from the american enterprise institute, this is about an hour and 20 minutes. udible conversations] >> good evening and welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm chris scalia a senior fellow here and this is part of the lecture series. part of aei's esteemed bradley lectures, america's premier public intellectuals to address the significant social and cultural challenges facing our nation as we approach our 250th birthday. we've distributed flyers, listing some of our upcoming lectures. our next event scheduled for february will feature commentary editor speaking about the state of american culture. that's february 13th, so mark your calendar and bring a valentine. numerous online sources credit the left wing activist saul walensky, he who controls language controls. >> as aristotle says they're never wrong about quotations. the george orwell's novel remains so haunting, a depiction of how a totalitarian reseem can control people by cracking down what words they use. we sense some truth in the novelist angela carter's observation that language is power,

my name is tony mills, i am the senior fellow here at the american enterprise institute and director of our center for technology, science and energy. thank you for joining us in person and those of you joining us online for supporting this timely conversation about federal research and

co-founder and politics editor of the liberal patriot newsletter, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. he is coauthor of a number of books, among them the emerging democratic majority, forgotten majority, and most recent, i believe. where have all the democrats gone? give him a round of applause. i don't i don't sling takes on weekends. so i'm i'm i'm going to pass it over to you guys. i guess i just start with the question of how do we get here? election 2024. there's a of ways to interpret that. i the way that i think about it is like how is it the case that we are here with? you know, a person who i'll be here. you like him or not, whose record includes, you know, multiple indictments, criminal convictions, two impeachments, an attempt to overthrow the foundation of the american republic. and is is neck and neck. and i think there's lot of ways to sort of answer the question of why that is the case. and i thought i'd let each of you sort start with your interpretive framework for answering the question, how did we get here? so, david, you kick us off. well, first of all, thank ever

from the american enterprise institute this is about an hour and 20 minutes. ackground noises] >> good evening. i am chris scalia senior fellowr fellow here it is my honor to introduce tonight's installment of the american dream lecture series. part of ai american dream initiative and the tradition of our esteemed bradley lectures, this series provides a form for americans premier intellectuals to address the most significant political, cultural, social challenges facing our nation as we approach are 250th birthday. we distributed flyers, listing some of our upcoming lectures. our next event scheduled for february will feature commentary editor john mcwhorter speaking about the state of the american culture. february 13. mark youre calendar and bring a valentine. numerous online sources credit the left wing activists lewinsky with saying he who controls language controls power. i have not been able to find that sentence and rules for radicals. as aristotle observed the internet is never wrong about quotations. i am certain one reason george orwell's used opiate

i'm robert doar, the president of the american enterprise institute. and i am just >>> charter communications along with these television companies supports c-span 2 as a public service. >>> good afternoon, everyone. i am robert door, president of the american enterprise institute. i'm very happy on this monday afternoon, lovely june monday afternoon to welcome my old friend, frank barry and our great friend, andy ferguson, for this conversation about frank's new book. i have to say i have known frank a long time and we are former colleagues. a little bit of bias here, and i fess up to this. friendship and loyalty matters. working for mayor bloomberg in the bloomberg administration for seven years as i did, there was no one there it was more calm or more solid or straight. frankly, almost as conservative as me, but not quite, and in the bloomberg administration, we needed that occasionally, and he wrote some of the really outstanding speeches that mike bloomberg has made over his career. and about free speech. on university and college campuses, on reli

well, there's a lot of reasons that you people should like the american enterprise institute. we gave you sandwiches and i think that should be a good foundation for a close relationship for us today. but another reason you should like the american enterprise institute is, these are real live, a real republican, a real democrat. these are two people who are at the top of their game. they're respected, they're esteemed within their parties, they're respected from the other party. and this is one of the few places in america today where real people with real ideas can have real conversations. we're extraordinarily grateful to them for doing it and we're extraordinarily grateful to you for your support because it would not be possible without you and these sandwiches. um so if you think that you know what is going to happen next week in this election, right? there's probably nothing that i'm going to say to you or anybody here is going to say to you today, that's going to dissuade you from your core belief, right? that you know what the answer is. and so we're not going to take an

my name is tony mills, i am the senior fellow here at the american enterprise institute and director of our center for technology, science and energy. thank you for joining us in person and those of you joining us online for supporting this timely conversation about federal research and development in the age of global competition. after many years of enjoying great economic success brought in part large -- the united states now faces serious challenges abroad. changing dynamics in the international marketplace as well as deliberate actions by some governments to restrain free trade has combined to diminish the competitiveness of many american goods and services. this challenge to america's competitive standing in the international economy has stimulated a reevaluation of u.s. policies on several fronts. it has prompted a reevaluation of basic questions concerning the role of the public sector itself and fostering economic growth, 10 illogical advance and regional development -- technological advance and regional development. in the preface to a 1986 volume on industrial policy, publ

