Onstage at the Reagan Library with Michael Medved - Nov

Join us on November 9, 2021 as top conservative radio talk show host and bestselling author Michael Medved returns to the Reagan Library just before the Thanksgiving Holiday to discuss “Guilt versus Gratitude.” Michael Medved will first broadcast his radio show live from the Reagan Library (come sit in the audience!) and then will conclude the day with the program and book signing. During the book signing, Michael will be signing copies of The American Miracle and The 10 Big Lies About America. Books may be pre-purchased during the reservation process. To register for the event and/or to pre-purchase a book, please click here.

In his “Guilt versus Gratitude” program, Michael Medved confronts America’s self-esteem crisis. For all their raging disagreements, the detractors and defenders of the United States share one point of common conviction: that America represents an unprecedented, deeply consequential development in the history of civilization. The core dispute behind our current culture war involves the nature of that uniqueness, and whether America qualifies as exceptionally guilty or exceptionally great.

Michael Medved addresses this ferocious debate in the context of his two latest New York Times bestsellers: THE AMERICAN MIRACLE and THE 10 BIG LIES ABOUT AMERICA. Today, dueling narratives of our astonishing past divide over three fundamental questions:

• Which viewpoint provides a more accurate account of the Republic’s remarkable rise?
• Which understanding of our past will nourish present hopes for continued progress toward justice and decency?
• And will an emphasis on grievance, or gratitude, best address the self-esteem crisis, steering new generations toward lives of satisfaction
and success?

In this November’s significant season of thanksgiving, President Reagan might savor the fact that today’s most important polarizing debates go beyond quibbles over politics or personalities; they have come to center on the meaning of America itself.

To ensure the health and safety of its event staff and guests, effective September 10, 2021, all those attending events sponsored by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California and at the Reagan Institute in Washington, DC must provide proof of full vaccination status against COVID-19, or provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within three days prior to the event they’re attending at the Reagan Library or Reagan Institute. ‘Fully vaccinated’ means vaccinated at least 14 days after the guest’s second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

To enter the event, attendees must bring proof of vaccination, either a physical vaccination card, a picture of their vaccination card, or a digital vaccination record, or health care document showing vaccination status, along with photo ID. Children under the age of 12 and unvaccinated persons must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within three days prior to the event they’re attending at the Reagan Library or Reagan Institute. This policy also applies to all speakers and performers associated with the event, as well as all staff. Any attendee who arrives at registration check-in without proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test performed within the past 3 days will not be admitted into the event.