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Monday, September 26, 2016
First hour of the show today, Kerby welcomes New York Times best selling author, Edward Conard. He tells us more about his book, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class. For the first two segments of the second hour we hear from Robert Knight, senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union. He tells us more about his recent article in the Washington Times regarding why Mandatory voter registration’ is a bad idea
First hour of the show today, Kerby welcomes New York Times best selling author, Edward Conard. He tells us more about his book, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class. For the first two segments of the second hour we hear from Robert Knight, senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union. He tells us more about his recent article in the Washington Times regarding why Mandatory voter registration’ is a bad idea

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Kerby Anderson

Kerby Anderson

Host — Point of View

Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (governm...

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Edward Conard

Edward Conard

Author — field_542d8190101fc

Edward “Ed” Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), and the newly released The U...

Edward “Ed” Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), and the newly released The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class (Portfolio). He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was a founding partner of Bain Capital, where he worked closely with his friend and colleague, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. In May of 2012, Conard published Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong. The book was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went on to become a New York Times top ten non-fiction bestseller. Because of the publicity surrounding the publication of his book, Conard was the tenth most searched author on Google in 2012. Since its publication, Mr. Conard has made over 100 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Kruger, Austen Goolsbee, and Jared Bernstein; journalists including Jon Stewart, Fareed Zakaria, Chris Hayes, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; and politicians such as Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Eliot Spitzer. Prior to Bain Capital, Conard worked for Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank that specialized in mergers and acquisitions, and Bain & Company, a management-consulting firm, where he led the firm’s industrial practice. Conard has a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Robert Knight

Robert Knight

Senior Fellow — American Civil Rights Union

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published...

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published by AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com and others. He was a journalist for 15 years, including seven as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University, and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has held senior positions at the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center. He wrote and directed the documentary videos Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion, and The Children of Table 34, about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. A draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, he is the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, Fighting for America’s Soul, Radical Rulers, The Truth about Marriage, and several other books. He has debated the marriage issue on college campuses, including Cornell, the University of California Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Kent State, North Carolina State, the University of South Carolina and many others, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Human Events, FrontPage.com, WorldNetDaily.com and many others, and appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, the BBC; Irish National Radio; CBS Evening News; NBC Nightly News; ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, Oprah and many others. He and his wife Barbara, who have grown children and a grandchild, live in northern Virginia.

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