Good evening and welcome to the policy center. I am john walters chief operating officer and id like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and or cspan audience to the firstever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. We are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that havent been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be more proud of the work theyve done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more than a dozen books and cofounder of the
Proud of the realignment of the podcast last year especially for those who have not been following that that you take a look at the episodes of last year those conversations with secretary of state mike pompeo and Mike Gallagher and others with an Excellent Program with their ability to bring out topics and to move the argument along we went to thank them for that we are happy to launch this Years Program as many of you know is a prolific writer with a dozenf books and cofounder of the new American Foundation toy encourage from Walter Russell mead a professor at the university of texas and important for tonights conversation the author of the new class war faith in democracy from the managerial elite was just published today so we are just here at the launch congratulations. A direct line between the new class war and that which best exemplified the next American Revolution and whether you agree witham this interpretation of politics since world war ii to demonstrate thatst serious eff
The director for really jet religious freedom happy holidays and i also want to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the population there it is one of the worst with religious persecutions of our day or hour age it is a crisis of religious persecution and of Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. All people should be concerned for china and the rising power that seems to make us a model not just within its borders but exporting the model it is a deep concern to me as someone who monitors religious freedom around the world. It is my deep privilege to introduce the ambassador at large from the state Department Sam brownback who will be giving the keynote address in just a moment ago i have known the ambassador for about 25 years when he was in the Senate Working together including suda sudan. So i am very pleased in this position and someone who has been empowered under this administration and through congress and really is the face of religious freedom as a priority
[music plays] jackson, you have a new book called american radicals. What years does your book cover . Prof. Jackson the earliest event in the book is 1817. It covers 1823 to 1870s. It covers the period roughly from the 1820s to the 1870s. Susan this is described as the second American Revolution. Why is that . Prof. Jackson the radicals in my book were calling for a second American Revolution based on what the revolution we know, fought by their fathers generation many had grandfathers who fought in the revolution. They described that revolution as merely political. They felt it had accomplished a separation from england. It had accomplished the foundation of a new political system. But the social revolution they had in mind would have to follow that merely Political Revolution in order to really bring into American Life the ideals of the founding that had to do with equality, with justice, that were glaringly not part of lived american experience, even in this new land. That was supp
Next, look at human rights guss against muslim groups in northwest china. This Panel Includes a journalist who reported on the Chinese Governments establishment of reEducation Centers, targeting muslim my importants and a human rights activist. Welcome to the Hudson Institute, im nina shea, and i want to wish everyone happy holidays holidays and im also want to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the us uyghur population the. One of the worst relation rights and percent accuse situations of our day and age. It is a crisis of religious persecution and Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. And will be hearing more pout that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aimed to make this a model, not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors freedom around the world, and i know it is to you here in this room in the audience, and it is my deep priv