FREE MARKETS AND POLITICS TODAY

January 27-31, 2008

Following the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994, when Republicans campaigned on their “Contract with America,” President Clinton proclaimed that “The era of big government is over.”  Twelve years later, a Republican president has in many ways embraced “big government” and Democrats have recovered control of Congress.

This third CCA of the 2007-08 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig Von Mises Lecture Series, will investigate how the principles of limited government and free markets have fallen into disuse, and consider whether either party appears ready to embrace them in future.

All lectures are free and open to the public.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27
   
8:00 p.m. “Whatever Happened to the Contract with America?”
    Hon. Dick Armey
    Former U.S. House Majority Leader

MONDAY, JANUARY 28
 
4:00 p.m. “The Democratic Party and Big Government”
    William Galston
    Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

8:00 p.m.  “The Promise of Privatization: Lessons from Michigan"
    David Littmann
    Mackinac Center for Public Policy
   

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29
   
4:00 p.m.  “Why Neither Party Promotes Nuclear Power”
    William Tucker
    Author, Terrestrial Energy: How a Nuclear-Solar Alliance Can Rescue the Planet

8:00 p.m.  “Economic Issues in the 2008 Elections”
    Patrick Toomey
    The Club for Growth
       

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
   
4:00 p.m. “Libertarianism in Politics”
    Brian Doherty
    Author, Radicals for Capitalism

8:00 p.m. “Limited Government:  Are the Good Times Really Over?”
    Charles R. Kesler
    Editor, Claremont Review of Books

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31
   
11:00 a.m. Faculty Roundtable
     Mark A. Kalthoff, Chairman
     Nathan W. Schlueter
     Charles N. Steele
     Nikolai Wenzel

 

ALL SPEAKERS CONFIRMED