By An Old Friend
The six segments aggregate to more than an hour. Kesler is a wonderful interviewer, and DeMuth is an outstandingly thoughtful and admirable interviewee.
I also recently watched an interview of DeMuth by Bill Kristol; similar and interesting, but I think this one by Kesler will stick with me more.
In segment 5, at about the 9:30 mark, they're talking about Social Security, and DeMuth says that we have one, perhaps two, decades to reform it into sustainability, but after that, "it's the Detroit pension problem coast-to-coast." (DeMuth has been writing lately on the entitlements horrors.)
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Kesler has been doing a series of these interviews (Kristol, too); of those I've watched, the one with Heather Mac Donald was my favorite. At one point, she talks about conservatism as being basically empirical -- we can see what happens with broken families and other dysfunctions that are the fruits of liberal ideas: http://www.theamericanmind-claremont.org/index.php?action=video&intervieweeId=51&n=0
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