woolford@aei .org or tweet them at aei boomers and i was wondering if we could talk a little bit about[inaudible] because you use her life as an academic and one of the very few or maybe the only in our lifetimes academic kind of rock stars like she's a figure that you see in popular magazines and on popular television network television even. it is a way for you to explore both the sexual revolution and the transformation of academia itself and what is worth studying and worth mitigating to the next generation. i wonder if you could talk a little bit about who you seem to admire her on the one hand for her on sentimentality and her willingness to scrape and her actual learning this and the education she was given and what that gives her but you falter for never being able to learn as well and in a sense the sexual revolutions effects which she notices never cause a real second thought or second thinking so tell us a little bit about camille. >> i am so glad that my affection for her came through because i really do -- i love reading camille paglia and i love watching her and i think s

you can send those to jackson.wallforward or eight them, aei, boomers.i was wondering if we could talk a little bit about camille paglia. you use your life as an academic, the few, the only in their lifetimes, and it is a way for you to explore the sexual revolution and the transformation of academia itself and what is worth studying and worth communicating to the next generation, paglia, you seem to admire her, the on sentimentality, willingness to scrape. the education she was given and what that gives her, but you fault her for never being able to learn as well, the sexual revolution's affects which she notices never caused a real section thought or second thinking so talk to was a little bit about camille. >> guest: i'm glad my affection for her came through because i love reading her and watching her, she's a great public intellectual and there are not many public intellectuals left kicking around. but a lot of conservatives, she was tough on the feminists, think of her as being, on their side. and the and when feminists were being adamant, the esse

all of their bios are available on the aei website. henry will give an overview of some of the major findings. he will speak initially for 25 minutes. then we will turn to kristen, then dan, then sean. we will allow time for your questions at the end of the program. you can submit questions by emailing samantha.goldstein@aei.gov. or on twitter with a #aeigopfu ture. before we get started, let me thank samantha goldstein who has done great work in helping put this event together, working with aei, and also our wonderful events team. i would also like to thank josh britton, who was very helpful. henry, why don't you begin? henry: thank you very much. thank you all for spending your lunch hour with us to talk about that most interesting of topics. i would like to start again by thanking yougov, the team in san francisco and the team in london, and for everybody for putting this together. let's dive into the data with some slides. i will turn my face off so you can focus on the face that matters, the face of the trump voters. again, this i

please submit your questions on twitter using the hashtag ask aei econ. you are also welcome to e-mail and you can find that on the event webpage. with that, let me thank our distinguished panelists again for coming to talk about their book and i will turn it over to doctor goodhart. >> thank you very much indeed, michael. you've summarized the book brilliantly, better than i could so i'm going to give a little bit of history if i could have the first slide, please. what i would like to remind everyone is that the last 70 years or so it's been really quite remarkable from a financial point of view. what you can see is the expectations with it long term explanations of interest rates remained relatively stable over the decades and centuries since 1700 until 1950. then from about 1950 until the end of the 1970s beginning in the 1980s, we had a consistent rise in inflation and interest rates both long-term and short-term and that was followed by an equally dramatic regular decline in inflation expectation interest rates until inflation and interest are now l

let me start with our aei affiliated speakers. first john fortier of the bipartisan policy center, he's come back to the american enterprise institute. he's got a long history working in government for. john was executive director of the continuity of government commission with aei, the brookings commission formed in the wake of 9/11 to address continuity in government issues and was director of political reform in 2013 at bbc organized so he has a lot of experience in washington through working through ideas about necessary reforms. we're also joined by kevin, a scholar at the american enterprise institute. kevin has worked in congress for the congressional research circle. kevin and i have been working together on article 1 spending powers and directed spending of congress. and of course kevin is coeditor of a volume entitled congress overwhelms which is a collection of essays by political scientists that are evaluating the ways in which congress is overwhelmed in terms of capacity and with suggestions about how they can improve

