hello everybody welcome i m uvalde van of the american enterprise institute and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this conversation about matthew continent is important and excellent new book the right the hundred year war for american conservatism. this book is both an intellectual and a political history of the american right over the past century. takes up the ideas behind the right the electoral coalition that has composed it the ways that their coalition has sought power and used power and our politics the way that it s thought about the country and its future the book explores some important tensions between populism and conservatism between libertarians and traditionalists between pragmatists and purists. so it gives us a lot to talk about and that is what we will be doing this morning. we ll do it through a conversation between the book s author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former house speaker paul, ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about
Open with a quote from Frederick Hayek the source of all monetary evil is the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. Is there an alternative to the government controlling money . Quick there sure is. Gold is the most obvious alternative because money is a measure. It has to measure value and it can be a part of what it measures and if they treated as atreat it asan economic bond toe entrepreneurs about the meaning of the crucial price signals that govern all of their opportunities, then you have the kind of stagnation we are experiencing today, and its a worldwide stagnation which means its not simply the policy of the united states, capitalism around the world and be systemic affliction is the meaning of money, so this grows old valuation into question because its like we float money today and International Exchange trading today, trading currency back and forth is 73 times bigger than all of the trade in goods and services put together. Its 25 times bigger than all of
Good morning. I should just mention at the beginning im told there will be time for q a but it depends on your asking questions which i can then repeat for the benefit of the production. Can someone close the door. Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning are notes on th our notg of liberal culture. Theres a story that might be apocryphal but is too good not to share. [laughter] hi, jamie. [laughter] im going to begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story possibly apocryphal but too good not to share which is told about gandhi. The leader was asked by the journalists what do you think of western civilization. He thought for a moment and replied i think it would be a good idea. [laughter] ive been pondering that for the better part of a year as i consider the state of liberal culture both in the United States and throughout the world. What do i think of liberalism i think it would be a good idea. In fact it could be our salvation as a country and as a civilization if only we c
It is published by paul Gray Mcmillan and the editors are myself and Michael Mcconnell was a professor at Stanford University school of law and was a judge of the Circuit Court of appeals. We have a conference about one year ago in which all of the papers that were gathered together for this short publication were discussed and analyzed and we have with us today, to the participants in the conference and opposite to the essays included in this collection. Antonin scalia was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions directly on fundamental elements of the american system. He was also a scholar and a leading public figure. It is appropriate that to honor this man with the selection of reflections on his impact on education. Seeing broadly is not just schools but scholarship and Public Discourse as well. In doing so, we hope to discover the, through the education and look into the fundamentals of the justices thinking if you doubt his impact on
Court of appeals. We have a conference about one year ago in which all of the papers that were gathered together for this short publication were discussed and analyzed and we have with us today, to the participants in the conference and opposite to the essays included in this collection. Antonin scalia was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions directly on fundamental elements of the american system. He was also a scholar and a leading public figure. It is appropriate that to honor this man with the selection of reflections on his impact on education. Seeing broadly is not just schools but scholarship and Public Discourse as well. In doing so, we hope to discover the, through the education and look into the fundamentals of the justices thinking if you doubt his impact on constitutional prudence, cast unseen at harvard that he was not only one of the most important justices in the nations history also among the best. And Justice Elena kagan