i m brad graham the co-owner of politics and pros along with my wife alyssa muscatine and we have what promises to be a very engaging program for you this evening featuring journalist peter goodman here to talk about his new book davos, man how the billionaires devoured the world. a couple of brief housekeeping notes first though to post a question at any point during the discussion. just click on the q&a icon at the bottom of the screen and in the chat column, you ll find a link for purchasing copies of davos, man. as peter notes in his prologue many people do a lot of ogling at the lives of billionaires. we marvel at their outlandish parties their trophy estates the details of their vastly expensive divorce settlements. we watch fictionalized tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles applaud their philanthropy and occasionally even elect them to public office. peter makes an impassion and detailed case that these richest people in the world have done great harm to the re
Hi, good evening. Dr. Graham, coowner of politics prose along with my wife, Alyssa Muscatine on behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. I normally dont do this, but these are not normal times. Id like to call out somebody in the audience who has just joined us so youre not spending the whole rest of the session whispering, it really just a just as sao tome or were just a lookalike . [applause] thank you, justice for keeping hope and justice alive. A few quick administrative note, now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go be able to get to the q a session, we encourage you to come to this part of the microphone and questions you might have noticed we do have cspan here this evening and we are also videoing for own youtube channel. So in order to pick up your question on the tape, it is important that you get to the microphone. At the end, our staff would appreciate if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and leaned them a
Welcome to pnp live. Im brad graham the coowner of politics and pros along with my wife Alyssa Muscatine and we have what promises to be a very Engaging Program for you this evening featuring journalist Peter Goodman here to talk about his new book davos, man how the billionaires devoured the world. A couple of brief housekeeping notes first though to post a question at any point during the discussion. Just click on the q a icon at the bottom of the screen and in the chat column, youll find a link for purchasing copies of davos, man. As peter notes in his prologue many people do a lot of ogling at the lives of billionaires. We marvel at their outlandish parties their trophy estates the details of their vastly expensive divorce settlements. We watch fictionalized tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles applaud their philanthropy and occasionally even elect them to public office. Peter makes an impassion and detailed case that these richest people in the world have done great harm t
before we begin, i want to just say that this is the momentous time for politics and prose. as you know, i m david cohen, who is carla cohen s husband. she and barbara meade, together with the stellar star here at politics and prose, you the very enbeiged and articulate lovers of books and ideas and the community of writers, publishers, editors, agents have made politics and prose into more than a bricks and motar bookstore. it is a thriving community institution, it s a setting for the discussion of and dissemination of ideas and howard public space where people meet, talk, discuss, and do it in a civil way. and it will continue that way under the leadership of the new owners brad graham and alyssa muscatine. i just want concern continuity will stand and appropriate changes will be made to. but not around what s a community institution, around ideas, and around public space. i very much wanted to introduce francis fukuyama tonight because i respect him even though as i tol
programming tonight, after words with ken walsh, author of family of freedom. and now, david brooks looks at how our unconscious mind shapes our character, intelligence and biases. this is just under an hour. it s a great pleasure to be here more or less in my hometown. went to rutger high school about 13 miles west of here. so it s always good to be back in this area. i know you didn t come to hear me speak, you came here to hear yourselves speak. [laughter] and so i ll try to be brief. [laughter] get out of your way. [laughter] it is a pleasure to be back. i tried to think of what my high school teachers would have thought if they could see me addressing crowds in philadelphia. there d be widespread shock. [laughter] i was not a big man on campus at radner though i was stuffed into lockers by some of the big men on campus. [laughter] actually, one of my debate partners i was on the debate team, needless to say. one of my partners was tom wilson who played bif in t