This interview starts out talking about Os Guinness' 1973 book, The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How it Changed America Forever which IVP has just reissued in its "Signature Collection series. Guinness goes on to discuss with insight and clarity our cultural historical moment today. An article summarizing Guinness' points may be found in this Washington Times piece published just two days ago.
Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute, a citizen of both the United States and Israel, currently makes his home in Jerusalem. He is a brilliant scholar, the author of several books, including The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture,The Virtue of Nationalism and God and Politics in Esther. He recently wrote a MUST READ essay, "The Challenge of Marxism," which I will write about another time. For now, watch the following fascinating interview and note especially what Hazony says about "the only way to avoid civil war." I will produce the text of his statement below.
(The bolding below is mine)
10:45 mark: I am sure that we have never seen in our lifetimes this degree of hatred. That's not to say there wasn't hatred. I remember when Ronald Reagan was president people hated him, and when the Bushes were president, people hated them. And they certainly talked as though they were fascists and monsters, and all the rest, but what's changed, I think what's clearly changed, is the next step which is the willingness to withdraw legitimacy from a Republican president. That's something that we have never seen before.