Here's some background information and links on this week's guest, Richard Brookhiser:
From Brookhiser's Wikipedia article:
Brookhiser began writing for National Review in 1970. "My first article, on antiwar protests in my high school, was a cover story in National Review in 1970, when I was 15."Wow.
The American Creation blog posted about the show yesterday and had this to say:
Most of it is run-of-the mill, but Robinson asks an intriguing question towards the end, inquiring whether the First Amendment represented a culmination of Enligthenment insight or simply a ratification of practical experience...
From what I can tell they only watched the third segment. I think Brookhiser's comments on man's unchanging human nature, the Scalia/Originalism conversations, and others run more than run-of-the-mill. But, of course, you should judge for yourself.
Okay, so that's a start on Brookhiser. The way we'll handle these backgrounders is to update them with more information as we find it while the guest is current.
