2010 EVENTS

February 3, 2010

On Wednesday, February 3rd, grassroots strategist and president of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist joined the Young Leaders Circle to discuss the current trend in how Americans want their government to work for them. As presented in his recent book, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives, Norquist argued that a burgeoning coalition of the American electorate who want simply to “control their own destinies,” free of government intervention and interference, has the potential to be the defining movement of the next 50 years. As a gift from Mr. Norquist, all members who attended received a complimentary copy of his book.

Mr. Norquist serves on the Board of Directors of both the American Conservative Union and the National Rifle Association, and is a contributing editor to The American Spectator. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, both from Harvard University .

January 6, 2010

Kicking off the 2010 program series, on Wednesday, January 6th, the Young Leaders Circle had the honor of welcoming former Manhattan Institute senior fellow and current W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Charles Murray.

One of the country’s leading social policy scholars and author of 1984’s landmark Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, Mr. Murray discussed the United States’ apparent slide towards European-style social democracy and its potential for disastrous civic consequences. He argued that only with a momentous revival of American exceptionalism can our current leaders’ pushes for growth-stifling social democracy be countered. A political scientist, author, and libertarian, Murray earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His talk at YLC was a version of his AEI Irving Kristol speech, the text of which is available here.

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