Political sociology, which i feel like thats plum line running through your work because, even when you are writing biography, be like your outstanding book. Yeltsin it really is more about the culture, sociology of russia thats producing these of leaders. So with that, tell us about particular political sociology. Well, thank you very much for being here, finding the time to be here and also for all your support while i was i was writing this book. It is not only my pleasure, its my actual job. Well, its its i think each of chapters of this book could be could be a separate book. But i wanted to give the readers. A kind of a but memorable tour of the house that putin built. And and, you know, if you think of the key concepts, ideas ideas, the policies as as colorful tiles, i tried to line them up and then cohere them in in a in a in a portrait and speaking of which, there are about two dozen photos that were to show you some of the two dozen photos as we go along. The people who know
Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
In the late 1970s as a refugee from russia. He also did his undergraduate at moscow state university, but slumming it at columbia for his graduate work, which is in political sociology, which i feel like thats plum line running through your work because, even when you are writing biography, be like your outstanding book. Yeltsin it really is more about the culture, sociology of russia thats producing these of leaders. So with that, tell us about particular political sociology. Well, thank you very much for being here, finding the time to be here and also for all your support while i was i was writing this book. It is not only my pleasure, its my actual job. Well, its its i think each of chapters of this book could be could be a separate book. But i wanted to give the readers. A kind of a but memorable tour of the house that putin built. And and, you know, if you think of the key concepts, ideas ideas, the policies as as colorful tiles, i tried to line them up and then cohere them in in
Make our way to where we want be. Good afternoon. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin v, and its my pleasure to welcome you to this discussion of timken this wonderful and important new book family how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to. Tim is a senior fellow here at aei and a columnist at the washington examiner. His work is a lot of us know he focuses on family and on civil society, on religion, american politics. Hes published widely beyond his columns, too, in the new york times, the wall street journal, the Washington Post, the atlantic and elsewhere. You see on tv a lot. Tims work is unique. He describes broad social trends by beginning from the experience of real people. He thinks from the bottom up, not from the top down. And for that reason, i think he has an understanding of how people thrive and how people fail. What holds together, what divides us. That is just deeply humane and sympathetic, even as its always rooted in some