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 agree with you. You know, come on, lets have a genuine debate like they used to do. The only time you see debates anymore is in congress when somebody has to show up and and you can
Which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974 for hayek. Economic freedom was the cornerstone of a Flourishing Society
He sends his regrets as he was very much. Looking forward to the event, which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974
Joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974 for hayek. Economic freedom was the cornerstone of a Flourishing Society hayek explained how free markets coordinated the actions of people scattered thr
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 agree with you. You know, come on, lets have a genuine debate like they used to do. The only time you see debates anymore is in congress when somebody has to show up and and you can