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 program at yale. he is author of saving persuasion a defense of rhetoric and judgment, as well as articles on political rhetoric and deliberation. the meaning of representative government, the relationship of politics and re

my guests today are peter berkowitz which is -- who is a senior fellow. they also serve as the director of our policy planning staff. peter also leaves the public interest fellowship here. we are also joined by ethan shrum. he is an associate fellow at the university of virginia. that book sheds essential light on the question here. glad to be joined you have written about the rise over the course of the 20th century in your book. what is the instrumental university? where did it come from? how does the history of the rise of the instrumental university help understand the landscape? >> thank you very much for having me here. the institution said there was a change across the course of the 20th century. they particularly broke out after world war ii. that has university leaders came to view the university as an instrument for solving social problems and promoting economic growth. i argue this shift is grounded in some of the political thought of the earliest -- political thought of the earlier 20th century. certain ideals and fields coming aboard. universi

, we're going to hear in further sessions this morning from danielle allen and greg weiner of peter berkowitz and bryan garsten. but we're starting this morning with maybe dean of historians of american founding the great gordon wood. it would be it would be a fool's errand and a particularly long to provide you with a full biography of gordon wood. but he is an emeritus of history at brown. he's written several of the most important books in the study of the early american republic, including the radicalism the american revolution, which won a pulitzer prize, the creation of the american republic won the bancroft prize. many other books, important papers and articles in the field. he's really created some of the basic frameworks and categories that now help us define the study of the founding. one of our former research assistant today who was here today, i'll make sure you meet him. gordon, when he saw the lineup for today, describes himself as a gordon wood fanboy. and i think maybe we would use different terms but there are a lot of gordon wood fanboys and fan girls in this crowd and in t