William Voegeli—The American Welfare State

A visiting scholar at the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, William Voegeli is a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the author of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

Recorded on Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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