Eight years ago today, I walked into the Heritage Foundation and delivered a speech I called “Regurgitating the Apple: How The Modern Liberal Thinks.”  Since then, the talk has become a phenomenon.  It has now been seen by well over a million people — virtually unheard of for a talk that lasts almost fifty minutes — and is now, by far, the single most viewed talk in the Heritage Foundation’s long and esteemed history.

The talk continues to garner several thousands of views a month, spawned my bestselling book, The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks and even served as the bases for a computer program created by one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts designed to anticipate terror attacks from the Left.

If you’ve never seen it, please take forty-seven minutes to do so.   If you have seen it, perhaps it’s time to watch it again.  Finally, please share it with others.  There’s a reason this wonkish talk by a then unknown political commentator has become the phenomenon that it has.  In it, I answer a question that boggles so many of our minds: why do so many otherwise good, decent and smart people — many our friends, neighbors, colleagues and even relatives — ignore the facts, reject reason and, in doing so, side invariably and inevitably with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.  Why is it that, from Ferguson to the Middle East — all across the nation and all across the world — the Modern Liberal is not only always wrong; he is always as wrong as wrong can be.

Thank you for all of the support I’ve received over the past eight years for this talk and for all of my other work.