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Greg Anrig - Is Bush a "True Conservative?"

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/25/Conservatives_Have_No_Clothes

Author Greg Anrig challenges the idea that President George W. Bush's policies have not been in line with mainstream conservative ideals.

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The Conservatives Have No Clothes with discussants Greg Anrig, Eric Alterman, and Hendrik Hertzberg.

A lunch forum for journalists and opinion leaders to discuss The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, a new book by Greg Anrig, published by John Wiley & Sons. Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor at the New Yorker, and Eric Alterman, author and columnist, will join the panel to offer their assessments of Greg’s important book, and to discuss his ideas as they relate to the ongoing presidential campaign. Greg Anrig is the vice president for policy at The Century Foundation  -The Century Foundation

Greg Anrig, vice president of policy at The Century Foundation, is the author of The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (John Wiley & Sons, September 2007). He is also co-editor of four collections of essays: Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in An Age of Terror   (PublicAffairs, 2007); Immigration's New Frontiers: Experiences from the Emerging Gateway States (The Century Foundation Press, 2006); The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (PublicAffairs, 2003), and Social Security Reform: Beyond the Basics, (The Century Foundation Press, 1999). 

Anrig is also a regular contributor to TPMCafe and Guardian Unlimited. Since 1994, he has been responsible for overseeing The Century Foundation’s projects on public policy as well as its fellows. Previously, he was a staff writer and Washington correspondent for Money magazine.

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