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next, the american enterprise institute talks about the u.s. constitution's influence on culture, politics, laws, and the government. hosted by the american university. this is an hour and a [chatter] >> is this on? can you guys hear me? hello everyone. we are about to begin. my name is tom merrill and together with my colleague allan, we run the political theory institute of the american university that hosted this event. unfortunately he could not be here. can you hear me? would you like me to be louder? is it better if i stand closer to the microphone? it is important we get these things right. is that good? please tell me if it is too quiet. the political theory institute's mission is to bring the great books and ideas of political theory to bear on contemporary issues and events. we aim to promote healthy citizenship by getting students out of their echo chambers and to engage deeply and thoughtfully with both a wide array of views and with each other. today's event is special thanks to c-span. we especially want to thank the c-span viewers

matthew continetti, fellow at the american enterprise institute.se reporter for the "wall streejou. annie, it's worth the caveat that vice president harris has the majority much of the labor union's backing but two in a renow is a bit of a blow and maybe trump campaign trying to go after union workers look at who these unions represent. these are the very working class many of them white working class voters that harris desperately wants to bring into her coalition, the firefighters, in particular. this was the first union that endorsed joe biden in 2020. he relied heavily on their support for his wins, particularly in, you know, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and so for them to not say anything and not be endorsing her this time around first union to endorse biden you are right. april 28th, 2019. finishing the statement america needs joe biden but they are now, juan, saying america doesn't need kamala harris or we are not going to endorse her? >> juan: i don't think that's what they are saying. i think, you know, looky, annie was exactly right

joining us is derek scissors, senior fellow at the american enterprise institute.re does china demand stand right now? >> it's hard to imagine a big spike in china demand. the economy right now is quite weak. we're going to get gdp friday morning in beijing, and they're probably going ining to say 4. growth, but it's not credible. because chinese monetary supply, they also announce it declined 7% in the first three yaquarter. you just can't have narrow money decline that much and then say gdp rises 5%. so they're going to exaggerate the strength of the economy. it's weak. we know that from sentiment and from their own monetary figures, and we know it from stimulus. the stimulus case, i think the oil market has responded properly to chinese stimulus. first of all, it's vague. second, it looks to be mostly transfers to local governments. local governments have a debt problem, the central government takes over the debt problem, fine. but that's not really stimulus. they might spend more money, but they might spend more on evs or solar or other projects. so there could

co-founder and politics editor of the liberal patriot newsletter, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. he is coauthor of a number of books, among them the emerging democratic majority, forgotten majority, and most recent, i believe. where have all the democrats gone? give him a round of applause. i don't i don't sling takes on weekends. so i'm i'm i'm going to pass it over to you guys. i guess i just start with the question of how do we get here? election 2024. there's a of ways to interpret that. i the way that i think about it is like how is it the case that we are here with? you know, a person who i'll be here. you like him or not, whose record includes, you know, multiple indictments, criminal convictions, two impeachments, an attempt to overthrow the foundation of the american republic. and is is neck and neck. and i think there's lot of ways to sort of answer the question of why that is the case. and i thought i'd let each of you sort start with your interpretive framework for answering the question, how did we get here? so, david, you kick us off. well, first of all, thank ever

bit more about you, tell you how grateful i am to you for all that you've done for the american enterprise institute over the years and for america. i grew up reading the almanac of american politics, and i loved it from the first time i started reading it. your voice i could hear. then i still hear now. whenever you open your mouth. but don't open it yet. oh, well, today's event is part of the edward and helen handbook forms at aei. these forums provide a platform to host prominent authors for discussion of their books on issues of national significance. and we are very grateful to edward and helen hanse for their tremendous support of aei and deep commitment to our mission, which make conversations like this one possible. michael brown, as i mentioned, has been a fellow at aei for many years. he's one of our nation's preeminent political analysts and election experts and is currently a columnist for the washington examiner. he's the author of many books in american politics and history, including the yearly editions of the almanac of american politics from 1972 to 2006. the most authoritative annu

the rising tensions the middle east, let's bring in michael ruben, senior fellow at the american enterprise institutend director of polipo policiage analysis at the middle east forearm. it's great to have you here. what are your thoughts this hour? >> thank you. first of all, i'm glad to see that the barrage is over and that casualties are minimal. but before we celebrate the fact that so many of these missiles were shot down or miss their target, remember, as in last april, when iran sent its previous barrage. if only seven or eight missiles get through but those seven or eight have chemical biological or radiological warheads, then we're talking a whole different ball game. i'm afraid now that this has happened twice that israelis are going to be tempted to respond and respond hard. i think we're now in the last days of the islamic republic of iran. >> what would a hard response look like, something aimed at the oil facilities, at the nuclear ones? >> well, if israel were to strike at the nuclear facilities, their pilots aren't suicidal, so they might go in with surprise, but they're not going to b

