Everybody. Im of the American Enterprise institute. Its my great pleasure to welcome you to a set of conversations today. Democracy and, the american founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, students and citizens in gen
Well well good morning everybody. Im of the American Enterprise institute. Its my great pleasure to welcome you to a set of conversations today. Democracy and, the american founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, stude
Well well good morning everybody. Im of the American Enterprise institute. Its my great pleasure to welcome you to a set of conversations today. Democracy and, the american founding, this gathering is the beginning for us of a large, ambitious project today. I and i want to say just a few words about it before we get going with our conversation. 2026 is a lot of you know is going to mark the 250th anniversary of the american founding. A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals will recognize that milestone in a variety of ways. But thinking through how we might best that here, we thought that the kind of contribution we could make would be some of lasting intellectual product through a set of conferences that will then yield a set of books, other kinds of educational materials that explore how americans now should understand our heritage, our inheritance. The key and questions at issue in the american founding. Those materials can outlast the anniversary and conserve educators, stude
Information dissemination. [inaudible conversations] can we have everyone sit down, please . Thanks. Thank you. Hi. Welcome to the second session of todays sim pose yuck. This titled combating online information operations. Im karen, senior fellow for digital policy and were lucky of the hes experts to discuss this issue. Renee, thomas, and clint. I anticipate a very lively and fascinating conversation. Want to start with thomas. When the Supreme Court decided Citizens United it predicated the whole idea that corporations should be able to spend my in elects because the internet, which was then seen as this great engine of transparency and democracy, the arab spring was going on the internet would be full transparency to american elections, and that was the magic bullet. And at the time i was in the obama administration. We were really taken with the idea of internet freedom, but it seems that since then the openness of the internet, which we hoped would solve a lot of political proble
Hello. Welcome to the second session of todays symposium. This is titled combating online. Im a senior fellow for digital policies account were very lucky to have these experts with us to discuss this issue. I anticipate a very lively fascinating conversation. Want to start with what the Supreme Court in the us decided Citizens United back in 2010 is predicated the whole idea that corporations should be to spend money in elections because the internet which was then seen as this great engine of transparency and democracy in the arab spring was going on the internet with full transparency to american elections and so that was going to be the magic bullet. At the time i was in the Obama Administration we were really taken with the idea of Internet Freedom but it seems that since then the openness of the internet which he hoped would solve a lot of political problems and would undermine authoritarian government is being used to undermine democracy by authoritarian governments and i wonder