Live saturday, beginning at 9 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. All right, good evening and welcome, everyone. Very excited for you to be here for our modern aged panel on patricks new book, regime change. This is part of a new initiative at isi taking place in and around the country, look forward to many more of these evenings with you. First and foremost i wanted to share history about the modern age in case some of you arent familiar. Modern age was founded by russell kirk in 1959, but he actually had the idea for modern age in 1951. And in 1951, he began to kirk late a perspective to various investors in the midwest and his target readership was quote, professors, clergymen, leaders of business, men in government and, and this is important, those reflective people in obscure walks of life who preserve the equilibrium of any society. So, i will leave it to you, whether you are the, you know, the titans of industry and the powerful men of government or whether youre the obscure people preserv
The republic thrives. Get informed, straight from the force on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. On the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Its the opinion that matters the most. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Excited for you to be here for the modern age panel on the new book regime change. This is part of a new initiative at isi to move modern age to the forefront of the conversation taking place in dc and around the country. So look forward to many more of these evenings with you. First and foremost i want to share about the history of modern agents cases some of you are not familiar it was founded by russell kirk in 1959 but he had the idea for modern age in 1951. And in 1951 he began to circulate a perspective to various investors in the midwest, and his target readership was, quote, professors, clergymen, leaders of business, men in government and, this is important, those reflective people in obscure walk
Good evening. Welcome. Happy new year. Im matthew spalding. Welcome to the allen b. Kirby campus. Our event is cosponsor idbid real clear politics. And i recognize david, in the back, there he is. The pressurer and John Mcintyre who is with us here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays med on the 35th anniversary of the new cite tieran ming. The title of the book is vox poply, the perils of populism. It means the voice of the people. The old adage, the voice of the people is the voice of god, which was often times used in history to attack monarchs and attack people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to america. One thinks of will William Jennings bryan, roosevelts, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan more recently. Not surprising in a regime of popular consent based on human equality. Theres always been a tension between popular government and constitutional government. That sense of the potential of populist demagogues. Hence, promises and peri
That we should see an increase in the strength of these storms. Thats whats happening and thats why the severe thunderstorm watch has been extended into the philadelphia area and new jersey. The flood threat for tonight is actually less than it was yesterday but a lot of lightning and also a lot of high winds. Those are the main threats. But we still have some threat of some hail and even a tornado or two in parts of the area. Lets check in with meteorologist Sheena Parveen for more on exactly what to expect the next few hours. The reason why that watch is going so late is because of all the heat and humidity in place and thats what you really felt today. Temperatures still climbing through part of the area. Thats what will help fuel a lot of these storms as they move in tonight. 85 in philadelphia so we have gone up a couple degrees in the past hour. 85 degrees in reading, parts of delaware still at about the upper 80s and as we go into tonight, those temperatures will start to drop a
It will be a quick warmup. Because of the winds from the north northwest at 12 miles an hour still a northwesterly wind. A few scattered clouds and 84 degrees at 2 00. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, a check of traffic as the sun is getting brighter. Jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. Yes, bill, you said it. Were on 95 right around state road actually. So 14minute drive time were not seeing a ton of volume stack in there. Woodhaven road towards the vine street expressway. If youre headed northbound or southbound, theres lane restrictions and were also dealing with sun glare. You can actually see that reflecting off of some of the road work around the area. That is if youre headed northbound is where youll run into the sun glare. Give yourself extra time be more careful than you normally would. Old city, Second Street is blocked between chestnut and walnut street. Heading out the door for mass transit, s