Heritage. Org web se. Those who ll be joining us on a future occasion on cspan become tv. Inhouse we ask that you see that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online, we remind them that theyre welcome to send questions for comments at any time, simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and we will post the program for the heritage home page for your future reference. Leading our discussion is ted broman, Senior Research fellows. He looks the angloamerican relationship, the u. S. Leadership role in the world. Before join hisas yale associate director or International Security studies and also a lecturer in history and International Affairs for yales master of arts program. He is now also an adjunct professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins university. School of advanced international studies. Please join me in welcoming ted vroman. Thank you. Normally win we cold events in february i thank those who attend because of the atortious weather becaus
Then they have the kids to a lot of times. Then they have to prepare food. Its a hard life. I always say just because i dont know anything because not much has been written about asmat women what appears to be a culture in which women have very little importance for power isnt necessarily true. Its just that we men are privy to mans world and we are the writers. I always say that if you know of any ph. D. Candidates who are women who are looking for a thesis, a woman could go live in asmat and come up with really remarkable stuff. The role of the women and really what their role is. Obviously much greater than we in and my interactions with them would indicate. But it is cut off to me. Thank you and i think that was it. Thank you everybody. Appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] the judges decision in 2010 was instructive. Hes the first person who is a neutral person to have reviewed all of the evidence in the case and he decided that the evidence in the case was either no
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. And welcome to our book forum here at the Cato Institute today for a republic no more Big Government and the rise of american political corruption by jay cost. I am john samples, Vice President and publisher here at the Cato Institute. And i again would like to welcome you to this event today for this very important book. Now, if you have been to book forums before youll notice today our event will proceed in many ways the same as all other book forums have that is, you will hear from some participants and then there will be a question and answer session about 1 00 and then lunch. Also one other thing is like all of our other events please turn all your cell phones now so that we can have the event both in peace and quiet. But some things are going to be different today. Were trying some different things, different format. In this particular case our author, jay cost, will speak for a while about the book to give you a general sense of the lay
A republic no more Big Government and the rise of american political corruption by jay cost. My name is john samples. Icann would like to welcome you to our event today for this very important book. If you read the book florins before today come the day will proceed in many ways save his fellow other bookworms have. You would hear from some participated in the there will be a questionandanswer session about 1 00 and also one other thing like our other events, please turn off our cell phones now so we can have the event in peace and quiet. Some of the things will be different today. We are trying different to us. A different format. Into this particular case, are out there jay cost with a few general sense of the lay of the land. Mycobacteria and Chris Edwards and they will for a few minutes give you some impressions of the book and then work how much a increase will have a conversation about the spread of a little corruption in america a republic no more. I look at the administrative s
The people who get in government think that they can centrally plan the economy as it the economy or set society was like a chessboard that the government can manipulate. That is the problem with the Big Government. So i dont think i think jays critique is the hamiltonian or henry clay kind of Big Government system perhaps could have worked in washington if we changed the institutions in washington over the decades. I dont think thats right. I think the government failed because it tries to centrally plan. A second point and maybe this is more, i thought it was interesting more bit of an agreement with j. Is that the master and the of checks and balances and that factions and extend republic our each other to the broader public good medicine and fairly, jay can correct me if im wrong, didnt see logrolling. Its a central and crucial problem in government and jay goes into this in some detail. Back to the 19th century logrolling was a huge problem with various programs. I think a discuss