Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
Good afternoon and good evening. Welcome. Happy fat today. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im joe, executive director and the institute here has been here for over three years now. Ow ross has been an important member of the Institute Since our founding he has been our sedia fellow and has helped coordinate some of our events and more contentious events, you may have seen ross was involved in, right . Anyway, we are super pleased ross is joining us today on the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross is one of most important commentators on American Culture today and he writesod for the new york time opinion page and written more than a few books at this point and they released a couple of them have the title of how we became something and you may want to steer clear of that or explain at some point but anyway, the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book and i had the pleasure of reading it and it was an interesting b
Formula for success is simple. We invite extraordinarily bright speakers who offer bold perspectives, perspectives which rarely get a hearing in manhattan ballrooms or progressive cabins. Inivering the reston lecture 1995, that was a huge laugh line. [laughter] are we napping . Delivering the restaurant the reston lecture in 1995, the speaker asked why americans were unhappy with the country that was more powerful and prosperous than ever. He drew attention to signs of disorder, crime, failing schools a coarsening culture and deteriorating civic life. Wilson argued these problems had begun with the dissolution of the family. Then as now, a controversial view. Today disorder is rising again, and i am not just talking about mayor de blasios much lamented return from iowa. [laughter] you are getting there. [laughter] this disorder is the consequence of a nationwide effort to roll back many successful policies that mi scholars have spent careers advancing. President ial campaign may have g
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone, good afternoon. My neighboring is michael, resident fellow of American Enterprise institute and its my pleasure today to welcome to aei profess or Cass Sunstein. He was the administrator of the Office Information of regulatory affairs, commonly known as oir from obama administration. Hes written a dozen books and herest hes here to talk about his latest books which is called republic. I think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago but its an important and interesting book so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. Okay. Well, its a thrill to be out here and you all do amazing work and ive learned so much from whats produced here on legal and regulatory matters and i really thank you on behalf of zillions of people. I was blessed or cursed for the last several years to live in the waldorf towers, which is pretty heavy stuff from a boy from massachusetts and i lived there because my wife embassador of united
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