The Claremont Institute’s Charles R. Kesler Reveals How Much Is at Stake for America’s Future
The coronavirus wrong-footed us, erupting before the authorities could do contact tracing and isolate those who had come down with it. In response, we stumbled into the mass lockdowns and the economic shutdown.
COVID-19 is undoubtedly a terrible disease, but the question is how bad, and what are the costs of the way we’re fighting it.
Think of the changes that you’ve already become inured to: the decrees of mayors, governors, and public health officers that carry the weight of law . . . even though no legislatures enacted them and no courts reviewed them; the intrusive systems of protections created in a panic, with little information to go on; and the mass remedies that impose extraordinary costs on everyone rather than the most at-risk populations.
In this moment we must ask ourselves: How much personal liberty, due process of law, freedom of association and movement, and constitutional restraint on government are Americans prepared to renounce, or defer?
Join the Claremont Institute’s Charles R. Kesler live this evening, Wednesday, August 26, at 7 p.m. ET as he discusses these issues on Conservative Conversations with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. In this in-depth conversation, he will offer a probing look at the future of liberty and constitutional government.
Dr. Kesler is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He is a winner of the prestigious Bradley Prize and has been named one of the Politico 50—the publication’s annual list of the key thinkers reshaping American politics.
Register now for this discussion. Dr. Kesler will answer your questions in real time.
