Senior Vice President for Legal Studies, Cato Institute
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Few ideas have done more to expand human flourishing or bring people and nations together in peaceful, mutually beneficial exchange than free markets and free trade, yet in recent years both have drawn fresh skepticism across the political spectrum. The case for them needs to be made again, and made well.
That is a task Vice President Mike Pence takes up in What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience, a 21st-century counterpart to Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative. Pence argues for limited government, low taxes, and economic freedom, and for markets in which prices are set by buyers and sellers rather than by government. On trade, he makes the case for low tariffs and open commerce among free nations. He also ties commerce to the larger project of a peaceful and prosperous world, one built on strong alliances and America’s engagement abroad.
What can openness offer to communities that feel they have not shared in its gains? How should a free society weigh economic engagement with rivals against the risks of dependence? And what is the relationship between free trade, limited government, and a more stable world?
Join us for a conversation between Vice President Pence and Cato’s Stephen Richer about the conservative case for free markets and free trade, and their relationship to a peaceful and prosperous world.
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In this powerful and inspiring manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and former Vice President Mike Pence pens a 21st-century version of The Conscience of a Conservative. With candid insights after decades as a happy warrior in the movement, Pence convincingly explains why the Republican Party must choose enduring conservative principles over the temptations of big-government populism.