i'm robert doar, the president of the american enterprise institute. and i am just very happy on this monday afternoon of late june, monday afternoon, washington to welcome my old friend frank barry and our great friend ai andrew ferguson for this conversation about frank's new book book. i have to say that i've known frank a long time and we are former colleagues, so there's a little bit of bias here, but i fess up to that friendship matters, loyalty matters and working for mayor bloomberg in, the bloomberg administration for seven years, as i there was no one there who was calm and more solid, more straight. and frankly, almost as conservative as me, but not and in the bloomberg administration, we needed that occasionally. and he wrote some of the really outstanding speeches that mike bloomberg made over his career. of course, with mike and free speech about viewpoint on college campuses, about religious toleration in the wake of 911. so frank is one of my heroes and i wanted him introduce him and his new book, back roads and better angels a journey

i'm robert doar, the president of the american enterprise institute.st >>> charter communications along with these television companies supports c-span 2 as a

and also, he was a member of american enterprise institute. whenever you're back, you're welcome to have lunch with me in the white house at any time. and this this wonderful friendship arose, i think here i want page to pick it up because she can tell the next installment of an airplane trip and what happened in the post-presidency. and so he. well, i since to bring this back to modern day you were in the middle of debate season so it's tonight tomorrow night tonight right so when you go home if you watch it having been taped or if you're watching it, remember that president carter or governor carter and president ford, when they were on stage, governor carter always said, my distinguished opponents view is and he always said the words my distinguished opponents. that was i mean, that was the civility between them, even when they were running against each other. and so that just gives you a basis for understanding when two men are running for the highest office in the land. there's a way to do it with civility and president carter tells said

. >> well paralleled recent you should like the american enterprise institute. this is when of the few places in america today where real people with real ideas can have real conversations. we are extraordinarily grateful to them for doing it an extraordinarily grateful to you for your support because it would not be possible without you. so if you think that you know what is going to happen next week in this election, right, there's probably nothing i'm going to say save you or anybody here is is going to say to you today that will dissuade you from your core belief. you know what the answer is in so we are going to take any time to change anybody's mind about what's going to happen. there's nothing left to do. it has all been done. it's all been done. i hope we can do is provide context so as we navigate this difficult space as the country for the next two weeks you can be informed about it and not be alarmedp f about it and you cae a better citizen. our goal today is better citizenship for us and for you. how is the race? close, it's close. it looks close but

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my name is tony mills, i am the senior fellow here at the american enterprise institute and director of our center for technology, science and energy. thank you for joining us in person and those of you joining us online for supporting this timely conversation about federal research and development in the age of global competition. after many years of enjoying great economic success brought in part large -- the united states now faces serious challenges abroad. changing dynamics in the international marketplace as well as deliberate actions by some governments to restrain free trade has combined to diminish the competitiveness of many american goods and services. this challenge to america's competitive standing in the international economy has stimulated a reevaluation of u.s. policies on several fronts. it has prompted a reevaluation of basic questions concerning the role of the public sector itself and fostering economic growth, 10 illogical advance and regional development -- technological advance and regional development. in the preface to a 1986 volume on industrial policy, publ

the conservative american enterprise institute says the taerves tariffs proposed by former presidentenior fellow at aei says that would amount to one of the biggest tax hikes since at least the 1980s. he said it would be like any other tax increase and have a negative impact on growth and employment and hurt u.s. exporters. trump said the tariffs are paid by foreign companies and boost u.s. growth by bringing manufacturing back to the u.s. most economists from the right and left disagree. in fact, conservative economists find tax cuts will boost growth, say the tariffs could nearly offset all of those pro-growth policies and their benefits. a paper by the conservative constitute says, quote trump would have almost unilateral authority to enact these tariffs when the constitution gives congress the sole authority to raise revenue, it has seeded tariff authority to the executive branch over the decades. clark packard tells me that all of the president has to do is declare a national emergency and he can implement any tariffs that he likes. the law doesn't specify what constitutes a nat

yuval, all of us, our guest, he is with the american enterprise institute of their social, cultural andhe screen case. you want to participate in our conversation this afternoon. he's a contributing editor, the national review. his previous include the fractured republic a time to build but hasn't politics always been relatively performative. there's always been a performative element to politics, no question about it. part of what it is to be a politician is be a public person, is to convey a kind message that people want to hear and like to hear. i think our politics has become more in the era of social media than is healthy for our institutions. there's always a balance between playing an inside in an institution like congress, participating in the bargaining and negotiating. and that has to happen internally and playing an outside role using congress a way to convey a national public message. in our time, the outside role has taken over and a lot of members see their purpose fundamentally as to be political communicators and think of congress less an institution for them to operate

