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CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Moral Arc February 8, 2015

Welcome to the Cato Institute institute. I am david boaz executive Vice President of the institute and its my honor today to be able to introduce and moderate this program. We hear a lot these days for the past few decades about moral decline in america, moral decline in the world. It covers a lot of different areas. Not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. Bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. Lots of radio talk shows have that is a common theme. Most days theres an oped in the Washington Times decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw recently that threequarters of americans think that we are in a period of moral decline. So it seems pretty convincing but there is an argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak up on the side of both moral progress and economic tangible progress in the world. As i point out in my own forthcoming book, the liber

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CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Moral Arc February 17, 2015

This was the first to propose the idea proportionality. That is, the ought to be a fixed proportion between crimes and punishment. That was a new idea. They invented bad idea. If you want to change Human Behavior and get people to do something different, rather than just punish them, rather than just justice like give them just do, lock them up lets see if we can improve society by changing people by giving them different motivational structures like proportionality. That book is still in print by the way. As well as same kind of arguments that only they can scorcher but also against the Death Penalty and in europe the Death Penalty is dead. In the United States its on its way to extinction. Heres some of the more colorful ways that humans have practiced killing each other. This is the earliest portrayal of execution ever found by an archaeologist, Something Like 20,000 years old. He interprets it as an execution because you have 10 archers and 10 arrows in the guy lying on the ground.

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CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Moral Arc February 28, 2015

Period of moral decline. So it seems convincing but there isnt argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak on this side of moral progress and economic, tangible progress in the world. As i point out in my own forthcoming book libertarian mind, we have seen a reduction in the world of war, slavery, violence of all kinds, we have seen a tendency toward individual rights, Economic Freedom and democracy, those are important elements of progress including moral progress. A new issue of cato policy report, the newsletter for kato sponsors includes a transcript of a speech given at this podium not long ago by stephen banker in which he says the world is Getting Better and better so why is everybody so pessimistic, he tries to understand why is why are people so pessimistic and the Cato Institute has created a web site called humanprogress. Org. Over 700 sets of data on this web site. Everything from child birth to womens rights to democracy t

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MSNBC The Cycle October 19, 2012

For grabs and it may rest on the strength of obamas firewall. Its 281 obama, 257 romney. If romney wins two of the sfooifts i mentioned, romney will win. I dont want to get drunk on hypotheticals, because lets be honest, thats more of a kornacki thing. Steve, tell them whats the deal. I think theres a lot of different ways to look at athe electoral map, but the way i narrow is down is this. Theres four obama states starting to lean towards romney. He really needs them and lets say he gets them. Thats north carolina, florida, colorado and virginia. That puts him at 257. At that point to win the election there are two paths for mitt romney, and these are the fooift states to Pay Attention to. The first path is to win the state of ohio. Hes your next president , but hes not doing that well in ohio. Lets say he loses ohio. Heres the next path. Wisconsin may be more winnable at this point for the Romney Campaign than ohio is. We went over the reasons yesterday. If you win wisconsin all you

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Neil deGrasse Tyson host destroys pro-Transgender athlete narrative

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