Herbert London - Herbert I. London is president of the Hudson Institute, a world renown think-tank in Washington DC. He is professor emeritus and the former John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University.
London was responsible for creating the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1972 and was its dean until 1992. This school was organized to promote the study of "great books" and classic texts.
Robert Emmett Tyrrell - Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is an American conservative magazine publisher and columnist. Tyrrell is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator.
Tyrrell was one of those behind the Arkansas Project, financed by Richard Mellon Scaife, to investigate Bill Clinton. His book, Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House, likened Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as First Lady to that of the reign of a pre-revolutionary French monarch.
Kenneth Weinstein - Kenneth R. Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute. He oversees the institute's research, project management, external affairs, marketing, and government relations efforts.
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Hudson President Herbert London argues in his timely and wide-ranging new book, America's Secular Challenge (Encounter) that the pervasive culture of secularism in the United States is an inadequate response to radical Islam.
In the so-called war of ideas, London explains, our reflexive belief in relativism has handicapped our ability to thwart the inroads of fanaticism, as secular humanism has destroyed the West's only beliefs worth defending- Hudson Institute
Eric I'd say that your assessment lacks - nuance? The Hudson Institute is a respected contributor in the public discourse on ideas that routinely works with fellows from across the spectrum. Look at many of their programs and you'll see people from Brookings, NAF and others from left of center.
I'm sure you're better than actually needing to dismissing an organization because you happen to disagree with the ideas put forward in one of their programs.
Eric Silva is right. This entire presentation is the after party of presentations by a rabbi, and a priest as well, I think they mention. The other introducer at the table talks of conservatives as "we" and nobody challenges this speaker.
Everything Mr. London says here is lacking in nuance, and I only wish I were there to have grilled him personally. He manages to string together a rant of conclusions he has made without bothering to second-guess.