Now on cspan2s book tv. Television for serious readers. Hi, everyone. On the executive director of the Harvard Law School library. I can vaguely see you in the distance. A great lineup of authors, we are super excited to share the work we do. I just want to share a few housekeeping items. We are recording this talk and will post it on our Youtube Channel next week. I hope you will check out online to find out more. Thank you for the support for this Book Talk Series and a big thank you to our team, parker and teresa for helping put this together in this remote space. We welcome your questions and we invite you to use the q and a teacher throughout the talk. For our sponsor. I encourage you to local bookstore, visit the harvard life very library. It is my great pleasure to introduce the Robert University professor at harvard. Director of the program on the economic Public Policy possible. In 2019, the pies from the government of norway, sometimes described in the equivalence of the nobe
So, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from the public journal. Thank you. Hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently, the american conservative. The american conservative, he says its collaborative, but it sounds like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary policy, clearly delineated borders, authentically free markets and Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere closely to institutional max um, principles over party. One could wish there were more of that kind of true
Thank you for this opportunity. I had a little bit of deja vu because more than a decade ago, the former chief of the new York City Schools and i shared a task force called National Security and education reform. One of the reasons we wanted to do that was to bring to the attention of the community the criticality, the crucial moments where we are at in terms of this issue of talent. To say you may think this is in our problem but it actually is our problem. People who are concerned about National Security. As i think about this report and some of the recommendations, many of which i completely agree in education most certainly. I just have a little bit of deja vu. This time, maybe we will act. Deja vu in an upset way . You wrote that report 10 years ago and here we are. These are structural issues. Structural issues take time. Im more optimistic because the panel that just talked, we have the technology now in education, personalized learning, bringing education to people in more remo
Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Celebrating Companies Including buckeye broadband. Buckeye badband support cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on education and global competitiveness. She talks about the future of the u. S. Workforce, immigration, and technology education. This is about 30 minutes. Thank you for this opportunity. I had a little bit of deja vu because more than a decade ago, the former chief of the new York City Schools and i shared a task force called National Security and education reform. One of the reasons we wanted to do that was to bring to the attention of the community the criticality, the crucial moments where we are at in terms of this issue of talent. To say you may think this is in our problem but it actually is our problem. People who are concerned about National Security. As i think about this report and some of the r
Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of government we are really looking forward to hearing from dr. Zupan today. The way we will be framing todays book forums first we are going to hear remarks from dr. Zupan and then we will have comments from both Lindsay Cutshall from the Brookings Institute and myself. First i would like to introduce dr. Zupan. Dr. Zupan begin his tenure as the 14th president of alford university on july 1, 2016. Histidine at the Business School at the university of rochester from january 1, 2004. Zupan served as dean a