For a full list of everything that is confirmed for the next three months visit our website at politics pros. Com or pickup an event calendar. Before we get started today id like to ask everyone to silence your cell phones. When it is time for the q a i ask you to come up to this microphone right here next to the pillar and please speak clearly into the microphone as we are recording it today and cspan, booktv is here as well. Following the q a we will have a signing at this table and if you have not already purchased your books have plenty at the front of the store at the registers. Tonight im excited to welcome yuval levin to politics and prose celebrating his newest book, a time to build from family and community to congress in the campus how recommitting to our institutions can revive the american dream. As the nation faces increasing divisiveness fueled by partisan politics, cultural wars and populist on both sides he argues that rather than trying to tear down existing institutio
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, you are high and lifted up, deliver us from estrangement or dissension. Teach our lawmakers to disagree with respect, civility, and humility. Lord, lead them into a deeper reverence for you and one another, as they remember that patriots reside on both sides of the aisle. May our senators celebrate the pleasure you receive when colleagues of faith dwell together in unity. Let the words of their mouths and the meditations of their hearts receive your divine approval. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from a.
Speaks to a very live and significant controversy politics the subject has been in areas, subject of an enormous amount of thought and argument in the last few years and the question nationalism of the nation in place in our politics and its connection to some of the forces and threats as been drawing the politics of the west. In recent years. And well hear from rich a little bit about the book and he and i will then discuss it for your a few minutes and then we will open it up to questions from you. Who please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause]. Rich thank you. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank who much for your making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book to works of art. I say he came in on the second day. As an npr interview. And we are his practice, i like to say of this professor in. Who they do, as they hope you as a conservative. If you on history or policy and then theyll have a professor on like in the middle of your presentation or r
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And i am glad i didnt have to answer them and thank you to chris and kevin for doing that. We will reconvene in 15 minutes for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. I am a fellow here at the Stockdale Center and its a pleasure to be with peter to discuss virtue. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books and he is director of constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books. We will start i think with peter. The thank you. It is great to be here with my panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual, for me at east to approach the panels topic of civil virtue and its decline and its reinvigoration from a somewhat autobiographical perspective. Long ago and far away when i went to college, the cutting edge topic is something we called engraved tones and the critique of liberalism. We have leading authors and books and