In the first hour our host Kerby Anderson talks with Claes Ryn, who comes to us with a new book, The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken.
In the second hour, Kerby talks with Dr. Bruce Becker about his new book, True Crimes of the Bible, and then Kerby will talk about recent court cases and other news stories – including the latest government effort to relieve student loans, disinformation, and the FBI and Christopher Wray.
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Ryn is the Founding Director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at Catholic University. The recipient of many awards and grants, Professor Ryn was named Outstanding Graduate Professor by the CUA Graduate Student Association in 1992. In 2011 he received the CUA faculty award for Distinguished Achievement in Research.
His is the author of many books including A Common Human Ground, America the Virtuous, Will, Imagination and Reason, Democracy and the Ethical Life, and the novel A Desperate Man. He has published and lectured widely on both sides of the Atlantic and in Asia, especially China. In 2000 he gave the Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Beijing University, which published this series as a book, Unity Through Diversity (in Chinese translation). Three of Ryn's books and many of his other writings have appeared in Chinese translation.
In 2012 Beijing Normal University named him Honorary Professor. Ryn is editor of Humanitas. He was co-founder and President of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters and co-founder and Chairman of the National Humanities Institute. He served as president of the Philadelphia Society. He was chairman of the Department from 1979 to 1985.
The Failure of American Conservatism analyzes these weaknesses in depth. It explains the current disorientation of conservatism and why “cancel culture” and Woke were predictable. Mixing new and previously published writing, the book bristles with provocative ideas. It sets forth its own strongly argued view of how to understand and address America’s crisis.
Bruce lives in Jackson, Wisconsin, with his wife, Linda. They have been married for more than 40 years and have four adult children. They enjoy spending time with family, bicycling, landscaping, and gardening.