Hello. Welcome. Thank you for joining us and thank you for being here and cspan thank you for letting me interview about this great book. Its great to be with you the last time we did the show it was a bestseller that changed a lot of peoples lives including mine. You asked a lot of hard questions and i plan to repay the favor. [laughter] youre only in the mid fifties people have already heard your introduction i will not read you that you are freakishly productive for already having 34 work lives you are accomplished globally renowned musician and then became an academic and behavioral social scientist and lots of people cite your work in the academic context like me site your happiness studies all the time to of your books are National Bestsellers and he went on to a third career running a think tank aei that is very important in washington dc and beyond and took it tonight new heights raised resources and hired for interesting people that you are about to transition to a fourth care
,. With me here in washington today, mr. Stephen hess of the Brookings Institution and professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university. This is the first of a series of programs that will extend of the campaign until beyond the election in november and our bicentennial put clear. What we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. We will have special programs dealing with parties and the media. Campaign technique and polling and the rest. What we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. And how millions of americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of american history. What we hope to do is to bring you discussions of these aspects of the Electoral Campaign and begin that discussion with a consideration of an historical overview of just the way in which that has worked in the past. The critical elections, the major ele
Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
First time, an open invitation to explore the wide range of activities we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to silence your cell phones. We are thrilled tonight to welcome author garrett peck back to the smithsonian. In addition to the many tours he leaves at the smithsonian, his temperance tour of prohibition sides has been featured on cspan. He was featured on a twohour documentary about prohibition on the smithsonian channel. Key is the author of seven books, including prohibition in washington, d. C. , how dry we werent. And the great war in america, world war i and its aftermath, which was published in 2018. Before we get started, i want you to invite you to join us in the lobby to sample a prohibition era cocktail. Please join me in welcoming garrett peck. [applause] good evening everyone and thank you for coming out for our wake. Our dry wake. 100 years ago today, about six hours from now, that is the exact moment the National Prohibition began. Today, yes
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Carnegie Endowment or international peace. Im ashley tellis, c senior felw at the endowment and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you to this Book Discussion of age of iron which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. I see i will say couple things but the book in a in a t but before i do i want to extend on your behalf in mine a warm welcome to call in himself and our distance, duty, Danielle Pletka and Richard Fontaine. As you probably know, colin is a professor at the start school publicly and government at George Mason University andco is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute, neighbor nextdoor, literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics. And this book is trademark direct. It examines the concept of conservative nationalism, a phenomenon that has been brought to public attention conspicuously through the rise of president trump. In terms of both the history o