Now the editor in chief Marvin Olasky examines the principles of journalism and offers his thoughts on reporting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political jou
Today Marvin Lansky is a prolific writer we are welcoming him back the author of more than 25 books including the latest which he will discuss with us today his political journey is unique he became an atheist and marxist in high school joining the communist party in the seventies at the university working on his phd with a spiritual awakening then joined the church in 1976 the founder of the Presbyterian Church in austin texas 1992 after college he taught journalism for more than 25 years and became a reporter to the yale daily news and the boston globe his first book garnered significantt attention and caught thed eye of the Bradley Foundation that supported his foundation at the Heritage Foundation one of the most wellknown works is the tragedy of american compassion turning him into a leaderia Newt Gingrich speaker of the house distributed to every republican member of the house at the time also to inspire the phrase conservativism he was urinstrumental in the success of where he i
Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political journey is quite unique as he became an atheist marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the
I have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. I first got into president s when i was seven years old. My mother brought me this book called so you want to be president . George andudith st. David small. I actually dont know why she bought me the book. I think she offered to tell me at one point that i declined because i like the mystique about it. Brian have you read the whole book . Kurt it was a very thin book. When i really liked was the illustrations. It was my first exposure to president s and i found the illustrations very funny. There is William Howard taft, who famously got stuck in the bathtub at the white house. When david smalls illustrations did was they showed president taft being lifted out of the bathtub with an industrial crane. There is an operator wearing a hard hat lifting taft out of the bathtub while he is holding a champagne glass and turkey leg. Stuff like that got me interested in president s in general. I have been passionate about it sin
Governor brown guys, im not sure what the reference to the calendar was. [laughter] i dont have a calendar. Although i know the days are drawing near. Anyway, thank you very much. Thank you for all of that energy and enthusiasm. Its just what we need for the battle ahead. Keep it up and dont falter. This is california. Were the sixth most powerful economy in the world. One out of every eight americans lives here. Almost 11 million, were born in a foreign land. When california does well, america does well. When california hurts, america hurts. When we defend california, we defend america. [applause] as the english poet, john dillon, said almost 400 years ago, no man is an island of himself. Every man is a piece of a continent. A part of a million. Whomfore, never send to the bell tolls. It tolls for the. A few moments ago i swore into office our new attorney general. Like so many others, hes the son of an immigrant who saw california as a place where through grit and determination they