[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, director of policy studies and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carneys new book and discussion about the findings and claims and i think you will find the remarks in the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in historically right now so i look forward to the discussion. Hes going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray known to everybody here and then Megan Mcardie known as Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei an and is also the commentay editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while. His previous books are what many of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and that is where he carved out a name for himse himself. Its a deep dive and its
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