The Buckley Institute presents Firing Line Debate.
Josh Hammer is senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, a syndicated columnist, and a fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation and the Palm Beach Freedom Institute.
Gregory Huber, Forst Family Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, Yale University and Director, Center for the Study of American Politics:
“America’s Ruling Class Has Failed.”
In this long season of political and social disruption in the United States, many have sought to cast blame on America’s elite and ruling classes. Is that blame appropriate? How do we think through the categories and consequences of elite power in our country? Join the Buckley Institute for a Firing Line debate on these complex political questions.
Josh Hammer also hosts The Josh Hammer Show, a Newsweek podcast and syndicated radio show. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and cultural issues, Josh is a constitutional attorney by training and additionally serves as senior counsel for the Article III Project. He is the author of the new book, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. Josh has been published by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, National Review, First Things, National Affairs, American Affairs, the Claremont Review of Books, The New Criterion, City Journal, Public Discourse, Tablet Magazine, Deseret Magazine, The Spectator, Fortune, Fox Business, The Times of Israel, The Forward, and the Jewish Journal. His legal scholarship has been published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Josh is a college campus speaker through Young America’s Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Josh graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida with his wife and daughter, and he also remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.
Gregory Huber’s research is broadly concerned with mass and elite politics in the United States and his prior teaching includes Crime and Punishment, Introduction to American Government, American Political Economy, and American Political Behavior. He holds a BA and MA from Emory University and a PhD from Princeton.