Irrationality and radicalism. How did it come to this . To answer that question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book to left in University Volume eight in the latest edition to a series of collective desk with the conservative writings including the black book of the american left including essays from 1993 to 2010 and addresses what David Horowitz described as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time the campaign of the left to support the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into doctrinal Training Centers for social and political causes for this campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy and cultural marxism. If the chronicle said campaigner for next quarter century and gave of davids efforts to bring political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. You party now David Horowitz is t
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Its likely to receive wide because it speaks to divisions about gun control, immigration, affirmative action and so much more. But about the far more fundamental division we see in our understanding of our basic law, the constitution and what it authorizes. If we want to better understand and appreciate those service divisions, thats where we have to turn because thats where theyre grounded. And just to be clear, in speaking about republican constitution and the democratic constitution, professor barnett is not making partisan points; rather, as the books subtitle suggests, hes alluding to two fundamentally different understandings of the constitutions first three words, we the people. Profoundly different conceptions that have deep roots in our constitutional history and farreaching implications for our political order. Once we understand those basic differences, well have a far better grasp of the more immediate
Good afternoon, welcome to the cato institute. Im the director of cato center for constitutional studies and your host for todays forum on professor Randy Barnetts new book, republican constitution securing the liberty and sovereignty of we the people with forward by george will. Let me also welcome our cspan audience as well as those watching through cato live streaming. Released just two days ago by harper column broad side this book is sure to receive wide attention and deservedly so, i just learned that its available at costco to people who are watching this on cspan can after this forum run right out and pick up a copy of the book. Its likely to receive wide attention, as i said because it speaks in a fundamental way to the political divisions we see in america today, divisions about health care, gun control, affirmative action, immigration and so much more. But the far more fundamental division we see in our understanding of our basic law, the constitution and what it authorizes.
Eric the president made it clear about the billing his constitutional requirements. There are no caveats. Exemptions include for election years for the presence last term in office. So i acknowledge your skepticism here, because we do know this is a republican congress. This is a Republican Party leadership that shut down the government in 2013, that brought us to the brink of defunding the department of Homeland Security just last year, and just last week announced they will not even have a hearing on the president s budget, but i also want to point out that this is not the first time that republicans have come out with a lot of bluster only to have reality set in. Republicans have threatened to keep sequesterlevel funding for the government. They have threatened to not raise the debt limit. They have threatened to not reauthorize the import export bank, and they threatened to up ease the deal with iran. They tried to play politics, but ultimately, they were not able to back up their
Where you have assad in one corner, and daesh in the other corner, the worst possible outcome in terms of terrorism, the worst possible outcome in terms of refugees, and the future of syria. Diana johnson i am sure that the Prime Minister is looking forward to visiting hull next year, and as the uk city of culture, we are already backed by many prestigious organizations like the bbc and rsc. But we could do much more to make this a Real National celebration of culture. Will the Prime Minister join me in urging the many londonbased National Arts organizations to do their bit and contribute to the success of hull 2017 . Prime minister cameron the honorable lady makes an important point, which is that our National Cultural institutions have an immense amount of work and prestige that they can bring out to regional galleries and centers when there is a city of culture event, or more broadly, and i talk to them about that. I am looking forward to visiting hull, and as it is the city of wilb