thank you so much to michael and aei. i'm very. they be doing this event with michael because this is a book about generational warfare as everybody knows, millenials and boomers are natural enemies and so it's good to have somebody who is more -- gen-x present as a adjudicator because this book is written woman the perspective of millenial. look around at the world that we inherited and tries to examine what went wrong from the perspective of the boomers' children. however, even though this is a book with that subjective perspective, i did my pest writing it to be as objective as possible, and really examine all of my millenial resentment against the boomer generation, to nail down which things are the boomers' fat and which ones -- fault and which ones are noting cases where their generation got lucky and mine was unlucky. so i'll give three examples from the book of complaints that millenials have against boomers, and my answer to whether or not those complaints are fair or unfair. and after those three complaints we can launch

i'm the council president for the aei council at alabama. i have a question for representative hurd. your district after you announce retirement was written off for republicans as a safe democratic seat and it ended up being won i a republican pretty handily. what do you think led to that and also, what do you think led to the minority voters, someone in your wing of the republican party, how that happened with donald trump on the top of the ticket? rep. hurd: three things were involved. the reason it was tight in 2018 was because of the guy whose name rhymes with beto o'rourke. his turnout in the 23rd was something i had to overcome and my opponents thought he hurt her, but he helped her. the other two issues, defund the police and the aggression against the oil and gas industry. along the border, about 40% plus of miles -- latinos are connected to law enforcement and another 40% have connection to the energy sector so when you have a narrative that those two issues are potentially impacted, you are going to see people go vote to make sure

all of their bios are available on the aei website. henry will give an overview of some of the major findings. he will speak initially for 25 minutes. then we will turn to kristen, then dan, then sean. you can submit questions by emailing samantha.golds tein@aei.gov. let me think samantha goldstein who has done great work in helping put this event together, working with aei, and also our wonderful events team. i would also like to thank josh britton, who was very helpful. henry, why don't you begin? henry: thank you all for spending your lunch hour with us . i would like to start again by thanking yougov, the team in san francisco and the team in london, and for everybody for putting this together. let's dive into the data with some slides. i will turn my face off so you can focus on the face that matters, the face of the trump voters. again, this is only people who are self-described trump voters. when you see liberal, moderate, conservative, or very conservative, this is not of the general electorate as a whole. this is only trump vo

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. >> what's also very disconcerting is that there have been some surveys that came out today from aeithe insurrection, an uncrease in the number of people that believe in qanon, including 6% are democrats. so i understand the 29% are republican. we are seeing an increase in qanon and what they're saying is, trust the plan. it's coming. don't worry. we have to consider the fact that qanon is becoming a massive problem because it's not just one group. it's crisscrossing the political spectrum from right to left, and it's starting to involve more and more evangelicals. >> congressman riggleman, there have been warnings about, you know, right-wing extremism by law enforcement personnel, not politicized warnings but actual law enforcement personnel for years. do you think it is -- law enforcement is taking this seriously now? >> i think they're taking it seriously now if you see the barriers around the capitol. you know, i had a discussion today with somebody, anderson, and we were talking about, you know -- somebody asked me, they said, who is the leader of q? i said, this is an interesti

which i hope will come soon whenever you can send those to jackson woolford at aei.org were to them to aei boomers. i wonder if we could talk about neil paglia because you use for life as an academic and kind of, one of the very few, maybe only in our lifetimes academic kind of rock stars. she's a figure that you see in popular magazines and on popular television, network television even. and probably it is a way for you to explore both the sexual revolution and the transformation of academia itself. and like, what is worth studying and worth communicating to the next generation so i wondered if you could talk a little bit about probably who you seem to admire her on the one hand for her own sentimentality. willingness to scrape, her actual learningthis, the education she was given . and what that gives her. but you falter for never being able to learn as well. in a sense, the sexual revolution's effects which she notices never caused a real second thoughts or second thinking. so tell us alittle bit about camille . >> i'm so glad my affection for her came through because i love reading. i

