Whos endowed that chair . Guest it was not russell kirk. [laughter] that was endowed by a family whos passed away, unfortunately, the briggs out of colorado and a number of other donors as well. Kirk used to teach classics at the university of coloradoboulder during the summers back in the 70s and 80s, and a lot of money in colorado, and these people really liked kirk, so they endowed that. Very, very gracious of them. Host the book, russell kirk american conservative. Thanks for your time. Guest thanks, peter, very much. And next up on booktv, Bradley Birzer receives this years paolucci book award sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is awarded annually to a Nonfiction Book that, according to the sponsors, advances conservative principles. Ladies and gentlemen, if i can get your attention, please. [inaudible conversations] if i can get your attention. Thank you. I know some of you still have your dessert and coffee and, please, i encourage you to and continue eating.
A bit of a break from our campaign coverage. Were at the Cato Institute in washington to hear from wikipedia founder jimmy wales, set to speak to the group and take questions momentarily here on cspan. We want to remind you of our road to the white house coverage coming up. At 8 00 eastern, donald trump is campaigning in wisconsin. We will also bring you a Hillary Clinton rally in fort lauderdale, florida. Tonight at the Cato Institute, wikipedia founder jimmy wales. Wikipedia describes the Cato Institute as an american libertarian think tank. 1974. Founded in cato was established to have a focus on public advocacy and societal influence, all of them sitting well with the speaker tonight. Jimmy wales will talk about a number of issues. He is interested in technology and the spread of knowledge. Cspan,lls tonight on live coverage. We will have jimmy wales comments once he gets underway at the Cato Institute. In the meantime, on this mornings washington journal, a look at campaign advert
Of newark, new jersey. We have to unite with other people, to win. The object is just to win. We dont want to struggle just for struggles sake. There are thousands of people in our committee, hundreds jailed, dead. We are not activists and revolutionaries because it is fun. My mother and father did not participate in the movement for medals, awards, twitter, instagram, for all of these things, to be praised. 10 00, nebraska senator ben sasse on the Founding Fathers and the purpose of government. It turns out the meaning of america is persuasion. The meaning of america is love. Is meaning of america building a better product or creating a Better Service or persuading some of each of mary you or persuading someone persuading somebody to marry you or presenting summary to join your church or synagogue. At 6 30, Newt Gingrich, van jones, former congressman Patrick Kennedy discuss opioid addiction and treatment. People have to change their minds, have willpower, but they also have to change
Degradations of the city. We visit the Military Aviation Museum in virginia beach. This airplane among mother a couple of a types other aviators how to fly. Many guys never even saw an airplane coming from the farms and anywhere you can think of and the first airplane they saw was the throwing stearman. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Now jimmy wales on the importance of wikipedia offering free access to information on a global scale. This is about an hour and 10 minutes. Good evening. I want to put the laptop out of the way because i close it and i am afraid i will make things difficult for them. Good evening. Thanks for being here. A pleasure to welcome you to the Cato Institute. And also to welcome those viewing on cspan. Im president of cato. Before we start, i want to tell you a bit about, this is our first and that joseph k maclachlan lecture series. I would like to tell you a little bit about joseph k mclachlan. Worldrenowned cancer epidemiologis
The last theres been a lot of talk about over last generation, the last 40 years really highlights the challenges of measuring economic values. A lot of people take the view that there hasnt been much progress, much growth in incomes, economic stagnation over that period of time. And i often try to put the lie to that assertion by asking people to whether theyre low income, middle income, high income, raise your hand if you wanting to back to 1975 and there usually arent a lot of takers. But one think is undeniable is we have been living through a period of economic stagnation and im peter and joined the Cato Institution a year ago as president and over that time brink linsey has done a job trying to explore growth slowdown, one is understanding the growth slowdown and another is reviving Economic Growth. For the first time in my life we had gdp growth hasnt reached 3 and at the time i joined cato 13 months ago i was hopeful i was actually hopeful because when we lived through economic