Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
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Become so divisive. On a warm welcome to you im on that that shima. A push towards a full ceasefire in libya one leaders gathered in berlin at the weekend for a peace conference they agreed to stop interfering in libya and respect a u. N. Weapons in battle but after 9 years a war the leaders of libyas 2 main rival factions are still refusing to meet face to face. The mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor Angela Merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in libya it was only a few hours before they announced a breakthrough no more arms shipments to the war torn country. Couldnt whom we can confirm that we have all agreed to respect the arms embargo. And well also monitor it more closely than we have in the past youve seen the forgotten if. However they havent yet spelled out consequences for breaking the embargo instead the conference pledged not to off
Our event today on the google versus oracle case, titled consequences of the case. I actually have my own subtitle which is copyright and the future of the industry, a significant case and i am delighted to have 2 wilson here to speak to us about the relevant legal policy on commercial issues and raised by this case. My name is adam maasoff, the chair of the International Forum for intellectual property at the hudson institute. This is our novel even, delighted to have it on such an important issue with such a great speaker. There will be events, sponsoring and promoting datadriven research that explores and investigates the importance of intellectual property and not just driving the Us Innovation economy for the past 230 years but all innovation economies creating a foundation for Flourishing Society and we hope to play a role that factbased research and datadriven in the hands of our policymakers as they consider the very important issues such as decisions that have to be made in im
American economy. He argues that corporations, despite americans ambivalence towards them are essential in in the balanced productive and Progressive Society by spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work and creating a bounty by which americans have come to depend. Walter, Deputy Editor of Harvard Business review writes that he writes a compelling defense of big does i this finance and the tech industry. Both their critics and their defenders will benefit from reading this book. He will be joined in conversation tonight by edward, u. S. National editor for Financial Times and author of the retreat of western liberalism. Please join me in welcoming tiger and edward. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much for that introduction. Its a delight to be here. Ive met tyler a million times iand weve been friends for many years. We dont always agree with each other, but i think that i can confidently say that hes not just an example of disagreeing without being d