Is There a Self Conscious Preservation of the Past?

John Avlon: How can conservatives avoid histori sm in their approach to the world, like a historicism that's actually the mere image of a kind of progressive historicism? And how can they respond to when bad things get built into what we have received and are passing on? He says one thing liberalism provides or supplies is real, genuine uplift for african American commune ies within america. Avlon: I'm kind of disappointed that you didn't come and talk to me before 20 16, because, sees, we could have had a really productive conversation that would have saved you a lot of heart.