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To provide very clear language on voter eligibility. When we do it on paper now we have to check those boxes under penalty of perjury, yes im a citizen and eligible and im filling out this form thats true and correct and so that language is going to be glaring for people going through new motor voter just as an extra caution. We are also through automatic Voter Registration providing serials in the nine languages other than english required in california under the federal Voting Rights act and w...

Workplace or the university or whatever. The idea that people could say well you know and Sexual Assault are really bad but still we have to correct misstatements and we have to care about due process for accused parties. The idea that people can disagree on where to draw the line between helping victims and protecting Due Process Rights and a debate about where to draw the line, universitys are all about that sort of debate. The idea that people would turn to using the law to either ban or in t...

In the road taken many of these authors have, or will be appearing on booktv. Watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Can i get everyones attention. I am the director here at george mason university. We have Deirdre Mccloskey here with my good friend. Deirdre came out with the third quality of her book bourgeois equality that builds on the bourgeois community. I think this collection is the most ambitious work in economics done during my career, at least in economics and just an amazing achievem...

Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversat...

So much of this summit is concerned with the electoral history of progressivism and conservatism. Many of our speakers asked how the ideas and arguments of Major Political thinkers have made their way into the cultural conversation. Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centurie...

Doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figur...

Have you always been a reader . Yes, i have always been a reader. Science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. Does it help you in your work here . It it helps me unwind. There is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and nonfiction. One is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. The other is the scandal of money by george guilder. He is f...

America and of course it ised considered conservative but its a good example of how the best word i could use is twisted our vocabulary. To too many people that will sound odd a conservative institution one of the first to admit of course thats because thats what conservatives stand for. Anyway, i have this connection which i founded five years ago and im proud to say 140 millioa views this year. We are trying to do fiveminute courses with somfive minutecourt minds in america. We are trying to d...

I have always admired this institution which takes no federal funds. I was reading yesterday, and this i did not know, i didnt know you would ask that, i didnt prepare a statement but my wife showed me a literal group last night founded in 1844, i believe, and one of the first universities in america to admit black women. It is considered conservative but it is a good example of how, the best word i can use, is how twisted our vocabulary has been found. It was a conservative institution and the ...

Regarding our legislature at the current moment as a model to be followed. [laughter] [applause] and second, however was understood at the beginning, the government was to protect our liberties, but there was always the idea when i think about the declaration of it is truee, also that the great protection the press now has came rather late. The First Amendment was developed in a serious way around the time of the First World War it began. So the freedom that is enjoyed today, freedom to speak an...