Government responsibility to restrict in regular the use of drugs, such as marijuana. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you all for joining us this evening for the annual libertarianism versus conservatism intern debate. I am the student Programs Coordinator here at the Cato Institute and im honored to introduce tonights event as interns go headtohead to debate is libertarianism or conservatism the superior political philosophy. Which political philosophy provides better answers to todays most important political questions . Of course, each of us have always had much to agree upon limited government, free markets, and individual liberty are pillars of the political philosophy we both value and uphold which have often led us , to the same policy preferences and conclusions. What each of us envision in a Free Society Without governmental and regulatory intrusion often does look quite different. Policy preferences surrounding foreign policy, immigration, direct legalization, sex wor
International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over
Leaders of liberal arts colleges universities,s of all of whom share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Im sorry . Louder. Ok. Do i need to start again . So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of morgannd the edmund s. Professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the dubbois epicf souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of colleges of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a scholar w
So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president of Wesleyan University in connecticut. He was
There are many activities. Please participate. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I would ask all of the panelist and the mayor to remain. We want to take a group photograph. Once again, please welcome dr. Ron daniels. [applause] dr. Ron its give Mark Thompson a big round of applause. [applause] dr. Ron one of the realities is that we have people that are not staying at this hotel and they have to get the last shuttle acted the doubletree. If we dont do that, that will be a problem. That is a constraint we are facing. I want to say that, tomorrow, for those of you that are registered, we had a series of sessions that will be taking place. It is about the criminal justice system. We have a session that George Frazier will be a part of in terms of economic development. Then we have a session on the black family. In all of these sessions, it is not just about expressing grievances. When you look at george fraser, you are talking about somebody who has built a serious network. We ha