i'm a senior fellow here at aei. and it's my my pleasure to oment of the american dream lecture series, a component of aei american dream initiative. this series seeks to revitalize our nation's core institutions and inviting prominent writers, academics and thinkers to address some of the most significant political, cultural and social issues facing the united states. as we approac's founding, these lectures are an opportunity to ask how healthy are our national institutions and foundational principles? what threats do they face and what prospects for reform are available? last september, ember, we invited tonight's speaker to discuss anti-semitism in the united states. that was nearly a month before hamas's attack o israel and the ensuing pro-hamas anti-israel protests on campuses around the united states. i wish our invitation had not become so much more relevant. in january, the anti-defamation league reported more than 3000 anti-semitic incidents between october 7th and january 7th, an 361%. compared to the same

today's gathering is part of a large and ambitious project for us here at aei. and i want to say just a few words about it before we get started. 20, 26, two years from now, will mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. a lot of organizations are going to find ways to recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. but in thinking through what kind of distinct contribution we might be able to make, in particular, we thought that we should produce something of a ■plasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that then will yield a set of books and educational materials. beyond that, explore how americans now should understand some of the key themes and questions at issue in our country's founding. those materials can outlast the anniversary, can serve educators and students and citizens for many years to come. and to do that, they'll draw on scholars from a variety of fields with a diversity of viewpoints to offer americans some wisdom about ourl inherita. and so, over the course of more than two years, we're hosting eight scholarly confer

i am tom miller the health policy at aei and policies color. health policy scholar so you're talking about today medicaid and medicare coverage lower healthcare costs and improve its quality. so this is a version of let's make a deal. and with the health policy but the let's make a deal concept that the early canadian-american and pioneers but we are combining let's make a deal let's make a really new deal and it's a different approach to the entitlements and projects. we had a lineup of wacky customs and discussions today and then you are chosen for the show so the idea is and then to the choice to upgrade your door 2 or 3. the idea you could take a risk and come out better than that we are talking about with today's program and takes a few more risks with what you do if you could do better now the problem is if you did bad iwas a song. so with today's program i will introduce in just a moment. with a provocative papers and 1 of the most frequently published. and then to push the envelope. and then moving toward another policies so what we hav

he's the nonresident fellow at aei.t really speaks of our in so many ways jay and his work focuses really on political theory and political history. he's done a lot of work in the last years on what you might call civic republicanism. and we'll actually talk a little bit about what exactly that means because it has a lot to do with the subject taking up in this sessions among books may be the one most relevant to that subject is the price of greatness. alexander, james madison and the creation of american oligarchy, published by basic in 2018. jay has a ph.d. from the university of chicago. we'll hear from each of them and and thenave a bit of a conversation about it. and we'll start with you, clint. please. and we thank you very much for that very kind introduction. and also thank you very much for inviting me to this very important project. i'm really thrilled to be here to address everyone. so the presentation going to give today is entitled the american revolution and the pursuit of economic equality. what i'll do f

today aei but also an adjunct scholar at aei and at cato and more of a full-time job among others iscott ginsberg professor of healthy and low politics at georgetown university law center. he's published a number of books before starting with medicare -- overcharged a few years ago which we will talk about to some extent and also government competition when he was special counsel at the this is like trying to put a normal brain into the healthcare abnormal monstrous words, it's a frankenstein moment and as gene wilder and young frankenstein explains what he did even though it seems odd, this could work so david is going to explain how this could work after setting the tom and thank you all for coming. i don't think i can match gene wilder. irregular co-author at the univsity of texas and the title that i gave it harkens back to some of the points tom made and this sort of broad the theme of the two started as one on medicaid and f how we might make medicaid expansion more appealing to the state if it had not by that point opted in for crafting the program somewhat differently thanen

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i'm a senior fellow here at aei. and it's my my pleasure to welcome you all to the fifth installment of the american dream lecture series, a component of aei, american dream initiative. this series seeks to revitalize our nation's core institutions and values by inviting prominent writers, academics and thinkers to address some of the most significant political, cultural and social issues facing the united states. as we approach the 250th anniversary of america's founding, these lectures are an opportunity to ask how healthy are our national institutions and

