Late. 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 departments 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 todays discussion. The book constitutional liberty, selfgovernment, political moderation, another book, virtue and the making modern liberalism and edited volume renewing the american tradition. Joining peter i is bryan garsten, whos 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
Section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in context and and others. So so thats thats roughly the the agenda for today. I want to start out since this is so
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Our conversation is. I think i explained at the beginning of the course or at least the beginning of this this section, this is one of the the three movements that were spending a lot of time on. The reason that i like to end with the Branch Davidians and to end with this particular or tex to talk about them is because it seems to really bring together a lot of the big themes that weve been talking over the course of the quarter. So on the one hand, we are finishing up our conversation about the Branch Davidians, but on the other hand, were using the entire course as a text to lift up these these points. So here is the agenda for today. And we spent some time about the cult perspective, which really is the anti cold perspective and then apply that and about how that shaped the events that took place in waco with the Branch Davidians in 1993. And then think through some of the consequences and implications of what happened there and then of of the way that the cult has been applied in c
I think we can go ahead and get started. I have a couple things to discuss before introduced our steam speaker. Forceful and introduce myself. My name is deanna lee. I am part of the Digital Communications team here at a nonprofit and nonpartisan Global Research organization that tackles the Worlds Toughest problems. I am very happy to welcome you all to todays policy on very important topics addressing violent extremism in the u. S. Our policy lab series is designed to give you an opportunity to hear directly from experts about the most important policy issues. Im really pleased to see so many folks have joined our zoom webinar. Additionally i want to welcome those of you are watching and listening on cspan radio and shes been 1. Both are testing to go live today. For those of you who have joined us on zoom i have a couple housekeeping items. We will have some time at the end of the presentation for a short q a session. If you do have questions please post those in the q a forum, not