. >> coming up, aei -- >> this diverse group includes first-generation immigrants, state representatives, television reporters, and former college and professional athletes. watch our conversations with new members of congress. saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern we feature those who were journalists and college and professional athletes before entering politics, including ashley hinson, scott fitzgerald, also pat fallon, and bob good. watch interviews with new members of congress tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> coming up, aei research fellow daniel coxe reviews a new study on political violence and conspiracy theories. later, american society of civil engineers director tom smith looks at the

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i want to remind the audience that they can send questions to jackson woolford at aei.org or tweet aei boomers. meanwhile, while i have you here, i want to talk to you about the people you chose because if somebody else is writing a book about the boomers they would almost certainly pick bill or hillary clinton or maybe donald trump. maybe someone like tony blair i don't know if he qualifies. but, you picked steve jobs and al sharpton and you made this indictment against this generation but when you have these individuals in your hands, i think you find things to admire about almost all of them and even at times when they were wronged or transgressed by the generation before them or misunderstood by their peers, so you know, i would like you to talk a little bit about some of the good side of some of the boomers. you found goodness and al sharpton i think. and the funniest one to me was steve jobs in a way because he has been hailed and worshiped as a great innovator and company man of his generation and then he's been about nominated partly by another subject in your book, aaron sorki

. >> what's also very disconcerting is that there have been surveys that came out today from aei, andhe number of people that believe in qanon, including 6% are democrats. so, i understand that 29% are republican. we are seeing an increase in qanon and what they're saying is, trust the plan, it's coming, don't worry. we have to consider the fact that qanon is becoming a massive problem because with it's not just one group, it's crisscrossing the political spectrum from right to left and it's starting to involve more and more evangelicals. >> congressman, there have been warnings about right-wing extremism by law enforcement personnel, not politicized warnings, but from actual law enforcement personnel for years. do you think it is, law enforcement is taking this seriously you have? >> i think they're taking it seriously now, if you see the barriers around the capitol. and i had a discussion today with somebody, anderson, we were talking about, you know, do we -- somebody asked me, they said, who is the leader of q? and i said, this is an interesting question. there's a lot of differen

. >> money is being raised but, also, aei, a conservative think tank -- >> american enterprise instituted a survey and they actually measured there's an uptick in support for qanon. it's 29% of republicans believe in qanon. and even 6% democrats. so the fact is qanon isn't going away anytime soon. >> as you know, jeff flake, >>> it normalizes them and gives them an entry in to politics. with marjorie taylor green, as they are congress women, they will make a lot of money from being congress women. and that will generate more money for qanon, it's a deceptive circle, and people at the top are making a lot of money. >> again, these are, the lies, the conspiracy theories are ant semitic tropes that have been around for centuries for some cases. the idea that it's a new form of a very old racist, aren't semitic game and that they are profiting from it is sickening. >> it boggles the mind, because it's become popular among evangelicals. i don't understand why 27% of evang evangelicals are supporting had the. what they have managed to do is gain the different kind of algorithm on facebook and

. >> money is being raised but, also, aei, a conservative think tank -- >> american enterprise instituteox did a survey and they actually measured there's an uptick in support for qanon. it's 29% of republicans believe in qanon. and even 6% democrats. so the fact is qanon is not going away any time soon. >> when you look at like the congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, she has fund raised successfully around her qanon beliefs. when qanon believers become politicians, i imagine it generates more money and to some extent normalizes it. >> it normalizes them. it gives them an entre into politics. with marjorie taylor greene, as they are congress women they will make a lot of money from being congress women which will generate more money for qanon. it is a deceptive circle where we need to break people out of qanon, but also we need to realize that the people at the top are making a lot of money. >> you know, i mean, again, these are the lies, the conspiracy theories they're peddling are anti-semitic tropes and anti-catholic tropes that have been around for centuries in some cases. the idea

