Timothy carneys new book and a discussion about its claims and i think you will find both tims remarks and the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in strictly right now so i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion withCharles Murray who is known to probably everybody here. Hes a high chair and Cultural Studies here at aei and Megan Mcardle who is probably known to all of you, Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while and you are all aware of his columns to his previous books on cronyism are what any of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and obamanomics. But this new book alienated america is a New Enterprise for him, adeep dive into whats going on in the heartland and im holding this book up
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
Now carry cargo to the International Space station and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with space x building rockets. Must is maybe more of the celebrity type. Jeff bezos is more of the just working away. Hes got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. This is very exciting. How many of you guys know Robert Bigelow . He is right up here in las vegas, North Las Vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made 1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i dont run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. So we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up wit
And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market frontier. And i managed to get buzz aldrin to do a chapter in my book. The first human being to land on the moon. Im
Okay, ready. Im going to start over. Im going to start over. Okay. All right. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market fr