If i can have your attention, please. Im delighted to welcome you all to tonights conservative book of the year award ceremony. And my colleague dan mccarthy has the run of show and will be taking lead for us. So before i kick it over to him, im going to introduce him he is is ise a Vice President for the collegiate network as well as the editor of acs journal modern, which you all have your seats and they just modern age just introduced and launched a new website which you should go look at at modern age journal dot com and with that i will turn it over to dan thank you for being here. Thank you, tom. And thank you for joining us this evening. Isi has been educating liberty on americas troubled campuses since 1953. Our founder shorter of believed it was not enough complain about socialism and antiu. S. Southern ideology. We have to teach the alternative the roots of our civilization, the isi henry and an apology book award honors writers who excelled in defining the crisis of our time
If i can have your attention, please. Im delighted to welcome you all to tonights conservative book of the year award ceremony. And my colleague dan mccarthy has the run of show and will be taking lead for us. So before i kick it over to him, im going to introduce him he is is ise a Vice President for the collegiate network as well as the editor of acs journal modern, which you all have your seats and they just modern age just introduced and launched a new website which you should go look at at modern age journal dot com and with that i will turn it over to dan thank you for being here. Thank you, tom. And thank you for joining us this evening. Isi has been educating liberty on americas troubled campuses since 1953. Our founder shorter of believed it was not enough complain about socialism and antiu. S. Southern ideology. We have to teach the alternative the roots of our civilization, the isi henry and an apology book award honors writers who excelled in defining the crisis of our time
tonight s candidate on that main stage was run desantis of course. tonight s setting is iowa, where many the mistakes as do or die. florida governor said that the polls don t tell us the full story, and that he is building momentum. among tonight s highlights, desantis said that he does plan to replace obamacare. but when we see that plan is tbd. and he forcibly went after donald trump on everything from inflation to the border to the satanic display inside of the iowa capital. with me to break down all of this that we just saw and heard, jamal simmons, scott jennings, ana navaro, and paul begala. everyone, let s get your take. let us start with you scott, how did he do? i thought it was the best i ve seen him, really lately on the campaign. i think this format, and jake did a great job with it, is a far more instructive format, if you really care about what the candidates think about issues, instead of roman style coliseum attacks on one another. so i thought if you are
these charges also paint a picture of a man who is and ui can t stress this enough, so cool was prime time long about hunter king in the castle. in the castle? have a chill. i have a two american dictatorship. what would that looke. like?ould that looke. trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people. the obama movie, anti-white plus mother of guy. : when when i was a little boy growing up, i held ie igh american institutions in very high esteem. esi were the good guys. i thought the boy scouts were a wholesome organization. i thought the catholic church was pristinehurch . but as i entered adulthood, year after year, it begad year s to dawn on me that nothing is sacred anymore. the peopld e and the placesde i revered let me down. itown. doesn t make me cynical. it makes me a realist.no now, i m notw, out to tear down american institutions. that s the last thing i want . these institutions are tearing themselves down. hollywoo.ese instd turn
i m wondering what one or two of your most favored bible verses are. i wouldn t want to get into it because to me that s very personal. the bible means a lot to me but i don t want to get into specifics. even to cite a verse you like. i don t want to do that. old testament or new testament? probably equal. remember when trump, a self professed big fan of the bible, could not name a single bible verse. now he s backing the idea of displaying the ten commandments in taxpayer funded public schools. could he name eve one of those commandments and hasn t he broken lvery one of them. also, surprise, the supreme court sides with the biden administration on a major gun case, but there is still silence on presidential immunity as time begins to run out for a trump january 6th trial before election day. but we begin tonight with the warning brought to us earlier this week from activist and documentarian lauren windsor. in a secret reporting from a march event at mar-a