The title of the book is vox populi which is also the topic of course that is not a new idea in latin means the voice of the people the old adage vox populi the voice of the people and the voice of god often used in history not only to attack monarchs but those people who say such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to America William Jennings Bryan or the roosevelt or Andrew Jackson previously Ronald Reagan were recently not surprisingly popular consent there has been a tension between popular government and Constitutional Government with that sense of the demagogues. So populism abounds from ancient rome to england and elected as president on a populist revolt so our speakers will speak for about five minutes and to have discussion afterwards. We will be joined by Michael Anton but we will start the first speaker is Roger Kimball editor and publisher of new criterion and publisher of encounter books. It also responsible for all of this and other great things published by a
Good evening. Welcome. Happy new year. Im matthew spalding. Welcome to the allen b. Kirby campus. Our event is cosponsor idbid real clear politics. And i recognize david, in the back, there he is. The pressurer and John Mcintyre who is with us here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays med on the 35th anniversary of the new cite tieran ming. The title of the book is vox poply, the perils of populism. It means the voice of the people. The old adage, the voice of the people is the voice of god, which was often times used in history to attack monarchs and attack people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to america. One thinks of will William Jennings bryan, roosevelts, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan more recently. Not surprising in a regime of popular consent based on human equality. Theres always been a tension between popular government and constitutional government. That sense of the potential of populist demagogues. Hence, promises and peri
Im stephen sackur. This hardtalk programme, like so many others in the churn of 24 7 news tends to focus on people and places facing problems and challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account for things that went wrong, not right. Are we missing the Bigger Picture about the world we live in . My about the world we live in . My guest psychologist and writer Steven Pinker thinks so. His new book, enlightenment now, isa his new book, enlightenment now, is a paean to Human Progress driven by reason and science. How convincing are his reasons to be cheerful . Theme music plays. Steven pinker welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. This idea of the enlightenment is very dear to your heart. Can you briefly, if you will, catch for me what you mean by enlightenment enlightenment the. The first of the intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century that put a premium of reason as opposed to authority, tradition, doctors, on science, on the attempt to explain the world by t
Im stephen sackur. This programme, like so many others in the churn of 24 7 news, tends to focus on people and places facing problems and challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account for things that went wrong, not right. Are we missing the Bigger Picture about the world we live in . My guest today, the psychologist and writer, steven pinker, certainly thinks so. His new book, enlightenment now, is a paean to Human Progress driven just how convincing are his reasons to be cheerful . Steven pinker welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. This idea of the enlightenment is very dear to your heart. Can you briefly, if you will, just capture for me what you mean by the enlightenment. It refers to the intellectual movement in the second half of the 18th century that put a premium on reason as opposed to authority, tradition, dogma, charisma, on science, on the attempt to explain the world by testing hypotheses and on humanism, on the wellbeing of individual humans as the ultimate g
To the National Constitution centers interactive constitution. A panel of academics on President Trumps use of executive power hosted by the Heritage Foundation. This is an hour. Good evening, everyone. Thank you very much for coming to the hosted event with the Heritage Foundation. We are just a year into the frum trump presidency. At the oneyear mark, you would think people professionally analyze politics and would have conducted competent evaluation of how the president has executed his constitutional goodies. Since the President Shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, there is much to discuss. Given that President Trump has taken away from the paths of his predecessors and given the boldness of many policies. Beside controversial boldness, in many ways, President Trump has also been a rather conventional republican president , rolling down regulation, dealing with the minister of state and appointing justices and trying work with congress on legislation. If you are lo