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Item Title What Do We Owe Our Country?
DateDecember 13, 1990
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"Mr. Buckley," as Mr. Kinsley puts it, "will be required to defend himself from charges of apostasy by a conservative even better credentialed than himself." WFB's book Gratitude had proposed a year's national service between high school and college. Fasten your seatbelt and watch these two old comrades-in-arms have at it. MF: "You, of all people ... somebody who's spent his life trying to fight the overgrown government, who's spent his life defending the virtues of individual freedom, of the free market, and here you come up with a program that's the opposite of everything you've stood for all your life." ... WFB: "We live in a society in which young people and older people don't give any evidence of gratitude for what it is that we inherit, and I'm looking for the redevelopment of an ethos that causes people to show that they are willing to reciprocate." MF: "The question is, why is it that we have had so much of a reduction in the sense of gratitude? In my opinion it's primarily because we've been doing so much through government ... and as a result we have destroyed a sense of individual responsibility and responsibility to one another."

Title of Larger Work Firing Line
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Guest Friedman, Milton (1912-2006)
Moderator Kinsley, Michael E.
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
NotesVideo available through Amazon.
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Record Number80040.1134
Hoover IDProgram S0879
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