Much of this moment and forces us to confront challenges that our society has had trouble with in recent years, this is a time that makes us wonder how stronger institution will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge i and i think i cant help but see it as a time of a crisis but because it is a time of testing at the time to think about what americas strengths are, what were good at as a country how we can build on that to address the innermost problems. How did we get here . Thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality in the individual one hand and some form of strength of community on the other, every free Society Faces the tension in our society has in the past halfcentury emphasize individual, emphasize liberty and emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side can look Like Division and fragmentation and
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
Meme is the movie you know in just a couple of months i will be leaving my position. I hope youll forgive me if i take this opportunity to become a loaf list object nostalgic. I had the opportunity to talk to quite a few people on this stage and you can just imagine the quotient and when i had the job of interviewing with a professional interview, some do it for a living the man who routinely watch bret baier conduct an interview each evening on fox news you know exactly what i mean. He is among the very best in the business. [applause] and you may not take my word for it. His newscast is consistently. As the top Cable News Program and that has been the case for many years. But bret has a second career going on as is a bestselling author and we are not talking about the autobiography and how you too can be a rather this publication, his fifth nonfiction of work, its official bret baier is a talented president ial historian and writer with a knack for shining a light on pivotal readers
Meme is the movie you know in just a couple of months i will be leaving my position. I hope youll forgive me if i take this opportunity to become a loaf list object nostalgic. I had the opportunity to talk to quite a few people on this stage and you can just imagine the quotient and when i had the job of interviewing with a professional interview, some do it for a living the man who routinely watch bret baier conduct an interview each evening on fox news you know exactly what i mean. He is among the very best in the business. [applause] and you may not take my word for it. His newscast is consistently. As the top Cable News Program and that has been the case for many years. But bret has a second career going on as is a bestselling author and we are not talking about the autobiography and how you too can be a rather this publication, his fifth nonfiction of work, its official bret baier is a talented president ial historian and writer with a knack for shining a light on pivotal readers
tonight we are joined by two distinguished journalists with a strong connection. peter is an award-winning writer and former editorial page editor of the boston globe and executive editor of politico. he s the editor of the new york times bestseller the fall and rise of ted kennedy. sarah stockman joined the new york times editorial board in 2020 after covering politics, social movements for the national desk. she previously spent 16 years at the boston globe, nearly half the time as the papers foreign policy reporter in washington, d.c. she also served as a columnist and editorial board member ofum the globe winning a pulitzer prize for commentary in 2016. the author of a forthcoming book american-made, what happens to people when work disappears. here to talk about peter s new book, the great dissenter, the story of john marshall harlan, america s judicial hero. sarah and peter, welcome. thank you. thanks for having us. i love seeing in the chat where everyone