[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, director of policy studies and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carneys new book and discussion about the findings and claims and i think you will find the remarks in the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in historically right now so i look forward to the discussion. Hes going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray known to everybody here and then Megan Mcardie known as Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei an and is also the commentay editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while. His previous books are what many of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and that is where he carved out a name for himse himself. Its a deep dive and its
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
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