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It’s funny, but the Lebanese people seem to follow their real estate in this regard. I have spent many hours filming interviews with people from all over Beirut and its suburbs, asking them (through my Arabic-speaking friend) what they think of Americans. In front of the camera, most say things that give me hope for the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East—things like, “I don’t associate the American people with what the American government does.” Once I switch off the camera their...
...since Jefferson's time, though, and one of them is the country's ongoing struggle with the role of religion in civic life. As the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which prohibited government interference in people's religious beliefs, Jefferson took a hard line in this regard, and it isn't difficult to imagine where he would stand on current debates about prayer in public schools, say, or faith-based funding for social projects. "If there is one field of constitutional law, and law generally, where Jefferson was amazing, it's the separation of church and state...
...What he's addressing specifically, and this is true for our nation, is that education is not valued the way it needs to be for the sake of our young people and our nation. And I think he's right about that. Teachers are not held in the same regard as they were when I was in school. He's not wrong about that, and he's right for asserting that parents have to advocate for their children...
...Show, I always felt very respected. I felt respected by Bill. I felt respected by our producers and our directors, and I mean respected as an actor. So it was a little bit surprising to me to understand that there were casting directors in other areas who didn't regard me as an actor. They thought of me as a TV personality. Now I'm regarded as an actor...
...long, cold, fearsome war; to change the conversation of our politics and culture as much by the sheer force of his personality as by the power of his ideas, Ronald Reagan was an unaccountably modest and good-natured soul. He seemed untouched by the arrogance and self-regard common to actors and politicians, to the point that when a brash reporter asked him on the eve of his election what he thought the American people saw in him, Reagan said, "Would you laugh if I told you that I think, maybe, they see themselves, and that...