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 annual resource on elections, parties and our country's political geography. and it's interesting that i start with i end with the word geography, because this book, mental maps of the founders how geographic imagination guided america's revolutionary leaders, takes us out of the 21st and 20th century. back into our founding period. but what is what is a mental map? what are you trying to what are you getting at there? well, a mental map. we all carry mental maps around with this, although some of them are now some of us are now delegating that to our phone devices. but you know how we get to the grocery store with which entrance to the parking lot. we want to use and things like that

so if you're there i'm here at aei. so the question i had was about the extent to which the declaration is meant for an versus internal audience and the role of relatively high levels of american literacy at the time. the role that would have played in the internal reception of the declaration. the question i take out or would you like to your expertise exceed exceeds mine. very much so. i would just i do think it i mean let's what facts be submitted a candid world to me the most the most salient point about the declaration as a whole in that regard is at least the incongruence, perhaps the rejection of paine's principle that one need not justify a change of government that was so important had that belief that they had to justify themselves to the whole world. but one can just also track what happened to the text. so it was immediately printed and sent to the army and read to the army. remember 1337 words you don't have to read. all you have to do is here it was read everywhere in massachusetts town government read it

a study by aei shows 90% of the $68 billion the u.s.lready sent to ukraine supports weapons factories here in the u.s. abrahams tanks and striker vehicles are made in ohio, 117 weapons production lines in 31 u.s. states producing weapons for ukraine, which means u.s. jobs, of course. javelin anti-tank missiles are built in troy alabama and tucson, howitzers are built in minneapolis, switch blade drones in mississippi and pennsylvania, i could go on and on. >> aishah: important breakdown for us, thank you, jennifer. >> john: what does the current situation in ukraine look like? greg palkot has an update from london. what are officials saying about the state of play now? >> john, they do not like to use this word but some are summing it up this way, stalemate, about to hit the two-year mark, both sides are pounding away on a long front line. three ukrainian civilians were killed including a child, when russian missiles hit an apartment building in the eastern part of the country. they say vladimir putin is offering a ceasefire to u.s. con

arthur brooks, who's a if you guys have ever heard of him with, aei, he talks a lot now about happiness stuff. really good guy. he you could do anything well for ten years and after that you're out of energy. generally, you like high performers. and so i know if none this would have happened. would i have run again? i don't know. but the temptation to run again simply so that i didn't look like i was giving up. but then i thought it and i'm like, i am going to get beat if i run again, let's be clear. the democrats also drew me out of my district in illinois. let's be clear about that redistricting. usually the republicans advantage of it twice. i written out of my district by the in illinois because they saw it

before joining aei, dr. summers was a philosophy professor at clark university. is best known for her defense, classical liberal feminism and critique of gender feminism. her books include freedom, feminism. its surprising history and why it matters today. one nation under therapy coauthored with sally satel who stole feminism and the war against boys which was named a new york times notable book of the year in 2001. and i will add that is an incredibly prescient, educational over 20 years later. last we henry olsen henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, where he studies and provides commentary on american politics. mr. olson is an opinion columnist for. the washington post and his daily pieces focus on politics, foreign affairs and american conservative thought mr. olson's work has been featured in many probably prominent publications, including the new york times, the washington journal, the wall journal, national review, the guardian and the weekly standard and. he is the author of the working class ronald reagan and the return of blu

arthur brooks, who's a if you guys have ever heard of him with, aei, he talks a lot now about happiness stuff. really good guy. he you could do anything well for ten years and after that you're out of energy. generally, you like high performers. and so i know if none this would have happened. would i have run again? i don't know. but the temptation to run again simply so that i didn't look like i was giving up. but then i thought it and i'm like, i am going to get beat if i run again, let's be clear. the democrats also drew me out of my district in illinois. let's be clear about that redistricting. usually the republicans advantage of it twice. i written out of my district by the in illinois because they saw it was a threat and so did this the last time as well. but i think the bottom line for me was, i don't want to run and lose and give donald trump that ability to say he beat me because of now i've never lost an election in my life and i intend not to. adam kinzinger thank you. oh, it's great. thank you very much. thank you. great to see you. i was banking. ladies and gentlemen, plea

i'm a senior fellow here at aei and the cultural and constitutional program. i'm joined on this panel by two very distinguished writers, authors, thinkers. and i'm virtually blind from the late. so let me introduce our speakers peter berkowitz is the ted and diane taub, senior fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university. he has served as the director of the state department's policy staff and is executive secretary of the departments commission on unalienable. he is a 2017 winner of the bradley prize. he studies and writes about, among other things, constitutional conservativism and, progressivism in the united states, liberal national security and law and middle east politics. he is the author and of numerous volumes with the most relevant for today's discussion. the book constitutional liberty, self-government, political moderation, another book, virtue and the making modern liberalism and edited volume renewing the american tradition. joining peter i is bryan garsten, who's a of political science in the humanities, the chair of the humanities pr

gave their lives including 79 police officers who died on 911 and 229 others who have since died of aey related illness. they were hailed as heroes. respect, revered. they were vital until they were villains. >> police officers became expendable, constantly defundedd ,rarely defended. and now they are fair game, beateny and battered with impunity, beaten gid battered by thos wite who we given sanctuary and then return these illegal coddled criminals offered americans a double dose of f.u. instead of being tossed in jail. you," anthey hopped on a bus bus and set themselves free. >> remember they have dreamse da to pursue crimes, to commit cops, to pumme l. ts we wonder why nobody wantsbe to be a police officer, even at the highest rate of pay. because when the crime rate went up, police funding came back. police officers did not. it's unlikpoe only they will. but there will be another massive attack or great disaster o. >> except this time thosedisast in blue won't be boundinerg into any buildings. common sense thinks maybe thente and then we will all remember that we all forgot. >> we a

so over the course of more than two years, beginning, we will be eight scholarly conferences here at aei, each of which will be devoted to a particular facet of the american revolution and the founding and the character and the legacy of our country. our theme today at this first conference is democracy in the revolution. future conferences will explore themes like religion and the founding economics and the founding race and slavery law and global affairs and. more each will then result in a book a collection of essays or on that subject as well as various kinds of video and audio and digital products. all of those will be gathered together into a collection to be published time for the july 4th, 2026 anniversary and to be widely as an educational and civic resource. we'll make them available to public libraries, to college and, high school instructors and more. our goal is really to help create 21st century literature on american founding and to help inform and reinforce growing movement, to strengthen civic and civic learning in our country. a movement that has really been building ag

where they had this pick out berries from hey this experiment where they had this pick out berries from aeyme, the bush and then over time, the bush would get less berries. anyway, the point the people who had adhd went to different bushes because they were distracted. yes so they'd be like, oh, i'm gonna go to this book and then so there was the idea that for foraging, it would help us as humans, as if you had adhd because you would and adhd because you would go and wander bush. wander to a different bush. >> that word foraging. >> i do like that word foraging. we use often enough, we don't use it often enough, do we? yeah, do not enough a lot >> i yeah, i do not enough a lot of blackberrying child. of blackberrying as a child. i think this sounds you know think this sounds true. you know what this means? this means this means that diversity is our strength when it's really diversity , we. because the diversity, we. because the different appetites for bushes means , yeah, they're going to do means, yeah, they're going to do a real life . a real life. >> this is a computer game experiment,