Youre a member, would you please stand up and be recognized . Oh, come on, theres a couple of you here. There we go. Thank you. [applause] the president s society with an exclusive group of members that supports the ongoing works of president nixons foundation which awe applies the legacy and the vision to, that he had to opportunities facing our nation and the world today. And if youre interested in joining, please see any member of the staff, come track me down [laughter] or one of the front desk associates. Anybody can get you signed up this evening. Id also like to tell you about a a few special events that are on the horizon. On august 20th we will host Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino for their new bestseller, justice on trial, about the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. On september 11th, we will host two programs. The first is an annual commemoration of patriot day, and then we will host Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch that evening at 7 p. M. For a discussion with Nixon
And i have the privilege of his three massive dogs when he is out giving those lectures. Fourteen years as president of the university. He has beat known for his passionate defense of intellectual freedom. He advocates tirelessly for cultural courage with the timetested truth. His commentary on religion education and politics challenges the intolerance of todays academic community. At oklahoma wesley. He eds art were to lay featured in local and National News outlets. His most wellknown this is not a daycare is that the university has since gone viral and is not the basis for his new book. Along with their two sons seth and kobe had served as the first family since august of 2002. He actively participates in the community and the church. And serves on a variety of councils and boards relating to christian leadership Public Policy and community leadership. Please help me walk him dr. Everett piper. Delighted to join you. I would suggest the audience should know their speaker. Trigger wa
My hero, this guy, wrote me a letter. And he said something about keeping in touch. And i thought, oh, sure. And about a year later they were looking for writers and editors for break point, you can still go to it, breakpoint. Org, its sort of a commentary of world issues, cultural issues from a biblical world view. And i ended up writing and working for break point, and today all these years later i am one of the voices of break point. When chuck passed away, they asked me at prison fellowship would i take over. So ive been doing that for about a year and a half now. Host whats the short version of your conversion . Guest of what . Host of your conversion. Guest well, the short version is that i was raised with some faith. I was raised as a Greek Orthodox christian, altar boy, church every sunday. Believed in god but didnt really know the details. Didnt know why i believed it, didnt know is this something that intellectually is sound . I wasnt convinced that it was. I thought it was j
Id have all my students look at these 20 votes, count what percent of the time theyre on the liberal side. That gives them their ada score, and then i would teach the whole quarter, and at the end id say, okay, now its time to guess the professors ada score. And most of them theyre all over the place. Some would say 0, some would say 100, but it was usually Something Like a 60. They were guessing that i was a leftleaning moderate. No, i was shooting for a 50, and i think that lots of the reason they guessed leftleaning moderate is just that most professors lean to the left, and they probably guess, oh, well, if i dont have more information, ill just guess the left. But in the Congress Course at least i think i do pretty well. Host what do you find from your students . Where do they tend . Where do they trend, i should say. Guest well, this is ucla, so, in fact, one time i did kind of, somewhat of a poll, wasnt scientific, but i found out it was Something Like 7525 host liberal . Guest
There are group van jones are involved with are somewhere else and then there in the middle is the constitution project which tries to bring these groups together and this panel today really represents a cross spectrum view of this problem and, i will introduce the Panel Members as we go on but i have to say from the beginning, our representative from koch, represents a group that has been in interested in criminal Justice Reform from the beginning, families against mandatory minimums was really started with the assistance and support of the Koch Foundation and we appreciate that. We appreciate all else that i have done. I can say the same if we had some of our very liberal benefactors here because this is something that has attracted support way different parts of the spectrum. Weve got a number about of folks dropping in. So well handle this sort of casually. And congressman danny davis is here. I would like him to say a couple word. Congressman davis is from illinois. He has served