at aei we value ideas and opinions. we want more speech, or opinions, more debate, more dialogue and thank you for being a socialist and for joining us and being willing to join us at an institution where our focus is on re-enterprise and market, as elevating the world. it's kind of amusing but i think this is exactly what i think tanks higher ed and basically what we should be doing with public discourse and the think this is a virtue. that being said i'm not 100% today a little under the weather so we do brief introduction and throw it to a really thoughtful and interesting guests. so this book makes the argument that today's left has by large abandoned the working class to fight the culture war about issues of identity. instead of building an agenda around the needs of actual working-class americans of all races who can be more conservative but left today is pushing highly niche issues rooted in ivy league universities, catholic culture and at the zionism open borders. is utterly alien to most working-class americans

aei.org. you can see the email address at the bottom of your screen there or you can tweet them to us at our hashtag rescuing socrates. aei. our guest today is roosevelt montes he's a senior lecture in american studies in english columbia university, and he's the director of columbia's freedom and citizenship program. for 10 years professor montes served as director of the center for the core curriculum, which oversees columbia's famous great books program. roosevelt well montes welcome to aei. thank you. it's a real pleasure to be here with both of you. rescuing is is a defense of the kind of education offered? in colombia's core curriculum and that form of education as you point out is embattled now and in fact has always been a battled the since the it's it's very invention. so it the book is also an autobiography. and tells the story of how your own life was inflected. by the kind of education that colombia's core that columbia's columbia's corps offers and it's worth noting here that

that qualcomm launched the snap dragon 8 gen one platform think of it as connecting everything from aeiblue tooth to gaming. that's one avenue. the second avenue is the auto sector during the past quarter qualcomm announced a partner with bmw to help with the driver assistance technology. think of the screens in the car, and it's also working with another car maker. last but not least, apple. apple is qualcomm's largest customer and apple said they're working through the supply chain issues, that could bode well for qualcomm the company itself is pretty cheap compared to the competitors trading right now at about 16 times forward earnings. >> wow todd are you as bullish on it as the rest of the sell side? >> yeah. that was a pretty compelling story. i am not we don't hold it in our portfolios you know, it's -- it's been underperforming for most of 2021 we hold broadcom instead it's got a higher dividend qualcomm is only 1.5 broad come is about 2.7. qualcomm has been underperforming in semis and the broader market until they broke higher in the q 4 earnings we have held that support in t

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hello and welcome to this aei book forum with roosevelt montes about his new book rescuing socrates how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation. i'm benjamin story and i'm gonna be joined in this conversation with roosevelt montes today by my wife and co-author jenna silver story. we're both visiting fellows in the social cultural and constitutional studies division of the american enterprise institute, and we're also both professors at furman university where we direct furman's tocqueville program. today's

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so first of all, thank you so much to aei for having me. thank you be for organizing this event and sam. thank you so much for your thought leadership and your commitment to intellectual diversity. i'm so honored to be here. i also really really have to thank virginia and thomas, you know, my book is at times scathing, but i tried very hard to maintain a sort of generous reading of people are pushing the woke narrative because i think a lot of people do this from a place of really really wanting to see a better world. and virginia is often my model for that. i picture virginia because it is impossible to picture her doing anything for any reason except the best reason and and thomas you aside from the intellectual leadership. you show you have brought a moral leadership to a very very difficult time and difficult space every day you show up on twitter, which is the most horrible place and you are kind to the people who are the most cruel to you. and so i feel so deeply honored to be in both of your company right now and to be here talking a

gofundme, which conservatives should start going into a ecosystem, you remember arthur brooks from aeilly cares? he is an economist who looked at all the data of who actually gives and it turns out republicans by far, by huge margins way more generous, give more to charities. get ready, gofundme, you could have the liberals who don't give money, you need a lot of generous people who tend to be conservative. if go send gifts is able to stand up they may take gofundme with more generous. gives end go is 24% of the way to gofundme. gives end go is the new place to go. ashley moody, by the way attorney general of florida. i'm sick and tired of corporations imposing their political will on unsuspecting consumers. as always i will work with the governor to insure floridians are protected. ashley moody comes up on this show at:40 eastern time. i want to say this really quick. i'm under the weather. i don't have enough energy to go in on this, this wake up, i know everyone watching most likely is awake but wake up, america, because i don't know if i'm feeling particularly sensitive about this

hello and welcome to this aei book forum with roosevelt montes about his new book rescuing socrates how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation. i'm benjamin story and i'm gonna be joined in this conversation with roosevelt montes today by my wife and co-author jenna silver story. we're both visiting fellows in the social cultural and constitutional studies division of the american enterprise institute, and we're also both professors at furman university where we direct furman's tocqueville program. today's event is part