Books that we usually organize events around here at cato. But i can assure you the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist with decades of scholarly work in forming this publication. The subtitle of the book two economists drink their way through the unfree world gives us the flavor of their unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle didnt surprise me though. I attempt to run into ben powell and bob lawson at academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably they have drinks in their hands probably because we chat at event perceptions and the like but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. That is also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate for two it is rather that we are featuring today the first day of the late lovell Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman one of the great economists of the 20th century and a champion of economic and overall human
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Mobile devices and sounds are turned off as he began and of course anyone watching on line is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org protesting our discussion this afternoon is Tiffany Bates legal policy and on the at our center for legal and judicial studies. She researches and writes about courts judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She is also cohost of scotus 101 podcasts. She is a regular contributor to the daily signal media organization. She also coordinates the appellate advocacy program. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. [applause] thank you and welcome to Heritage Foundation and thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech read by highlighting recent First Amendment victories and hopefully as we will discuss later on the courts. Ill keep my remarks short so we can get to what we are all here for, the beer. This summer the Supreme Court reiterated that are free speech jurisprudence is that we protect th
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This afternoon. We ask you silence your devices as we begin. Everyone online is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion is Tiffany Bates for judicial and legal studies. She researchers and writes about the courts, judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She was cohost of heritages potus one one podcast, a contributor to the daily signal, the Multimedia Organization and coordinator the media advocacy programs. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. Thank you and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent First Amendment victories for beer, fans and sports as we will discuss later on. I will keep my introductions short so we can get to what were all here for, the beer. This summer the Supreme Court reiterated the proudest boast of our jurisprudence is protect the freedom to express the speech we hate. While it has long been the core o