American revolution. Host author stacy schiff, besides the fact you have written about them, what do ben franklin, the witches of statement wishes of salem, cleopatra have in common . Stacy off the top of my head, they are people and moments that change our world. People that leave the world different to the one they had been born, and i think thats what im looking for any a subject. Some subject which resonates for me on a personal level because biography is kind of a marriage. But also where you feel theres a shift in time, a shift in space. In cleopatras case, the world came crashing down with her death and the roman empire begins. The salem witch trials, for better or worse, as a sense of here is where you dont want to go and what you dont want to do, there is an antimessage in a way. In each of these i could make a case it is a world changing moment and i come to each of them what they certain set of questions that start to obsess me. Those questions write themselves into the book
It is about time to start now. I am a doctoral student. I am the chair of this mornings panel, the Electoral College, time to reevaluate . Thank you for coming out at 8 00 a. M. On saturday. Thank you to the Claremont Institute for sponsoring our discussion. Our speakers today are david frist, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Ton we will open up questions and general discussion. If you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. Without any further a do, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. Be defending the. Lectoral college equally important, when we talk about a major change, discussing ae dangers of any really common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seem
Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
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