losers. There is, however, a limited supply of tax resources, housing, jobs and admissions to higher education. Diversity rules force allocation of limited resources in ways the "free market" and merit-based systems would not have done. Many qualified people end up without what they otherwise would have obtained. The enforcing bureaucracies pick winners and losers.

Lawyers made money. And we let them. That's why all this happened.

Miss the good old days when people can legally and openly harass minorities

These "laws were not political tools?" Listen to LBJ's own words. "We'll have the n......rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years." Discrimination against race was already opposed by the Constitution. Black's rights should have been enforced under the Constitution and not legislation deliberately formulated to create a separate class. Two more points, Watts and Boston aren't in the south, figure that out. Point number 2 we did NOT lose the Vietnam War. Try educating yourself about Operation Linebacker 2 and the Paris Peace Accords. Democrats, aka Leftists, used the "malefactor" approach to play into Antonio Gramsci's Long March to Communism. The speaker makes some good points but is far from accurate.

KZfaq is blocking you

Elizabeth Warren flies an Apache helicopter to a Navajo reservation

Most of these problems were caused by the judiciary in Plessy v Ferguson. The entrepreneur wanted to serve blacks and the judiciary affirmed that he couldn't. The real bigot in the man in robes.

Lots of grandchildren have contempt for the Boomer generation. The prevailing hedonism that was embraced in the 1960s/70s coupled with a contempt for the affluence they refused to reject created a cultural hypocrisy that's now at a breaking point. A few observations from my 63 years.

No compromise on gay rights no compromise on transgender rights but your constitutional rights they will seek to destroy shall not be infringed

So many tricks...

Hint. It’s race

This guy writes for The Times? Guess they haven’t COMPLETELY gone down the toilet.

Not a great listen.

Satan is alive and well in KZfaq

poor talk