Dialogues, by Jerry Brown: on Principles & Values


Jerry Brown: 1994: Started national call-in radio program "We The People"

In the winter of 1994, I started a national call-in radio program, "We the People." My plan was to take up contemporary ideas and controversies and explore them as honestly as I could. My hope was to clarify tacit assumptions and test them against common sense and democratic principles. I invited guests and structured the show as a dialogue between myself and the person who joined me in conversation.

For guests, I sought out people whose writings or whose life exemplified unusual intelligence and honesty. I wanted to learn as much as I could about our society and the mental structures which shape it. I looked for people who had deep understanding, or perhaps a special vantage point from which they saw things many of us had missed.

Source: Dialogues, by Gov. Jerry Brown, p. 13 Jul 14, 1998

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