former deputy national security adviser to the trump administration and marc thiessen, aei scholar and fox news contributors. welcome. great to have you here this afternoon. >> good to be with you. >> martha: there wasn't a lot of discussion about foreign policy throughout this campaign. usually there's a debate devoted to foreign policy. we never saw that happen. at this point, americans are getting a sense for what foreign policy will look like under the biden administration. we got the first glimpse of that today as the president laid out some of his thinking at the state department in his first speech. so let's start with you. what is the headline here in your mind? >> back to the future, i guess. the biden administration will be just like the obama administration, just like the bush administration. they're going to go back to relying on international organizations, going back to underwriting the security commitments of our allies, to underwriting the economy of our competitors when we can no longer afford it and they no longer need it. what i heard -- my take-away from this, ameri

we were welcome to submit questions on twitter using the # ask aei, you're also welcome to e-mail your questions to arianna mitchell, you can find her e-mail address on the event webpage. and with that, let me think artist in which panelists again for coming to talk about the book. i will turn over to doctor goodhart. >> were going just start with a little bit of history but i would like to remind everyone quite remarkable from the financial point of view. it's very long dated interest rates, long-term yields what you can see from that is that until an long-term expectations. over the decades or centuries the end of the 1970s and 1980s we had a consistent rise in inflation and interest rates short-term and long-term rate that was followed by an equally dramatic regular decline in inflation, inflation expectations until inflation and interest rates are lower. then they have ever been historically. now of course, the massive upturn in interest rates followed by. equally remarkable downturn and inflation very largely due, but the regime is the sense the bullet is the cause of death. what

. >> thank you very much charles in and to aei for hot us. a few thing its i'll talk about and then hand back to you michael the first i can want to talk about is the counterargue. we have had over that last few years as we developed this thesis ask there's five of them. i'll spend a little bit more time on japan because it seems to be the one place where everyone uses as a blueprint for what aiming should do 0 our society than to economic and financial markets. first one, africa and india. it's a very popular and numerical message that comes through if you look at the demograph in that part of the world, it's a very, very long time before their depep den si ratios turn and thing beg their biggest problem is how to get young people job. you harken bark to charl's chart the dependency ratio and the ability of labor in africa and latin america and' indonesia suggests we shoot worry about demograph from a global standpoint but a huge chunk of the main contributors to the global economy and glow economic growth are the very ones who are going thr

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host: you are the director and founder of that survey center, tell us about this new aei report.t did it focus on and how did you do this report? guest: it was a national survey of american adults 18 years older -- 18 years and older. the three major areas we focused on were the outcome of the election, what americans thought about it, what they were thinking moving forward, the existence of conspiracy theories, whether antifa has involvement with the january sex attacks on the -- antifa's involvement with the january 6 attacks. the last thing that has not got as much attention, but we are interested in understanding views on american exceptionalism. do americans still believe america is a shining city on a hill? host: before we get into some of your survey results on conspiracy theories, define exactly what a conspiracy theory is first. what do you consider a conspiracy theory? guest: how we measured it -- and people take different approaches in measuring conspiracy theories in public opinion research -- we provide a claim. in one instance the claim was explicit. do you think do

so tell us about the new aei report coming from that center. what did it focus on, and how did you do this report? >> sure. so, it was a survey, a national survey of american adults 18 and older. we looked at a variety of different issues and experiences. but the three major areas we focused on are just the outcome of the election, what americans thought about it, what were they thinking moving forward, the existence of a conspiracy theory, whether it's antifa's involvement with january 6th attacks on the capitol, qanon, and theories like those. we want to look at political violence as well obviously post-january 6th is something that a lot of folks are rightly concerned about. and then the last thing that hasn't got as much attention, but we are really interested in understanding views on american exceptionalism. do americans still believe the u.s. is a shining city on the hill, or have attitudes changed pretty significantly on that measure? >> now, before we get into some of your survey results on conspiracy theories, for us, define exactly w