we ll do it through a conversation between the book s author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former house speaker paul, ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about politics on the modern, right? a word about each of them as if they need it. matt continenti is senior fellow here at ai where his work is focused on american politics and political thought and history. he s a prominent journalist and analyst and author. he was the founding editor of the washington free beacon. he was prior to that the opinion editor of the weekly standard. he s also a contributing editor of national review and a columnist for commentary magazine. this is matt s third book and in one way or another all of them have dealt with the evolution of the modern, right? paul ryan is of course the former speaker of the house of representatives. he served in congress for 20 years from 1999 through 2019 representing the first district of wisconsin in that time. he rose very quickly to serve
be doing this morning. we ll do it through a conversation between the book s author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former house speaker paul, ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about politics on the modern, right? a word about each of them as if they need it. matt continenti is senior fellow here at ai where his work is focused on american politics and political thought and history. he s a prominent journalist and analyst and author. he was the founding editor of the washington free beacon. he was prior to that the opinion editor of the weekly standard. he s also a contributing editor of national review and a columnist for commentary magazine. this is matt s third book and in one way or another all of them have dealt with the evolution of the modern, right? paul ryan is of course the former speaker of the house of representatives. he served in congress for 20 years from 1999 through 2019 representing the first district of wisconsin in that time. he rose
its future the book explores some important tensions between populism and conservatism between libertarians and traditionalists between pragmatists and purists. so it gives us a lot to talk about and that is what we will be doing this morning. we ll do it through a conversation between the book s author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former house speaker paul, ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about politics on the modern, right? a word about each of them as if they need it. matt continenti is senior fellow here at ai where his work is focused on american politics and political thought and history. he s a prominent journalist and analyst and author. he was the founding editor of the washington free beacon. he was prior to that the opinion editor of the weekly standard. he s also a contributing editor of national review and a columnist for commentary magazine. this is matt s third book and in one way or another all of them have dealt with the evolution
hello everybody welcome i m uvalde van of the american enterprise institute and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this conversation about matthew continent is important and excellent new book the right the hundred year war for american conservatism. this book is both an intellectual and a political history of the american right over the past century. takes up the ideas behind the right the electoral coalition that has composed it the ways that their coalition has sought power and used power and our politics the way that it s thought about the country and its future the book explores some important tensions between populism and conservatism between libertarians and traditionalists between pragmatists and purists. so it gives us a lot to talk about and that is what we will be doing this morning. we ll do it through a conversation between the book s author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former house speaker paul, ryan. a practitioner and a thinker about
up their campaigns out across the country. let s take you through some of todays key events: rishi sunak and sir keir starmer go head to head in their second live tv debate later facing questions from voters on sky news in grimsby this evening. will either man change tack, or will it be more of the same? we ll be discussing all of that during the course of the day. and the green party launches its manifesto promising to raise taxes on higher earners and the wealthy to help fund 50 billion a yearfor the nhs and social care. also today: the cost of living is always important, and we ve just had figures out this morning showing that the uk economy failed to grow in april after particularly wet weather affected consumer spending. the office for national statistics recorded no growth for the month, which was in line with economists expectations. nevertheless it will be disappointing for the conservatives. here is hannah minna. the green party are pledging to mend what i call brok