When i tune to it in the weekend usually its authors sharing their new releases. Watching nonfiction authors oh on book tv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have longer conversations and delve into the subject. Book tv they bring you author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating the people. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening and welcome to the barns noble and we appreciate you guys being here. If you could all just take one moment adder take a look at your cell phones and please be sure they are turned off. We would appreciate that. So following todays reading and question and answer, immediately afterwards you will find me outside and we have plenty of books for purchase, great, graduation gift. [applause] we have some outside as well. Afterwards erin will be more than happy to sign them for you, im sure. So we are very happy to invite up in the guest category for a change our guest this even
Carolina and on the other side, texas. Colorful to say the least. His name is mary and and he lived from 1901 to 1936. Born in poland, his family moved to the United States and settled in seattle washington. There he entered politics first as a student and then as a new deal democrat. By 1932 at the age of 30 when he ran for congress and the 1933. Early on they showed great promise and was antigenic and an advocate for the great depressions forgotten man. He seemed highspirited but was shocked that to the enthusiasm. He was a bachelor at the capitol capitol. But the truth was he would be more diagnosed today treated as this congressman. It began with pranks and partying and the behavior was hardly. By 1936, the stories and the arrests were multiplied. He made waves from publicly referring to the Supreme Court justices as old fossils and hosted a party for the council to investigate the noise complaints taken over the building switchboard calling up all of the neighbors. He was also arr
Here at cato. Its my pleasure to welcome you to a book forum today, where well be discussing the latest book from ralph naadir, unstoppable the emerging leftright alliance to dismantle the corporate state. You heard that right. Ralph nader is speaking at the Cato Institute. And that little popping sound you hear is heads exploding all over washington. The same sound you hear when people discover store the third time the Koch Brothers support drug legalization, because when you look at the world through ideological spectacles and see everything in terms of left versus right, the most interesting things in the world become invisible. In particular, if you look back at recent American History, important parts of the story get lost. So when we think back to the 1960s, and opposition to the military draft, we think of this as a heroic leftwing cause. Student cad cals opposing the war and radicals opposing the war conscription. But the other part of the story is that one of the most influent
Existing distribution of power, wealth and property, conserve tim has been associated with societies where the few dominate the many, and i just think, especially the first part of that, that the conservativism, that the argument gets used to justify Big Government in many ways, that this idea of a resistance to change which, again, i think thats a good instinct. Its in the declaration of independence. Dont change unless you absolutely have to bass it will bring bat beside things but that argument, resistance to change, is corporateist protectionity. People use protectionism to use to tariff us but i use it to refer to stuff like the wall street bailouts. It was pinstripe protectionism. Wall street, people saying we have0 this economy, five big banks and they do good things, and yes, there are good things brought about by having giant investment banks that can create mere efficient flows of capital and can do things maybe 100 small banks cant do. So the pinstripe protectionism is look
Had a pretty cushy coming in now, life coming up. I didnt know a lot of people who would serve in the military and you talk about the scourge of Sexual Assault in the military you are trying to address, which i think is great. I dont know a lot about the military, so when i hear that senator Barbara Mccaskill added misery seems to have a different approach to your proposed solution, i dont really combat it with a lot of expertise. I was wondering if you could address the contrast. Being that women agree on a lot of things, but we disagree on many things, too. But claire and i agree on a lot more than we disagree. Now we are working hand in glove on the Sexual Assault a College Campus issue. I still think the way the women in the senate work is really special. Women in the senate have a quarterly dinner. Barbara mikulski when she was senator and there was finally too, she said im going to start having a caucus. The two women started having dinner and she kept the tradition up for 20 yea