Tonight, a ceremony honoring former secretary of state and former senator john kerry. President obama and massachusetts senators elizabeth born in Edward Markey pay tribute. Heres a preview. Senator warren think about where we are. As any who follow the news and friendly those who do not, it is deeply worrying about the dangers around the globe a Nuclear Showdown with north korea, destruction of the deal that has prevented iran from already developing a nuclear weapon, russian interference in u. S. Elections, the growing andr of china, neverending war in afghanistan, and on and on and on. People are worried from and they are right to be worried. I want to be clear about this. Stronger is a safer, place because of john kerry. [applause] watch the rest of the ceremony here on cspan eating at 9 40 p. M. Eastern beginning at 9 40 p. M. Eastern. Weekend, saturday on cspan, former president ial sunday, hows, and your zip code impacts your help. , Christopher Bedford on his book, the art of t
It is about time to start now. I am a doctoral student. I am the chair of this mornings panel, the Electoral College, time to reevaluate . Thank you for coming out at 8 00 a. M. On saturday. Thank you to the Claremont Institute for sponsoring our discussion. Our speakers today are david frist, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Ton we will open up questions and general discussion. If you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. Without any further a do, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. Be defending the. Lectoral college equally important, when we talk about a major change, discussing ae dangers of any really common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seem
That is wrong. Lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [laughter] [applause] lisa good evening. I just realized that i am going to be the only person on this stage tonight who doesnt have a british accent. [laughter] lisa but i do have an accent, so you have to see if you can detect it at some point. [laughter] lisa if you asked him, lord dobbs would tell you that he never had a proper job. Yet, it was in his restless search, as he calls it, for this ideal job, that he just happened, happened to stumble upon some of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences that anyone could ever hope to have in a lifetime. Ones that honored his presence. Ones that called upon him as a crafty in skilled storyteller. Ones that demanded his inquisitive mind, and others that we boarded his wondrous creativity and innovation. It all began in a pub or i met a complete stranger, lord dobbs says about his journey. I happened to mention to him that i was looking for a job in current affair
Way of introduction. Our mission at the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful and preeminent authorities in our national light. To startt it fitting coming to the American Political Science Association over 30 years ago to provide a safe space for the serious discussion of political things for academic friends, admirers, and intelligent critics. Political science over the past halfcentury, much like the social sciences in general, has been obsessed with or consumed by often narrow and therefore measurable aspects of Human Affairs. Much of modern Political Science must miss a crucial part of political things by leaving aside questions of value. It is in that sense very unscientific, or can be. We have always made our focus the scholarship of the politics of freedom. That brings me to our panel path topic today, the future of conservatism. The future of conservatism indeed the shape and future of our national politics, generally is an
Good book, churchill and the bomb. One of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The farther backward we can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. We think, most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted, over with, just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember farther back when people were scared of the abomb, and then worse, of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University in United Kingdom. He has written quite a few books, one on vietnam, and one is coming out very shortly on anthony eden. And that will be a very interesting one because, for me, he had such a long history with grandpapa. He is working on now something that i am really, really hoping to get my hands on, but i