co-founder and politics editor of the liberal patriot newsletter, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. he is coauthor of a number of books, among them the emerging democratic majority, forgotten majority, and most recent, i believe. where have all the democrats gone? give him a round of applause. i don't i don't sling takes on weekends. so i'm i'm i'm going to pass it over to you guys. i guess i just start with the question of how do we get here? election 2024. there's a of ways to interpret that. i the way that i think about it is like how is it the case that we are here with? you know, a person who i'll be here. you like him or not, whose record includes, you know, multiple indictments, criminal convictions, two impeachments, an attempt to overthrow the foundation of the american republic. and is is neck and neck. and i think there's lot of ways to sort of answer the question of why that is the case. and i thought i'd let each of you sort start with your interpretive framework for answering the question, how did we get here? so, david, you kick us off. well, first of all, thank ever

my name is tony mills, i am the senior fellow here at the american enterprise institute and director of our center for technology, science and energy. thank you for joining us in person and those of you joining us online for supporting this timely conversation about federal research and development in the age of global competition. after many years of enjoying great economic success brought in part large -- the united states now faces serious challenges abroad. changing dynamics in the international marketplace as well as deliberate actions by some governments to restrain free trade has combined to diminish the competitiveness of many american goods and services. this challenge to america's competitive standing in the international economy has stimulated a reevaluation of u.s. policies on several fronts. it has prompted a reevaluation of basic questions concerning the role of the public sector itself and fostering economic growth, 10 illogical advance and regional development -- technological advance and regional development. in the preface to a 1986 volume on industrial policy, publ

from the american enterprise institute, this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> good evening, and welcome . i'm chris scalia, senior fellow here, and it is an honor to introduce tonight's installment of the american dream lecture series. part of the american dream initiative and in the tradition of our esteemed bradley lectures, this series provides a form for america's premier public intellectuals to address the most pressing political and social challenges facing our nation as we approach our 250th birthday. we have distributed flyers listing some of our upcoming lectures. our next event, scheduled for february, will feature "commentary" editor john podhore tz speaking about the state of american culture. that is favorite 15 so mark your calendar -- that is february 15, so mark your calendar and bring a valentine. numerous online sources but the left-wing activist saul alinsky with saying "he who controls language controls power." i haven't been able to find that sentence in "rules for radicals," but as aristotle observed, the internet is never wrong about quotations. i am certain, thoug

he is the director of social cultural and gross additional studies at the american enterprise institute where he also holds the chair in public policy. he served as a member of the white house domestic policy staff under president george w. bush and as executive director of the president's council on bioethics where i had the pleasure of working with him, and as a congressional staffer on the member committee and leadership levels. the founder and editor of the journal "national affairs," he is also a senior editor at the "new atlantis," contributing editor at the "national review," and contributing writer and editor at "the new york times." he is interviewed frequently and has published essays and articles in numerous publications, including the wall street journal, the washington post, the atlantic, and commentary. he is the author of several books on political theory and public policy, most recently "american carbonate: how the constitution unified donation and could again." he holds a masters and phd from the committee on social thought at the university of chicago, and this is the

enterprises. explain to viewers what those institutes do. caller: paragon is not -- guest: paragon is a nonprofit health research institute in washington dc and aims to improve americanouth by empowering patients and reforming government. the competitive enterprise institute is also a nonprofit think tank in washington, d.c. and is a libertarian think tank that tries to improve government , limit its influence, and empower people and empower individual liberty. host: our guests are with us until the top of the hour at 9:00 eastern. start calling in. dr. rosenberg -- dr. zinberg, what happens to health care affordability and and access under a second trump administration? guest: there is a lot of handwaving about what will happen, but during the first administration health care access was pretty good. the trump administration tried to expand access by improving people's ability to choose the types of care that is best for them. that included things like short-term limited duration plans, association health plans, reimbursement arrangements. these are all things that give people improved ability to choose their plan. the association health plan is way for small employe

enterprise as well. explain to viewers with those two in situ stew? >> paragon is a nonprofit nonpartisan health research institute in washington d.c. it aims to improve americans health by empowering patients and reforming government. the competitive enterprise institute noted cei is also a nonprofit think tank in washington d.c. it is a.c libertarian think tank that tries to improve government, limit g its influene and empower people and empower individual liberty. stu went with her guesses were until the top of the art 9:00 a.m. eastern for go ahead and start calling in. weg are checking your phone calls. rosenberg -- dr. zinberg, what happens to health care affordability and and access under a second trump administration? guest: there is a lot of handwaving about what will happen, but during the first administration health care access was pretty good. the trump administration tried to expand access by >> the trump administration tried to the expand access, so that i included things like short-term limited duration planses, association health plans, reimbursement arrangements. these are all things that give people improved ability to the choose their plan. a