matthew continetti is a senior fellow here at aei were his focus on american politics.s a prominent journalist and analyst and author. he was the founding editor of the washington free beacon. he was price that the opinion editor of the weekly standard is also a contributing editor of the national review and a columnist for commentary magazine. this is matt's third book in one way or another they paul dealt with the evolution of the modern right. paul ryan is of course a former speaker of the house of representatives pretty served in congress for 20 years from 1999 through 2019. represent the first district of wisconsin. in that time he rose very quickly to serve as chairman of the budget committee and then chairman of the ways and means committee and ultimately served as speaker for about three and half years but i'm sure if i like a lot longer, paul. he is now among other things a nonresident fellow with us here at aei along with serving on a number boards, teaching at notre dame and other important work. our format will be straight forward and conversation up or no f