Particular the stress upon individual rights, the governments role in essentially either directing those rights if you have a more libertarian view for making it possible for you to have the full employment of the rights if you have a more progressive view. In either event, the purpose is to provide liberty or protect liberty. And part of the argument on my book, this purposeness, this is undermin undermined, the very system that brought rise to. Well get into this. But can republicans, democrats, progressives, conservatives, do they all consider themselves to be liberal democrats in the generic sense . Yeah, part of what im trying to argue in the book, basically what we think of as our the span of our political spectrum is basically occupied by rightleaning liberals and leftleaning liberals or has been until very recent times. So what weve seen in the west is largely a debate within the frame of liberalism. I think were entering an age where that may be coming to an end. You write, in
All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me, and, you know, tremendously important. Hes now a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice which is an organization that as you can see, the signs here, its occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center which is a wonderful organization and ted is bringing a bit of a of a nonlegal beyond legal, i guess he would say, scope of analysis to t
President for research. He previously served heritage as Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our davis institute. Hes a Founding Editor of the annual index of economic freedom, which has become a signature heritage publication, from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organizations affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holmes. Kim. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you here and to welcome our distinguished guests to talk about the refugee policy. We just recently were refurbishing this room, so youre one of the first guests to see how it turned out. The United States Refugee Admission Program has been, as all of you know, the subject of significant discussion and legal battles in the last year. Of course, some of these legal battles have ended up in the supreme court. Which well hear arguments this fall
Good morning. Welcomed to the Heritage Foundation in our auditorium. We also welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active Vice President for research and recently served heritage as Vice President of policy studies and director of davis institute. The Founding Editor of index over Economic Freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organization affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holm. Kim. Thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, everyo
Good morning. Welcomed to the Heritage Foundation in our auditorium. We also welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active Vice President for research and recently served heritage as Vice President of policy studies and director of davis institute. The Founding Editor of index over Economic Freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organization affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holm. Kim. Thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, everyo