Weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast, every saturday American History tv documents another story and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books. Funding for cspan and more including spark light. Host and joining us on booktv is mark skousen who is an author but hes also the founder of freedomfest. Mr. Skousen, were sitting here in the mirage hotel in vegas. Whats going on here . Guest this is unique. Intellectual feast in the entertainment capital of the world, and i remember mayor goodman saying, oh, you have the most unique conference here, everyone else is just kind of plot and plan so on. But we actually have great sessions on philosophy, history, science and technology, healthy living, economics, politics, music, dance. I mean, its kind of a renaissance gathering if you will. And we even have a financial conference. We have the anthem film festival. We started for the first time the libertarian comedy show with john cleese and his daughter is performing
Well, this is an enlightening this is unique. We are an intellectual feast in the entertainment capital of the world. And i remember mayor goodman saying, oh, you you have most unique conference here. Everyone else is just kind of fluff and play and so on. But we actually great sessions on philosophy history, science and technology, healthy living, economics, politics, music. I mean, its kind of a renaissance, if you will, and a lot of we even have a financial conference. We have the anthem film festival. We started for the first time, the comedy show with john cleese, his daughters performing there. So its pretty unique. And why are you a libertarian. Well, libertarians are socially liberal and, economically conservative. So were not right wing. Were not left wing, which i like. I actually dont really like labels. Freedom fest is called the Worlds Largest gathering of free minds. And so we like think of people here are free mind open. We have a lot of debates both sides the issues the
Unique conference here. Everyone else is just kind of fluff and play and so on. But we actually great sessions on philosophy history, science and technology, healthy living, economics, politics, music. I mean, its kind of a renaissance, if you will, and a lot of we even have a financial conference. We have the anthem film festival. We started for the first time, the comedy show with john cleese, his daughters performing there. So its pretty unique. And why are you a libertarian. Well, libertarians are socially liberal and, economically conservative. So were not right wing. Were not left wing, which i like. I actually dont really like labels. Freedom fest is called the Worlds Largest gathering of free minds. And so we like think of people here are free mind open. We have a lot of debates both sides the issues theyre formal debates, civil debates. So its not like cnn and fox news or the yelling each other. Of course, they dont do debates anymore. Notice the only guests they have on are s
Everyone else is just kind of fluff and play and so on. But we actually great sessions on philosophy history, science and technology, healthy living, economics, politics, music. I mean, its kind of a renaissance, if you will, and a lot of we even have a financial conference. We have the anthem film festival. We started for the first time, the comedy show with john cleese, his daughters performing there. So its pretty unique. And why are you a libertarian. Well, libertarians are socially liberal and, economically conservative. So were not right wing. Were not left wing, which i like. I actually dont really like labels. Freedom fest is called the Worlds Largest gathering of free minds. And so we like think of people here are free mind open. We have a lot of debates both sides the issues theyre formal debates, civil debates. So its not like cnn and fox news or the yelling each other. Of course, they dont do debates anymore. Notice the only guests they have on are saying, yes, tucker i agr
Those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on cspan. Welcome. This is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. So just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. And that is in 1994. I was president of my universitys college republicans. And it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. That army would soon be the majority leader. That phil grahams economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. And while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. This year know that that isnt merely about party registration. About one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people