statecraft of soulcraft to being in american conservative his index for the first is heavily waited to edmund burke and alexis to tocqueville and in the new magnum opus, it's madison and hamilton and particularly the federalist papers. and their nemesis woodrow wilson in many ways the book is a witty and devastating elaboration of the british philosopher. michael oakshot's great essay rationalism and politics. he quotes oakshot saying dreaming and ruling generates tyranny. he's a george willis the great critic of the overreaching overheated progressivism of our time. tyranny and defenses against it are the subject of churchill's great iron curtain speech and like george will he finds the greatest defense in the heritage and tradition of the rule of law exemplified by the british unwritten constitution and the very well written american constitution. they are our civil religion. george will quotes antonin scalia saying we don't have a monarch. we have a constitution. and himself refers to the making of the constitution and its defense by madison and hamilton as our luminous moment. churchill speaks

he is editor of newsweek, a research fellow with the edmund burke foundation, and a syndicated columnist, and outspoken conservative serving on constitutional and legal issues in the intersection of law and politics. he has been published in many leading outlets including the washington post, and the daily wire. >> mr. hammer is a law school campus speaker to the federalist society. prior to joining the daily wire, he clerked for a judge in the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit. he has also served as a john marshall fellow with the claremont institute. and as law clerk for senator mike lee, republican, of utah. he will be speaking about trend in the current conservative movement, in the future of the american right. >> we would like to acknowledge the young americans foundation for their partnership in organizing, promoting and posting to this discussion. thank you also to c-span for covering this event. mr. hammer will then take questions after the lecture. please use the q&a feature in the toolbar to ask your question. mr. hammer, we are honored to have you and the floor is y

by people and associations who care about permanence, about what edmund burke called the democracy of the dead and unborn that make up our past resident in future in a place -- present. in the book quest for commuter account is more than a simple place of residence and occupations. it was itself a a close association and its members were bound to live up to its articles in customs. the villages kept alive sacred obligations of mutual aid, religious space and political responsibility. but he argues and on society and time, capitalism has substituted quantity for quality, process for function, big news for small this, and transform intense community is a purpose into the sprawling relationship of the marketplace. i think america's farm towns by nature are enforced rootedness. held onto the virtues of medieval village longer than most. but they have dwindled if not disappeared in more recent decades, especially probably since the 1980s on prices. even during world war ii and after, farmers were being told that international trade should take precedence over the cultivation of local marke

he is editor of newsweek, a research fellow with the edmund burke foundation, and a syndicated columnist, and outspoken conservative serving on constitutional and legal issues in the intersection of law

he is editor of newsweek, a research fellow with the edmund burke foundation, and a syndicated columnistpoken conservative serving on constitio

aim always reminded of that edmund burke quote where he said the only thing that is necessary for evilo many good people, you know, we have just been living our lives, paying our bills, sending our kids off to college, trying to retire. but because of that we have created a vacuum that has been filled by some of the most despot individuals with some of the most ridiculous policies that are having a very real impact on all of our lives. i'm run for a variety of reasons but that is one of them is to preserve this nation because they are coming to attack it. ainsley: i'm sure you can weigh in on what's happening in georgia. they changed their election laws and mbl decided to pull out and boycott that state. senator tim scott, he's the only black republican senator. he tweeted this out. georgia voter i.d. 17 days of early voting. colorado voter i.d. 15 days of early voting. atlanta is 51% black. denver is 9.2% plaque. the mlb is moving the all-star game out of atlanta which has more day of voting right than colorado. the wokes are at it again, folks. and then joe biden called it jim crow o