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of health reform and with those sometimes they get deployed or ignored this is actually the graphic aei sent out but you did not choose it. it's a very important with lots of government policies. and where the aspects of the current healthcare system. and with the c- grade with the performance of the system that's not to and it is truly exceptional with most of the career spent studying the healthcare system i got to see it on the other side is a trauma patient and is pretty exceptional let's not talk about the building that followed but nonetheless you should not assume that are not hiccups or problems or difficulties we have not thought about. unintended consequences.ears ago called particle fever and there's a wonderful quote from a theoretical physicist jumping from failure to there is a lot of that in health policy as well. and then to focus on the things that have gone wrong but there is no shortage of the big 3 issues of health policy i used to tell my students they could be a health policy well but i stopped doing that because they did not like that but nonetheless it is a usefu

let's bring in -- aei scholar and senior fellow and fox news contributor.- j now ceo of stockwell. mark let's start with you. you expect this to be a fare forum on thursday night? you've seen both sides finding ways to say that perhaps it might not be. marc thiessen? >> so i think that exchange has validated donald trump's critique right there. look he faces two opponents in his debate. joe biden and cnn. and he knew that going on -- adding in -- he has to be strong and prejudicial but you can't let them drag him down into what will offend the american people. one of the advantages that he had going into this debate is that people haven't seen him for a long time and the americans carla qualtrough americans have forgotten why they disliked him, the people who did. there was a new york times poll showing six in ten americans win asked if donald trump had ever offended you, six in ten said either never or not recently. so he wants to go in and his goal isn't one not remind people why they disliked him and two focused like a laser beam on joe biden serial disa

and onnow we're finding out whys white house insiders are blaming the aei.den's deregulations for government are huge roadblocks.r >> construction can't start until the builders prove they're inclusive. >> they have to host block parties in minority communitiest with interpreters in case nobody speaks english. and they rs in ca have to hire minorityat subcontractors to do all the work. k findin >> good luck finding a black electrician in maine. tain vie mountain view high school is pumped to hear their new senior gifchoost would be a mase mural of thor representing their thundefr mascot. but the school's equity officeth canceled ie sct because thor is racist. according to one student, the school's equity office said thor was an old woman and is a white supremacist. ands and the image should be morend inclusive. >> no d thursday is complete without a prime time victory. of coursy isee. >> trans swimmer leah thomas will notmmer o be participating in the summer olympics. thomas lost a legal battlelyed that he hoped would overturn a policy that bans athletes who

this is actually the graphic that aei sent is out about this talk. the pig by the bank, i busted tom's chops a little bit about why he chose it, and he said, i thought you picked it. >> but i did not choose it. >> you did not choose it. but, you know, the reality is health care is big business. it's also a very important issue. health care is personal to people in a way that lots of government policies are not. it's very important that we try and get it right and there are lots of aspects of our health care system that fall well short of even a pretty low you know c- grade for the performance of our system. now, that's not to say that all aspects of the system are awful. at its best, american health care is truly exceptional. after most of a career spent studying the health care system, i got to see it from the other side as a trauma patient and it's pretty exceptional when it's performing well with. let's not talk about the billing that followed. but nonetheless i think you should not assume that there are not going if to be hiccups problems difficu

"aey will put it into one big piece members pam sunday two hours to it and there is no actual way to. r÷ a dysfunctional legislative process, but what makes it tendency to pack together different ideas to pass the bill. but it's cross the domains of licy, whhip can do. they do not really theme. it is a a committee productiety of different pieces is a successful legislative it is a way to build a coalition. th complicated, but the members who produce a know it very well. other members have time to track it and understand it. i think that is very different from the omnibus legislation. the problem with those bills is decision-making. host: republicans. good morning. caller: good morning. we are talking about the constitution. you know who is killing that? look -- buy all of the radio stations. fcc is trying to fast-track. do you think will happen to our freedom of speech? these are billionaires that come everything thank you veuch. host: maybe would like to money in politics. guest:n a broader sense i would say something as well. i was a congressional staffer and a white house staffer.

or do you need someone that is -- and you're, you know, you're an aei.den or whomever the democrat is, and donald trump's not a typical republican. just pick a, you know, pick an issue and decide which side. i don't care how much you hate someone. what did you say? you don't get the leader you want you get the leaders you deserve. a sad commentary, but it's binary. it's binary. >> i get it. i completely do. >> i didn't hear it. you're here to make me happy and you were making me unhappy. >> no, no, no. now the good news. truth is this actually can be done but we don't have people in the parties right now that are cultivating the skills to get that done. my ph.d. is in policy analysis. i understand how difficult these things are but i also understand looking at the data that 70% of the things we need to do both sides agree on, except the 5% margins. 5% margins have a weird understanding of winning. winning for most of us is, i get a lot of things i want, you don't walk away empty-handed so we can live together forever. that's how -- >> talking breaking do