URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6025
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  The Culture of the Left
Item Title The Culture of the Left
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created February 26, 1968
Description "He calls himself," says WFB in his introduction to the first of Mr. Muggeridge's several appearances on Firing Line, "a man of the Left... His apostasies from the Left are, however, so numerous as to leave him a member of the Left in the same sense that, say, Bishop Pike is a member of the Episcopal Church." But let Mr. Muggeridge speak for himself: "Well, Bill, I think you must distinguish between being a member of the Left and being a liberal. I regard liberalism as the great disease of our society, and when I said that people like Mrs. Roosevelt, admirable though they were in intentions, would be seen to have done more damage than people like Hitler and Stalin, I meant precisely that. Hitler and Stalin got a lot of people killed and precipitated the great war, but they are now discredited. But liberalism, which has been the dominant philosophy in the most influential and powerful nations of the West, continues to thrive despite the fact that every time it's been applied, the consequences have been disastrous."
Subject(s) Liberalism Radicalism
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United Kingdom
Place Recorded London, England, United Kingdom
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Moving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 091
Record Number 80040.91
Notes Video available through Amazon.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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